Paddy Monaghan was not immediately as intimidating as bare-knuckle boxers like Lenny McLean or Roy Shaw. But if anyone dared to underestimate this man, as many foolish opponents did, the full force of the hardest man in Ireland, a fine and ferocious fighting machine, would be unleashed. His
Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller. As a bare-knuckle boxer he won countless brutal fights, but the real battles he faced were outside the ring. In this deeply honest autobiography, he tells his rich and colourful story with the warmth and humour he is famed
The true story of a life by legendary Lenny McLean's side; bare-knuckle fist fights, enforcing for the Krays and delivering some rough East End justice. Don't cross The Neck. As the right-hand man to 'The Guv'nor' himself, Lenny McLean, John 'The Neck' Houchin is a living legend and is now telling
This is the story of a man who came from 10 generations of bare knuckle fighters and climbed right to the summit of boxing - at a time when nobody outside his close circle gave him a chance. Tyson Fury went to Germany and took four world heavyweight titles from the unbeaten champion Wladimir