is a

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-born television personality and

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with

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. In Japan, he is known simply as . He speaks

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and

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. He lives in Saitama,

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. On July 26, 2007, he announced on

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that he had become a

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citizen of Japan, taking his wife's surname and registering officially as . He is currently working as the narrator for .

Early life

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

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, he came to Japan as an assistant to a trading company which his father manages. In 2001, he worked a part-time job in the kitchen of a

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in Daikanyama,

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, while also first appearing in

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''Sanma's Super Karakuri-TV'' on

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as a non-

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interviewee. By the end of the year, he was regular on the popular skits featured on Karakuri-TV, ''The Funniest Language School'', as a student.

Comedy style

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, (Rabbit teacher) instead of on her TV show. *Confused (genius) with (pervert). *Rearranged

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's name into " (Itchy Sweet-chestnut). However, the could have been a switchout for which is a type of

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that is symbolic of the

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in Japanese culture (it is common to switch taboo words for their closest spelled or phonetic equivalent in Japanese entertainment), hence the lasting novelty of the

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. He is supposedly a fan of Hamasaki. *Routinely mistook (nervous) with (enema). Ologun also stands out for using

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, racially-charged humor, often capitalizing on

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. He and fighting celebrity

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were criticized for the perceived

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on their performances, but they defended it as part of the Japanese's cultural views towards humor. Ologun and Sapp were reportedly hugely popular among African people living in Japan.

Fighting origins and records

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

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in these skit performances). Inspired from watching

vs Tarō Akebono on K-1 Dynamite!! on

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in 2003, Ologun tried

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on Karakuri-TV. Karakuri-TV's emcee,

(who had previously watched a

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of Ologun struggling in the

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and half-jokingly said, "Bobby might be able to take part in a combat sport event at the end of the year."), in reference to the

supershows put on by K-1,

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, and

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's now defunct BOM-BA-YE promotion. As a result, he tried various full contact combat sports on the program. By February 2004, he was initiated into the

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stable, "GRABAKA" and studied under its founder,

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. In March of that same year, he experienced a sparring match with

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and

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legend

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. He lost, but Ologun performed better than expected, as he was able to cut Gracie and make him bleed from his forehead. In a joke turned reality, he faced French

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in K-1 Dynamite!! at the

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on December 31, 2004. Billed as "The World's Most Dangerous Newcomer", Ologun won by three-round decision, and scored a surprise victory. This match was the only pure MMA rules bout on that night's card, giving Ologun a slight advantage due to his training and the fact that his opponent, while an accomplished kickboxer, wasn't prepared for MMA style fighting. Abidi was a last minute addition to the fight, Ologun's original opponent

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had to withdraw due to an injury. Additionally, there was confusion to the rule system of the bout as the captions showed it to be the general kickboxing rules but ended up as an MMA contest. Abidi was admonished for actions Ologun was doing repeatedly in the fight, such as mounted punches, which led fighting pundits to believe the fight was

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. Abidi himself hinted the fight was fixed in a post fight interview. The

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, which focused quite a bit of time on fighting events such as K-1 and

, soon dubbed Ologun Saikyō no Shirōto (The Strongest

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). Ologun's next fight was against former

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, Akebono at K-1 Dynamite!! on New Year's Eve 2005. Akebono, who had a fighting record of 1-9 entering the fight, fiercely attacked Ologun in the first and second rounds. However, Ologun steadily fought his way to another three-round decision. His next fight was a kickboxing match in

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at K-1 Revenge on July 30, 2006, where he fought Asian GP champion

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. 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

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. At the end of the 3rd round, he tripped Fujimoto one last time and then stood over him in an unsportsmanlike fashion. Added to the knockdown he suffered in the first round, he lost his first fight and his first under K-1 rules by unanimous decision. At K-1 Dynamite, New Year's Eve 2006, during the

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was set face the 7'2", 360 lb.

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. Choi, on the Hero's website, warned Ologun about his in-ring behavior, saying (in Japanese), "Bobby had better grow up.", and, "If he makes me mad, he's going to the hospital.". In the subsequent fight, Ologun immediately tried a flying kick to Choi's head, but missed. This allowed Choi to capitalize and punch Ologun repeatedly in the head, leading to a stoppage of the bout after 16 seconds into the first round. Ologun's latest fight was on the next year's K-1 Dynamite show against the returning

. Once again, he was defeated easily by his larger and more powerful opponent by Technical Knock Out in the first round. Ologun made his return to martial arts against

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at Rizin 32 on November 20, 2021 He won the bout via rear-naked choke in the second round.

Assault controversies

On January 25, 2006, Ologun allegedly assaulted Katsuyuki Itō, the president of the entertainment agency, R&A Promotions, to which Ologun belongs in

. Police deliberated whether to send prosecution documents to court in lieu of the charges. According to the investigation, Ologun reportedly seized the president's clothes and acted violently by throwing around furniture because of a dispute over payment. John Muwete Muruaka, who is famous in Japan as the former private

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of the scandalized

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and a member of the same agency as Ologun, happened to be there and tried to stop the fight, resulting in a scuffle between the two men. Ologun later denied that the incident had happened saying, "I didn't hit anybody. On the contrary, I was hit by Muruaka" at a

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on the same day. The official explanation presented later was that Ologun was being paid per the stipulations of his contract, but he did not fully understand the Japanese

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in it, so he made a deal which he did not fully understand. At the same time, it was found that he had lied about his age when the

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checked his

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. He had until then claimed to have been born in 1973, but he was actually born in 1968. 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. He 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. He has since returned to television, but his appearances and bookings have been sparse as compared to before the incident. This was believed to be because the talent agency that held his contract, R&A Promotions, was not sending any jobs his way due to the bad publicity surrounding the incident. Ologun was still under contract to R&A until December 2007. For that reason, and even though he was under contract and the legality of his actions were questionable, in May 2006, Ologun announced the start of his own independent talent agency, Alemco Productions. However, on September 8, 2006 an announcement on Ologun's blog by R&A Promotions mentioned that they had come to a reconciliation with Ologun and were representing him once again. On May 16, 2020, police were called to his residence by his Japanese national wife (Kyoko Konda) after reports that he had struck her in the face in front of their three children.

Personal life

*Ologun's younger brother,

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, is a K-1 lightweight mixed martial artist and kickboxer in Japan. Bobby was in his corner for his first ever fight in a losing effort at K-1 MAX 2006. *Ologun is married to a Japanese woman named Kyoko Konda. *He has five children.

In popular culture

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References

External links

Bobby Ologun official blog "My Everyday"K-1sport.de - Complete Fighters Profile of Bobby Ologun
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