Ajagba (20-1-1, 14 KOs) is looking to get back into the win column after fighting to a majority draw against Martin Bakole in May. Prior to that, Ajagba fought to a split-decision win against Guido Vianello in April 2024. <\/p>\n
Ajagba, a 31-year-old from Nigeria, is riding a 5-0-1 record since the lone loss of his career against Frank Sanchez by unanimous decision in 2021.<\/p>\n
Martin (30-4-1, 27 KOs) has a 7-4 record since scoring the vacant IBF title in 2016 with a third-round knockout win against Vyacheslav Glazkov. The 39-year-old’s title reign lasted less than three months, however, as Anthony Joshua stopped him in two rounds.<\/p>\n
Martin’s losses have come against Adam Kownacki (UD12; 2018), Luis Ortiz (TKO6; 2022) and Jared Anderson (UD10; 2023), while the wins over the last decade have come against unheralded opposition. <\/p>\n
Manouk Akopyan is The Ring\u2019s lead writer. Follow him X and Instagram: @ManoukAkopyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ajagba (20-1-1, 14 KOs) is looking to get back into the win column after fighting to a majority…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[90965,64,63,802,232239,1920,44,85,2974],"class_list":["post-448937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}