Robin Reid (boxer)

Robin Reid
Data
Birth Name	Robin Reid
Fight name	Grim Reaper
Weight class	Super middleweight
nationality	British
birthday	19th February 1971
place of birth	Sefton
style	Standard boom
size	175 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	51
Victories	42
Knockout victories	29
Defeats	8th
draw	1

Robin Reid (born February 19, 1971 in Sefton , Great Britain ) is a former successful professional boxer and WBC super middleweight champion.

Amateur career

As an amateur boxer Robin Reid in 1989 in Bayamón Vice Junior World Champion in the light middleweight (-71 kg), he lost there only in the final on points against the Cubans Leonides Bedey . At the World Cup in Bombay the following year, he was eliminated in the first fight against Juan Carlos Lemus , Cuba. In 1991 he took part in the World Championships in Sydney and was eliminated there in the quarter-finals against the Armenian Israel Akopkochjan, who started for the Soviet Union . In the same year he started at the European Championships , but did not get beyond the preliminary round, which he lost to Ole Klemetsen, Norway (24: 9). His greatest success came when he won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , where he won over Marcus Thomas, Barbados (KO 1st), Leonidas Maleckis, Lithuania (10: 3), and Ole Klemetsen, Norway ( 20:10), the semi-finals, where he said the Netherlands launched Turks Orhan Delibaş lost 3-8 on points.

Professional career

Robin Reid became a professional boxer in 1993 and quickly became a crowd-pleaser in England. On October 12, 1996 he became WBC super middleweight world champion in Milan through an early victory over Vincenzo Nardiello from Italy . There followed three successful title defenses before he lost his World Cup crown on December 19, 1997 by a point defeat to the South African Thulani Malinga. After a build-up battle, he challenged the WBO World Champion Joe Calzaghe on February 13, 1999 and lost on points. He then remained inactive for more than a year. In June 2000 he lost to the Italian Silvio Branco .

He then succeeded in a series of ten wins in a row, including beating the Argentine ex-world light middleweight champion Julio César Vásquez . On December 13, 2003, Reid faced the IBF and WBA super middleweight champion Sven Ottke and lost to a controversial point decision. Against the American Jeff Lacy , Reid had no chance in the fight for the IBF World Championship in 2005 and lost to a technical knockout in the eighth round. Photos with porn stars for a hardcore magazine and appearances in soft-core strips caused more sensation in England during this time. At the end of 2007, after the knockout loss to Carl Froch , Reid announced his resignation.

In 2011, however, he returned to the ring with the aim of becoming British champion again. After four fights against lower-class opponents, although he had to admit defeat to Tobias Webb, he got the opportunity to win the British title at the end of 2012. However, he lost his fight against Kenny Anderson in the fifth round by technical knockout. In addition to his career as a boxer, he worked as a model and DJ, among other things .

Web links

• Robin Reid in the BoxRec database
• Amateur box database

predecessor	Office	successor
Vincenzo Nardiello	World Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) October 12, 1996 - December 19, 1997	Thulani Malinga