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Nickname | Black Assassin | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 November 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | Middleweight | ||||||||||||||
| Boxing career | |||||||||||||||
| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gabriel Dossen (born 29 November 1999) [1] is an Irish boxer who won gold at the 2022 European Championships in the men's middleweight (75 kg) division. [2] [3] In November 2025, he was sentenced to five and a half years' imprisonment for offences including possession of cocaine for sale or supply, following guilty pleas in Galway Circuit Court. [4]
Dossen boxes out of Olympic Boxing Club Galway and fights from a southpaw stance. [3] [5]
In 2016, Dossen won bronze at the 2016 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships. [6] In 2017, he won bronze at the EUBC European Youth Championships in Antalya. [7]
In May 2022, Dossen won gold at the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Yerevan, defeating England's Lewis Richardson by unanimous decision in the 75 kg final. [2] [3] Reporting at the time noted it was his first senior international tournament. [8]
Dossen was born in Ivory Coast and is associated with Knocknacarra, Galway. He studied business at the Technological University of the Shannon (Athlone). [8]
In October 2022, Dossen pleaded guilty at Galway District Court to possession of cannabis valued at €1,072 and possession of that cannabis for sale or supply, relating to an incident at Cartur Mór, Knocknacarra. The court also heard evidence of a separate stop and search in July 2021 in which he was found with a small quantity of cannabis herb; the report stated that the drugs were ordered destroyed and the cash seized was forfeited to the State (pending appeal). [9]
In February 2024, Dossen was arrested in Galway as part of a Garda drugs investigation. In November 2025, Galway Circuit Court heard he had intended to use a city hotel to process and distribute cocaine; Gardaí seized drugs and other items associated with drug supply. He pleaded guilty to multiple offences including possession of cocaine for sale or supply, a money laundering offence, and assaulting a garda with intent to resist lawful apprehension. Judge Brian O’Callaghan imposed a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for the cocaine sale-or-supply offence, with concurrent sentences reported for other offences. [4]
Dossen fights out of the southpaw stance. [1] He currently fights under the Olympic Boxing Club in Galway having formerly fought with the Furbo Boxing Club in Spiddal. [2]
Dossen won bronze in the 2016 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships as a light welterweight and bronze at the 2017 EUBC European Youth Championships. [3] On 30 May 2022, he won middleweight gold at the 2022 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Yerevan, Armenia. [4] [5]
Dossen was born in Ivory Coast and moved to Ireland at a young age. [6] [7] [8] [4] He currently lives in the Knocknacarra area of Galway where he works at Tesco and is a business studies student at Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest.
