Izu Ugonoh

Who is Izu Ugonoh?

Izuagbe Ugonoh is a Polish professional boxer and kickboxer. His is of Nigerian Descent. He graduated from the Academy of Physical Education and Sport. Jędrzej Śniadecki in Gdansk, likes to read books and is passionate about psychology.

Izuagbe was born of Nigerian parents in the Polish city of Szczecin. He trained kick boxing at Gdańsk club GKSK Corpus. Due to his similarity in appearance and fighting style he is sometimes called the Polish Remy Bonjasky. He has also been inspired by Gökhan Saki.

In 2009, in the Austrian Villach, he won the Kickboxing World Championships gold medal in the formula K-1 Rules to 91 kg. In 2010, he became European champion in the same formula in Baku. He met a local Azeri Zamika Atakisziwa in the final.

On Oct 16, 2010, he made his debut as a boxer in Legionowo beating by a first round KO Igoris Papunia from Latvia. He fought his second professional fight on Nov 20, 2010, in a show in Nysa, during which he defeated Pavel Habra by technical KO in the first round.

Ugonoh also played a wrestling cameo in the Polish movie Afonia and the bees directed by Jan Jakub Kolski.

He calls himself a 'black Pole' and says that he proudly represents Poland on international kickboxing arena. Izu often jokes that when he look into mirror, he doesn't know 'what happened'.