Robert Berridge
| Robert Berridge | |
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| Born |
November 22, 1984 Wanganui, New Zealand |
| Other names | The Butcher |
| Residence | Albany, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Ethnicity | European |
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 79.0 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb) |
| Division | Light Heavyweight |
| Reach | 178 cm (70.1 in) |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Years active | 2009 - 2017 |
| Professional boxing record | |
| Total | 37 |
| Wins | 29 |
| By knockout | 21 |
| Losses | 7 |
| By knockout | 2 |
| Draws | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Occupation | Professional Boxer |
| Boxing record from BoxRec | |
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Robert Berridge (born November 22, 1984, Wanganui, New Zealand) is a Retired New Zealand professional Light Heavyweight boxer.
Berridge is a boxer who has had over thirty fights, five boxing titles and has peaked at ninth on the World Boxing Organization and twelfth on the World Boxing Association rankings in 2014. In 2009, Berridge made his debut against Royden Lee at ABA Stadium. In 2015 in South Africa, Berridge had his first World title bout against Thomas Oosthuizen for the International Boxing Organisation Light Heavyweight title. Berridge lost by unanimous decision. Berridge second World title shot was for the Interim WBA World Light Heavyweight Title against Dmitry Bivol. Berridge lost by TKO.
Berridge suffered his first lost against Blake Caparello by unanimous decision. Berridge took the fight with very short notice. A rematch has always been talked about with Caparello, but nothing has ever came from it. The NZPBAssn presented Berridge with the Association's New Zealand Light Heavyweight title. His manager/promoter Vasco Kovacevic tried 6 boxers of standing to match Robbie for the title. All declined for various reasons. Robbie made a token appearance in the ring in a 4 x 3 bout against Moses Ioelu. Moses was the only one who volunteered to get in the ring, but with only 4 x 3’s. Robbie was presented the belt after the bout. Berridge got the biggest win of his career after he defeated world ranked Australian Boxer Serge Yannick. Berridge won by TKO in the 8th round. Berridge won his first regional title against Shintaro Matsumoto in July 2013 at ABA Stadium for the WBC Asian Boxing Council Light Heavyweight title. Berridge won by TKO in the fifth round.
Berridge won his next two boxing title against highly New Zealander Daniel MacKinnon for the vacant WBA Pan Asian Boxing Association title and vacant WBO Oriental title. Berridge won TKO in the tenth round. MacKinnon was rushed to hospital after the fight. After a CT scan it was discovered that MacKinnon had a brain bleed and had emergency surgery. MacKinnon was in a coma however woke up less than 24 hours after the surgery. MacKinnon made a fully recover however his boxing career is over. Berridge suffered his second lose to Lepikhin in his first fight in America, losing both of his regional titles. Lepikhin is five and half inches taller and had a four-inch reach advantage. Berridge lost by TKO in the fifth round. While under Duco he reached 22nd on Boxrec, 10th in WBO, 12th in WBA and including being his 4 wins on Duco Event fight nights, he had a 9 win streak, including wins over Mariano Jose Riva, Daniel MacKinnon, Kerry Foley, Rogerio Damasco and more.
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