Victor Ubogu

Victor Ubogu

Date of birth	(1964-09-08) 8 September 1964
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight	238 lb (108 kg)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Prop
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1992-1999	England	24	(5)

Victor Eriakpo Ubogu (born 8 September 1964 in Nigeria) is a former Bath and England rugby union player.

He came to the UK from Lagos, Nigeria in 1977 and attended West Buckland School in Devon where he received the school's top award, the Fortescue Medal. While at school he played for England Under 18s. He went on to the University of Birmingham to study Chemical engineering. While at university he played for Moseley. He went on to St Anne's College, Oxford where he was selected to play for the University of Oxford RFC and achieved his Blue. After leaving Oxford he joined Bath Rugby. In 1992 he became a prop for the England national rugby union team where he remained until 1999.

Combining the size and strength typical of a prop with unusual speed for a player specializing in this position, Ubogu was often a highly effective ball-carrier in broken play. Against well-drilled international defences he sometimes lacked penetration, but he frequently embarrassed club-level opposition.

He founded the "Shoeless Joe's" chain of sports bars^[1] and did a nude interview on TV and now owns and runs a travel company, offering hospitality at sporting events.

In 2001, Ubogu appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.^[2]

In 2004 he married Australian rugby fan Anjela Hurren after meeting her in Twickenham's famous west car park at a rugby match.^[3]

In 2004 he founded and now runs a travel and sporting hospitality company, using his initials as its name, VU.

References

External links

• Victor Ubogu Profile
• Victor Ubogu's sport hospitality company
• Sunday Times article 28 February 2010
• Independent article 4 November 1999
• Bath Chronicle article 10 May 2011