Streetfighters: Real Fighting Men Tell Their Stories

In every city and town in Britain are men who have earned notoriety with their fists. Bouncers, unlicensed boxers, bareknuckle fighters, brawlers and enforcers, they are throwbacks to an age when disputes were settled by brute force. Some are lionised, others vilified, but all have a story to tell. Boxing trainer Julian Davies travelled the country to interview the hardest men in Britain, from the ‘King of the Gypsies’ to champion martial artists, to lift the lid on their brutal world of violence, honour and respect. Most have never spoken publicly before. They tell in their own words of their harrowing lives, bloody gang fights, reprisals, pub brawls and even deaths. Here is Richard ‘Crazy Horse’ Horsley, the toughest man in the north-east; the giant Brian Cockerell, who taxes drug dealers for a living; hulking heavyweight boxer Decca Simpkin; eight-stone doorman Andre Martin; Malcolm Price, the legend of the Welsh Valleys; and Darren Pullman, who knocks out nightclub bouncers for kicks. Streetfighters is the most compelling and honest account yet written of men who fight.