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MdFs cammr saved! by pdlge's dtecDSDflDGD ell agreed, maybe someone should find -him and tell him one kid he let off turned out pretty darn well. Oscar the grouch: Felix Trinidad said he had decided in January to give Oscar De La Hoya a rematch at 147 pounds, but De La Hoya didn't show up for meeting in New York. Fight for IBF junior bantamweight title, which was vacated when Marc (Too Sharp) Johnson went to jail for parole violation, added to card: Julio Gamboa, No. 1, of Nicaragua vs. Felix Machado, No.

2, of Venezuela. Rito Ruvalcaba of Mexico, William Jop-py's mandatory challenger, "forgot and drank a glass of water, suffering from tonsillitis, so WBA middleweight champion in nontitle bout against Fernando Zuni-ga Christy Martin, despite bruise beneath right eye and Band-Aid on right middle finger result of being blind-sided and dropped by Lucia Rijker at Los Angeles press conference Monday opens pay-per-view show against Belinda Laracuente of Puerto Rico. Mitch Halpera refs Reid-Trinidad. Don King, reacting to rival Bob Arum's prediction King would lose $6 million on this show, said, "At that rate, in a hundred years I'll be broke." By MICHAEL KATZ DAJLY NEWS SPORTS WRITER LAS VEGAS If David Reid beats Felix Trinidad tomorrow night, he can thank a judge whose name he doesn't even remember. Here he is, in one of the marquee fights of the last decade, facing Trinidad, conqueror of Oscar De La Hoya, tomorrow night in an outdoor stadium at Caesars Palace.

Seven years ago, he was facing hard time. He was 19 and, between amateur bouts, charged with dealing drugs. When he was young, he hung out with the Mar-ton Street Gang in North Philadelphia. "I was looking at three years (in prison)," Reid said at a news conference yesterday. "I would have come out not want-: ing to box.

I would have gone back to the thing I knew, which was selling drugs." "It comes with the territory, if someone don't pull you out, you're going to get swept away," said Al Mitchell. Luckily for Reid, now 26 and one of boxing's best ambassadors, Mitchell also came with the territory, the father figure the young fighter needed, the trainer, the manager, the friend. Mitchell, in charge of an Olympic boxing program at Northern Michigan University, brought his young protege with him in 1991. Reid couldn't stand it. "It was a good place for a kid, but I was so young I hated it because it was so clean," Reid said.

"Too many trees, too much clean air, not enough noise." So he returned to the streets. After being arrested in Philadelphia in 1993, Reid faced that tough judge. "I was standing there saying, 'Please, let me off. Please let me That was the chance of a lifetime," said Reid. "He was a mean judge." But Mitchell's brother Arnold, who works at city hall, put in a good word with the judge, saving, "This is a good kid.

He can become an Olympian." The judge looked at Reid and said, "Kid, I don't ever want to see you again." Reid said he owed the judge a couple of tickets to a major fight like this, "even a couple of airplane tickets." "That was the turning point of my career," he said. "I go to jail three years, I come back and start selling drugs again probably." Mitchell said, "To the judge, David was probably just another person." But Mitch- lPW '1 NAME BRAND Pejcinovic pactis a punch quarters after he stopped Jose Colon in the first round of their 156-pound bout. Nazario, 22, made short work of Colon by putting him away with a 1-2 combination at 1:42 of Round 1. There have been few Gloves bouts to match the pure excitement provided by 139-pound open fighters Brian O'Neill and Hakeem Juanaya. These two went at it for four solid rounds in a wild see-saw contest won by decision by O'Neill.

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