Paul Sykes

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Anyone know of / heard of this guy? Was bored at work and watched an interview with Lenny Mclean and he was on the sidebar. Supposedly considered the 'hardest' man in Britain during the 80s, did a lot of bird and gave a few screws a pasting. There's a 6 part doc on youtube and he does seem like a fruit loop! You don't hear of this kind of 'hardman' anymore, it's all gangs using nowadays. Not glorifying him at all btw. A little taster :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djyqbp-wlm8[/youtube]
 
Clearly a deluded man with mental health issues.

and Gangs have always been about, do you think some Anglo-Saxons raping a village over here would of done this individually because they were all "hard" ?

Lol...

Never such thing as an hard man. Media hype, playing to the cameras, Egotistical wankers... That's it.
 
Why Always Ste said:
Clearly a deluded man with mental health issues.

and Gangs have always been about, do you think some Anglo-Saxons raping a village over here would of done this individually because they were all "hard" ?

Lol...

Never such thing as an hard man. Media hype, playing to the cameras, Egotistical wankers... That's it.

Not arguing with your last point, I know gangs have been around forever you could argue the Police force is a firm lol. What I was eluding to was the 70s / 80s 'Hardman' like McClean, Roy Shaw, Paul Sykes etc don't seem to be glorified nowadays. True they're relics of a by gone era. This guy def had mental issues, by all accounts he was a bully and a coward ( beat his kids who are now both doing time for murder ) but he seemed to have the respect of the underworld. I find characters like him interesting.
 
Doesnt matter how hard you are, one swift kick to the bollocks and you're dropping like a sack of shit
 
Why Always Ste said:
Clearly a deluded man with mental health issues.

and Gangs have always been about, do you think some Anglo-Saxons raping a village over here would of done this individually because they were all "hard" ?

Lol...

Never such thing as an hard man. Media hype, playing to the cameras, Egotistical wankers... That's it.
Lenny McLean was very much a hard man.<br /><br />-- Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:51 pm --<br /><br />
CTID1988 said:
Doesnt matter how hard you are, one swift kick to the bollocks and you're dropping like a sack of shit
Can't say I've witnessed that move since primary school.
 
I remember him as a boxer who was among the top British Heavyweights of the day but had no idea of his other "activities"

From Wiki

Sykes was born 23 May 1946 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire to Walter Sykes and Betty Barlow. He grew up in the Lupset council estate and boxed at the Robin Hood and Thorpe Amateur Boxing Club.[1] He is also known to have boxed at White Rose Boxing Club, Thornes Wharfe, Wakefield where, amongst others, he flattened John Taylor.

Sykes's adult life was peppered with alcohol abuse, petty robberies, violent crime and prison. Nonetheless, he fought ten bouts as a professional boxer between 1978 and 1980, peaking in June 1979 when he lost a British and Commonwealth title fight to John L. Gardner, actually turning his back and walking away in the 6th round to end the beating Gardner was issuing him with. It was a grudge match with Sykes being hyped up. The so-called Sykes big right hand never materialized.[2] His career ended in March 1980 when African journeyman Ngozika Ekwelum knocked him out in the first round.
He was classed as one of the most difficult prisoners in the UK throughout the 1980s and spent over 20 years in prison for many violent acts against prison officers and police officers. He committed violent offences all over the North of England and was very well known to locals and the police in Leeds, Liverpool, Blackpool, Hull, and Rotherham, and also known and respected by the hard cases in London. Some apparently classed Paul Sykes as one of the hardest men in Great Britain during the 1980s.[citation needed] One of his habits was to spit in a pint and steal it from its owner. One time in the late 1980s in a Wakefield pub near the prison he did this and was savagely beaten outside the pub when he left.
While in prison, he earned a BA in Physical Sciences from Open University and wrote a memoir, Sweet Agony. Following his release from HM Prison Hull in 1990, producer Roger Greenwood followed him in the course of filming the documentary Paul Sykes: At Large.[2]
In 2000, Wakefield Council secured an ASBO banning him from the city centre. He was arrested in August 2003 for violating the ban by making an appointment with an optician in Wakefield, but was released on his own recognizance

Sykes died on 7 March 2007 at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. His cause of death was noted as pneumonia and liver cirrhosis.

Paul Sykes has two children who are both serving life sentences for murder.
 
Virtually every town has it's hard men, the ones that everyone knows about and most will avoid when out and about.
Then there are the total loons like Sykes, not only hard as fuck but also completely unpredictable, I've met a few of them over the years, one of my oldest friends is out of a similar mould, drink being the catalyst almost every time, good as gold when sober, luckily he's now been that way for 3yrs and life is slowly picking up.

He would also advocate punching a shark to "fuck it off" if in a similar predicament, can't argue with this logic really,



[bigimg]http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/images-5/shark-punch.jpg[/bigimg]
 

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