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Age: 37, born 27 September 1987

Country of origin: United Kingdom

Height: 5' 9"

Relationship Status: Single

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Description: [Link removed - login to see] [Link removed - login to see] Luke Campbell, MBE (born 27 September 1987) is an English professional boxer. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in the bantamweight division. Campbell 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 quarter-finals and German Denis Makarov in the semi-finals before beat [Link removed - login to see]
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Luke Campbell, MBE (born 27 September 1987) is an English professional boxer. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in the bantamweight division.

Campbell 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 quarter-finals and German Denis Makarov in the semi-finals before beating experienced Bulgarian Detelin Dalakliev in the final, making Campbell the first Englishman to win a European amateur title since 1961.

Following a year long sabbatical to recover from tendon surgery, Campbell defeated China's Jun Tan by a 11–5 points margin in their Featherweight (57 kg) fight at the WBC Night Of Champions in July 2010. He also secured Gold at the Four Nations Challenge in Sheffield a week later, beating Jun Tan from China by a 11–3 points margin.

Campbell qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games after winning a silver medal at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships – Bantamweight in Baku, Azerbaijan.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Campbell won gold in the 56kg Bantamweight division after beating Ireland's John Joe Nevin 14:11, thus becoming the first bantamweight boxer to win Olympic gold for Great Britain since Henry Thomas in 1908.

In April 2013 he agreed to turn professional.

Campbell's first professional fight took place on 13 July 2013 at Craven Park in his home city of Hull. His opponent was Andy Harris who he beat in the first round. Campbell continued his undefeated start to his career with a 5th round stoppage of Lee Connelly in Hull on 2 November 2013. In his fifth professional bout Campbell carried on his undefeated record and became the first person to stop Scott Moises.

Campbell was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to boxing. ... (more)

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