Paul Sykes... where is he now?...

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Imagine the amount of bag these lads must work their way through.
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Listened to a podcast there on Lee Duffy after reading here about him. The author Jamie Boyle Actually hero worships him.
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high tower 1 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 16:38 Listened to a podcast there on Lee Duffy after reading here about him. The author Jamie Boyle Actually hero worships him.
He’s in deep with Cockerill, big Bri thinks he ripped him off.
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mickey1975 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 17:52
high tower 1 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 16:38 Listened to a podcast there on Lee Duffy after reading here about him. The author Jamie Boyle Actually hero worships him.
He’s in deep with Cockerill, big Bri thinks he ripped him off.
He looked like he’d been hammering the bag. Said it’s a nervous twitch .... same excuse as a famous boxing promoter.
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Cyclops wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 10:12 he looks like a 12 year old who fell into a vat of toxic waste in the photos
:lol:
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Cyclops wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 10:12 he looks like a 12 year old who fell into a vat of toxic waste in the photos
:lol: fûcking poetry
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high tower 1 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 18:17
mickey1975 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 17:52
high tower 1 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 16:38 Listened to a podcast there on Lee Duffy after reading here about him. The author Jamie Boyle Actually hero worships him.
He’s in deep with Cockerill, big Bri thinks he ripped him off.
He looked like he’d been hammering the bag. Said it’s a nervous twitch .... same excuse as a famous boxing promoter.
He addressed it online. I think he is, personally.
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mickey1975 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 18:55
high tower 1 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 18:17
mickey1975 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 17:52
He’s in deep with Cockerill, big Bri thinks he ripped him off.
He looked like he’d been hammering the bag. Said it’s a nervous twitch .... same excuse as a famous boxing promoter.
He addressed it online. I think he is, personally.
I’ve read his books on Duffy and Sykes, they are fairly informative on the subjects and pretty boring over all. I watched a thing on Amazon Prime it was Jamie Boyle sniffing his way around Duffys old haunts. My impression of him is he’s a wrong un. I find it difficult to listen to him and really only paid attention to Manny Burgo. Lee Duffy would have been a nitemare to be around and from what I’ve read it sounds like he got a well deserved end.

Is Brian still capable? He looks terrible on the bags or pads but I understand he was a very tough man in his day?
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mickey1975 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 17:52
high tower 1 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 16:38 Listened to a podcast there on Lee Duffy after reading here about him. The author Jamie Boyle Actually hero worships him.
He’s in deep with Cockerill, big Bri thinks he ripped him off.
:lol:

It's one thing to write a book about Paul Sykes but I don't see how making books about the headbangers in your hometown, on your patch where you live, will bring you anything other than complete grief. He even said in his own book about Duffy that he had to be careful how he wrote it because he would be in danger from some very dangerous people. It is going to be sooner or later Brian Cockerill gets it into his head (rightly or wrongly...) 'it's my story and Boyle is making money out of it, I want more money' and that is where the bedlam starts.

I liked the Sykes book - the first one, I have yet to read the second book - his book about Duffy wasn't very good, not down to Boyle but the fact that his subject was a thick bully who went around pasting people for no reason and actually achieved nothing with his life. Apparently, he could have been a boxing prospect at cruiserweight but he ended up losing his life on some dingy street and no-one there helped the police on who killed him because he was hated so much - at least Paul Sykes fought for professional titles and twatted a shark off the Straits of Johor :salut:
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Theres loads of docs on Amazon prime about Bigfoot, I'd love there to be true footage, but in the day and age of everyone carrying a camera sightings are getting less and less.

Watched the film The man who shot Hitler and then the Bigfoot, worth a watch not exactly uplifting but entertained me.
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Wee Tommy wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 21:15
mickey1975 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 18:55
high tower 1 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 18:17

He looked like he’d been hammering the bag. Said it’s a nervous twitch .... same excuse as a famous boxing promoter.
He addressed it online. I think he is, personally.
I’ve read his books on Duffy and Sykes, they are fairly informative on the subjects and pretty boring over all. I watched a thing on Amazon Prime it was Jamie Boyle sniffing his way around Duffys old haunts. My impression of him is he’s a wrong un. I find it difficult to listen to him and really only paid attention to Manny Burgo. Lee Duffy would have been a nitemare to be around and from what I’ve read it sounds like he got a well deserved end.

Is Brian still capable? He looks terrible on the bags or pads but I understand he was a very tough man in his day?
Brian was stupidly strong. I suppose that doesn’t age well.
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Jamie Boyle was quite active on FB and had several groups but has deleted his accounts.

I gave a little story in his book The Whole Of the Moon. It was a positive outlook on Duffy regarding a stolen radio.
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MasterG wrote: 26 Nov 2020, 05:30 Jamie Boyle was quite active on FB and had several groups but has deleted his accounts.

I gave a little story in his book The Whole Of the Moon. It was a positive outlook on Duffy regarding a stolen radio.
What did you think of Boyle on meeting him?
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Never met him Tommy. Just had a chat over FB. To be honest he seems ok, he has a account on here but has only posted a few times. Has something happened in regards to himself? He has often said he gets loads of hate mail etc so I presumed that's why he removed his accounts etc on FB.
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Old bones Ian wrote: 26 Nov 2020, 00:23 Theres loads of docs on Amazon prime about Bigfoot, I'd love there to be true footage, but in the day and age of everyone carrying a camera sightings are getting less and less.

Watched the film The man who shot Hitler and then the Bigfoot, worth a watch not exactly uplifting but entertained me.
Well thats saturday night sorted cheers
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chiggsy wrote: 26 Nov 2020, 07:50
Old bones Ian wrote: 26 Nov 2020, 00:23 Theres loads of docs on Amazon prime about Bigfoot, I'd love there to be true footage, but in the day and age of everyone carrying a camera sightings are getting less and less.

Watched the film The man who shot Hitler and then the Bigfoot, worth a watch not exactly uplifting but entertained me.
Well thats saturday night sorted cheers
Haha oops wrong thread there by me
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MasterG wrote: 26 Nov 2020, 07:30 Never met him Tommy. Just had a chat over FB. To be honest he seems ok, he has a account on here but has only posted a few times. Has something happened in regards to himself? He has often said he gets loads of hate mail etc so I presumed that's why he removed his accounts etc on FB.
I don’t know him mate. Just read a couple of his books. What little I’ve seen of him online, he doesn’t come across great to me. Hero worshiping and making excuses for a couple of mad men.
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Wee Tommy wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 07:12
MasterG wrote: 26 Nov 2020, 07:30 Never met him Tommy. Just had a chat over FB. To be honest he seems ok, he has a account on here but has only posted a few times. Has something happened in regards to himself? He has often said he gets loads of hate mail etc so I presumed that's why he removed his accounts etc on FB.
I don’t know him mate. Just read a couple of his books. What little I’ve seen of him online, he doesn’t come across great to me. Hero worshiping and making excuses for a couple of mad men.
I think Jamie has found a niche especially up his way Middlesbrough/Darlington where there are and have been lots of villians. I told Jamie to write a book about Shaun Cummins, that would have been an interesting read if done well
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MasterG wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 13:40
Wee Tommy wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 07:12
MasterG wrote: 26 Nov 2020, 07:30 Never met him Tommy. Just had a chat over FB. To be honest he seems ok, he has a account on here but has only posted a few times. Has something happened in regards to himself? He has often said he gets loads of hate mail etc so I presumed that's why he removed his accounts etc on FB.
I don’t know him mate. Just read a couple of his books. What little I’ve seen of him online, he doesn’t come across great to me. Hero worshiping and making excuses for a couple of mad men.
I think Jamie has found a niche especially up his way Middlesbrough/Darlington where there are and have been lots of villians. I told Jamie to write a book about Shaun Cummins, that would have been an interesting read if done well
Jamie doesn’t seem flavour of the month up there. And he’s in Stokesley.
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beyond awful. and he doesn't look too old either. doesn't mean he couldn't scrap in the street tho.

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Fray Bentos wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 23:45
mickey1975 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 17:52
high tower 1 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 16:38 Listened to a podcast there on Lee Duffy after reading here about him. The author Jamie Boyle Actually hero worships him.
He’s in deep with Cockerill, big Bri thinks he ripped him off.
:lol:

It's one thing to write a book about Paul Sykes but I don't see how making books about the headbangers in your hometown, on your patch where you live, will bring you anything other than complete grief. He even said in his own book about Duffy that he had to be careful how he wrote it because he would be in danger from some very dangerous people. It is going to be sooner or later Brian Cockerill gets it into his head (rightly or wrongly...) 'it's my story and Boyle is making money out of it, I want more money' and that is where the bedlam starts.

I liked the Sykes book - the first one, I have yet to read the second book - his book about Duffy wasn't very good, not down to Boyle but the fact that his subject was a thick bully who went around pasting people for no reason and actually achieved nothing with his life. Apparently, he could have been a boxing prospect at cruiserweight but he ended up losing his life on some dingy street and no-one there helped the police on who killed him because he was hated so much - at least Paul Sykes fought for professional titles and twatted a shark off the Straits of Johor :salut:
Boyle was told directly by Duffy’s family not to write the book. They pleaded with him. Duff’s brother Lawrie (who I knew and has since died) was devastated as it was just raking up a painful and traumatic past for a few quid. Boyle end up writing a couple of Duffy books so you know what he’s all about morally when the family of a dead man were reaching out asking him not to do the book. And he ends up doing a few plus a DVD.

Boyle claiming to be the Teesside authority figure on Duffy is beyond parody. He will have been about eight when he was murdered.

He’s upset Cockerill they reckon and a few others up here. Funny thing Karma.
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TheGoods wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 16:02
Fray Bentos wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 23:45
mickey1975 wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 17:52
He’s in deep with Cockerill, big Bri thinks he ripped him off.
:lol:

It's one thing to write a book about Paul Sykes but I don't see how making books about the headbangers in your hometown, on your patch where you live, will bring you anything other than complete grief. He even said in his own book about Duffy that he had to be careful how he wrote it because he would be in danger from some very dangerous people. It is going to be sooner or later Brian Cockerill gets it into his head (rightly or wrongly...) 'it's my story and Boyle is making money out of it, I want more money' and that is where the bedlam starts.

I liked the Sykes book - the first one, I have yet to read the second book - his book about Duffy wasn't very good, not down to Boyle but the fact that his subject was a thick bully who went around pasting people for no reason and actually achieved nothing with his life. Apparently, he could have been a boxing prospect at cruiserweight but he ended up losing his life on some dingy street and no-one there helped the police on who killed him because he was hated so much - at least Paul Sykes fought for professional titles and twatted a shark off the Straits of Johor :salut:
Boyle was told directly by Duffy’s family not to write the book. They pleaded with him. Duff’s brother Lawrie (who I knew and has since died) was devastated as it was just raking up a painful and traumatic past for a few quid. Boyle end up writing a couple of Duffy books so you know what he’s all about morally when the family of a dead man were reaching out asking him not to do the book. And he ends up doing a few plus a DVD.

Boyle claiming to be the Teesside authority figure on Duffy is beyond parody. He will have been about eight when he was murdered.

He’s upset Cockerill they reckon and a few others up here. Funny thing Karma.
Is Boyle still going ahead with the Sykes movie?
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Steveh583 wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 15:24 beyond awful. and he doesn't look too old either. doesn't mean he couldn't scrap in the street tho.

I wouldnt fight him...in the streets at least
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asmund wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 18:39
Steveh583 wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 15:24 beyond awful. and he doesn't look too old either. doesn't mean he couldn't scrap in the street tho.

I wouldnt fight him...in the streets at least
He would go straight to bite your nose off. Or ears. They all do.
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mickey1975 wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 19:18
asmund wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 18:39
Steveh583 wrote: 27 Nov 2020, 15:24 beyond awful. and he doesn't look too old either. doesn't mean he couldn't scrap in the street tho.

I wouldnt fight him...in the streets at least
He would go straight to bite your nose off. Or ears. They all do.
I don't doubt it. tho some of the fighters, (regular sized albeit athletic men) i've trained with, i'd pick over him any day of the week (all things being equal). He doesn't even look very explosive, you'd think he'd at least be quick to steal the march with his reputation.
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