1. Benjamin Adekunle Miron Adegbuyi was born on January 24,1985 and is a Romanian kickboxer and professional boxer.
53 Facts About Benjamin Adegbuyi
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Benjamin Adegbuyi is a two-time Glory Heavyweight Championship challenger and three-time winner of heavyweight tournament.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania to a Romanian mother and Nigerian yoruba father.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi made his kickboxing debut as a professional on March 18,2011.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi faced Jafar Ahmadi in a non-tournament bout at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 in Tokyo final 16 on October 14.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi won via TKO early in the first round after Ahmadi seemingly broke his left arm upon impact with Benny's upper leg as he landed a middle kick on Jafar.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi battered Lascenko, flooring him twice in the first round before the referee called a halt to the bout.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi defeated Mohamed Belazaar via first-round TKO due to an injury a SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix I 2013 in Oradea, Romania on April 6.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi rematched Jairzinho Rozenstruik at SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix II 2013 in Craiova, Romania on May 18, and won by unanimous decision.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi rematched Pavel Zhuravlev at the SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix 2013 Final in Galati, Romania on December 21,2013, winning by third-round KO.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi prompted GLORY to pick him up and give him a shot on the best stage, after tearing it up on SUPERKOMBAT.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi was scheduled to face Jamal Ben Saddik at Glory 14: Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia on March 8,2014.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi knocked down Bezus three times winning by second-round TKO.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi scored a second-round KO over Daniel Sam at Glory 16: Denver in Broomfield, Colorado, United States on May 3,2014.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi faced Daniel Lentie on 7 March 2015 at SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix I 2015.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi faced GLORY Heavyweight Champion Rico Verhoeven at Glory 22: Lille on June 5,2015.
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At the event, Benjamin Adegbuyi was defeated by unanimous decision.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi shocked the fans in France during the first round, dominating the champion with excellent power punches and a great jab.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi showed no fear whatsoever for Verhoeven and used his advantage in reach to perfection, even rocking the Dutchman with one good shot.
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Verhoeven countered with great kicks in the second round, forcing Benjamin Adegbuyi to move more and negate the jab.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi missed several big shots, and his punching rate dropped considerably.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi's corner urged him on to keep moving, taking advantage of Adegbuyi's relative inexperience and evening's tendency to rely on his boxing too much.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi fought mixed martial artist Alexandr Soldatkin at Tatneft Cup 2015 Final on September 4,2015.
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On October 9,2015, Benjamin Adegbuyi defeated Jahfarr Wilnis by split decision and Mladen Brestovac by TKO to earn the Ramon Dekkers memorial trophy and get a second crack at GLORY heavyweight champion Rico Verhoeven.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi landed 65 leg kicks and systematically wore down his opponent before stopping him in the third round.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi relentlessly attacked Brestovac's injured lower half until his opponent took a knee and gave up the fight.
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In one of the best heavyweight kickboxing bouts of 2015, Benjamin Adegbuyi pulled out a split-decision victory over Jahfarr Wilnis to claim the tournament finals championship.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi had more energy and his level of activity seemed to shut Adegbuyi down.
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Just when it seemed as if Wilnis would run away with the final round, Benjamin Adegbuyi began to find a home for his straight right hand.
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The punch repeatedly slowed Wilnis down and apparently did enough to convince two judges that Benjamin Adegbuyi deserved the third and decisive round, winning the heavyweight brawl in an impressive fight.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi lost by first-round KO in a rematch with Rico Verhoeven for the heavyweight title in the main event of Glory 26: Amsterdam on December 4,2015.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi lost a shocking split-decision to Guto Inocente in the main event of Glory 43: New York, after appearing to dominate two of the three rounds they had fought.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi participated in the 2018 Glory four man heavyweight tournament, alongside D'Angelo Marshall, Guto Inocente and Junior Tafa.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi timed him coming into his range, during one of these flurries, and countered him with a right overhand, to knock Marshall out in just half a minute.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi focused on landing leg kicks, and won the fight in the second round by TKO, after dropping Tafa three times with leg kicks.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi then took part in the eight man Heavyweight Grand Prix.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi dominated the entire fight, managing to drop the Polish fighter in round two, and a second time in round three.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi was unable to stand in time to beat the ten count.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi was scheduled to fight Badr Hari on 20 June 2020 in Rotterdam.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi won the fight by KO in the third round, finishing Hari with a kick to the body.
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Mid round, Benjamin Adegbuyi caught a good left, his opponent taking a step back.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi pressed, using again kicks to keep the Dutch-Moroccan away.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi was scheduled to fight a rematch with Jamal Ben Saddik at Glory: Collision 3 on October 23,2021.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi was later rescheduled to face Antonio Plazibat at the same event.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi lost the fight via knockout in round two.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi faced Jamal Ben Saddik in a rematch and an eliminator for the interim Glory heavyweight championship at Glory 81: Ben Saddik vs Benjamin Adegbuyi 2 on August 20,2022.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi was defeated by knockout in the first round.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi has been training in his native Romania for the most part of his career, currently still in the capital Bucharest but at Superpro Team in Sibiu, Transylvania for boxing.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi first went to Respect Gym, which was run by Alin Panaite, where he trained with fellow kickboxers Andrei Stoica, Bogdan Stoica, Claudiu Badoi, Ciprian Schiopu and Florin Lupu.
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Since 2015, Benjamin Adegbuyi has been training mainly in Zevenbergen, Netherlands under Dennis Krauweel at Superpro Sportcenter, with fellow kickboxers Rico Verhoeven, Dexter Suisse and Max van Gelder.
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Benjamin Adegbuyi appeared playing the role of a fighter in action-oriented underground fighting film Forced to Fight, starring Gary Daniels and Peter Weller.
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In May 2013, Benjamin Adegbuyi was found not guilty by the Supreme Court of Romania in the Yax nightclub brawl where a man was severely beaten.
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On 25 May 2021, Benjamin Adegbuyi was named an honorary citizen of Aiud in Alba County.