Neil Perkins

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of England England
Men’s Boxing
World Amateur Championships
Bronze Mianyang 2005 Welterweight
Commonwealth Games
Bronze 2006 Melbourne Welterweight
EU Amateur Championships
Bronze 2004 Madrid Welterweight
Silver 2005 Cagliari Welterweight

Neil Perkins (b August 2,1979) is an English amateur boxer who has won several medals in international tournaments at welterweight.

[edit] Career

Southpaw Perkins fights for Kirkdale ABC in Liverpool.

He won the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships bronze after beating Robert Blazo, local hero Ha Na, European silver medallist, Armenia’s Samuel Matevosyan by a massive 18 points but losing 33-21 in the semi-final to Belarusian Magomed Nurutdinov.

In Melbourne 2006 he won Bronze again at the Commonwealth after losing to Vijender Vijender 14:22.

At the Euro 2006 he lost in the first round to Serbian Zoran Mitrovic 24:34.

At the 2007 World Championships he again lost in the first round to Mitrovic 12:17.

[edit] Personal

In 2005 his daughter Olivia-Jane was born with a defective heart.

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