ADE Oladipo is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist and radio personality.
He’s on presenting duties when Anthony Joshua faces Francis Ngannou — here we take a look at Ade’s life and career.
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Who is Ade Oladipo?
Ade Oladipo, 42, was born to Nigerian parents and grew up in Brighton with his foster parents, before moving to east London while still a youngster.
Representing Essex in both football and athletics, as well as training at the Tottenham Hotspur Academy, his career in sport started at a young age.
He won the 2021 Audio Productions Award for Best New Voice, with the judges describing him as “a total delight to listen to and a dazzlingly bright new light in the arena of sports broadcasting”.
How long Ade Oladipo been a sports broadcaster?
Ade began his career as a sports broadcaster as an analyst on Arise News in 2015 — meaning he’s been in the game for nine years.
Just a year later he moved on to ABN Radio & TV, where he hosted the daily Metropolitan Mix Show, before progressing to become Kwese Sports’ chief boxing commentator.
In 2017, Ade founded his eponymously named YouTube channel, Ade Olapido, where he discusses boxing news and has amassed nearly 55,000 subscribers and 15million views.
What has Ade Oladipo presented in his career?
As well as being on DAZN since 2022, Ade has hosted a wide range of programmes — all to do with sports.
He joined the Sky Sports News football team in 2019, reporting on all of the developments during the Premier League and EFL transfer windows.
Ade has fronted his own daily show on talkSPORT titled The Social since 2020, featuring Premier League news from the past and present.
In December 2023, he became the first-ever black presenter of live Premier League football when he led Amazon Prime‘s coverage of Crystal Palace‘s home defeat by Bournemouth.
He has also covered some of the world’s biggest sporting events for Fox Sports and ESPN, including Euro 2020, the World Boxing Championships and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, as well as UFC and NFL events.
When is he commentating on the Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou fight for DAZN?
AJ and Ngannou go toe-to-toe on Friday March 8, 2024, with the fight being broadcast live on DAZN PPV.
Ade will be on the presenting team covering the full fight card.
Alongside him, Kate Abdo and Ariel Helwani will be hosting for the streaming giants.
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Punditry will be provided David Haye, Conor Benn and Tyson Fury — who is the most qualified person to speak about former UFC champ Ngannou, as he’s the only man to have fought him under boxing rules so far.
The Saudi sports federation confirmed that the ring walks for the fight will start at 11:20pm — after a musical performance by the Saudi state, followed by the Saudi national anthem.
AJ and Ngannou’s mega bout will follow on from Zhilei Zhang vs Joseph Parker, which sees the interim WBO Heavyweight Championship being put on the line.
Zhang vs Parker will follow a standard boxing set up of 12 three minute rounds, while Joshua vs Ngannou will be just 10.