David Reid (Boxer)
David Terrell Reid ( born September 17, 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is a retired American boxer.
Amateur
Reid won the 1993 U.S. Golden Gloves and the 1994 U.S. Championships Welterweight ( 67kg - ). In the same year he also participated in the Goodwill Games in part, however, different in the first fight against Juan Hernández, Cuba ( 11:7 ), from. In 1995 he won the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata with a final victory over Daniel Santos, Puerto Rico ( 9:9 ).
He climbed into the light middleweight and was also in this weight class in 1996 U.S. champion. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, he became the only U.S. Olympic champion. With victories over Wan Kyun Lee, South Korea ( 20:4 ), Pavol Polakovic, Czech Republic ( 12:5 ), Mohamed Salah Marmouri, Tunisia ( 13:8 ), and Karim Tulaganow, Uzbekistan ( 12:4 ), he reached the final. He lay against Cuban Alfredo Duvergel convincingly on points back before the third round, a precipitate succeeded him, whereupon the referee the fight broke not entirely uncontroversial. His amateur balance was 150-15.
Professional
Reid 1997 Professional and called himself inspired by the very successful in professional wrestling Olympic champion of the games against the "Golden Boy" Oscar de la Hoya, "The American Dream". He boxed for his now bankrupt promoter America Presents from the beginning very strong Structure opponents, as was the balance sheets of his first opponent, 10-0, 13-1, 7-1-1 and 11-0 show. In this very tough opposition in the construction phase, it is due to its low at first glance KO stats his punching power does not do justice.
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, although he won almost every round, but could do with the very defensive boxing Coker not much and looked helpless. Second, he went into the last round twice to the ground.
On March 6, 1999, he boxed against Laurent Boudouani to the WBA championship. Boudouani was considered a talented and competent, but also very moody and showed very fickle services; against the unknown Panamanian Guillermo Jones he had won twice only remains controversial points. Reid beat him on points and had after only two years as a pro defeats a world class opponents.
But the first title defense brought the great disillusionment. Against the completely unknown Australians Kevin Kelly (not to be confused with the American featherweight ), anything but powerful, he had to ground back to a single hook. Hit KO he could not him, just as his next opponent Keith Mullings.
These were not good conditions for a title defense against the Puerto Rican star Felix Trinidad. Trinidad was much more experienced than Reid but on the other hand had already repeatedly made welterweight acquaintance with the ring floor, so that he was indeed a favorite, but Reid quite a KO was capable of. The fight on March 3, 2000 was largely tactically Reid Trinidad in the first half of the fight from the outside ausboxte and reflected. In the second half of the fight but Trinidad clearly dominated, Reid went several times to the ground and could only with difficulty save over the distance.
From this defeat, he could not recover, had in connecting struggles often major problems and was after a TKO loss to Sam Hill on the boxes.