Senad Gashi

Senad Gashi

Data
Birth Name	Senad Gashi
Fight name	GashineGun, Albanian Tyson
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	Germany Germany
birthday	April 20, 1990
place of birth	Peć , SFR Yugoslavia
style	Aggressive counter-boxing
size	1.83 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	22nd
Victories	19th
Knockout victories	19th
Profile in the BoxRec database

Senad Gashi (born April 20, 1990 in Peć , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a German professional boxer .

With the professionals he was able to fight for the title of International German Champion, European Champion and the World Champion title according to the version of the Global Boxing Union .

Life

As a teenager, Gashi tried various martial arts such as kickboxing and karate . He was also German champion in freestyle football. At the age of 17, Gashi began seriously with classic boxing at the Boxing Club 1921 Neunkirchen under the supervision of Alfred König, with which he first came into contact at the age of eight in Albania. In his 98 fights extensive amateur career, in which he did not leave the ring as a winner only 12 times, he celebrated five Saarland and two southwest championships. At the federal German level, Gashi took part in the German championships in 2010 and 2011. In November 2010, Gashi finished fourth in the U21 championships in Eichstätt after one win and two defeats. Four weeks later Gashi started in the elite class in Oldenburg and was clearly defeated on points in his opening fight. At the next edition in December 2011 in Leipzig , Gashi lost his opening fight again by a clear defeat, in which the opponent was this time Artur Mann . In March 2012 Gashi won the German Open in the light contact version of hand fencing , where he prevailed against internationally highly decorated kickboxers with Karsten Krüger and Muhammed Halli. After a cruciate ligament rupture in April 2013 , Gashi had to stop boxing for six months.

Gashi studied financial services for six semesters at the FH Kaiserslautern (2010–2013). In 2013 he received a sports scholarship and then continued his studies with a bachelor's degree in sports and fitness economics at the German University for Prevention and Health Care (DHfpG) in Saarbrücken , which he successfully completed in 2015.

In 2014 Gashi started his professional career in boxing.

Career as a professional boxer

On May 17, 2014, Gashi made his professional debut with a knockout win in the first round.

Gashi won his first 15 professional fights, primarily against opponents who were building up, all of them prematurely and only needed 22 rounds. He won ten of his 15 fights in the first round. His eleventh fight on October 2, 2015 brought him the WBC Baltic Heavyweight title and the German International Heavyweight title when his opponent gave up in the fourth round.

On May 21, 2016, Gashi achieved the vacant title of heavyweight world champion of the Germany-based Global Boxing Union (GBU) as the number 64 independent world ranking list . He defeated the former GBU cruiserweight world champion Marino Goles with a first round knockout .

On April 22, 2018, Gashi made his first public television appearance as a challenger to WBO intercontinental champion and German champion Tom Schwarz , who, like Gashi, has been unbeaten in his professional career to date. In a turbulent fight, Gashi was repeatedly warned by the referee for repeated headbuttings and was finally disqualified in the sixth round.

In December 2018, Gashi won against the Argentine Ruben Angel Mino by knockout in the first round. In the same month, Gashi took the short-term opportunity to compete with Carlos Takam for the first time against an international top-class opponent after his originally planned opponent had canceled. In a tough argument about advantages for the ten-year-old Frenchman, Gashi was taken out of the fight after a total of three knockdowns in the seventh round. The main fight of the evening in the O2 Arena in London was the battle for the WBC Silver title and the WBO Intercontinental heavyweight title, in which Dillian Whyte prematurely triumphed over Dereck Chisora . In April 2019, Gashi and Chisora finally faced each other at the same place, with Gashi clearly defeating the British after ten rounds on points with an indisputable performance and could not recommend himself for future lucrative offers.

On July 27, 2019 Gashi won in Tetovo , Macedonia against the former Bosnian amateur champion Ervin Dzinic the European title according to the UBF version by a knockout victory in the first round. In October of the same year Gashi secured the two interim world championship titles of the GBU and WBF by a TKo victory in the second round over the Turkish Özcan Çetinkaya .

List of professional fights

year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Gashi
16 wins (15 knockout wins), 3 losses (1 knockout losses), 0 draws
2014	17th of May	Saarlandhalle , Saarbrücken	Czech Republic David Liska	Victory / KO 1st round
	July 25th	Congress Hall , Saarbrücken	Germany Muhammed Ali Durmaz	Victory / TKO 1st round
	October 11th	Saarlandhalle, Saarbrücken	Czech Republic Frantisek Kynkal	Victory / KO 1st round
	October 18	Construction depot, Homburg	Bosnia and Herzegovina Haris Radmilovic	Victory / KO 1st round
	November 28th	Frankfurt	Bosnia and Herzegovina Aldin Avdic	Victory / TKO 1st round
2015	May 9	Unihalle Wuppertal , Wuppertal	Slovakia Milos Dovedan	Victory / TKO 1st round
	20th June	Universum Gym, Lohbrügge	Montenegro Ratko Draskovic	Victory / TKO 2nd round GBC Intercontinental title (heavyweight)
	July 26th	Palestra Karagac, Peja	Croatia Elvir Behlulovic	Victory / KO 1st round
	October 2nd	Inselparkhalle , Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg	Hungary Andras Csomor	Victory / Referee Technical Decision (RTD) 4th round International German Champion BDB (heavyweight) WBC -Baltic Silver title (heavyweight)
2016	May 21	Upper Palatinate Hall, Schwandorf	Croatia Marino Goles	Victory / TKO 1st round GBU world champion (heavyweight)
	2nd July	Löwensaal, Nuremberg	Serbia Haris Calakovic	Victory / KO 1st round
	10th of December	Saalbau Rhypark, Basel	Serbia Milos Dovedan	Victory / KO 1st round
2017	3rd of April	Argensporthalle, Wangen im Allgäu	Georgia Davit Gorgiladze	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2018	April 21	Estrel Convention Center , Berlin-Neukölln	Germany Tom Black	Loss / disqualification of German champions BDB (heavyweight) WBO intercontinental title (heavyweight)
	December 1	Altrheinhalle, Rastatt	Argentina Ruben Angel Mino	Victory / KO 1st round UBF international champion (heavyweight)
	December 22	The O ₂ Arena , Greenwich , London	France Carlos Takam	Loss / TKO 7th round
2019	20th of April	O2 Arena, Greenwich	United Kingdom Dereck Chisora	Defeat on points
	June 10th	City Square, Tetovo	Bosnia and Herzegovina Ervin Dzinic	Victory / TKO 1st round UBF European Champion (heavyweight)
	October 6th	Ljubljana , Slovenia	Turkey Özcan Çetinkaya	Victory / TKO 2nd round Interim GBU world champion (heavyweight) Interim WBF world champion (heavyweight)
Source: Senad Gashi in the BoxRec database