Paul Sykes

Name: Paul Sykes
Hometown: Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Died: 2007-03-07 (Age:60)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 191cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Manager Tommy Miller

Paul Sykes Factoids

• Subject of the 2017 documentary 'Britain's Hardest Prisoner'
• Full Paul Sykes 2017 documentary on YouTube [[1]]
• Born May 23, 1946, the only son of Walter Sykes and Betty Barlow
• Represented England and County at every amateur boxing level
• Contested three timer for the British and Commonwealth Empires heavyweight titles as a professional, but did not win those bouts
• Holder of the British amateur weightlifting record (deep knee bend of 500 lbs.)
• His novel SWEET AGONY won the Arthur Koestler Literary Award in 1988
• Much traveled in the U.K. Prison system: 25 transfers in 20 years, 21 of 26 years were spent in various British jails
• Earned his B.A. degree in Physical Sciences from Open University in 1982
• Paul Sykes, 60, died on March 7, 2007, from pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver
• Sykes battled alcoholism in his final years, causing himself severe health problems.
• Both of Sykes' sons are currently in British prison for murder, continuing the family cycle of incarceration