"Legend" lenny mclean, the Gov´ner......WTF??????

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  1. unitas

    unitas Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Was in London on a Business trip. had a black eye from Sparring session i had on friday....so yes, i was the object of curiosity among my collegues. turns out, there were quite a few boxing fans among them.
    so the conversation turns to "White collar" or "unlicensed" boxing...and suddenly the title of "guv´nor" Comes up and some legendary "Champion" called Lenny Mclean . according to one guy, this dude was such a beast that there was talk of him fighting ali??

    i couldnt help but cringe at the idea of a White collar boxer fighting ali......but they were so enthusiatic, i descided to be polite.
    on the flight back i looked him up. i couldnt find much footage on him, but what i found was pathetic. sure, he won the fights i saw, but his opponents looked like they were picked out of the audience.

    so, did i miss something?? what is you opinion of him? would he have been any good as a pro boxer??
    because from what i saw, he looked like a bouncer that couldnt even carry butterbeans spitbucket!
     
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  2. Birmingham

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    Butterbean would lay him out cold. Tough powerful street fighter, that is it. Area boxing champs sparked him in sparring that were a lot smaller. No denying he was a powerful man on the street though ! In the ring i'd class him as absolute shite
     
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  3. moog

    moog Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Totally agree and even as a street fighter he was overrated. I say that as he was proclaimed as the hardest man in Britain, load of shite.
     
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  4. lawslaw

    lawslaw Active Member Full Member

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    Those were the days, Lenny v Pretty Boy.

    Did that fight against the mafia boxer ever happen?
     
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  5. Beez

    Beez Active Member Full Member

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    He was Frank Warrens uncle or cousin apparently ...
     
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  6. Birmingham

    Birmingham Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Doubt it. Should be a little proof or an account off someone else or i'm calling bull**** !
     
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  7. Momus

    Momus Boxing Addict Full Member

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    McLean was a scary guy on the street and a huge physical presence. It's a shame his acting career was so short as he could have had a good run in Ritchie films reprising Barry the Baptist type roles.

    There is however, little reason to believe that he could have achieved anything of significance as pro boxer. Unlike Paul Sykes for example, there's no documented proof of real athletic talent or potential, and his unlicensed fights very much "were what they were" as the footage shows.
     
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  8. BEATDOWNZ

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    Sykesy would have hammered Lenny & Roy.
     
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  9. Grooveongreg

    Grooveongreg Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Unlicensed fighters are usually terrible. There are some good ones of course

    He's was basically a gangster tough guy type but not a real athlete . I'm sure if he applied himself he could have done well but he didn't. After all most of boxing is about serving your time and training
     
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  10. On The Money

    On The Money Dangerous Journeyman Full Member

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    He was one ugly mofo. No doubt he was expert on the cobbles, boxing ring not so much.
     
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  11. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    He wasn`t a white collar fighter he was working class, but yes he was crap. (RIP).
     
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  12. alpo1

    alpo1 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    he was pretty tasty on the cobbles. know what I mean?
     
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  13. jarama

    jarama Active Member Full Member

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    Totally agree, they would have been luckly to last a round or two with Sykesy,

    Someone like Bruno would have laid the pair out with the first jab he hit them with,

    I have seen some of their fights on video and they were shite to watch, crude skills.
     
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  14. Unforgiven

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    He was a just a pub bully.
    The kind of bloke that would stamp on a bespectacled 9-stone man's face for looking at his beer.
    ..... and then go around telling the story that he was jumped by a 7-foot mafia enforcer.
     
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  15. Anabolic

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    He bottled a fight against the 'king of the Gypsies' Bartley Gorman apparently.
     
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