David Reid (boxer)

David Reid
Data
Birth Name	David Terrell Reid
Weight class	Light middleweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	17th September 1973
place of birth	Philadelphia
size	1.75 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	19th
Victories	17th
Knockout victories	7th
Defeats	2

David Terrell Reid (born September 17, 1973 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is a retired American boxer.

amateur

Reid won the US Golden Gloves in 1993 and the US welterweight championships in 1994 (-67 kg). In the same year he also took part in the Goodwill Games , but was eliminated in the first fight against Juan Hernández , Cuba (11: 7). In 1995 he won the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata with a final victory over Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico (+9: 9).

He rose to the light middleweight division and was also US champion in this weight class in 1996. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he became the only American Olympic champion. He reached the final with victories over Wan Kyun Lee, South Korea (20: 4), Pavol Polakovic, Czech Republic (12: 5), Mohamed Salah Marmouri, Tunisia (13: 8), and Karim Toʻlaganov , Uzbekistan (12: 4) . There he was clearly behind on points against the Cuban Alfredo Duvergel , before he fell down in the third round, whereupon the referee broke off the fight, which was not entirely uncontroversial. His amateur record was 150-15.

professional

Reid became a professional in 1997 and named himself after the very successful Olympic champion of the previous games, the "Golden Boy" Óscar de la Hoya , "The American Dream". He boxed for his now bankrupt promoter America Presents very strong opponents from the beginning , as the results of his first opponents, 10-0, 13-1, 7-1-1 and 11-0 show. It is due to this very tough opposition in the build-up phase that his knockout statistics, which at first glance seem low, do not do justice to his clout.

After a knockout against former world champion Simon Brown , he met with James Coker on an undefeated southpaw, against whom he had problems in two ways. First of all, he won almost every round, but couldn't do much with the very defensive boxing Coker and looked helpless. Second, he went down twice on the last lap.

On March 6, 1999, he boxed against Laurent Boudouani for the WBA World Championship. Boudouani was considered talented and competent, but also very capricious and showed very inconsistent performance; against the unknown Panamanian Guillermo Jones, he had twice won only controversially on points. Reid beat him on points and had defeated a world class opponent after just two years as a professional.

But the first title defense brought great disillusionment. Against the completely unknown Australian Kevin Kelly (not to be confused with the American featherweight of the same name), anything but powerful, he had to hit the ground again after a single hook. He couldn't knock him out, any more than his closest opponent Keith Mullings .

These were not good conditions for a title defense against the Puerto Rican star Félix Trinidad . Trinidad was much more experienced than Reid but on the other hand had already made several acquaintance with the ring floor in the welterweight division, so that it was the favorite, but Reid was expected to be knocked out. The fight on March 3, 2000 was largely tactical when Reid punched Trinidad from the outside in the first half of the fight and knocked it down. In the second half of the fight, however, Trinidad clearly dominated, Reid went down several times and was only able to save himself over the distance with difficulty.

He could not recover from this defeat, often had big problems in the follow-up fights and gave up boxing after a TKO defeat against Sam Hill.

Web links

• David Reid in the BoxRec database
• David Reid in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )