Steve Collins was a very underrated fighter,not until his 30th birthday did he call himself the CELTIC WARRIOR and he turned into a wrecking machine from then.But even early on he was underrated,he was absolutely robbed with backtoback losses in Johnsons backyard and Kalambays backyard,those judges should of been shot!Collins was totally robbed on the scorecards,he beat Johnson and Kalambay in their backyards clearly.He almost walked away from the sport after that and only came back because he needed money.Collins beat Watts and Thornton in the 80s,Watts had caused world champ Nunn problems,Thornton had caused world champs Eubank and Toney problems.I remember that Michael Watson was ducking him for years when they were supposed to be fighting for the vacant european titles.Eubank ducked Collins for four years,and Benn chose Barkley/Eubank over Collins in 1990.Nunn ducked Collins for two years,Roy Jones ducked Collins for two years too.McCallum openly admitted that he didnt want anything to do with Collins again because at one point in their fight Collins abandoned his fight plan and just went right after McCallum causing him more problems at the end of their fight than McCallum had ever had,Collins said afterwards that had he gone at McCallum from the start he'd of won and McCallum nodded in agreement.
Yeah but Stevie had the ugliest ****ing style you'll see Very rugged.
Stevie will tell you that all those guys ducked him, but I think most of it isn't true because you can't duck anybody unless they are your mandatory or unless the public demands it. I don't know if Stevie was any of those guys mandatories, the one fight that should of happened though was Roy Jones (because Stevie had sent Benn and Eubank into retirement). Jones Jr definately did avoid Collins that's for sure!
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