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 . 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

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competition of 1969/70 at the then "Flyweight" division, before winning the national

title for the next 3 years running at Light-Flyweight. He represented

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and won a

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in the light-flyweight category, at the

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. 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

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, 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

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Amateur career

Abrams was an amateur boxer for Battersea Amateur Boxing Club, and gained the following ABA titles: *

Light-flyweight Champion (48 kg) - 1971 *

Light-flyweight Champion (48 kg) - 1972 *

Light-flyweight Champion (48 kg) - 1973

Personal life

Mickey lives in Battersea with his partner Valerie and his young daughter Valentine. He was a

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at his daughter's school (Wix Primary), which is the same school that he attended.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abrams, Michael 1949 births Living people English male boxers Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Boxers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Boxers at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games Light-flyweight boxers School governors Boxers from London England Boxing champions Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in boxing