Season 4: #50 Robin Reid

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 182 minutes

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Summary

Former WBC super-middleweight champion Robin Reid took Olympic bronze at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

He won his world title on the road, made three defences, including against Yorkshire hardman Henry Wharton before losing his crown in an upset to Sugar Boy Malinga.

Reid also famously boxed the likes of Joe Calzaghe – for many giving the brilliant Welshman his hardest fight – Brian Magee, Sven Ottke, Carl Froch and Jeff Lacy.

But things didn't work out as he imagined they would. Here, in a rare interview, Reid bares his soul, remembering the best and worst of his career and talking for the first time in detail about his struggles in life after boxing.

This is unmissable, and the 200th episode of Boxing Life Stories.

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0:00.0	Bull, they ever caught me with a shot. I wouldn't go raging, just give me a little wink like that, I got a good shot
0:06.8	And then you, they knew that something was coming, it might be there, but they didn't know when it would come in
0:12.2	That's what they used to say to me, but we don't know when it's coming, we know you're gonna get us back, but we don't know when
0:19.6	Well great fight, Robin, um, a great fighter, Nettel, you got it
0:23.4	Wow, that's good, that's interesting
0:26.2	Nettel, Robin, um, hopefully we should, uh, we might have to compete soon, uh, all the very best
0:34.4	That went a retarded, a 41, and I've ever thought of got a retarded, you know, what do you know what I mean?
0:39.0	I've just been beat again for, you know what I mean, and that's it
0:43.8	And I remember that, I remember thinking, oh I'm not gonna do now
0:48.8	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Christyx
0:52.4	What happened in the ring after he faced an only good with his child's play competitive
0:56.8	That was still a close call into this day
1:00.8	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, could you?
1:05.0	I know
1:06.0	He's beating me, he's a bullet, four years back
1:08.8	And the baby didn't make me look like Al Capone
1:11.0	And if he's gonna beat your night
1:12.4	There's a winning and there's nothing else
1:16.6	Hello and welcome back to Boxing Life Stories after a short break
1:20.2	And I'm thrilled that guest number 200 is former WBC Super Middleweight Champion
1:25.2	And 1992 Olympic bronze medalist Robyn Reed
1:29.5	As a young amateur, I looked up to Robyn Reed massively
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