What an idiotatsch . Truth be told most of these guys would be taken out by any reasonable in shape guy, let alone a boxer. Whenever I'm in Waterstones I'll occasionally flick through one of those autobiography's of a 'self-confessed hard man'. Tends to read something like. 'I was surrounded by loads of Turkish gangsters. I knew this was it, despite the fact they were all armed with AK-47's I'd allways been bought up to believe you stood your ground. Where I came from you never backed down. I picked up the nearest bottle smashed it and fought my way out. You could see the fear in their eyes, I took a few hits but emerged victorious. I was now a underground legend and word quickly spread. Micky Duff phoned me up asking me to spar with Frank Bruno. I knocked Bruno out in less than one round. Word got out to the States and after taking on the Mafia I sparred with Tyson, it was even for the first few rounds but then I insisted on fighting bare knuckle, like I'd been bought up. I took Tyson, Greg Page, Tim Witherspoon and Carl Williams out all in one night. Don King offered me 30 million to turn pro but I wanted to stay true to my East End roots.'
I've just pissed myself laughing so much. You have captured the 'zeitgeist' so accurately. The only exception is the book by Roy Shaw, who admits he would have lost to any even fringe world class fighter. Shaw is the only one of these clowns who deserves respect.
not that much though, his book is still full of posturing and boasting. I used to love Lenny Mclean and Roy Shaw, and once saw Mad Frankie Fraser doing a book signing (by accident), but that was when I was a kid. Now I see it as a bit pathetic being in and out of jail and good at beating people up on the street.
No disrespect to the poster but this **** shouldn't be allowed in the Brit forum I thought I'd gone onto the general / lounge by mistake We should maintain better standards than this in here
Tyson by stoppage. McClean would give it a good go but Tyson would pound on McClean until he stopped him.
Lenny Mclean, with his chin the air would be knocked out in a way he would never want to imagine inside the ring by Tyson or any decent heavyweight boxer actually. Lenny was a hard **** and could fight in the very well outside of queensberry rules but not in a boxing ring.
mcLean was sparked TWICE by a domestic level Light-heavy, something he omitted from his autobiography (funnily enough) he was a HARD BLOKE. I'd doubt he could beat Martin Rogan, and that's not a sleight on Rogie either, just saying whoever the thread starters mates are..well, they clearly have no clue lol
Tyson KO 15 seconds McClean... McClean, by all accounts, even had to stage fights in an attempt to look hard.