Vyacheslav Senchenko (, ; born 12 April 1977) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 2002 to 2015, and held the WBA welterweight (Regular) title from 2009 to 2012.
Amateur career Senchenko represented Ukraine at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, competing in the light welterweight division and losing in the round of 16.
Professional career Senchenko made his professional debut in July 2002 and by his fourth bout won the WBC CIS and Slovenian Boxing Bureau (CISBB) welterweight title, a title he defended against Dzmitri Kashkan February 2003 and that September against Russian Evgeny Ershov.
On April 8, 2004, Senchenko won the IBF Inter-Continental welterweight title, stopping Aliaksandr Shnip after just three rounds in Donetsk. He went on to defend four times in the next year and a half, with defeats of Bagaza Mwambene, Cesar Alberto Leiva, Arthur Nowak and French champion Brice Faradji.
At the start of 2006, Senchencko now unbeaten at 16–0 with 11 knockouts moved away from the Inter-Continental title and faced Kazakh, Assan Seksenbayev for the IBF International welterweight title. Senchenko once again emerged victorious in front of his home crowd in the Druzhba Arena in Donetsk. That September he defended at Druzhba once more with a TKO win over Stephane Benito. In November professionally fought outside of Eastern Europe for the first time, going to Monaco to defeat Italian Vincenzo Finzi on the undercard of a Roman Greenberg bout.
His high activity with Union Boxing Promotions continued. Just the next month he was back in Donetsk to fight for add the EBU-EE (European External European Union) welterweight title to his collection against Giorgi Ungiadze. Now somewhat of a permanent fixture at the Druzhba, Senchenko defended this title there four more times in 2007. The last of the year came against fellow Ukrainian Viktor Sydorenko, in a fight also for the WBA Inter-Continental welterweight title. Sydorenko's corner threw in the towel in the third, adding yet another second rate international title to Senchenkos repertoire.
In 2008 he would defend the WBA Inter-Continental welterweight title three more times at the Druzhba, with wins against Stuart Elwell, EBU champion Frederic Klose and Brazilian Adonisio Francisco Reges. After this success, the WBA ranked him 3rd in the world, putting him in path for a World Championship bout.
WBA welterweight champion In 2009 Senchenko finally got the chance to fight for a world title. On April 10, 2009 he would face fellow Ukrainian and WBA (regular) World champion Yuriy Nuzhnenko. This was a landmark bout, as for the first time in almost twenty years since paid boxing made its entrance into the former Soviet Union, two local fighters would clash against each other for the legitimate (regular) world championship in their Homeland. Both fighters went into the bout unbeaten and with 28 wins. In a hard fought bout Senchenko dominated on the judges cards and won by Unanimous decision after 12 rounds.
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes39Win37–2Sergei MelisKO5 (8), 17 Jul 201538Win36–2Laszlo TothUD822 Nov 201437Win35–2Vitaliy CharkinTKO2 (8), 24 Jan 201436Loss34–2Kell BrookTKO4 (12), 26 Oct 201335Win34–1Carlos Adán JerezTKO4 (10), 24 Aug 201334Win33–1Ricky HattonKO9 (10), 24 Nov 201233Loss32–1Paulie MalignaggiTKO9 (12), 29 Apr 201232Win32–0Marco Antonio AvendañoTKO6 (12), 26 Aug 201131Win31–0Charlie NavarroUD1230 Aug 201030Win30–0Motoki SasakiUD123 Oct 200929Win29–0Yuriy NuzhnenkoUD1210 Apr 200928Win28–0Adonisio Francisco RegesTKO4 (12), 29 Nov 200827Win27–0Frederic KloseUD128 July 200826Win26–0Stuart ElwellTKO2 (12)25 Mar 200825Win25–0Viktor SydorenkoTKO3 (12)15 Dec 200724Win24–0Safo BoboradjabovTKO5 (8)19 Oct 200723Win23–0Zoran DidanovicKO1 (12)21 Aug 200722Win22–0Volodymyr KhodakovskyyUD1217 Apr 200721Win21–0Andrey YeskinKO6 (12)9 Mar 200720Win20–0Giorgi UngiadzeUD1223 Dec 200619Win19–0Vincenzo FinziKO2 (8)4 Nov 200618Win18–0Stephane BenitoTKO7 (12), 21 Jul 200617Win17–0Assan SeksenbayevUD1228 Feb 200616Win16–0Sergey ZemnevichUD83 Dec 200515Win15–0Arthur NowakKO2 (12)10 Sep 200514Win14–0Denys ZhyviloKO2 (10)29 Jun 200513Win13–0Oleg KrutkoTKO3 (8), 22 May 200512Win12–0Brice FaradjiUD1214 Jan 200511Win11–0Cesar Alberto LeivaUD1222 Sep 200410Win10–0Bagaza MwambeneTKO4 (12)23 Jun 20049Win9–0Aliaksandr Shnip3 (12), 8 Apr 20048Win8–0Artur DrinajKO2 (8), 12 Dec 20037Win7–0Evgeny ErshovKO1 (10)12 Sep 20036Win6–0Batyr Bekov3 (8), 1 Jul 20035Win5–0Dzmitri KashkanTKO8 (10)22 Feb 20034Win4–0Yuriy TsybenkoTKO6 (10)21 Dec 20023Win3–0Tigran SaribekyanTKO1 (6), 29 Nov 20022Win2–0Mukhamed Shikov65 Oct 20021Win1–0Abdumanon Qurbonov2 (4)15 Jun 2002
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