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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.
William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. [1] He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016.
Billy Collins (Australian footballer) (1909–1987), Australian footballer for Melbourne Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet Billy Collins Jr. (1961–1984), American professional boxer
William Collins (tennis), British tennis player from the 1920s and 30s, see 1930 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles; William Collins (canoeist) (1932–1993), Canadian canoer who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics; Bill Collins (athlete) (born 1950), American sprinter; Billy Collins Jr. (1961–1984), American professional boxer
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.
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.
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The Art of Drowning is a book of poetry by the American Poet Laureate Billy Collins, first published in 1995. John Updike described the collection as "Lovely poems—lovely in a way almost nobody's since [Theodore] Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and ...