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Nationality | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Flyweight/Bantamweight | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Collins is an American former amateur boxer from Texas who was a silver medalist at both the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships and 1987 Pan American Games.[1]
Collins was beaten by eventual 1984 Olympic gold medalist Steve McCrory in the flyweight final of the US Olympic trials, before moving up to the bantamweight division.[2] As a three-time national bantamweight champion, Collins entered the 1988 Olympic trials as the favourite, but fell in the semi-finals to Kennedy McKinney, who also went on to win Olympic gold.[3]