Robert Dale Brown is a 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...

, who represented Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place in the old Pavelló Club Joventut de Badalona in Barcelona. The boxing schedule began on July 26 and ended on August 9...

 in Barcelona, Spain. There he was stopped in the second round of the light heavyweight

Light heavyweight

In boxing, the light heavyweight is a weight division above 168 pounds [12 Stone or 76.204 kilograms] and up to 175 pounds [12.5 stone or 79.38 kilograms]), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight...

 division (– 81 kg) by Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

's Torsten May

Torsten May

Torsten May was a German boxer, who won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:*1991 German National Light Heavyweight champion...

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Professional career

Brown has been a contender in the Cruiserweight division since the late 1990s. He has unsuccessfully challenged for a world title three times; losing by stoppage to Vassiliy Jirov

Vassiliy Jirov

Vassiliy "The Tiger" Jirov is a professional Kazakh boxer and former IBF cruiserweight champion, currently fighting out of Las Vegas under Thell Torrence...

 and Jean-Marc Mormeck, and by decision to O'Neill Bell in a fight guest analyst Kevin Kelley scored in Brown's favour.. In his most recent bouts, Brown lost a 5-round technical decision to Shane Swartz

Shane Swartz

Shane Swartz is an American boxer.-Amateur career:Swartz was an outstanding amateur, having won back-to-back gold medals at the 1993 and 1994 U. S. Olympic Festival. He later was the U.S...

 and was KO'd by Darnell Wilson

Darnell Wilson

Darnell Wilson is a US-American boxer. Graduated from Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland.-Amateur career:...

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Amateur career

As an amateur Brown represented Canada as a Light Heavyweight in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. His results were:

• Defeated Damidin Zul (Mongolia) RSC 2 (3:00)
• Lost to Torsten May
  Torsten May
  Torsten May was a German boxer, who won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:*1991 German National Light Heavyweight champion...
  
   (Germany) 1-7

A year before his Olympic stint Brown won the bronze medal at the Pan American Games

Boxing at the 1991 Pan American Games

The Men's Boxing Tournament at the 1991 Pan American Games was held in Havana, Cuba from August 2 to August 18. It served as a qualification tournament for the 1992 Summer Olympics. The number one and two earned a ticket for the Barcelona Games...

 in Havana, Cuba. He did the same at the 1993 World Amateur Boxing Championships

1993 World Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1993 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Tampere, Finland from May 7 to 16. The seventh edition of this competition, held nearly a year after the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, was organised by the Tampere Boxing Association, member of the Finnish Boxing Association...

 in Tampere, Finland.