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19 Facts About Bobby Ologun

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Bobby Ologun is a Nigerian-born television personality and mixed martial artist with Japanese citizenship.

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Bobby Ologun is the third brother in a family of thirty-one brothers and sisters.

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Bobby Ologun stands out for using politically incorrect, racially-charged humor, often capitalizing on stereotypes of African Americans.

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Bobby Ologun and fighting celebrity Bob Sapp were criticized for the perceived racism on their performances, but they defended it as part of the Japanese's cultural views towards humor.

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One of the running skits on Sanma's Super Karakuri TV featured Bobby Ologun attempting a variety of different jobs and skills in which he had no previous experience.

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Bobby Ologun lost, but Ologun performed better than expected, as he was able to cut Gracie and make him bleed from his forehead.

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Abidi was admonished for actions Bobby Ologun was doing repeatedly in the fight, such as mounted punches, which led fighting pundits to believe the fight was fixed.

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However, Bobby Ologun steadily fought his way to another three-round decision.

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Bobby Ologun's next fight was a kickboxing match in Sapporo at K-1 Revenge on July 30,2006, where he fought Asian GP champion Yusuke Fujimoto.

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Bobby Ologun earned the ire of the referee with unsportsmanlike conduct as he tripped and pushed over Fujimoto repeatedly, trying to punch at him afterward, and going for sucker punches after gesturing for a break, all of which led to a yellow card.

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Bobby Ologun's latest fight was on the next year's K-1 Dynamite show against the returning Bob Sapp.

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Bobby Ologun made his return to martial arts against Katsuya Kitamura at Rizin 32 on November 20,2021 He won the bout via rear-naked choke in the second round.

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John Muwete Muruaka, who is famous in Japan as the former private secretary of the scandalized Representative Muneo Suzuki and a member of the same agency as Bobby Ologun, happened to be there and tried to stop the fight, resulting in a scuffle between the two men.

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The official explanation presented later was that Bobby Ologun was being paid per the stipulations of his contract, but he did not fully understand the Japanese legalese in it, so he made a deal which he did not fully understand.

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Bobby Ologun had until then claimed to have been born in 1973, but he was actually born in 1968.

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Bobby Ologun now uses this incident as part of his gimmick by lying about his age on his blog and on television shows as he maintains his fictitious 1973 birth year.

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Bobby Ologun was banned from appearing on Japanese television for three months and was confined to his quarters from January to April 2006 by the geinokai following the assault incident.

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Bobby Ologun has since returned to television, but his appearances and bookings have been sparse as compared to before the incident.

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On October 9,2021, Bobby Ologun rescued a drowning man from a river in Koshigaya, Saitama.