Nicky Wilshire | |
Real Name: | Nicholas C. Wilshire |
Weight: | light middle/middleweight |
Height: | 5 ft 8 in |
Nationality: | English |
Birth Date: | 3 November 1961 |
Birth Place: | Bristol, England |
Stance: | Southpaw |
Total: | 40 |
Wins: | 36 (KO 31) |
Losses: | 4 (KO 1) |
Nicky Wilshire (born 3 November 1961[1] in Bristol) is an English amateur light middle/middleweight and professional light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who as an amateur won the 1979 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) middleweight title, against Douglas Jameshttp://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=49566&cat=boxer (Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB) ABC) (Llanelli/Swansea),[2] boxing out of National Smelting Company ABC http://www.smeltersboxing.com (Avonmouth), was runner-up in the 1980 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) light middleweight title, against James Price (Holy Name ABC) (Fazakerley, Liverpool),[3] boxing out of National Smelting Company ABC http://www.smeltersboxing.com (Avonmouth), and represented Great Britain at light middleweight in the Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union, defeating Miodrag Perunović of Yugoslavia, and losing to eventual silver medal winner Aleksandr Koshkyn of the Soviet Union, and as a professional won the Commonwealth light middleweight title, and was a challenger for the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British light middleweight title against Jimmy Cable, and Lloyd Hibbert, his professional fighting weight varied from NaNNaN, i.e. light middleweight to 158NaN, i.e. middleweight.[4]
Nicky Wilshire is the younger brother of Deborah A. Wilshire (birth registered April→June 1956 in Bristol District), Luke W. Wilshire (birth registered July→September 1957 in Bristol District), and Stuart C. Wilshire (birth registered January→March 1960 in Bristol District).