Neil Perkins

Career

Southpaw Perkins fights for Kirkdale American Broadcasting Company 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. 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

Personal.

Achievements

• 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.