Robert Berridge

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.

Robert Berridge (born 22 November 1984) is a retired New Zealand professional light heavyweight boxer.

In 2009, Berridge made his debut against Royden Lee at ABA Stadium.

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 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.

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 2015 in South Africa, Berridge had his first World title bout against Thomas Oosthuizen for the International Boxing Organization 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 six 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 went for his first world title in June 2015 against IBO Champion Thomas Oosthuizen in South Africa.

Berridge also took this fight at short notice.

Controversy came around this bout as Oosthuizen did not make weight.

When given the opportunity came to give Oosthuizen two hours to shed off the excess weight, he came weighing even more than the first weigh in.

There has been reports that promoters try to convince Berridge's team to postpone the bout, however the bout went on.

The World Title was declared vacant with the stipulation added that if Oosthuizen won the title will remain vacant, however if Berridge won he would be the new World Champion.

Also thirty percent of Oosthuizen's purse was forfeited to Berridge.

Berridge unfortunately suffered his third lose of his career by Unanimous Decisionand the title remain vacant.

In November 2015 Berridge competed in the Super Eight Boxing Tournament.

Usually the Super 8 is a one night eight man tournament, However the Super 8 rebranded into 2 four man tournaments in one night.

The other men in the tournament are Christchurch's Reece Papuni & Brad Riddell and Auckland's Sefo Falekaono.