Boxing Champion, Bob Alagoro Turns 63 Today

One of Nigeria’s iconic hero and firmer West African boxing champion, Prince Bob Keffi Alagoro is 63 today, 27 April, 2021.

Bob Alagoro, the undefeated superwelter weight West African boxing champion, hails from the ancient town of Topo in Badagry, Lagos State.

“I thank God for the gift of life and for what Ibhad achieved in life and more importantly for what I had achieved in boxing. I also thank God for my children and for me to see the goodness of the Lord,” Alagoro said.

Alagoro started his boxing career as an amateur at the age of 16, before joining the defunct Post and Telecommunications Department (P&T)  in 1980, first  as a gateway and later as a craftsman in the engineering department and technical service division.

He won a silver medal in boxing at the first P&T National Sports Festival in Benin City, the then Bendel State. He won gold medal in boxing in the Kaduna 1981 P&T Sports Festival. He was decorated the best boxer of the year in P&T event in 1982.

Alagoro later turned professional in 1984, and went on to win the National Super Welterweight Championship in 1986 after winning 11 undefeated fights, but lost same later that year. He reclaimed the title in 1987 when he defeated Lukeman Saheed in round 9 of 12 rounds title fight.

The Prince of Topo became the first boxer in sub saharan Africa to fight and donate all his purse to the motherless home headquarters in Lagos, the S. O. So Village, Isolo, Lagos in 1993.

In 1994, he became the West African Super Welterweight champion by beating the former champion, Bensa Apotifi of Burkina Faso, while in 1997, he defended the title against Bob Rasheed of Ghana who he beat in round 2.  He later retired in  December of that year.

P.M. EXPRESS can report that Alagoro is planning a historic boxing championship for him to be the first African to step into a boxing ring at age of 63, a record breaking achievement for an aged boxer in his retirement.