He's right though. In the moment you can't hold back or hesitate but once it's done it's done. He only means hate for the brief window of time to fight and for a genuine purpose. Protection of family, etc
@@georgetubb9124learning to have absolute control of your emotions during a fight is (imo) more important than keeping in shape. Being scared leads to hesitation, being taken with anger leads to tunnel vision, feeling pity leads to holding back. He was a large and FAST man. More so than anyone else. He used anger to help him stay that way even while taking hits. For him in a boxing ring, having tunnel vision was great. He only had one goal, go %100 for as long as he can. He knew no one coupd beat his %100. Seems like he was right
Knowing what he went through as a child, yeah I absolutely get what he’s saying. He was a good dude at heart that was plagued by his horrendous childhood. It wasn’t so much that he wanted to fight, it was more like he had to fight someone to let it all out. I hope he has found peace in the afterlife.
@@wadeeubanks8435 i understand where your coming from, but fighting was a choice. He was good at it so he did it for money. Life spat in his face, why shouldnt he use the one advantage he had to get what he was owed? I dont think he had a pacifist heart when he was older, but he definatly wanted to fight. His childhood pushed him there, yes, but he could have walked away years earlier. Plenty with his same upbringing have.
THE Don Spaghetti & Ravioli my old man came from old street and told me loads of stories about Lenny yes he did have plenty of fights on the cobbles my uncle lost £100 to him decent money back then
whatever mann Hard men don't suddenly get to 25 and decide they are too grown up for fighting. They are fighters and always will be. They are what they are. Yeah he lacked bottle Lenny. I mean he daren't fight a pro with gloves on with all the rules and regulations. Instead he just had gloveless all in anything goes fights against people willing to bite his ear off and kick him in the head. Apparently he even went to the US and fought the mafias top guy. He was a street fighter. He never professed to be Rocky Marciano.
He's ex gangster, from Hackney London, he was also in the film LOCK STOCK, TWO SMOKIN BARRELS his street name was The govnor he taxed and beat up drug dealers aswel as being hired for protection by the Kray brothers and other celebrities Mike tyson and him be a great match to of seen
Here's a true story about lenny he took on the previous hardest gangster in London and claimed his title that he hold today the govnor someone previously had that title until lenny came about and challenged him to a fight 2x they had a fight and both lenny smashed him for that title called THE GOVNOR and that's where his journey began
Did you see that hand speed? -incredible. The raw agression and ability to use flash lighting quick violence made him a very tough man-and what a character-a very sharp , witty man.
He gets his comeuppance at the end of this documentary, not from McLean and he doesn’t like it, I recorded it when it came on TV Iib the early nineties. It was called The ring from what I remember. The guy was a Guinness book of records member, amount of push-ups I think and had an an award for bravery as a martial artist , he saved a girl from either a beating or a sexual assault, He had an obsess with becoming famous. I’d love to see it again.
Lenny died aged 48 .. what a tragedy .. he had so much to offer the world .. his career was just about to take off properly on the screen .. a master of many talents
The opening of this clip is great. Lenny massaging his calcified, war-torn weaponry. "Show me your hands. Not bad. Not as bad as mine, though." Mr. Mclean has a massive, calcified lump of a hand with chunky, arthritic fingers. The mark of a true fighter. Along with the cauliflower ear of grapplers. These are the marks of a tradesman. They are to be respected and exalted.
Reading his book, the beatings he took from his cowardly step dad turned him into the angry brawler. All in the up bringing. He could quite easily have been a teacher or an accountant. He had a tough upbringing either way he was an honest decent fella. Definitely gone too young. Rest in peace big guy.
He was also a violent bully who nearly killed his own friend .the book is his Take on himself ..others know him for being a bully .they were scared of him in his local pub for a reason. Violent men aren't something to look up to
This dude would have become a famous film star in all films that needed a BA British hard man. Still can't believe he passed before his first gig in which he did great as the Baptist.
Simply awesome, love lenny, got all his books. Even here years after giving the fighting up, you can still see why nobody came close to him on the streets, he didn't just have the strength and power, he had the speed as well. RIP Len, and if you see my dear mother up there tell her i love her and i'll see her soon.
3:10 "Son, there's me 'and. You've just bought a lovely motor" Errrm, no I, I, we didnt, I mean I'm not.... "Enjoy the motor son, how you gonna pay...??"
The first time I saw Lenny was on ‘Lock Stock.....’. He looked like a lunatic, an absolute beast of a man. Imagine getting in to a fight with him. Fuck that.
I've had the privilege of reading Lenny McLeans Books many times over and over and Lennys well deserved title of THE GUV'NOR wasn't only because he was a true fighting machine. I never had the honour of meeting Lenny, but i do know that he was THE GUV'NOR for multiple reasons. Respected all over the world and respected for good reason. A true man, A true Warrior and A true Legend.
***** sais' a silly cow whos never probably seen a fight let alone been in one ..have u read his book?. he was a gentleman and a family man and put others before himself
***** you look like youve been in a morgue for twenty years with that face lol ...o and by the way for your information he died a while back all i was doing was paying my respect cuz deep down he was a good man so fuck you
Today Little shits wouldn't know a real fight if they fell into one there all just horrible little cunts that can't n won't fight one on one coz they haven't got the balls heart or ability to.
The guy interviewing Lenny looked so on edge. When Kenny started throwing pretend punches he looked quite worried. Credit to him though, I would've shat myself. It must've felt like standing in front of a fast moving articulated lorry. Lenny was one of a kind, a hard man amongst hard men, there'll never be another like him. The environments that bred these London hard men have gone and we're left with children carrying knives. People like Lenny would've eaten them for breakfast.
i remember this documentry, the irish fella was ment to be starting out in the bear knuckle fighting, got mugged of at the end. great bit of footage of lenny,good quality vid, thanks for posting,
He smoked hand rolled cigs, no filter, throughout his life I believe. Died just a few years after this video from lung cancer. Cigarettes will age you hard and fast. Oh and not to mention being in something like 2000 bare knuckle fights.
The small interviewer guy was expecting some deep insight about surviving the bare-knuckle brawling game, and was given the most hilariously obvious advice a bloke can say to a fighter - 'keep yourself fit and strong'... 🤣😂 WHOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHH! Write a book! Oh hang on, you did. Well, 'write' is a generous description...
Lee Taylor frank warren the boxing promoter was related to lenny and one of the many people who described him as “a bully who could not stand up to people as tough or tougher than him”
I've just read his book. With out doubt one of the best, if not the best first hand life stories I've ever read. I've never felt so many emotions in a single book. The anger I felt when Jim Irwin used to beat Lenny and his younger brother. The joy when Lenny won his first fight. The satisfaction when he threw the scare into Jim Irwin. The sadness when Lenny lost his mother. The happiness and love when Lenny spoke about his beloved wife Val and their children. And the loss and devastation when he lost his life to cancer. If you haven't read it. I urge you all to go read it now. Its an absolute masterpiece.
This clip came from a peculiar documentary, circa 1995. The little bald guy was, as you can tell, trying to make it as a bare-knuckle fighter. He had already had an article about him in The Guardian, including photos taken at a fight, and the documentary featured a video of another of his fights that lasted all of 5 seconds. The climax was to be a fight with a particularly dangerous opponent in a barn in Ireland. But at the last minute the opponent cancelled. Little Bald Guy ended up fighting, and beating, a bloke who had come along to watch and offered to step in so his fellow audience members wouldn't be disappointed. This wasn't the end of the programme though, because the filmmakers noticed that someone pictured watching the fight featured in The Guardian article looked a heck of a lot like the 'dangerous' bloke who Little Bald Guy had intended to fight in the Irish barn. Little Bald Guy admitted that the whole thing was fake. The fight in The Guardian, the video of his five second fight, the scheduled fight in the barn - all had been set up by him to, well, get some fame I suppose (he had also been the world push-ups champion at one time). The one and only real fight he'd ever had was with the audience member who had nobly offered to step in at the last moment! I don't know how complicit the filmmakers were in the whole thing. Certainly the Guardian had been completely taken in by him and had assumed the fight they had attended and photographed was real.
Yes you're right! Very strange documentary remember it well. It was called Arena: The Ring, A South London Tale on BBC 2. Wanted to watch it again, but couldn't find it anywhere...
Read his book and super fascinated with these old school proper fella’s. Like Lenny, loved him Lock, Stock and believe he would’ve gone on to be a fantastic actor.
these days it's 10 lads tooled up against 1 the old school hard man days are over well in villages and towns hard men are still respected but were Lenny come from east end London it's all gangs 10 against one its a dirty world naw
Except McLean took out 9 guys outside a door he was running, using a leather billy-jack, then chucked it on a roof opposite before the police arrived to sweep them up, swearing to them that he had done them bare handed. From this he got the reputation as 'a ten man job', ie, if you wanted to stand a chance against him, you best turn up with no less than 9 friends to stand a chance.
My friends dad is pretty handy. Old school. A respectful man. He confronted a group of lads selling drugs outside a building he owned. He asked nicely them to leave. One of them took his shirt off. Asked him to fight. So of course. My mates dad knocked him and his mates about a bit. Next thing a kid comes round the corner on a bike shot him.
@@diogeneslantern18 I honestly can’t remember, I was very young. I do remember he got on really well with my dad. I was busy enjoying being in a real pub.
Lenny McLean and Tony Sirico are absolute legends. They might have been real life mobsters, but they were also very kind people once they left that life aside. Bless them both, I miss them so much.
Richard rowley sure he was a decent bloke later on in life but when he was younger he used to drink with my grandad and he weren't nothing but a bully. used his size to get his own way. was normal one minute next minute he'd tell someone they were driving him home because he'd had a drink and if you said no he'd smash you up.
What a beast of a man not only was he a great fighter but he was also a loving family man with respect haha he also seemed to be a funny chap I,d say if you stayed on the right side of him you probably would of seen dat in him lets not forget this man had a tough upbringing an he rose above it good on you len. RIP.
Gives me goosebumps when he says "Hate". You can feel the meaning a sincerity knowing this mans as serious as it gets
He's right though. In the moment you can't hold back or hesitate but once it's done it's done. He only means hate for the brief window of time to fight and for a genuine purpose. Protection of family, etc
@@georgetubb9124learning to have absolute control of your emotions during a fight is (imo) more important than keeping in shape. Being scared leads to hesitation, being taken with anger leads to tunnel vision, feeling pity leads to holding back. He was a large and FAST man. More so than anyone else. He used anger to help him stay that way even while taking hits. For him in a boxing ring, having tunnel vision was great. He only had one goal, go %100 for as long as he can. He knew no one coupd beat his %100. Seems like he was right
Knowing what he went through as a child, yeah I absolutely get what he’s saying. He was a good dude at heart that was plagued by his horrendous childhood. It wasn’t so much that he wanted to fight, it was more like he had to fight someone to let it all out. I hope he has found peace in the afterlife.
@@wadeeubanks8435 i understand where your coming from, but fighting was a choice. He was good at it so he did it for money. Life spat in his face, why shouldnt he use the one advantage he had to get what he was owed? I dont think he had a pacifist heart when he was older, but he definatly wanted to fight. His childhood pushed him there, yes, but he could have walked away years earlier. Plenty with his same upbringing have.
He's faster than my internet connection
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TheGooners11 well said sir ask people who knew the man
You still on dial up then 😁
Ha Ha
@TheGooners11 True Words Sir i personnaly dont engage with the haters i just ignore them tbh
Even I flinched when he threw that left right. 😂
Same here 🤣
the speed of that left was insane for a man of his age and size 🤯
A very tough man.,,
My God man lmao
@NotChatBot-dd1tr Lenny would have had him on f*cking toast.
A proper hard bastard. Absolute beast. Not like these cowards who run around stabbing eachother.
Well fukin' said.
@THE Don Spaghetti & Ravioli elaborate
@THE Don Spaghetti & Ravioli
Where did you get this info from?
THE Don Spaghetti & Ravioli my old man came from old street and told me loads of stories about Lenny yes he did have plenty of fights on the cobbles my uncle lost £100 to him decent money back then
THE Don Spaghetti & Ravioli are you saying he didn’t have street fights for money then ?
“Now I do abit of poetry” 😂
😂
As he's touching his nose up 🤣
Funny as fuck
Ponderland 😉
A lot of poetry 👀
Lenny is the best British bare Knuckle fighter in history... absolute legend
@@sachacek Who? 😂
Cliff fields beat him twice but lenny mclean hard as nails. Just his stare down would finish most men let alone his fists. RIP Guvnor
Daniel Mendoza was the best
Speed of him. Monster.
+Gary Doyle Yeah at about 1:25. Took me by surprise 'cause of the size of him. Very fast hands.
he was a fuckin loser... a 50 plus year old man talking about how hard he is.. pathetic really.. wouldve loved to of seen him take on a pro fighter
He was 49 when he died so how the fuck is he 50 plus, Your comment on him is the only pathetic thing i see here, You clearly don't have a clue.
whatever mann Hard men don't suddenly get to 25 and decide they are too grown up for fighting.
They are fighters and always will be.
They are what they are.
Yeah he lacked bottle Lenny. I mean he daren't fight a pro with gloves on with all the rules and regulations. Instead he just had gloveless all in anything goes fights against people willing to bite his ear off and kick him in the head.
Apparently he even went to the US and fought the mafias top guy.
He was a street fighter. He never professed to be Rocky Marciano.
would anyone of bought that 3i cab off him.........................no fuckin way !
Holy shit! He looks like an old man until he threw that combination! Holy shit!!! That dude was a beast!
He's ex gangster, from Hackney London, he was also in the film LOCK STOCK, TWO SMOKIN BARRELS his street name was The govnor he taxed and beat up drug dealers aswel as being hired for protection by the Kray brothers and other celebrities Mike tyson and him be a great match to of seen
Here's a true story about lenny he took on the previous hardest gangster in London and claimed his title that he hold today the govnor someone previously had that title until lenny came about and challenged him to a fight 2x they had a fight and both lenny smashed him for that title called THE GOVNOR and that's where his journey began
@@mostbrutalvideos4612 Tyson wouldn have murdered Lenny the big bum
@@seyab6567 Tysons a professional of course he would. Any decent pro heavyweight would smash him to pieces
@@tommyegan6940 exactly but Lenny's fanboys won't accept that
Every now and then I revisit this...takes me a while to come back, what a fearsome chap and simultaneously a big teddy bear
"Always keep yourself fit. Always be strong. And Train hard." Some serious words of wisdom. This guy has more charisma than John Wayne.
Great comment. He was ahead of his Time I think with training
Don't forget the hate
and hate, from there to your ankles, hate, so much.
He also didn’t say shitty racist things like John Wayne
@@JamesSmith-ny2gb Repoman on John Wayne. ruclips.net/video/-uv_WGEHr4I/видео.html
Did you see that hand speed? -incredible. The raw agression and ability to use flash lighting quick violence made him a very tough man-and what a character-a very sharp , witty man.
At what point during this conversation does the bald guy realize “i am not cut out for this?”
Haha brilliant.
Not cut out FOR this
At about 2:20. “That’s how I would do it.” 🤜 🤜 👹 👂 🩸🤕
2.31
He gets his comeuppance at the end of this documentary, not from McLean and he doesn’t like it, I recorded it when it came on TV Iib the early nineties. It was called The ring from what I remember. The guy was a Guinness book of records member, amount of push-ups I think and had an an award for bravery as a martial artist , he saved a girl from either a beating or a sexual assault, He had an obsess with becoming famous. I’d love to see it again.
It's like when you see a bear on a nature program, it looks too big to move fast but when it does attack it moves like lightning.
Please, can anyone tell me the name if this documentary. ...or where to find full episode. .
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@@10halifax I think it's from a documentary called Bouncers
That is some explosive fast twitch muscle right there, the guy was a machine.
Well said . Exactly right
Look at his speed! His ferocity! His training!
Chill Alfred.
lol he was a bum
BustingNuts InYourMumDaily he was a cunt tho
I see the league of shadows!
Love it!! Bane all over! Except faster!!
'When your cranky and having a tear up. You don't care about pain'
I'd buy the Guv'nor a lemonade
Lenny died aged 48 .. what a tragedy .. he had so much to offer the world .. his career was just about to take off properly on the screen .. a master of many talents
He was 49 whn he died
@@ajjy1110 😃
Yeah right , bully
He's was a violent bully .and a bit of a prat
I don't think all that poetry helped.
This guy was so hard... Even his nightmares were scared of him..!!
Lol true
Lol 😂
Yes lenny was so hard he gave freddy kruger nightmares.
😊
The opening of this clip is great. Lenny massaging his calcified, war-torn weaponry.
"Show me your hands. Not bad. Not as bad as mine, though."
Mr. Mclean has a massive, calcified lump of a hand with chunky, arthritic fingers.
The mark of a true fighter. Along with the cauliflower ear of grapplers.
These are the marks of a tradesman. They are to be respected and exalted.
“He’s a monster of a man, Barry the Baptist “
“When you dance with the Devil you wait for the song to stop” Love that film 👌👍
Where's the guns???
Gary: Shotguns? What, like guns that fire shots?
Barry the Baptist: Oh, you must be the brains then. Yes, that's right, guns that fire shots.
*'Hello son, would you like a lolly?'*
“If you don’t want to be counting the fingers you haven’t got, I suggest you go get those guns QUICK!” 😂
Speed, power, ferocity are all part of his muscle memory and DNA. Absolute beast.
Reading his book, the beatings he took from his cowardly step dad turned him into the angry brawler. All in the up bringing. He could quite easily have been a teacher or an accountant. He had a tough upbringing either way he was an honest decent fella. Definitely gone too young. Rest in peace big guy.
He was also a violent bully who nearly killed his own friend .the book is his Take on himself ..others know him for being a bully .they were scared of him in his local pub for a reason. Violent men aren't something to look up to
Iv heard that Lenny was the real bully in the home and his stepfather wasn’t the monster Lenny portrayed him to be.
ITS Only WHAT IV HEARD, not fact.
"His" book is right. Plenty of words out there about how he was far from the 'good man' he claimed to be.
First book I ever red very violent man died after making lock stock think it was brain cancer if I remember rightly 1998
I know we are all victims now but this doesn't mean much if you are on the end of Mr Angry's punches and bites.
"smash everything here, smash everything"
legendary advice
Lenny McLean: smash
Khamzat Chimaev: smesh
Speed, aggression and power are an awesome combination, Lenny had all three.
What he didn't have was skill or brains.
Only Bruce lees side kick could of felled Lenny and I’m serious
This dude would have become a famous film star in all films that needed a BA British hard man. Still can't believe he passed before his first gig in which he did great as the Baptist.
he was just seen as another cockney thug back in 70s 80s to real to be fake sometimes that’s the case yoh can be too real for acting
Simply awesome, love lenny, got all his books. Even here years after giving the fighting up, you can still see why nobody came close to him on the streets, he didn't just have the strength and power, he had the speed as well. RIP Len, and if you see my dear mother up there tell her i love her and i'll see her soon.
i hope not to soon to u still have work to fo down here brother
Wat other books, thought there just the guvnor
@@hospagalief nah there's loads all pretty good apart from the givnor tapes which is the same as original
And fight IQ. Probs his best weapon.
An incredible man, Lenny was the Greatest .
His Autobiography is also a great read for any fan .R.I.P
“Always be fit,always be strong, always train”. Damn that’s the truth . This mentality saved my life.
Thats a goddamn Silverback Gorilla. Absolute smashing machine yeah. Legend
3:10 "Son, there's me 'and. You've just bought a lovely motor"
Errrm, no I, I, we didnt, I mean I'm not....
"Enjoy the motor son, how you gonna pay...??"
🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂
🤣🤣
"cash yea? Laaarvely".
Lmaoo
Haha
Times got hard for Agassi after losing that 5 setter to Sampras. He was never the same
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Most underrated comment!😂😂😂
Thats the least funny thing ive ever read
😂 🎾
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he looks half human, half bulldog,
He would have laughed at that and thanked you for the compliment
This is so accurate !
Lmao he really does
stevealigheri I knew you must have known him to say that
Certainly had the bulldog spirit.
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND
Let me say his name more appropriately. THEE GOVENOR! Lol what a beast
He’s wasting his breathe on that bloke from right said Fred.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
ohhhhhhh jeesuz i chuckled in my kitchen then
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Nice one b
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I laughed :)
Outstanding
Lenny was a beast. Rest easy big man 💪
The first time I saw Lenny was on ‘Lock Stock.....’. He looked like a lunatic, an absolute beast of a man. Imagine getting in to a fight with him. Fuck that.
Hahahaha
@@xBloodXGusherx Geoff Woad, imagine getting into a fight with the fucker
You still wouldn’t have messed with Lenny here. The guy was an absolute savage.
Fuck what anyone says McLean is a legend
I've had the privilege of reading Lenny McLeans Books many times over and over and Lennys well deserved title of THE GUV'NOR wasn't only because he was a true fighting machine. I never had the honour of meeting Lenny, but i do know that he was THE GUV'NOR for multiple reasons. Respected all over the world and respected for good reason. A true man, A true Warrior and A true Legend.
Lenny is my favourite of all favourite s, and Charlie Bronson. Loved being in his film as an extra. Beautiful family. ♦️♦️♦️🍀🍀🍀😇😇😇💯💯💯
Wow that is an awesome!
Love that old school swagger. Respect
what a man.. could listen to him all day..wish there was more videos of the guv'nor!
***** Nazi fan? Fucking mug, it would have been a pleasure watching him go to work on a wrong'un like you
***** sais' a silly cow whos never probably seen a fight let alone been in one ..have u read his book?. he was a gentleman and a family man and put others before himself
***** you look like youve been in a morgue for twenty years with that face lol ...o and by the way for your information he died a while back all i was doing was paying my respect cuz deep down he was a good man so fuck you
u just repeated yourself listen i dont give a shit mate ..
***** pmsl you so funny. Just remember who made your country by the way....
Hands like shovels as we labourers would say in the 80's but more like sledgehammers.
‘I think I’m entitled to some cream’
Lenny you can have the whole pot bruvva 😂
The whole cow boy 🤣
@@Pianosnail12 keys to the farm...
Today's skinny legged tracksuit wearing 'thugs' would literally crumble if this man came at them.
You aswell nerd
They’d probably stab him and that will be the end of that
@@TrollThings247 yea proberly chiv him innit
He's dead......awkward
Today Little shits wouldn't know a real fight if they fell into one there all just horrible little cunts that can't n won't fight one on one coz they haven't got the balls heart or ability to.
They don’t make Brits like McLean anymore! Sad what Britain has become
Yeah right. A violent ape with a brain that's even simpler than a primate. Such a glorious aspiration to be like that.
I love seeing Lenny just being himself.
McLean forgets Cliff Fields field was the guvnor he never mentions him only the ones he beat easily
Major props to Guy Ritchie for casting him in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." You can't go to Central Casting for this character.
The guy interviewing Lenny looked so on edge. When Kenny started throwing pretend punches he looked quite worried. Credit to him though, I would've shat myself. It must've felt like standing in front of a fast moving articulated lorry.
Lenny was one of a kind, a hard man amongst hard men, there'll never be another like him. The environments that bred these London hard men have gone and we're left with children carrying knives. People like Lenny would've eaten them for breakfast.
1:58 the bald guy needs his under pants changing.
😂😂😂
Lmaoo
DerbyFan Scott shit himself 🤔
hahaha, the chap was terrified the whole interview
Sure lol
Lenny the legend... genuine hard man!
Finally decided to watch after years of popping up
Absolute beast of a man and for the size of him he still moved fast.
i remember this documentry, the irish fella was ment to be starting out in the bear knuckle fighting, got mugged of at the end.
great bit of footage of lenny,good quality vid, thanks for posting,
I remember too. He was an undercover reporter. Would love to watch the whole show again.
“Son, ‘eres me hand” LMAO HE IS CLARIFYING THATS HIS HAND
Darth McLean: "let your hatred flow through you"
“HAAATE. HAAATE from there, down to the ankles. But not the little twinkling toes they’re just having a fab time.”
I had to watch that left right a few times. Holy shit the speed, and at that close range the power would be phenomenal.
Great advice from a great man. RIP Lenny
RIP to a fighting legend. The guvnor
“But you musta took a few yourself….”
“Noooooo.NEVER! Well maybe a couple” 😂😂
Nearly 45? That's a tough 45 years there Len.
and looked 65
He smoked hand rolled cigs, no filter, throughout his life I believe. Died just a few years after this video from lung cancer. Cigarettes will age you hard and fast. Oh and not to mention being in something like 2000 bare knuckle fights.
They were tough. Be grateful if you didn't have to endure what he did during his childhood
He was like a decade older than Vinnie in Lock Stock but looks old enough to be his dad. He has a tough life indeed
RIP big man one off the bested in his day one hard man
The small interviewer guy was expecting some deep insight about surviving the bare-knuckle brawling game, and was given the most hilariously obvious advice a bloke can say to a fighter - 'keep yourself fit and strong'... 🤣😂 WHOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHH! Write a book! Oh hang on, you did. Well, 'write' is a generous description...
He's literally simmering all the time. He was dying for this guy to say something out of line so he could knock his teeth out.
i make 100% right.His forcing his dominance on him and waiting for the guy to resist,and when he does.......you know the rest. 🤣
Lee Taylor lol sure
Lee Taylor frank warren the boxing promoter was related to lenny and one of the many people who described him as “a bully who could not stand up to people as tough or tougher than him”
Rom 3636 Ok mate lol it's You're not Your! 😁
Al Forster Buy a dictionary, then use it.
I wouldnt expect that bloke interviewing him to understand
45 jeez I assumed he was 65 there. What a character though
I've just read his book. With out doubt one of the best, if not the best first hand life stories I've ever read. I've never felt so many emotions in a single book. The anger I felt when Jim Irwin used to beat Lenny and his younger brother. The joy when Lenny won his first fight. The satisfaction when he threw the scare into Jim Irwin. The sadness when Lenny lost his mother. The happiness and love when Lenny spoke about his beloved wife Val and their children. And the loss and devastation when he lost his life to cancer. If you haven't read it. I urge you all to go read it now. Its an absolute masterpiece.
He forgot to mention the three first round knockout losses he had in the book.
Yeah , a regular ' War And Peace ' lol
1:24 That punch would have totally annihilated me.
Ahahaha 👍😸
Great documentary ty for this.
Absolute legend on the cobbles and lunatic when he fought, love this bloke and would of loved to shake his hand rip len
This clip came from a peculiar documentary, circa 1995. The little bald guy was, as you can tell, trying to make it as a bare-knuckle fighter. He had already had an article about him in The Guardian, including photos taken at a fight, and the documentary featured a video of another of his fights that lasted all of 5 seconds. The climax was to be a fight with a particularly dangerous opponent in a barn in Ireland. But at the last minute the opponent cancelled. Little Bald Guy ended up fighting, and beating, a bloke who had come along to watch and offered to step in so his fellow audience members wouldn't be disappointed. This wasn't the end of the programme though, because the filmmakers noticed that someone pictured watching the fight featured in The Guardian article looked a heck of a lot like the 'dangerous' bloke who Little Bald Guy had intended to fight in the Irish barn. Little Bald Guy admitted that the whole thing was fake. The fight in The Guardian, the video of his five second fight, the scheduled fight in the barn - all had been set up by him to, well, get some fame I suppose (he had also been the world push-ups champion at one time). The one and only real fight he'd ever had was with the audience member who had nobly offered to step in at the last moment! I don't know how complicit the filmmakers were in the whole thing. Certainly the Guardian had been completely taken in by him and had assumed the fight they had attended and photographed was real.
Liar
Yes I remember watching it. It was a scam
Yes you're right! Very strange documentary remember it well. It was called Arena: The Ring, A South London Tale on BBC 2. Wanted to watch it again, but couldn't find it anywhere...
@@LJ-zo5hvliar? All that’s made up? You can clearly see it’s not. U need help
I remember this well
He’s only 44 here !?!? Definitely had a hard life.
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Great advice from a legend sadly not with us. R.I.P. Lenny.
When did he die
28 July 1998 mate.
"Fftt fftt, fftt fftt...aRRHHH...ARRHHHH!!!"
"You're out the game, see thats how I would do it"
Lol
hahaha.
Hahahaha dude that was f*cking hilarious
Read his book and super fascinated with these old school proper fella’s. Like Lenny, loved him Lock, Stock and believe he would’ve gone on to be a fantastic actor.
The Guv'nor, I'd have given anything to shake his hand. What a man.
At least he wasn't drink driving!
EssexSpark 😂😂👊
MattySadler ....what a sad man you are..
MattySadler bet he got the shit kicked out of him on the streets on occasions
Redfield 100% 😂😆🤣 absolute gold
Chuck Norris left the building
these days it's 10 lads tooled up against 1 the old school hard man days are over well in villages and towns hard men are still respected but were Lenny come from east end London it's all gangs 10 against one its a dirty world naw
Except McLean took out 9 guys outside a door he was running, using a leather billy-jack, then chucked it on a roof opposite before the police arrived to sweep them up, swearing to them that he had done them bare handed. From this he got the reputation as 'a ten man job', ie, if you wanted to stand a chance against him, you best turn up with no less than 9 friends to stand a chance.
youngsters are so scared of a little beatdown nowadays they rather use weapons and attack 1 guy with whole gang like some weak ass bitches
To true 👍
That's it Kareem. Well said.
Dirty world these days. Is right.
My friends dad is pretty handy.
Old school.
A respectful man.
He confronted a group of lads selling drugs outside a building he owned.
He asked nicely them to leave.
One of them took his shirt off.
Asked him to fight.
So of course. My mates dad knocked him and his mates about a bit.
Next thing a kid comes round the corner on a bike shot him.
Apparently when Lenny was born he drove his mother home from the hospital.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🇳🇬🇳🇬🙏❤️
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A really nice guy. My dad knew him. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I was a child.
Did he give you a lolly?
@@diogeneslantern18 I honestly can’t remember, I was very young. I do remember he got on really well with my dad. I was busy enjoying being in a real pub.
Not another . Yeh he wanked my dad off for a bag o crisps
He was a bully. The niceness is just a facade.
Haha 1.58 He shits himself! lol
Ziiip LOL
Capital Steez wouldn’t you! I know I would 😂
I did for him
"And I'm doing a lot of poetry." LOLOLOLOLOL =D
The biting post combo was my favourite part
Always keep yourself fit and strong!! Best advice ever! Look at how fast that body shot into head shot was!!
1:24 - the speed! And he’s not even in his prime at his stage!
1:22 - “right...RIGHT.....I see....let me just go change my underpants please”
McLean was tough but I would still back Ronnie Pickering over him.
Who?
@@yingle6027 RONNIE PICKERING
@@uzairwaheed330 Who?
Jonnie Pickering???
@des endean never heard of him
Love Lenn , he was real , met him as a little kid . In 76
"Why didn't you do your homework?"
"BECUZ OF HAAATE!"
Proper Hard As Nails Old School Fighter.
Lenny McLean and Tony Sirico are absolute legends.
They might have been real life mobsters, but they were also very kind people once they left that life aside.
Bless them both, I miss them so much.
Great video and Lenny was a true legend
One of life's true characters, a man that most of us men would like to be like...
Richard rowley sure he was a decent bloke later on in life but when he was younger he used to drink with my grandad and he weren't nothing but a bully. used his size to get his own way. was normal one minute next minute he'd tell someone they were driving him home because he'd had a drink and if you said no he'd smash you up.
Maybe not be him (if you've read his book) but to have as a scary uncle would be comforting
Charlton Boy - tell us what else your grandad told you about lenny
Richard rowley if you aspire to be a boring moron with no brain
TheGooners11 you’re mistaking me for someone who gives a shit about your moronic aspirations to be a ‘hard man’. Get a brain you ridiculous tool.
I wouldn’t mind a line of poetry 🤣🤣🤣
What a beast of a man not only was he a great fighter but he was also a loving family man with respect haha he also seemed to be a funny chap I,d say if you stayed on the right side of him you probably would of seen dat in him lets not forget this man had a tough upbringing an he rose above it good on you len. RIP.
Lenny was a natural actor he could have had big movie career if he had survived!!
He was an absolute Animal.
Even as an old geezer he was hard as iron!!!! RIP Lenny.
@@dbrew828 44
45 you morons
2:26 "Riiiiiiiiight..." yeah buddy, he just ate your face.
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That Guy shit when Lenny pretended to bite his ear off 😂😂😂