Charles Joseph Atkinson
British International boxing trainer
- Born
- 18 May 1941
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Sport
- boxing
- Occupation
- boxer
Charles Joseph Atkinson is a British former boxer, fight promoter, manager, agent and trainer/coach. He has coached and trained boxers who have won 10 professional world titles, including 7 by the WBC, and has been involved in more than 50 world title fights in five continents. None of his boxers had more than 10 professional fights before winning their titles.
Atkinson started boxing in Liverpool at the age of 14 in Liverpool Catholic schools competition, progressing to win a Northern Counties open championship at 15, and the following year reaching the National Youth finals at The Royal Albert Hall, losing in the semi-final. Following the loss, his amateur boxing club–the St Teresa's Amateur Club–closed down. Atkinson and his father, Charles Atkinson Sr. B.E.M., moved to Kirkby in 1961, where Atkinson Sr. founded the Kirkby ABC., a club which trained future world champion John Conteh and British super-lightweight champion Joey Singleton, both of whom won amateur national championships titles for the club.
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