Luke Campbell, MBE is a British professional boxer. He has twice challenged for lightweight world titles; the WBA and The Ring titles in 2017; and the WBC, WBO, The Ring and vacant WBC titles in 2019. As an amateur, Campbell won gold at the 2008 European Championships, silver at the 2011 World Championships, and gold at the 2012 Olympics, all in the bantamweight division. Campbell was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to boxing.
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Luke Campbell, MBE is a British professional boxer. He has twice challenged for lightweight world titles; the WBA and The Ring titles in 2017; and the WBC, WBO, The Ring and vacant WBC titles in 2019. As an amateur, Campbell won gold at the 2008 European Championships, silver at the 2011 World Championships, and gold at the 2012 Olympics, all in the bantamweight division. Campbell was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to boxing. As of September 2020, Campbell is ranked as the world’s fifth best active lightweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and eighth by BoxRec. Campbell fought for St. Paul’s Amateur Boxing Club in Hull, winning the English senior ABA bantamweights title in 2007 and retaining in 2008 after beating Gareth Smith 23–1 in the final. In his fifth professional bout Campbell carried on his undefeated record and became the first person to stop Scott Moises. In April 2014, Campbell announced he would be taking a break from boxing, pulling out of his next scheduled bout, following his father being diagnosed with cancer. In August 2014 Campbell fought a further four times, a technical knockout win over Craig Wood, Steve Trumble, and Tommy Coyle. On August 1, Campbell claimed the vacant lightweight International title by defeating fellow Hullian Tommy C Doyle. Campbell is the first British boxer to win the IBF, WBA, IBO and WBO lightweight titles in the same year.
He is also the first Englishman to win a European amateur title since 1961 and the first to do so in his home city of Hull. Campbell’s first professional fight took place on 13 July 2013 at Craven Park in Hull. His opponent was Andy Harris who he beat in the first round. Campbell continued his undefeated start to his career with a fifth-round stoppage of Lee Connelly in Hull on 2 November 2013. In March 2015, Campbell faced 24-year old Nicaraguan Levis Morales at the Ice Arena in Hull and stopped him in the third round before the referee Howard Foster stopped the fight. Campbell then went on to win his next bout by a Technical Knockout (TKO) victory over fellow Hull fighter Tommy Toyle. Campbell has also fought for WBC Silver and Commonwealth lightweight titles at regional level from 2016 to 2017. Campbell won a silver medal at 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships – Bantamweight in Baku, Azerbaijan. Campbell beat Ireland’s John Joe Nevin 14: 11 to win gold in the 56 kg Bantam Weight division after beating the Irishman at the start of the thirdround. Campbell had earlier beaten Italian, Vittorio Parrinello, by 11: 9. In the quarter-finals he met Detelin Dalakliev of Bulgaria in his closest bout of the competition, controversially edging it by a score of 16: 15. Campbell beat Satoshi Shimizu from Japan- who had earlier been reinstated in the tournament after a successful appeal after a defeat by Magomed Abdulhamidov was beaten by 20: 11.
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