Michael Collins (boxer)

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]

Michael Collins

Personal information
Nationality	United States
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Flyweight/Bantamweight
Medal record Men's amateur boxing Representing USA World Amateur Championships 1982 Munich Flyweight (-51 kg) Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis Bantamweight (-54 kg)

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]