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Collins (centre) had an amazing amateur career, but commitment issues plagued him in the prosCredit: ANL<\/p>\n
“Talent only gets you so far, and I have seen some talented fighters over the years.<\/p>\n
“If you don’t have the dedication and you aren’t willing to put in the hard work, then talent only gets you to a certain level.<\/p>\n
“When you jump into the lift and you want to go to the top floor, you have to do everything.<\/p>\n
“Otherwise, you will end up halfway up and you won’t make it.”<\/p>\n
What did Tony Collins achieve as a pro?<\/p>\n
Collins won his first 15 fights before coming up short against unheralded American Russell Mitchell (13-9-1) in December 1988.<\/p>\n
The amateur standout got back to winning ways one month later and strung together another 10 wins en route to landing a British super welterweight title shot against Wally Swift Jr in July 1991.<\/p>\n
Collins opened up as a sizeable favourite despite Swift Jr being the defending champion, but was narrowly defeated on points in a high octane battle.<\/p>\n
The same can’t be said for his second crack at the Lonsdale belt in 1992 against Andy Till.<\/p>\n
Collins was dropped twice and stopped in the fourth against the ropes.<\/p>\n
It marked his last professional outing at just 22 years old, with his final record forever reading 26-4-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Collins isn’t a name many boxing fans will be familiar with, but it could have been if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,19056,101,87488,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-201712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-frank-warren","tag-sports","tag-tony-collins","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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