Peter Buckley (born 9 March 1969) is a retired English journeyman boxer who competed from 1989 to 2008. Although he most notably fought around the

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division, he competed at a number of weight divisions up and down on either side.

Pro career

Buckley turned pro in October 1989, when he fought Alan Baldwin from Brixham at the Colosseum,

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, West Midlands, England, it was a close fight which ended in a draw. Buckley lost 256 of his 300 contests, which is the second most in boxing history behind Reggie Strickland. Throughout his career he fought a number of quality world champions and British champions including

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, Jason Cook,

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Patrick Mullings Patrick "Schoolboy" Mullings (born 19 October 1970) is an English amateur bantamweight and professional super bantam/feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s and 2000s, who as an amateur was the runner-up for the 1990 Amateur Boxing Asso ...

, Dean Pithie,

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Michael Brodie Michael Brodie (born 10 May 1974 in Manchester, England) is a former professional boxer who fought in the Super Bantamweight and Featherweight divisions. Boxing career Brodie boxed as an amateur before turning professional in October 1994 ...

, Scott Harrison,

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, John Murray,

Bradley Pryce Bradley Pryce (born 15 March 1981) is a Welsh former professional boxer. He held the British welterweight title twice, the Commonwealth middleweight title, and has challenged for the European light-middleweight title. Professional career Pryce ...

, Derry Mathews, Lee Meager, Dave Stewart, Gary Woolcombe, Lee Selby and

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. Buckley, who never fought for a major title, was honoured with a special ringwalk and presentation before his 200th fight in April 2003 at the

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. He then proceeded to lose a decision to Baz Carey. Buckley finished his professional career with his 300th and last fight on 31 October 2008 where he scored a 4-round points decision victory over Matin Mohammed (0–1–1) in

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. After the fight, Peter was awarded a small trophy and a special belt to mark his achievement. Peter had won a few regional titles, the vacant

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area

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and

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titles when his record was at 16–9–4 (2KO) against Mark Bates (super featherweight) and 20–44–5 (5KO) respectively. Perhaps his career peak was at 17–10–4 (3KO) before losing to future

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, and

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champion and WBU challenger Johnny Armour.

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* , - , - 1969 births Living people Welterweight boxers English male boxers Boxers from Birmingham, West Midlands {{England-boxing-bio-stub

Pro career

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