{"id":376305,"date":"2025-08-27T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376305\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:47:10","slug":"sampson-boxing-wins-purse-bid-for-efe-ajagba-vs-frank-sanchez-eliminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376305\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampson Boxing wins purse bid for Efe Ajagba vs Frank Sanchez eliminator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sampson Lewkowicz <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanRafael1\/status\/1960382831835611148\">successfully outbid Top Rank<\/a> for the right to stage an IBF heavyweight final eliminator between no. 3 Efe Ajagba and no. 4 Frank Sanchez, claiming the rematch with a $302,000 offer. As the higher-ranked fighter, Ajagba will be the beneficiary of a 60-40 split.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sanchez (25-1, 18 KO) cruised past Ajagba (20-1-1, 14 KO) when they met as undefeated contenders in 2021, but spent the next few years treading water until Agit Kabayel hit him with the ol\u2019 tummy smasher last year. His lone fight since saw him stop 18-24 Ramon Olivas Echeverria, which was somehow sufficient to catapult him back up the IBF rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ajagba stands unbeaten in his last six fights since the Sanchez debacle, though it\u2019s been far from a smooth ride. That run includes a DQ win over Zhas Kossobutskiy that saw the Kazakh tee off on Ajagba\u2019s unmentionables, a narrow split decision over Guido Vianello, and most recently a draw with Martin Bakole. Still, he\u2019s gone above what looked like a low ceiling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll keep you guys posted as things develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sampson Lewkowicz successfully outbid Top Rank for the right to stage an IBF heavyweight final eliminator between no.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-376305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}