Neil Perkins

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

Neil Perkins (born October 2, 1981) is a British amateur boxer who has won several medals in international tournaments at welterweight.

Career

Southpaw Perkins fights for Kirkdale ABC in Liverpool. He failed to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics after ending up in third place at the 4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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 Kumar 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.

In 2009 Neil was drafted into Prizefighter Heavyweights III to replace Michael Sprott. In this competition he lost his first professional fight of his career, in the first round to Danny Hughes, who lost in the next round to Audley Harrison.

After retiring from boxing, Neil set up Fighting Fit City Gym in Birmingham, the cities first White Collar Boxing gym.

Personal

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

External links

• Profile
• Bio
• 2005 results

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Name	Perkins, Neil
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Date of birth	1979
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