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steves story
stevie became one of the best irish fighters ever. in his early days he won irish amateur titles as both a junior and a senior at both heavyweight and lightheavy, he was quite good at counterpunching but always seemed to be a brawler wanting to get out. he slugged his way to the irish amateur middleweight title of 1986. he went to boston to train with marvin haglers trainers, the petronellis, and counterpunched his way through the usa rankings into world middleweight challenger. he used to starve himself to make 160 pounds, and was willing to have sparring wars every day. he was good at grabbing the middle of the ring, good at planting his feet and good at getting inside. after just 16 fights he gave a prime mike mccallum an epic battle in 1990 over 12 rounds, every single round was very close, infighting battle but 9 of the 12 were edged by the far more experienced mccallum.
steve was robbed against both reggie johnson and sambu kalambay backtoback, in their backyards, and looked set for journeyman status. however out of the blue he stepped in as late replacement for ray close to tackle unbeaten eccentric chris eubank, despite having a terrible time trying to make weight collins found his fame and fortune in a legendary night for irish boxing in cork. collins famously fooled eubank and the world into believing he was hypnotised and took away eubanks '0' with one of the greatest examples of determination in boxing history.
collins was no longer the tough and awkward boxhitter/counterpuncher by 95, instead he dropped his guard and became a fully aggressive press fighter who relied on his chin and durability to wear away opponents, he also added body punching to his armoury and was looking unstoppable now. he outpointed eubank again six months later in a classic display of how to wear a opponent away with body punching from the very start and press fighting throughout. he proved himself beyond doubt by systematically taking apart nigel benn twice, benn was a boy in collins hands, those two wins against benn were what first launched trainer freddie roach.
the twoweight world champion collins beat eubank and benn twice each and was notoriously ducked by roy jones, cementing steves status as the best supermiddleweight of alltime. steve collins will always be remembered as one of the toughest mothers to spit in a bucket.
steves story
stevie became one of the best irish fighters ever. in his early days he won irish amateur titles as both a junior and a senior at both heavyweight and lightheavy, he was quite good at counterpunching but always seemed to be a brawler wanting to get out. he slugged his way to the irish amateur middleweight title of 1986. he went to boston to train with marvin haglers trainers, the petronellis, and counterpunched his way through the usa rankings into world middleweight challenger. he used to starve himself to make 160 pounds, and was willing to have sparring wars every day. he was good at grabbing the middle of the ring, good at planting his feet and good at getting inside. after just 16 fights he gave a prime mike mccallum an epic battle in 1990 over 12 rounds, every single round was very close, infighting battle but 9 of the 12 were edged by the far more experienced mccallum.
steve was robbed against both reggie johnson and sambu kalambay backtoback, in their backyards, and looked set for journeyman status. however out of the blue he stepped in as late replacement for ray close to tackle unbeaten eccentric chris eubank, despite having a terrible time trying to make weight collins found his fame and fortune in a legendary night for irish boxing in cork. collins famously fooled eubank and the world into believing he was hypnotised and took away eubanks '0' with one of the greatest examples of determination in boxing history.
collins was no longer the tough and awkward boxhitter/counterpuncher by 95, instead he dropped his guard and became a fully aggressive press fighter who relied on his chin and durability to wear away opponents, he also added body punching to his armoury and was looking unstoppable now. he outpointed eubank again six months later in a classic display of how to wear a opponent away with body punching from the very start and press fighting throughout. he proved himself beyond doubt by systematically taking apart nigel benn twice, benn was a boy in collins hands, those two wins against benn were what first launched trainer freddie roach.
the twoweight world champion collins beat eubank and benn twice each and was notoriously ducked by roy jones, cementing steves status as the best supermiddleweight of alltime. steve collins will always be remembered as one of the toughest mothers to spit in a bucket.
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