Larry Ekundayo (born Olanrewaju Ekundayo on 13 June 1982) is a Nigerian professional boxer. He held the African welterweight title from 2015 to 2016 and the IBF European welterweight title from 2018 to 2019.
Career Ekundayo was born in Lagos, Nigeria on 13 June 1982. He started boxing for self defense at the age of 12. In 1998, he won the Nigerian Amateur Bantamweight Championship and participated in the 1999 All-Africa Games in South Africa. He made a career switch from bantamweight to welterweight and won the Nigerian Amateur Welterweight Championship in year 2000. He participated in the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, UK and finished as a quarter-finalist.
In 2006 and 2007, he won the championship title of the London Regional Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) championship. As an amateur, he won 110 of 125 fights he was engaged in.
Larry’s career as a professional boxer started in November 2012 when he defeated three boxers in one night to become the Light Middleweight Prizefighter champion in London. He was the first boxer in the competition to be given a £2,000 knockout bonus.
On 30 October 2016, he defended his African Boxing Union’s Welterweight title by beating Ghanaian boxer, Joseph ‘The Double Horror’ Lamptey.
On 13 July 2018, he won the IBF European title by defeating John Thain in London in a fight that lasted 12 rounds.
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes17Win16–1Nathan HardyPTS615 Feb 202016Win15–1Louis GreeneUD1014 Dec 201815Win14–1John ThainUD1213 Jul 201814Win13–1Adam GrabiecPTS63 Mar 201813Loss12–1Gary CorcoranSD128 Jul 201712Win12–0Arvydas TriznoPTS69 Dec 201611Win11–0Joseph LampteyUD1230 Oct 201510Win10–0William WarburtonPTS625 Jul 20159Win9–0Dale EvansTKO5 (10), 14 Mar 20158Win8–0Stanislav NenkovPTS1011 Oct 20147Win7–0Samet HyuseinovPTS612 Jul 20146Win6–0Howard CospolitePTS818 May 20135Win5–0Terry CarruthersTKO3 (3), 3 Nov 20124Win4–0Kris Carslaw33 Nov 20123Win3–0Craig McEwan33 Nov 20122Win2–0Lewis Byrne420 Jun 20121Win1–0Ben Deghani3 (4), 23 Mar 2012
References
External links Larry Ekundayo on BoxRec.