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was broken up before being resolved. Wilson then advertised for competitors, and declared himself the
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foreign challenger, he was well received by the
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in 1847. He boxed competitively under the name of Wilson in the late 1860s; prize-fighting was still illegal in the mid-19th century, and as "Collins
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