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Hero to zero

THERE is a saying in boxing that if a promoter wants to make a small fortune out of the sport, then he had better start with a large one. Major Arnold Wilson was one promoter who gambled everything on one big event, and lost everything in doing so.

Wilson was a First World War hero. He had won the Military Cross after crawling out

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