Bounce Magazine September 2018
This month featuring an exclusive interview with artist Gabrielle on her new album 'Under My Skin' - we also speak to front woman Izzy P Phillips of Black Honey. Our reviews take place at Go Ape, Thetford, Suffolk Escape Room and Happy Days RV.
This month featuring an exclusive interview with artist Gabrielle on her new album 'Under My Skin' - we also speak to front woman Izzy P Phillips of Black Honey. Our reviews take place at Go Ape, Thetford, Suffolk Escape Room and Happy Days RV.
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The fastest<br />
win inside a<br />
British ring...<br />
SEPTEMBER <strong>2018</strong> | ISSUE #71<br />
BY RALPH OATES<br />
A series of articles which will feature boxing facts<br />
from both the past to the present...<br />
On the 24th November 1995<br />
Sheffield born heavyweight<br />
Pele Reid made his debut in<br />
the professional ranks at the<br />
Bowlers Exhibition Centre<br />
in Manchester against Gary<br />
Williams. Reid was expected to<br />
win and did so easily stopping<br />
his man in the first round of a<br />
contest set for four.<br />
Reid during the course of 1996<br />
took part in six bouts and won<br />
them all in fine style winning<br />
four of his bouts in the opening<br />
session. Two of the said<br />
engagements took him to both<br />
Italy and Germany which was a<br />
good move since it was getting<br />
him used to boxing outside of<br />
the UK.<br />
On the 28 June 1997 Reid won<br />
his first championship when<br />
he met Jamaican born Ricardo<br />
Kennedy for the vacant World<br />
Boxing Organisation Inter-<br />
Continental heavyweight title at<br />
the Sports Village, in Norwich<br />
by a stoppage in the opening<br />
stanza of twelve. This was his<br />
seventh victory to come in the<br />
first round in nine fights.<br />
The Sheffield Arena in<br />
Yorkshire saw Reid make the<br />
first defence of the Inter-<br />
Continental heavyweight title<br />
on the 11 October 1997 against<br />
an American in the shape of Eli<br />
Dixon who lasted until the ninth<br />
round in a contest schedule<br />
for twelve before the referee<br />
stepped in to stop the bout.<br />
There was now a great deal<br />
of excitement about Pele who<br />
looked an exciting prospect a<br />
man who had the potential to<br />
create waves in the division and<br />
hence go a long way.<br />
In his fourteenth bout he<br />
was matched with British &<br />
Commonwealth heavyweight<br />
champion Julius Francis for the<br />
titles at the York Hall, Bethnal<br />
Green in London on the 30 th<br />
January 1999. Many pundits felt<br />
that at the end of the evening<br />
Reid would be crowned the<br />
new champion. Francis showed<br />
however that he was not in<br />
the ring just up to make up<br />
the numbers and turned in<br />
an excellent performance to<br />
retain the titles stopping Reid<br />
in three rounds of a contest set<br />
for twelve.<br />
After the defeat to Francis, Reid<br />
was never able to recapture<br />
the magic of old since he won<br />
seven drew two and lost five<br />
of his next fourteen bouts.<br />
Reid took part in his last<br />
contest on the 7th March<br />
2009 bowing out with a win<br />
outpointing David Ingleby<br />
over ten rounds to capture<br />
the Vacant British Masters<br />
Heavyweight title at the New<br />
Bingley Hall in Birmingham.<br />
Reid who was born on the 11<br />
January 1973 may have failed<br />
to have lived up to the high<br />
expectations many had of him<br />
by not winning the British and<br />
Commonwealth heavyweight<br />
titles and indeed by not going<br />
beyond the domestic crown<br />
to even higher honours like<br />
the European championship.<br />
However he can take a degree<br />
of consolation from a bout<br />
which had previously taken<br />
place on the 25th February<br />
1997. At the Hillsborough<br />
Leisure Centre in Sheffield<br />
opponent Michael Murray<br />
from Lancashire dislocated his<br />
shoulder in the first round of a<br />
contest set for eight and thus<br />
had to retire from the bout due<br />
to the injury. This gave Reid the<br />
record of gaining the fastest<br />
ever win inside a British ring the<br />
time being nine seconds.<br />
During his career Reid compiled<br />
a professional of 20 wins 6<br />
defeats and 2 draws.<br />
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