Robin Reid (born 19 February 1971) is a British former

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who competed from 1993 to 2012. He held the WBC

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title from 1996 to 1997, and the IBO super-middleweight title from 2004 to 2005. As an

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, Reid represented Great Britain at

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, winning a bronze medal in the light-middleweight division.

Amateur career

Highlights

*1988 2nd at Light Middleweight at Junior Tournament in

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. Lost to Marco Theuer of Germany in the finalInternational Junior Tournament - Bratislava, Czechoslovakia - June 1988
International Junior Tournament Results. Bratislava, 1988. *1989 2nd at Light Middleweight at Junior World Championships in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Lost to

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of Cuba in the final on points. *1990 3rd at Light Middleweight in ABA championships *1991 fought as a Light Middleweight at World Championships in Sydney, Australia. Results were: **Defeated Charmstrong Karnshupan (Thailand) TKO 1 **Lost to

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(Soviet Union) points *1992 1st place at Canada Cup as a Light Middleweight. Results were: **Defeated

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(Australia) points **Defeated

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(Canada) points **Defeated

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(Ukraine) points *Won the Light Middleweight bronze medal for Great Britain at the 1992

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in Barcelona, Spain. Results were: **Defeated Marcus Thomas (Barbados) KO 1 **Defeated

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(Lithuania) points **Defeated

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(Norway) points **Lost to

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(Netherlands) points 51-16 Amateur record.

Professional career

Reid began his professional career in 1993. In 1996, he captured the

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super middleweight title by defeating

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by a TKO in 7. He then successfully defended his title three times, including a victory over Henry Wharton and

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. Reid then lost his title to

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via a unanimous decision. He then lost decisions to Joe Calzaghe and

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. In 2003 Reid faced IBF and WBA super middleweight title holder

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, who took a narrow and highly disputed unanimous decision over Reid. He was keen on a rematch with Calzaghe, but the latter was more interested in pursuing other current and former champions such as Mitchell, Brewer (both of whom he defeated) and Ottke himself (who took only one more fight, then retired without fighting Calzaghe, leaving his titles vacant). In 2005, Reid landed a shot at IBF super middleweight title holder

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, who had taken one of Ottke's vacated titles. A victory would have made a rematch (which would have been both a grudge match and a WBO/IBF unification fight) with Calzaghe almost inevitable, but Lacy dominated him and won via an 8th-round TKO, and it was Lacy who went on to fight Calzaghe and lose a lop-sided 12-round decision. After the Lacy fight, Reid beat

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and then suffered a retired hurt defeat at the hands of

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in a British super-middleweight fight in November 2007, he announced his decision to retire soon after this fight. In January 2009 Reid said on Liverpool's City Talk radio station that he would like to come out of retirement and fight

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for the British super-middleweight title, providing Dodson overcomes

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on 28 March at the Echo Arena, Liverpool, Merseyside.

“I would love to fight Tony Dodson for the British super-middleweight title at the ECHO Arena, no disrespect to Tony as I think he is a great fighter, but I have never held the Lonsdale Belt and would love the chance to put it around my waist. “Obviously, I feel like I still have something left to offer the sport and a fight with Tony in Liverpool – two Scousers going at it for the British title – would be the fight that Liverpool fight fans would want to see most.”Reid’s plea for a Scouse crunch
Liverpool Echo, 2009-01-24, Retrieved on 2009-03-08 .

Reid competed in the super middleweight prizefighter competition on 23 March 2011, losing in his first fight via unanimous decision to Tobias Webb. He was to fight three more times over the following year, two victories being followed by a fifth-round defeat which sent him back into retirement.

Personal life

Reid is

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; he is half black Jamaican. In 2010, Reid took over a lead role in the controversial movie ''

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'' from the MMA fighter Alex Reid who had walked out of the film. His latest film role is in 'Mob Handed'. Reid still retains strong ties to professional boxing, acting as a judge. In September 2016 he joined the Advisory Board of the

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Professional boxing record

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Robin 1971 births Living people English male boxers English people of Jamaican descent Black British sportspeople Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Great Britain Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Boxers from Liverpool Prizefighter contestants Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics World Boxing Council champions World super-middleweight boxing champions International Boxing Organization champions Light-middleweight boxers