Biography Robin started sparring at Runcorn Boys Boxing Club at the tender age of eight.
Aged 21, the Sutton Park youngster could have been forgiven for thinking that in slogging his way to a bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, he had reached the highpoint of his pugilistic career.
But not once did the former Gorsewood Junior School and Brookvale Comprehensive pupil lose sight of his ultimate goal, and in September 1996 he realised his dream by beating Italian Vincenzo Nardiello for the WBC Super-middleweight championship of the world. Robin is pictured above with the famous belt.
The Reaperman is still being trained by Brian Hughes and hopes to realise his goal of super-middleweight supremacy once again in 2005
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