Richard Igbineghu

Richard Bango (* April 21, 1968 in Ibadan, Nigeria as Richard Igbineghu ) is a Spanish boxer of Nigerian descent.

Amateur

In 1991, Bango at the Military World Championships and won the silver medal, taking in the final against Wolfgang Haas, Germany ( 28:19 ), lost. The Pan-African Games in the same year in Cairo, he won the gold medal at the World Championships in 1991 and he retired in the quarterfinals against Swilen Rusinow, Bulgaria ( AB 2 ), from. In 1992, he won the Chemistry Cup and the boxing tournament of the TSC Berlin, in which the final he defeated Willi Fischer prematurely. He participated in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and won there after victories over Gitas Juskevicius, Lithuania (KO 2 ), and Swilen Rusinow, Bulgaria ( 9:7 ), and a final defeat by Roberto Balado, Cuba ( 13:2 ), the silver medal. At the World Championships in 1993 in Tampere he failed in the first round of the tournament against Evgeniy Belousov, Russia ( 15:14 ).

Professional

In 1994, Bango in the professional game, boxed, however, usually very irregular, so he played from 1996 to 1999 almost three years no fight. On 29 March 2003, he won in his hometown of Ibadan against Adewale Abbey Nigerian title.

On April 24, 2004, he was in Frankfurt ( Oder) opponents of Nikolai Valuev and lost by TKO in the sixth round, this was also his first professional defeat. His second defeat, also prematurely, he had on 3 March 2006 in Oldenburg against the Olympic champion from 2004, Alexander Povetkin, accept, which he ended his career.