Marlon Reid

Last updated

Marlon Reid
Statistics
Real nameMarlon Reid
Weight(s) Middleweight
Height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Nationality British
Born (1982-04-17) 17 April 1982 (age 39)
Swindon
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights7
Wins5
Wins by KO2
Losses2
Draws0
No contests0

Marlon Reid (born 17 April 1982) is a British professional boxer who was born in Swindon and currently lives in Bath. After reaching the ABA final against George Groves as an amateur Reid boxed for England and made his debut as a professional boxer on 17 October 2008 against Gary Cooper and won on points. Reid continued his great start winning his first four fights,two by way of knock out.

Contents

Amateur career

Reid boxed for the Walcot ABA club in Swindon. As an amateur Reid made it to the ABA finals at his first attempt as a senior. He faced George Groves at York Hall, Bethnal Green on 2 December 2006, Reid lost 24-18 on points. George Groves was favourite and has since gone on to become the Commonwealth super middleweight champion.

Reid also represented England including the Four Nations in Calais, France in April 2007 where he reached the semi-final against Jean Mickael Raymond of France losing 24-19 on points.

Professional career

Reid fought his first professional fight on 17 October 2008 and had a great start to his career winning his first four fights against Gary Cooper, James Tucker, Sherman Alleyne and Ernie Smith.

Reid suffered his first defeat on 24 October 2009 on points against Patrick Mendy at the Riviera International Conference Centre, Torquay, Devon. Though Reid was suffering from a viral infection at the time.

Reid came back on 4 December 2009 with a win over Pawel Trebinski on points but then suffered defeat in his next fight against Steffan Hughes.

Personal life

Reid attended Churchfields School in Swindon.

He lives in , Bristol, England.

Professional boxing record

5 Wins (2 knockouts, 3 decisions) 2 Loss, 0 Draws [1]
Res.OpponentTypeRounds fought (rounds scheduled)DateVenueLocationNotes
Loss Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Steffan HughesTKO4 (6)23 April 2010 Oasis Leisure Centre Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Win Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Pawel TrebinskiPTS6 (6)4 December 2010 Oasis Leisure Centre Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Loss Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Patrick Mendy PTS6 (6)24 October 2009Riviera International Conference Centre Torquay, Devon, England
Win Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ernie SmithTKO1 (4)24 July 2009 Oasis Leisure Centre Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Win Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sherman AlleyneTKO4 (4)13 February 2009 Oasis Leisure Centre Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Win Flag of the United Kingdom.svg James TuckerPTS4 (4)14 December 2008Thistle Hotel Bristol, England
Win Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Gary CooperPTS4 (4)17 October 2008 Oasis Leisure Centre Swindon, Wiltshire, England

Related Research Articles

Cornelius Boza-Edwards Ugandan boxer

Cornelius Boza-Edwards is the former WBC Super Featherweight Champion of the World. Born in Kampala, Uganda, he fought in both the super-featherweight and lightweight divisions. He emigrated from Uganda to England, where he lived for a long period. He now lives in the United States, where he trains other boxers.

Terry Marsh (boxer) English boxer

Terry Marsh is an English former professional boxer who was an undefeated world champion in the light welterweight division.

Robin Reid is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2012. He held the WBC super-middleweight title from 1996 to 1997, and the IBO super-middleweight title from 2004 to 2005. As an amateur, Reid represented Great Britain at 1992 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the light-middleweight division.

Carl Froch English boxer

Carl Martin Froch, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2002 to 2014, and has since worked as a boxing analyst and commentator for Sky Sports. He held multiple super-middleweight world championships, including the WBC title twice between 2008 and 2011, the IBF title from 2012 to 2015, and the WBA (Unified) title from 2013 to 2015. At regional level he held the British, Commonwealth, and English super-middleweight titles, and won the Lonsdale Belt in 2006. As an amateur in the middleweight division, Froch won a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships, and the ABA title twice.

Terry Spinks English boxer

Terence "Terry" George Spinks MBE was a boxer from Great Britain, who won the gold medal in the flyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he defeated Mircea Dobrescu of Romania on points. He was also British featherweight champion from 1960 to 1961.

Paul Smith (boxer) English boxer

Paul James Smith Jr. is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2017. He held the English middleweight title in 2008, the British super-middleweight title twice between 2009 and 2014, and challenged three times for a super-middleweight world title. As an amateur, he won a silver medal in the light middleweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Stephen Smith (boxer) English boxer

Stephen Francis Smith is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2019. He challenged twice for a super-featherweight world championship; the IBF and WBA titles, both in 2016. At regional level he held multiple championships, including the British and Commonwealth featherweight titles and the British super-featherweight title between 2010 and 2013.

Brian Curvis Welsh boxer

Brian Nancurvis, who fought under the name Brian Curvis as a professional, was a boxer from Swansea, Wales who was active from 1959 to 1966. He fought as a Welterweight, becoming British welterweight champion in 1960. He retired as undefeated champion and is the only welterweight to have won two Lonsdale Belts outright. The four defeats in his professional career were all to foreign boxers; he was never beaten by a British boxer.

Don Broadhurst is an English professional boxer who competes in the Flyweight division. He hails from Birmingham and currently boxes for Frank Warren's Sports Network. He held the Commonwealth super flyweight champion from 31 October 2008 to 11 December 2009.

James Simon Russan, best known as Jamie Cox, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2018. who held the Commonwealth light-middleweight title from 2011 to 2012. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

George Groves (boxer) British boxer

George Groves is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2018. He held the WBA (Super) super-middleweight title from 2017 to 2018, and regionally the European, British, and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles between 2010 and 2014. As an amateur, Groves won the ABA middleweight title twice in 2007 and 2008.

Joe-John Daniel "JJ" Bird is a professional boxer who is also known for being a contestant in reality television series Big Brother.

Denton Vassell is a British welterweight boxer, based in Ancoats, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Gary Sykes is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2016. He held the British super-featherweight title twice between 2010 and 2014, challenged once for the Commonwealth super-featherweight title in 2014 and once for the Commonwealth lightweight title in 2016.

Floyd Havard is a Welsh former super featherweight boxer. He was twice British super featherweight champion, from 1988–1989 and 1994-1996. In 1994 he made an unsuccessful bid for the IBF super featherweight title against John John Molina.

Mervyn Bennett was a professional lightweight boxer from Wales. Born in Cardiff, Bennett was notable for becoming the Welsh lightweight champion in 1993. He successfully defended his title on one occasion before retiring from the sport in 1996.

Steve Curtis was a professional bantamweight boxer from Wales. Born in Cardiff, Curtis was notable for becoming the Welsh bantamweight champion in 1969.

Andy Straughn is a British former boxer who won three consecutive ABA titles, represented the UK at the 1980 Summer Olympics and went on to a professional career which included winning the British cruiserweight title.

Joseph Jacobs is a British former boxer who as an amateur was ABA lightweight champion in 1986, and as a professional was British super featherweight champion in 1990, going on to fight for a world title.

Ray Gilbody is a British former boxer who after a successful amateur career held the British bantamweight title between 1985 and 1987, and fought for the European title twice in 1986.

References

  1. Boxrec.com, Retrieved 14 August 2010