John Joe Nevin

John Joe Nevin
Data
Birth Name	John Joseph Nevin
Weight class	lightweight
nationality	Ireland Irish
birthday	June 7, 1989
place of birth	Mullingar
style	Left delivery
size	1.73 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	14th
Victories	14th
Knockout victories	4th
Profile in the BoxRec database

John Joe Nevin medal table
Boxing
Ireland Ireland
Olympic Summer Games
silver	2012	Bantamweight
World championships
bronze	2011	Bantamweight
bronze	2009	Bantamweight
European championships
gold	2013	Bantamweight
EU championships
silver	2009	Bantamweight
gold	2008	Bantamweight

John Joseph "Joe" Nevin (* 7. June 1989 in Mullingar , County Westmeath , Ireland ) is an Irish professional boxer in the lightweight . As an amateur, he was, among other things, silver medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games in bantamweight.

Amateur career

John Joe Nevin started boxing as a teenager. He was a member of the Cavan Amateur Box Club (ABC) . There he was trained by Brian McKeown. In the Irish national team he was coached by Billy Walsh. He is also the cousin of boxer Michael Nevin.

National

He was Irish junior light flyweight champion in 2006 and Irish junior flyweight champion in 2007. He is also the Irish bantamweight champion in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He defeated Michael Nevin, Sean McComb , Tyrone McCullough and Ryan Lindberg , among others .

Europe

At the EU Championships in Poland in 2008 he defeated Dennis Ceylan and Mateusz Mazik and won the gold medal. At the same event in Denmark in 2009 he came back to the final with a semi-final victory against Luke Campbell , but this time he lost in the fight for gold against the German Denis Makarov .

At the European Championships in Moscow in 2010 and in Ankara in 2011 , he was able to reach the quarter-finals. He had defeated the Armenian Karen Aylazyan, the French Nordine Aït Ihya, the Ukrainian Pavlo Ishchenko and the Georgian Nikoloz Izoria before he was eliminated by Gamal Yafai and Dmitri Polyanski .

In 2013 he won the gold medal at the European Championships in Minsk . He had prevailed unanimously against Selçuk Eker , Krisztián Nagy, Wladimir Nikitin and Mykola Butsenko .

World Championships and Olympic Games

At the Junior World Championships in Morocco in 2006 , he came with two victories in the quarter-finals, where he was defeated in the fight for a place in the medal ranks against Luis Yáñez .

In 2008 he was able to win the European Olympic qualification in Italy , where he wins against Mirsad Ahmeti, Detelin Dalakliew , Maxim Tretyak and Veaceslav Gojan . He then took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , where he moved into the round of 16 against the African champion Abdelhalim Ouradi, but was eliminated there against the eventual Olympic champion Enchbatyn Badar-Uugan .

In 2009 in Milan , he won his first World Cup bronze medal when he defeated Rahim Najafov, Nikola Magovac, Iderkhuu Enkhjargal and Gu Yu and made it to the semifinals, where he was eliminated 4-5 by Eduard Absalimow .

At the 2011 World Cup in Baku , he repeated this success. With victories against Akhil Kumar, Dordschnjambuugiin Otgondalai and Orzubek Shayimov , he moved into the medal ranks, where he lost 12: 12+ to Luke Campbell in the fight for the final .

He was thus qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London . In the preliminary round he defeated the third placed in the European Olympic qualification, the Dane Dennis Ceylan (21: 6), and made it to the round of 16. There he won against the Kazakh Olympic participant of 2008, Kanat Abutalipow (15:10). In the subsequent quarter-finals, he beat the Mexican Óscar Valdez (19:13), winner of the American Olympic qualification. In the semifinals he was surprisingly able to prevail with 19:14 against the reigning world champion Lázaro Álvarez from Cuba and move into the final. There he lost again to Luke Campbell (11:14).

World Series of Boxing

From 2010 to 2012 he boxed for the Paris United team and from 2012 to 2013 for the British Lionhearts team in the World Series of Boxing (WSB), winning nine of eleven fights. In 2010/11 he won the WSB title with Paris.

In September 2013 he announced his move to the professional camp.

Professional career

Due to the strong Irish background, he decided to sign a professional contract with the US management Greenblood Boxing , which at the time also included Irish boxers Anthony Cacace, Tyrone McKenna and Ray Ginley. His amateur trainer Brian McKeown also accompanied him in this step.

He won his debut on March 17, 2014 in Boston against the unbeaten Alberto Candelaria. In November 2019 he defeated Freddy Fonseca in the fight for the title WBA International .

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personal data
SURNAME	Nevin, John Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nevin, John Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish boxer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mullingar , County Westmeath