Pelé Reid is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 heavyweight

Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...

 boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

. He currently resides in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, West Midlands

West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...

 and is a personal trainer.

Reid is a former WBO Inter-Continental heavyweight champion and World Kick Boxing Champion.

In November, 1993, he took part in the world amateur championship of WAKO

World Association of Kickboxing Organizations

The World Association of Kickboxing Organisations is one the international organization of kickboxing, and the governing body of Amateur kickboxing sport certified by SportAccord...

, held at Atlantic City, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

. He defeated William Eves (USA) by KO with his back-spin-kick at the final match of 89kg class.

Reid is the only man ever to knock down boxing champion Vitali Klitschko

Vitali Klitschko

Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the current WBC heavyweight champion. He is a leader of the political party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe. He previously...

 in a kickboxing match. He managed to knock him down with a spinning back kick to the jaw.

Titles

Boxing

• 1997 W.B.O.
  World Boxing Organization
  The World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...
  
   Inter-Continental heavyweight title (1 title defence)

Kickboxing

• 1993 W.A.K.O. World Championships in Atlantic City, USA
  W.A.K.O. World Championships 1993 (Atlantic City)
  W.A.K.O. World Championships 1993 in Atlantic City were the joint ninth world kickboxing championships hosted by the W.A.K.O. organization arranged by W.A.K.O. USA president Jim Lantrip...
  
    +89 kg (Light-Contact)
• 1992 W.A.K.O. European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria +89 kg (Light-Contact)

Film work

In 2010, Reid was offered a role in the British comedy film, On the Ropes

On the Ropes (2011 film)

On the Ropes is an upcoming British mock documentary film written and directed by Mark Noyce. It follows the fictional character of martial arts instructor Keith Kraft and his rivalry with boxing gym owner Big Joe, played by actor and former boxer Joe Egan...

. Director, Mark Noyce chose Reid to fight Steve Coleman

Steve Coleman (Wushu)

Steve Coleman was born on 22nd September 1981. He is best known for being a Great Britain Wushu athlete and an actor.Steve has won the Great Britain National Wushu Championships no less than 7 times, as well as breaking and setting new Great Britain National Wushu records...

 in a scene set at a martial arts competition.

External links

• Profile at BritishBoxing.net