# Neil Perkins

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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.

## Career

Perkins was a [southpaw](/source/Southpaw_stance) and fought for Kirkdale ABC in Liverpool. He won the 2002 and 2003 [Amateur Boxing Association](/source/England_Boxing) British [middleweight title](/source/England_Boxing_National_Amateur_Championships_Middleweight_Champions).[1] He failed to qualify for the [2004 Summer Olympics](/source/2004_Summer_Olympics) after ending up in third place at the [4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament](/source/4th_AIBA_European_2004_Olympic_Qualifying_Tournament) in [Baku, Azerbaijan](/source/Baku,_Azerbaijan).

He won the [2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships](/source/2005_World_Amateur_Boxing_Championships) bronze medal after beating Robert Blazo, local hero Ha Na, European silver medallist, Armenia's [Samuel Matevosyan](/source/Samuel_Matevosyan) by 18 points but losing 33–21 in the semi-final to Belarusian [Magomed Nurutdinov](/source/Magomed_Nurutdinov). In Melbourne 2006, he won the bronze again at the [2006 Commonwealth Games](/source/2006_Commonwealth_Games), after losing to [Vijender Kumar](/source/Vijender_Kumar) 14:22 in the [welterweight semi finals](/source/Boxing_at_the_2006_Commonwealth_Games).

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.

## External links

- [Profile](http://www.abae.co.uk/england_squad/seniors/perkins.asp)
- [Bio](http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Participants/Participants?ID=103978)
- [2005 results](http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/WorldChamps2005.html)

## References

1. ["Roll of Honour"](https://www.englandboxing.org/roll-of-honour/gender/male-championships/). England Boxing. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

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