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Stephen Simmons (born 6 August 1984) is a Scottish former professional boxer who competed from 2011 to 2018. At regional level, he held multiple cruiserweight championships; and challenged once for the British title in 2018.
Stephen Simmons started boxing aged 12 and fought his entire Amateur Career out of renowned Scottish Amateur Boxing Club Leith Victoria AAC, being coached by his Uncle Kenny who boxed for Scotland at Middleweight. He won numerous trophies throughout Europe since 2004, having around 115 Amateur contests winning approximately 80 of them. Simmons competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, winning the bronze medal in the 91 kg Heavyweight Division.
He is currently trained by Billy Nelson. Simmons is managed by MTK Global (Mathew Macklin).
According to Boxrec, in October 2016, Simmons was ranked 5th in the UK and 46th in the World at Cruiserweight level.
On 27 June 2016, Simmons battled against Noel Gevor in Hamburg, Germany. Simmons was aggressive throughout the fight, while Gevor boxed well, but neither fighter looked like they did enough to win the rounds by a clear margin. In the end, it was a very close fight, and the judges scored it 116-112 twice for Gevor, and 116–113, awarding Gevor the split-decision win.[4]
On 17 March 2018, Simmons fought Matty Askin for the vacant British cruiserweight belt. Simmons was outmatched by Askin, losing the fight in the second round via TKO.[5]
In April 2018, Simmons announced that he is retiring from the sport of boxing.[6]
Simmons married his fiancée Nicole on 1 June 2014. They live in Edinburgh and they have 3 children.
