Colin Wilson | |
Nickname: | Kid Coalminer |
Weight: | Heavyweight |
Height: | 1.95 m |
Reach: | 200 cm |
Nationality: | Australian |
Birth Place: | Palmerston North, New Zealand |
Style: | Southpaw |
Boxrec: | 016516 |
Total: | 70 |
Wins: | 35 |
Losses: | 33 |
Draws: | 1 |
Ko: | 21 |
Colin "Kid Coalminer" Wilson is an Australian heavyweight boxer who held the Australian heavyweight boxing title 17 February 1997 – 31 January 1998, 19 September 2003 – 2 November 2007, and 3 October 2009 – 20 August 2010, losing the last to 39-year-old Justin Whitehead.[1] Wilson debuted against Jason Coaker on 13 November 1992, winning by knockout, his first of more than 20 such wins. Wilson fought for many years in Fred Brophys Boxing Troupe, the last Tent Boxing Show in the entire World. Wilson who boxed with Brophys Troupe under the name Cowboy long after he retired from Professional Boxing passed away in 2022.