Kashmir Singh Gill (
Punjabi: ਕਸ਼ਮੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਗਿੱਲ, born 2 July 1966) popularly known as Kash "The Flash" Gill, is a retired British professional
kickboxer who is a former four-time world champion.
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Gill became a world champion in kickboxing at the age of 21.
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''The Asian Today'' (7 May 2008). Retrieved on 7 January 2011. He formally retired from fighting in 2002. In 1991, he won the
World Kickboxing Association
The World Kickboxing Association (WKA) also known as World Kickboxing and Karate Association, is one of the oldest and the largest amateur and professional sanctioning body for kickboxing and Karate.
History
In 1976, the WKA was founded by Ho ...
(WKA)
light middleweight and
super welterweight
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Boxing
The light middleweight division (also known as junior middleweight in the IBF or super welterweight in the WBA an ...
full contact titles. The following year he won the WKA middleweight championship. He was the
International Sport Karate Association
The ISKA (originally International Sport Karate Association, later also called the International Sport Kickboxing Association) is one of the major international bodies regulating sport karate and kickboxing matches, and is based in the United ...
freestyle champion of 1993.
Biography
Born in 1966 as Kashmir Gill, he is an alumnus of Christ Church, Oxford where he studied biochemistry.
Gill discovered kickboxing at the age of 14 when he saw a demo in a local park went down for a trial session and fell in love with the sport.
His speed and athletic ability as well as his flashy showmanship soon earned him the nickname ‘The Flash’. By 1984, having earned his black belt, Gill at the age of 18, had entered and won his first competition in a three-round contest in full-contact karate.
He won a number of world titles anx in 1986 when he won a gold medal at the World PKA Amateur Full Contact Championships. He collected his first Professional world title, the WKA Junior Middleweight in 1991 when he also won the World full contact Karate championships. In the two consecutive years following, he went on to win the WKA World Middleweight kickboxing title and the ISKA World Light Middleweight title.
Comeback
In December 2011, Kash Gill fought former world kickboxing champion
Don "The Dragon" Wilson
Donald Glen Wilson (born September 10, 1954), nicknamed "The Dragon", is an American martial artist, film actor, and former professional kickboxer. An 11-time world champion who scored 47 knockouts in four decades, he has been called by the STAR ...
in a mixed martial arts cage match in
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
. The bout was originally billed as an exhibition, but Wilson, 57, was awarded the decision at the end of the match.
See also
*
List of male kickboxers
This is a list of notable male professional kickboxers.
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* Donegi Abena
* Lukas Achterberg
* Thomas Adamandopoulos
* Serhiy Adamchuk
* Romie Adanza
* Armando González
* Benjamin Adegbuyi
* Israel Adesanya
* Peter Aerts
* Ryo Aitaka ...
References
External links
Official websiteGym website
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Living people
English male kickboxers
Welterweight kickboxers
Middleweight kickboxers
Sportspeople from Birmingham, West Midlands
1966 births
English Muay Thai practitioners