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- Although born in England, lightweight boxer Billy Edwards had his greatest successes in America, and was the American lightweight champion in the late 1860s and early 1870s. After retiring from fighting, Edwards remained active as a trainer and writer. He trained the renowned John L. Sullivan for several fights, and also wrote about boxing. Well after his retirement from the ring, Edwards appeared in the Edison Company film Billy Edwards and the Unknown (1895), in which he fought a brief exhibition match.