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traveled to
Thailand to train and fight in sports events. He regularly trained at the Elite Fight Club in Bangkok as a respected "foreign fighter" in this Thai sports art form becoming a role model and media star. EliteBoxing TV put a 45-minute reality show / documentary release featuring Valdet Gashi. He was promoted and sponsored in Thailand by Bjoern Schaufler, founder of "Thai 4 More" sports promotion company. He reportedly fought in more than 106 events in Thailand in 4 1/2 years. He also fought competitively in other countries like Malaysia, South Korea, China, Iran.
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Gashi turned professional in 2009 losing his debut pro boxing fight to Laszlo Robert Balogh with a KO. But he went on to win subsequent fights against
Chainoi Suksumrit in 2009, Krisztian Zambo and Ibragim Zeliev in 2010 and Victor Sanicki in 2011. He won the European title and later became two times
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Gashi arrived in
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near the Syrian-Turkish border looking for smugglers trading in cigarettes, alcohol and drugs, all forbidden in ISIS-controlled areas. His father Enver Gashi pleaded with him through the media to return to his family, but to no avail. In a later interview with the Swiss German
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