Luke Campbell (boxer)
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Campbell with his Olympic gold medal, 2012
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| Nickname(s) | Cool Hand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Lightweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reach | 71 in (180 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27 September 1987 Hull, East Yorkshire, England |
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| Stance | Southpaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Luke Campbell, MBE (born 27 September 1987) is a British professional boxer who has held the Commonwealth and WBC Silver lightweight titles since 2016. As an amateur he won gold medals at the 2012 Olympics and 2008 European Championships, as well as silver at the 2011 World Championships, all in the bantamweight division.
As of February 2017, Campbell is ranked at number 3 by the WBC.
Campbell, who fights out of the St. Paul's Amateur Boxing Club in Hull, won the English senior ABA Bantamweight title in 2007 and retained the honour in 2008 after beating Gareth Smith 23–1 in the final.
He represented England at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England. At the championships Campbell defeated Olympic bronze medalist Veaceslav Gojan in the quarterfinals and German Denis Makarov in the semifinals before facing experienced Bulgarian Detelin Dalakliev in the final.
After four rounds the Bulgarian levelled the scores in the fight to 5 each after he scored a point in the last two seconds of the fight. The decision then went to countback and Campbell was awarded the title making Campbell the first Englishman to win a European amateur title since 1961.
Following his successful return, following a year long sabbatical to recover from tendon surgery, to International competition at the WBC Night Of Champions in Cardiff in July, Luke started his 2012 London Olympics preparations by securing Gold at the Four Nations Challenge in Sheffield.
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