Richard Bango

Richard Bango
Data
Birth Name	Richard Igbineghu
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	Spanish , Nigerian
birthday	April 21, 1968
place of birth	Ibadan
style	Left delivery
size	1.91 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	19th
Victories	17th
Knockout victories	13
Defeats	2

Richard Bango (* 21st April 1968 in Ibadan , Nigeria as Richard Igbineghu ) is a Spanish boxer of Nigerian descent.

amateur

In 1991 Bango started at the military world championships and won the silver medal, losing in the final against Wolfgang Haas , Germany (28:19). At the Pan-African Games in Cairo in the same year he won the gold medal and at the 1991 World Championships he was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Swilen Rusinow , Bulgaria (AB 2.). In 1992 he won the chemistry cup and the boxing tournament of TSC Berlin , in the final of which he prematurely defeated Willi Fischer . He took part in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and won there after victories over Gitas Juskevicius, Lithuania (KO 2nd), and Swilen Rusinow, Bulgaria (9: 7), and a final defeat against Roberto Balado , Cuba (13: 2) who have favourited Silver Medal. At the 1993 World Championships in Tampere , he failed in the first round against Evgeniy Belousov, Russia (15:14).

professional

In 1994 Bango switched to the professional business, but boxed mostly very irregularly, so he did not fight for almost three years from 1996 to 1999. On March 29, 2003, he won the Nigerian championship against Adewale Abbey in his hometown of Ibadan .

On April 24, 2004 he was opponent of Nikolai Valujew in Frankfurt (Oder) and lost by technical knockout in the sixth round, which was also his first professional defeat. His second defeat, also prematurely, he had to accept on March 3, 2006 in Oldenburg against the 2004 Olympic champion, Alexander Powetkin , which ended his career.

Web links

• Richard Bango in the BoxRec database