In 1914 Rabin won a scholarship to the Manchester Municipal School of Art making him, at the age of 11, the youngest pupil ever to attend the college.

[1] After the Slade, Rabin studied in Paris where he met and was greatly impressed and influenced by sculptor Charles Despiau.

[6] In 1930, he produced his only other public sculptures; two decorative winged masks, The Past and The Future, for the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street.

[6] Both commissions were well received at the time,[6][7] but Rabin was unable to make a living as a sculptor and turned to another career – wrestling, for which he abbreviated his surname.

Alexander Korda cast him as a wrestler in The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933 and as Mendoza, a Jewish prize-fighter, in The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1934.

After the War, he sang regularly on the BBC radio programme “Time for Music” with the London Studio Players.

Rabin gave up singing and sculpturing to concentrate on drawing, with the boxing ring and its characters as the subject of most of his pieces.

Much of what exists are figure studies prepared as demonstrations for students and coloured boxing scenes produced with thickly applied wax crayons of his own making.