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Neil Perkins (born 2 August 1979 is a British former amateur boxer who has won medals in international tournaments at welterweight.
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Neil Perkins (born 2 August 1979 is a British former amateur boxer who has won medals in international tournaments at welterweight.
Perkins was a southpaw and fought for Kirkdale ABC in Liverpool. He won the 2002 and 2003 Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight title. [1] 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 medal after beating Robert Blazo, local hero Ha Na, European silver medallist, Armenia's Samuel Matevosyan by 18 points but losing 33–21 in the semi-final to Belarusian Magomed Nurutdinov. In Melbourne 2006, he won the bronze again at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, after losing to Vijender Kumar 14:22 in the welterweight semi finals.
At the Euro 2006 he lost in the first round to Serbian Zoran Mitrovic 14:34. At the 2007 World Championships he again lost in the first round to Mitrovic. In 2010, he made a comeback at middleweight and was comprehensively beaten by Hosea Burton in the ABA championships.
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Frankie Raymond Gavin is a British professional boxer. He held the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles between 2012 and 2015, and has challenged once for the IBF welterweight title in 2015. As an amateur, Gavin won a gold medal in the lightweight division at the 2007 World Championships, becoming England's first ever winner of that event. He also won lightweight gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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Carlos Góngora Mercado is an Ecuadorian professional boxer who held the IBO super middleweight title between 2020 and December 2021. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio in the men's middleweight division.
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Gyula Káté is a Hungarian amateur boxer best known for winning two bronze medals at European Championships and one at the World Championships.
Magomed Nurutdinov/Mahamed Nurudzinau is a Belarusian amateur boxer who boxed at the Olympics 2008 at welterweight and later became European champion.
Thomas Lee Stalker is an English professional boxer who challenged for the Commonwealth lightweight title in 2017. He won multiple international medals while competing for England as an amateur, including gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2011 World Championships.
Vikas Krishan Yadav is an Indian boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, the hub of some of India's best boxers. He won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category and a gold medal in 75 kg weight category at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He is one of the best boxers of India. He also played professional boxing.
Freddie William Evans is a British professional boxer fighting in the 69 kg welterweight category. As an amateur, he won gold at the 2007 World Cadet Championships in Hungary and won gold for Wales at the 2011 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Ankara. He was the first Welsh boxer to achieve the feat in 86 years.
Christian Kjeld Kristensen known as Christian "Gentleman Chris" Christensen,, was a Danish professional middleweight boxer. His heyday was in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he won the European middleweight title. Professionally, he had a 20.25% knock-out rate, winning 56 of his 79 professional fights. He was born in Kundby, Holbæk, Zealand, Denmark.
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Scott Cardle is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2012 to 2018. He held the British lightweight title from 2015 to 2016. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal in the welterweight division at the 2009 EU Championships. His elder brother, Joe, is a professional footballer.
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