Neil Perkins
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Medal record | |||
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Competitor for 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.