A conflict between top-ten-ranked heavyweights Efe Ajagba and Martin Bakole is reportedly a executed deal for early 2025.
Bakole-Ajagba Set
Each guys are large punchers of their early 30s however have been unable to earn title pictures so far. Boxing Scene is reporting that the Ajagba-Bakole combat is a executed deal. Bakole, 6’6″, will doubtless be an enormous favourite in opposition to Ajagba, however which may not imply a lot. With Ajagba’s energy, he’ll have a puncher’s likelihood.
#1 WBA, #3 WBC, #3 WBO, #4 Bakole (21-1, 16 KOs) can be placing his excessive rating in danger in opposition to the 2016 Nigerian Olympian Ajagba (20-1, 14 KOs). With the #1 rating with the World Boxing Affiliation, Bakole doesn’t must take a danger like this to get a title shot. He can simply sit again, and he’ll get a shot finally.
Bakole, 31, has gained quite a lot of consideration just lately along with his fifth-round knockout win over America’s greatest heavyweight prospect, Jared Anderson, on August third at a Riyadh Season occasion on the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. The win in opposition to ‘The Actual Massive Child’ Anderson was very spectacular for Bakole, as he utterly wiped him out.
Ajagba has gained his final 5 fights since shedding a 10-round unanimous resolution to Cuba’s Frank Sanchez on October 9, 2021. He’s come again from the loss to select up latest wins over Guido Vianello, Joseph Goodall, Zhan Kossobutskiy, and Stephen Shaw.
