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Billy Collins was born to a working class Irish family in Antioch, Tennessee. His father and manager, Billy Collins Sr.(1937–2018), was a welterweight professional boxer during the late 1950s and early 1960s who won 38 of his 56 professional fights. Collins Jr. followed his father's footsteps and started training with him since a very young age.
The documentary examines a 1983 boxing match that took place between the undefeated fighter Billy Collins Jr. and Luis Resto.The fight was on the undercard occurring before the headline or "main event" between Multi-Division World Champion Roberto Durán and Davey Moore.
Carlos "Panama" Lewis (November 4, 1945 – September 19, 2020) [1] was an American boxing trainer. He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto for his fight against Billy Collins Jr. in 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career.
On June 16, 1983, Resto unexpectedly beat undefeated prospect Billy Collins Jr. at Madison Square Garden in New York City in a 10-round unanimous decision. The fight was the undercard for a bout between Roberto Durán and Davey Moore .
Billy Collins' father was a worker on Wall Street who Collins attributes as an inspiration to his humor. [ 4 ] Collins attended Archbishop Stepinac High School and received a B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963.
Bill Collins (racecaller) (1928–1997), Australian racecaller; Bill Collins (television presenter) (1934–2019), Australian film critic and television presenter; Billy Collins (Australian footballer) (1909–1987), Australian footballer for Melbourne; Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet; Billy Collins Jr. (1961–1984), American ...
William Lucas Collins (1815–1887), English author and clergyman of the Church of England; William Wiehe Collins (1862–1951), English architectural and landscape genre painter; Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet; William P. Collins, author of works on the Bábí and Bahá’í Faiths, see Bahá'í Faith in Europe
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