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A slogan on Ray Rinaldi’s old North Side gym read: “There’s no such thing as a bad kid, just bad environments.”

He believed that to his core. And for more than 50 years, Rinaldi ― who died recently at age 96 ―used boxing to lure kids off Syracuse streets and into a place that made them feel special.

“He hated knowing there are certain kids who would stay in certain neighborhoods, just a six-block radius and go to school, see poverty around them, see people dealing drugs and not knowing there was a different way, that they had a choice,” his nephew, Chris Burns, said. “It just really ate him up inside. I think that’s what pushed him all those years.”

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