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Article: Collins not ready to relinquish hard-won respect
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 6, 1996
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Steve Collins trains in Jersey, where Nigel Benn is a resident
tax exile. Benn, a multi-millionaire, leads by a streak in a career
earnings contest but, as the defending champion, Collins takes the
lion's share of a pounds 2m joint purse from tonight's World Boxing
Organisation super-middleweight title fight at the Nynex Centre,
Manchester. The worm has started to turn.
Collins, aged 32, like Benn, has learned late but learned fast.
Since "arriving" by becoming the first man to defeat Chris Eubank
in March 1995, and then successfully defending the WBO title
against the former champion six months later, Collins has shown a
keen eye for business. An autobiography was released within weeks
of ...