Robin Reid gets British title shot against Kenny Anderson

The title was declared vacant by the BBBofC, after George Groves was stripped and the news will come has a boost to both Reid and Anderson and should make for a good fight.

 

Runcorn’s Reid will contest the Lonsdale belt 5 years after his first unsuccessful attempt to win it when he fought then champion Carl Froch, in what was Reid’s 46th fight at the time in November 2007, 14 years after turning professional.

 

Reid, who won an Olympic bronze medal for Great Britain at the Barcelona games in 1992 and turned professional the following year, before going onto shock the boxing, when he went over to Italy and ripped the world title from the home champion Vincenzo Nardiello in 1996. After 3 successful defence’s of the belt, he lost it in the 4th defence against Sugar Boy Malinga the following year.

 

 

 

After 4 years away from the ring, he announced his return in February last year at the veteran age of 40. He beat Jamie Ambler over 4 rounds in his comeback fight, before entering the Prizefighter super-middleweights. It didn’t go according to plan and Reid lost in the quarter final against young gun Tobias Webb over the 3 round duration. Reid told me recently that in the Prizefighter, he was ‘just warming up’ after being use to 12 round world title fights, the 3 round distance certainly didn’t suite the former champion on the night and he went out of the tournament losing on points.

Upto date.. and Reid (42-7-1) was due to face South African William Gare for the WBF belt in Malta on August 17th but with that fight falling through, he now has the one he wanted. He is coming off two stoppage wins and is determined to go out of the sport on top.