Steve Collins heads up the Canadian Seal Slaughter

Steve Collins heads up the Canadian Seal Slaughter Campaign in what might be his toughest fight of all.



Steve Collins and Chris Eubanks


Steve Collins nicknamed The Celtic Warrior, is a former world boxing Champion. He is considered to be one of the toughest boxers of the past century, never having been stopped in a high profile career. Steve was part of a golden age of European Supermiddleweight boxing, along with Chris Eubank, and Nigel Benn. He was trained by Freddie Roach throughout his career. Steve started boxing profesionally in 1986, and in his 30's he fulfilled his potential, becoming the WBO Middleweight champion and later the WBO Supermiddleweight champion.

In 1994 he defeated Chris Pyatt to secure the WBO middleweight belt. The following year he relinquished this title without a defence, moving up to super-middleweight and defeating the previously unbeaten Chris Eubank in Millstreet to take the WBO title. He defended this title successfully seven times (including a second meeting with Eubank and two fights against Nigel Benn). After his third round knockout of Craig Cummings in 1997, Collins announced his retirement.


Steve with his wife Donna

Steve has not faded from the spotlight since his retirement. In 1998 he appeared in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (directed by Guy Ritchie) as a boxing gym bouncer.
In 1999 he made a cameo appearance in U2's video for The Sweetest Thing. He remains a much loved figure in Ireland due to the courage, passion and talent he displayed in the ring.
Steve and his Wife Donna, are now working alongside Adam Murry, head of the Bill Jordan Foundation and Mark Glover from Respect for Animals, and have rallied fifteen of the world’s most famous boxers and will this Thursday lobby the Canadian High Commission in London to highlight the brutal slaughter of hundreds of thousands of baby seals. The fighters include

Alan Minter, Former World Champion.
Joe Egan former four-times Irish heavyweight boxing champion.
Paul (Silky) Jones, Former World Champion
Scott Welch, Former British & Commonwealth Champion
Billy Schwer, Former World Champion
John Conteh, Former World Champion
Jane Couch, Current World Champion
Kevin Lueshing, Former World Champion
Mickey Cantwell, Former British Champion
Danny Williams, Current Commonwealth & British Champion
Mehrdud Takaloo, Current World Champion
Julius Francis, Former British & Commonwealth Champion
Charlie Magri, Former World Champion
Jim Macdonald, Former European Champion
Cornelius Carr, Former world middleweight Champion.

Ricky Hatton, Current World Champion apologies for not being there but we have his full support

At the end of March the seal clubbing season will begin off Canada’s east coast. Over 300,000 seals will be clubbed and shot. Many will be skinned alive. Nearly one million seal pups have been shot and clubbed to death over the last three years during the annual Canadian seal slaughter.

Independent observers, including vets, zoologists and journalists, have seen:
Baby seals skinned alive
Two week old seals stabbed with skinning knives.
Mother seals rooting through vast piles of skinned carcasses in search of their dead and dying pups.
Live seals stabbed with barbed hooks and apparently tortured with ‘hakapiks’.

Steve says “this is the most brutal and barbaric thing I have ever seen, and it must be stopped. I believe that Canada is one of the most civilized Nations on earth and I know that the majority of the Canadian people support me. Clubbing to death and skinning alive baby seals to allow them to wriggle on the ice with no skin until they bleed to death is quite frankly beyond me”