Michael Abrams (boxer)
{{Short description|English boxer (born 1949)}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}
{{Infobox boxer
| name = Micky Abrams
| image =
| image_size = 200
| caption = Mickey in 1972
| nickname = (Mickey, Micky)
| weight = Light-flyweight
| nationality = British (English)
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|9|27|df=y}}
| death_date =
| birth_place = London, England
| style = Orthodox
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's Boxing}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalBronze | 1970 Edinburgh | Light Flyweight}}
}}
Michael Abrams (born 27 September 1949) is an English former amateur and Commonwealth Games light-flyweight boxer. He fought as Mickey Abrams.
Early career
Mickey was a promising boxer from a very early age becoming the Southwest and London schoolboy champion in 1964, and was also the national runner up that year at the {{nowrap|6 st 3 lb division}}. The following year he became the Junior ABA Southwest and London champion in the class A division, also becoming the national runner up that year.
He did well at the senior ABA competition of 1969/70 at the then "Flyweight" division, before winning the national ABA title for the next 3 years running at Light-Flyweight.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the light-flyweight category, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1970/athletes|title=1970 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/edinburgh-1970|title=Edinburgh, 1970 Team|publisher=Team England}}{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/43439|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}
He captained the 1971 Madrid European games, won a Pre-Olympic silver for the 1972 Munich Olympics as well as captaining for the 1973 European games in Belgrade and also the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.
He also had great success in a couple of tours of America, winning 3 fights at the Ohio State fair, Indianapolis and the New Jersey State fair in an ABA tour of 1970, and fought in Madison Square Garden in 1973 in a USA vs the ABA tour. On one of these tours he also met and became good friends with Dustin Hoffman.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}
Amateur career
Abrams was an amateur boxer for Battersea Amateur Boxing Club, and gained the following ABA titles:
- ABA Light-flyweight Champion (48 kg) - 1971{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1970-1979/1971/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130419120152/http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1970-1979/1971/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-19|title=ABA 1971 Roll of honou|publisher=Amateur Boxing Association}}{{cite news |title=Turpin grabs shock victory|work=Daily Mirror |date=8 May 1971 |access-date=10 January 2022|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19710508/351/0031| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
- ABA Light-flyweight Champion (48 kg) - 1972{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/mens-championships/elite-senior-championships/1970-1979/1972/|title=ABA 1972 Roll of honour|publisher=Amateur Boxing Association}}
- ABA Light-flyweight Champion (48 kg) - 1973{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1970-1979/1973/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716222605/http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1970-1979/1973/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-16|title=ABA 1973 Roll of honour|publisher=Amateur Boxing Association}}
Personal life
Mickey lives in Battersea with his partner Valerie and his young daughter Valentine. He was a school governor at his daughter's school (Wix Primary), which is the same school that he attended.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}
References
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Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Category:Boxers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Category:Boxers at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Category:Light-flyweight boxers
Category:England Boxing champions