Saša Jovanović (kickboxer)

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Saša Jovanović boxer
Data
Birth Name Saša Jovanović
Weight class medium weight
nationality Serbian - Austrian
birthday February 27, 1984
place of birth Vienna , Austria
style Orthodox
size 1.68 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 94
Victories 70
Knockout victories 20th
Defeats 19th
draw 5

Saša Jovanović (born February 27, 1984 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian martial artist with Serbian roots who primarily appears as a kickboxer, but more as a Thai boxer . The 168 cm tall athlete has a competition weight of 63.5 kg, which means that he is used in the middleweight division.

life and career

Saša Jovanović was born on February 27, 1984 as the son of Serbian guest workers in the Austrian capital Vienna, where he grew up and started kicking and Thai boxing training on September 1, 2001 at the age of 17 in the Martial Arts Center Tosan in Vienna's Taborstrasse . As an amateur, he already won first place in kickboxing the following year at the Austrian championships in the novice ranking. He also secured another Austrian championship title in the adult kickboxing class before taking part in the WKA World Cup in Marina di Massa in Italy with the Austrian national team and becoming vice world champion in kickboxing there.

A year later, he took second place in Thai boxing at the Austrian championships and also ranked second in the IMTF rating, the International Muay Thai Federation . At the following WKA World Cup in 2004 in Basel , Jovanović was runner-up in Thai boxing before he rose to professional status on March 20, 2005 and henceforth appeared with professional status. On this day he won the Austrian title of WAKO-PRO in the middleweight class (up to 63.5 kg) in Thai boxing in Vienna .

About a year and a half later he celebrated his next big success with the European lightweight title (up to 60 kg) of the International Sport Karate Association (ISKA) when he defeated the Hungarian Thai boxer Tóth Csaba . Only two and a half months later, he won in the Switzerland the world title welterweight (to 67 kg) of the World Professional Kickboxing Council ( W pkc ), a title that once with his Austrian compatriot Fadi Merza , albeit in the middleweight class held. He defeated the Albanian-born Swiss Mikel Kolaj . After numerous other fights, he won the Austrian title of the World Muaythai Council ( WMC ) light welterweight (up to 63.5 kg) in his home town of Vienna on May 26, 2008 , when he defeated Czech Zdenek Slehober and a few months later at the von der World Full Contact Association ( WFCA ) organized world championship in Bilbao . During this he was able to secure the world title in kickboxing in a fight against Pedro Filipe in the light welterweight (up to 63.5 kg). Around a year passed without a new title win before Saša Jovanović took on the Hungarian László Simon in Vienna on October 3, 2009 in the title fight for the European welterweight title (up to 67 kg) of the Oriental Pro Boxing Union ( OPBU ) based on the K-1 -Rules defeated.

After almost half a year, he won on March 20, 2010 against the Russian Denis Lukaschow the kickboxing world title in light welterweight (up to 64.5 kg) at the world championships organized by the International Sport Karate Association in Wiener Neudorf . After he also competed in numerous fights and won various titles in the following years, he has been the reigning ISKA European champion since 2013 and has held world championship titles of the World Kickboxing and Karate Union ( WKU ) and the ISKA since 2014 . He also won the bronze medal at the 2013 World Championship in Brazil, organized by the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations ( WAKO ) . On May 19, 2015 the Serbian-born athlete was awarded the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria by the Vienna City Councilor Christian Oxonitsch in the Vienna City Hall .

Match record

94 fights; 70 wins (20 (T) KOs) are compared to 19 defeats, with five draws. (Status: apparently summer 2015)

titles and achievements

as an amateur
  • 1st place ÖM Neuling / Kick 2002
  • 1st place ÖM / Kick 2002
  • 2nd place ÖM / Thai 2003
  • 2nd place WKA WM / Kick 2002
  • 2nd place ÖM / Thai IMTF 2003
  • 2nd place WKA WM / Thai 2004
as a professional
Others

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria to kickboxer Sasa Jovanovic , accessed on March 4, 2016
  2. ↑ Saša Jovanović on the official website of the Martial Arts Center Tosan , accessed on March 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Jovanović, Saša
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian-Austrian martial artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria