Neeson won national titles in boxing though
Actor Liam Neeson started boxing lessons in Ireland at the All Saints Youth Club and later became an amateur senior boxing champion.
After his English teacher offered him the lead role in a school play, he threw in the towel on boxing and took to the stage. You gotta love an action star who can really fight! 🥊
Liam Neeson was an Irish amateur boxer, worked as a forklift driver, a truck driver, an assistant architect and dropped out of studies in physics and computer science, all before the age of 25."I was juvenile champion of Northern Ireland three times and Irish runner-up a couple of times in my weight division," remembered Neeson in an interview for ESPN in 2012. "I was a jabber, I had a good jab. I had about 40 fights and I won about maybe 30."
As a promising young boxer, things could have worked out very differently for the Irishman, but one unsettling post-fight experience made him decide to leave the ring for good.
"It was maybe close to my last fight," recalled Neeson. "I must have been 16. I actually won the fight.


