Ajagba real age

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  1. eat more offal

    eat more offal Active Member banned Full Member

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    No way this bloke was born in 1994. Looks about 45.

    Bakole is the funniest one. In interviews he has even slipped up and given ages that don't correspond with what he's said before or the fake age online. Must also be about 40 odd.
     
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    Kiwi Fish Active Member Full Member

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    People age differently, look at Itauma he looks about 30, probably looked in his middle twenties when he was 15.

    But yeah I wouldn't be surprised if Bakole's age was different than listed, he seems like he doesn't know his own age himself which is believable. I have cousins who are not sure of their age, their father changed their birth certificates to get them into school, he also gave them all the same birthday to make it easy.
     
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    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    I refuse to believe that Sam Peter is only 44.
     
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    destruction Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Age fraud is very common in certain countries. There is an active advantage in lying about your age in a sporting context. In football being 20 years old and playing against 14 year olds is going to give a massive advantage. There are many cases of footballers in England getting into the sport as a professional because they got away with posing as younger than they were, then running with that professional status to make a career out the game. In boxing it is much the same, and its better for marketing reasons to pose as a younger fighter.

    Bakole is probably about 10 years older than stated, so is more like 43 and not 33. He looked in his 30's when he first started boxing around 10 years ago.
     
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    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I believe I've heard somewhere most of the guys from the African diaspora fudge their real ages
     
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    Badbot You can just do things. Full Member

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    Dude, we don't even know how many people there really are in Africa. The current estimates are purely vague estimates, based on random available data. There is no actual good data on their populations.
    So its no wonder that some people from there dont really know their ages.
     
  7. Kiwi Fish

    Kiwi Fish Active Member Full Member

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    Same when I was at school, I'm sure some of the Tongans and Samoans I played rugby against were grown men. But then one of my own cousins was 6 foot and 100+kgs as a 12 year old girl, and her brother is 6'5 100kgs at 14, so maybe they were actual kids.
     
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    UniversalPart Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Genetic monsters but apparently Samoans get alot of heart related illnesses later on in life
     
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    Kiwi Fish Active Member Full Member

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    Its a diet thing, we are not supposed to eat western diets. Stick to fish, coconut, taro etc and we'd be a lot better off.
     
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    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    The age of old looking African and Cuban boxers cannot be trusted
     
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    ellerbe Loyal Member Full Member

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    I could see Ajagba being that age. But Bakole is 37+