| Rogers Mtagwa | |
| Nickname: | The Tiger |
| Weight: | |
| Height: | 5 ft 5 in |
| Reach: | 72 in |
| Birth Date: | 22 March 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Dodoma, Tanzania |
| Style: | Orthodox |
| Total: | 47 |
| Wins: | 27 |
| Ko: | 19 |
| Losses: | 17 |
| Draws: | 2 |
| No Contests: | 1 |
Rogers Mtagwa (born March 22, 1979) is a Tanzanian former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2014. He challenged three times for a world title; the WBO junior featherweight title in 2009, the WBA (Regular) featherweight title in 2010, and the WBC featherweight title in 2011.
Mtagwa began his professional career on February 10, 1997, gaining a points victory over Alfred Mgaromba in Dar es Salaam. Mtagwa tasted defeat for the first time when he travelled to Kenya to face Joseph Waweru, losing a six rounds points decision. However, this loss was avenged when he scored a knockout over Waweru in the rematch.
Mtagwa left Tanzania and relocated to Philadelphia, United States. His first fight in his new home city was on May 2, 2000, losing an eight round decision to Debind Thapa.[1]
On October 10, 2009 Mtagwa challenged for the WBO super bantamweight title against the undefeated Puerto Rican fighter Juan Manuel López in what was considered a fight of the year candidate.[2] Although Lopez won the fight by a unanimous decision, he was hurt badly by Mtagwa in the later rounds and struggled to stay on his feet to hear the final bell.[3]
On 23 January 2010 Mtagwa stepped up to featherweight to unsuccessfully challenge the Cuban Yuriorkis Gamboa for the WBA featherweight title. Mtagwa did not perform as well as he did in his previous title challenge, he was knocked down three times before the referee called a stop to the action in round two.[4]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | Loss | 27–17–2 | Juan Carlos Velasquez | MD | 6 | May 1, 2014 |  | |
| 46 | Loss | 27–16–2 | Cornelius Lock | TKO | 4 (8), | Feb 21, 2014 | | |
| 45 | Loss | 27–15–2 |  Jhonny González | TKO | 2 (12), | Sep 15, 2011 | | |
| 44 | Win | 27–14–2 | Pedro Navarrete | TKO | 8 | Aug 13, 2011 | | |
| 43 | Loss | 26–14–2 |  Yuriorkis Gamboa | TKO | 2 (12), | Jan 23, 2010 | | |
| 42 | Loss | 26–13–2 | Juan Manuel López | UD | 12 | Oct 10, 2009 | | |
| 41 | Win | 26–12–2 | Ricardo Medina | UD | 10 | May 1, 2009 | | |
| 40 | Win | 25–12–2 | Tomas Villa | KO | 10 (10), | Nov 7, 2008 | | |
| 39 | Win | 24–12–2 | Aldo Valtierra | UD | 10 | Mar 7, 2008 | | |
| 38 | Loss | 23–12–2 |  Billy Dib | UD | 8 | Nov 10, 2007 | | |
| 37 | 23–11–2 | Aldo Valtierra | SD | 12 | Jul 20, 2007 | | ||
| 36 | Win | 23–11–2 | Terrance Roy | KO | 2 (8), | Apr 11, 2007 | | |
| 35 | Loss | 22–11–2 | Martin Honorio | SD | 12 | Nov 10, 2006 | | |
| 34 | Win | 22–10–2 | Alvin Brown | KO | 4 (12), | Aug 2, 2006 | | |
| 33 | Win | 21–10–2 |  Artyom Simonyan | KO | 4 (12), | Jun 16, 2006 | | |
| 32 | Loss | 20–10–2 | Orlando Salido | TKO | 5 (12), | Mar 18, 2006 | | |
| 31 | Win | 20–9–2 | Joe Morales | TKO | 10 (12), | Jul 8, 2005 | | |
| 30 | Win | 19–9–2 | Fernando Trejo | SD | 10 | Mar 18, 2005 | | |
| 29 | Loss | 18–9–2 |  Agapito Sánchez | MD | 10 | Oct 14, 2004 | | |
| 28 | Win | 18–8–2 | Broderick Harper | KO | 2 (8) | May 14, 2004 | | |
| 27 | Loss | 17–8–2 |  Valdemir Pereira | TKO | 8 (10), | Jan 3, 2004 | | |
| 26 | Win | 17–7–2 |  Isidro Tejedor | UD | 10 | Aug 22, 2003 | | |
| 25 | Win | 16–7–2 | Corey Alarcon | KO | 3 (6), | Jun 27, 2003 | | |
| 24 | Win | 15–7–2 | Kareem Braithwaite | TKO | 4 (6), | Jan 31, 2003 | | |
| 23 | Loss | 14–7–2 | Jose Reyes | 8 | Oct 11, 2002 | | ||
| 22 | Draw | 14–6–2 | Edwin Santana | 10 | Jul 12, 2002 | | ||
| 21 | Loss | 14–6–1 | Antonio Diaz | 10 | May 25, 2002 | | ||
| 20 | Draw | 14–5–1 |  Victorio Abadia | PTS | 4 | Mar 15, 2002 | | |
| 19 | Win | 14–5 | Steve Trumble | TKO | 3 (6) | Sep 21, 2001 | | |
| 18 | Win | 13–5 | Donovan Carey | TKO | 2 | Jun 15, 2001 | | |
| 17 | Win | 12–5 |  Nelson Ramon Medina | 6 (6) | Feb 21, 2001 | | ||
| 16 | Loss | 11–5 | Emmanuel Lucero | UD | 10 | Oct 6, 2000 | | |
| 15 | Loss | 11–4 | Isidro Tejedor | PTS | 8 | Sep 22, 2000 | | |
| 14 | Win | 11–3 | Garvin Crout | KO | 1 (8), | Sep 12, 2000 | | |
| 13 | Loss | 10–3 | Debendra Thapa | 8 | May 2, 2000 | | ||
| 12 | Win | 10–2 | Obote Ameme | PTS | 6 | Apr 8, 2000 | ||
| 11 | Win | 9–2 |  Charles Kasumba | KO | 12 (12) | Dec 31, 1999 | | |
| 10 | Win | 8–2 |  Musa Njue | KO | 2 | Sep 4, 1999 | ||
| 9 | Win | 7–2 | Obote Ameme | PTS | 8 | Aug 15, 1999 | ||
| 8 | Win | 6–2 | Rashid Ally | KO | 5 | Dec 19, 1998 | ||
| 7 | Loss | 5–2 | Michael Kizza | PTS | 10 | Oct 18, 1998 | | |
| 6 | Win | 5–1 | Hillary Olwenya | KO | 2 | Sep 12, 1998 | | |
| 5 | Win | 4–1 | Joseph Waweru | KO | 4 | Sep 5, 1998 | | |
| 4 | Loss | 3–1 | Joseph Waweru | PTS | 6 | Aug 29, 1998 | | |
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Rashid Ally | PTS | 10 | Aug 25, 1997 | ||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Rajab Mohamed | 3 (4) | Jul 23, 1997 | |||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Alfred Mgaromba | 4 | Feb 10, 1997 | |||