Amateur Career
Robinson had a stellar amateur career and was a national amateur champion. Some of his highlights are below:
- Featherweight Silver Medalist at 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle, United States. Results were:
- Kirkor Kirkorov (Bulgaria) won on points
- Faat Gatin (Soviet Union) won by TKO 3
- Oscar de la Hoya (United States) lost on points
- 1991 United States Amateur Featherweight Champion
- 1991 World Championships in Sydney, Australia, competed as a Featherweight. Results were:
- Jose Fernandes (Portugal) won on points
- Duk-Kyu Park (South Korea) lost on points
- Attempted to qualify for the Olympics as a Featherweight at the 1992 Olympic Trials in competition at Worcester, MA. Results were:
- Kenneth Friday won on points
- Michael Clark won on points
- Julian Wheeler lost on points, in final
- Julian Wheeler lost on points, at Box-Offs in Phoenix, AZ
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Famous quotes containing the words amateur and/or career:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
“I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)