Hard Men

Street fights and unlicensed bouts between some of Britain's hardest men.

1. Roy Shaw v the Hollywood Bouncers · Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw wrote about a great many fights, and he ends his book with one of them: a night at a new club in Romford, called Hollywood, in the late 1980s or early 1990s, when the door staff turned on him. This
2. Paul Sykes v Gary Spiers: The Blackpool Battle · Paul Sykes, from Wakefield, stood six foot three, weighed sixteen stone and had, in the film's words, a hair-trigger temper. Gary Spiers, a New Zealander of Maori heritage, was a karate man and doorman who had built a se
3. Brian Cockerill v Dave Garside · In the North East of the 1980s and early 1990s the names that get remembered are Brian Cockerill, Lee Duffy, Viv Graham and Paddy Conroy. Dave Garside is less well known. He ran security, and he was a serious heavyweight
4. The Night Geordie Gangsters Tried to Kill Brian Cockerill