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I had a message sent to me that former British champ Robert Dickie has had a heart attack, anyone in wales got any news!!

I seen him Saturday, had had a few pints but looked well and in good nick, but I had a text from a pal asking me ´have I heard about Robert Dickie? And i'm waiting for him to come back to me

Dickie was one of the strongest featherweights I ever saw, a real physical animal, so I hope he is OK.

I've heard he had died. Only 46, very sad

Yes it´s true, he has sadly passed

Jesus I am stunned..... I used to love watching Dickie. I cried the night he lost his WBC international belt to a future world champion. Cuts if I remember, he was well on top. Didn't he lose his British belt through injury.

Retired very early, I'm sure the injuries and misfortune got to him mentally (cannot blame him). Amazing to think of the Welsh talent we had around the 9stone mark at that time.... Dickie, Robinson, Harvard - that none of them fought each other.

RIP Dickie, I am absolutely stunned. Anyone know when he died?

No way! Dickie used to blow up in weight and he was always one of the boys but this is crazy. I remember him giving Ray Gilbody a hard scrap in the 1982 ABA semis when he was just 17. It was like, who is this Robert Dickie? He turned pro at bantamweight, which didn't suit him, and once incongruously fought for the Scottish bantamweight title. When Dickie moved up to featherweight, he started walking through opponents - good opponents - and he made his way to London in 1986 to edge a bruising 12-rounder with John Feeney for the British featherweight title made vacant by Barry McGuigan.
Dickie really punished Feeney in the rematch, dropping him twice and winning a landslide, and he brutalized Steve Sims with body shots to win a Lonsdale Belt outright in what was then record time. Robert must have been close to something major but then broke his back in his XR2 in a country lane smash in Wales and lost many months. He came back at super-featherweight, winning a WBC ranking against a face-first Indonesian, before having the life butted out of him by a Tunisian and losing on cuts. He lost heart, bulked up to 15 stone and did what all bored Welshmen do: he played rugby.
Inevitably, Robert returned to the ring, still a relatively young man, and proved too strong for Kevin Pritchard for the British super-featherweight title, a title he lost as quickly as everyone else around that time. That was pretty much it, but Dickie was a strong, strong fighter, a two-weight British champion and a real competitor. He ranks as one of those unlucky fighters.

I remember reading about him when he was a international champion&winning the british title when the super feather title was on a merry go round&no champion manged to defend it...Who broke that duck??

RIP Robert Dickie

Whoaa! What shocking news.

I seen Dickie in action several times including the two fights in Stoke against Gun and Bou-Ali.

Always thought it a shame he didn't get it on with Floyd Havard to settle West Wales bragging rights.

RIP

Tommy Gunn13 wrote:I remember reading about him when he was a international champion&winning the british title when the super feather title was on a merry go round&no champion manged to defend it...Who broke that duck??

RIP Robert Dickie

RIP Robert.

Neil Haddock broke the duck beating Michael Armstrong and defending it once against Steve Walker and then losing to Floyd Havard who defended it a couple of times

jonny wrote:

Tommy Gunn13 wrote:I remember reading about him when he was a international champion&winning the british title when the super feather title was on a merry go round&no champion manged to defend it...Who broke that duck??

RIP Robert Dickie

RIP Robert.

Neil Haddock broke the duck beating Michael Armstrong and defending it once against Steve Walker and then losing to Floyd Havard who defended it a couple of times

Cheers Jonny

I was ringside for his fight against Feeney in Ebbe Vale, (I was based near there at the time while I was in the army), my mate and sparring partner Gary Gethin was on the bill against Winston Burnett!!, a great night in welsh boxing..

RIP

Very sad RIP champ.

Robert was British champ when i started following boxing in 1986/87, he was one of those guys that didn't look like a boxer, but he could really box and punch.