“Be good to them on the way up because you’ll meet them on the way down.” Very apt in Paul Sykes case.

I knew Paul for a long time. He used to come around to our house when I was young and he was such a character. You either loved him or hated him, but when he’d had a drink he was a nightmare. I once saw him laying in the road outside of Thornes Park. I tried to wake him up but I couldn’t. We called an ambulance and waited with him till it came. He did wake up and I’ll never forget he turned to me, no idea who I was, and said, “You should have left me there”. Two people in one body.

once a bully ego always a bully ego, always gonna end up messy that for anyone.

Used to taxi a retired prison officer who did 30 year’s + @ armley prison.. he said he was nothing but a bully.. his words & experience’s with time he spent with him is what it is

Trust me. Those youths would not have done that to Paul Sykes in the 80s because he would have torn them all to shreds.

I remember him in the 80s and he was a tough hard man.! He could empty a place just by walking in and saying nothing.!!

It’s a shame as he was quite intelligent and a talented fighter but understandable why he was disliked by many but a huge character no doubt!

Mrs H 🇬🇧 ..Sadly time doesn't stand still..We all will come to the end..When we're young we are invincible and don't think of getting old through old age/or illness ..BUT Paul isn't the first & won't be the last .. What I find sad is today's young wannabes won't ever understand or appreciate what a man he was... 💔

Never mind his ending his beginning seemed the same from the things I put together myself I could be wrong .keep up the good work 💯✌️

The Paul Sykes in his prime was a monster a hard man ..the Paul Sykes in his last days was a empty shell of his former self that hard man had long gone kids would set fire to him while he was asleep kick and piss on him..love him or hate him nobody deserved that yes life came back to bite him but make no mistake this man in his prime was dangerous..

Karma can be instant or it can cone full circle !!!

Bully that picked and humiliated innocent people in the pubs. No problem if he just picked on fellow bullies but he made fun of vulnerable people sometimes in front of their kids. Would love to see the film though ☺️

I was quite bright. He had 4 o levels. Back when getting o levels, no cse were difficult. Also earned a BA degree while in prison and some literature awards for writing. Dude, was just born in wrong environment and in poverty that led to that path. Wtf would people pour lighter fuel on someone. What a messed up part of UK

We all become a shadow of our former selves. This is what people don't realise

Childhood trauma is a real thing .. and I think that effected him.. was brought up getting hit and put in the ring as a kid.. and sparring from a kid and then as a man getting punched and sparring guys like Joe Frazier. Look what the Frazier fight's done to Muhammad Ali.. cte is a real thing so much that football players from the past have gotten cte from heading the ball.. if you watch Alan shearers documentary.. and how players that won the world cup with England most of them ended up with brain trauma as they got older.. now in America kids playing soccer aren't allowed to head the ball until after the age of 12.. so boxing from a young age getting punched in the head and then sparring gym wars and he was a heavyweight.. sparring big men plus all the fight's he had.. wouldn't shock me if Sykes had some cte in his older years which can.. make you depressed have mood swings turn to substance abuse to make themselves feel better when really there doing more damage.. look at the NFL players that have done crazy things hit there wife's became aggressive pro wrestlers also .. killing family members going crazy then they check there brain and they have bad cte.. NFL player was depressed had been violent.. he shot himself in the stomach and left a note saying check my brain something is wrong I don't feel right.. recently ex UFC fighters Phil baroni killed his girlfriend in Mexico and when he was in the UFC Dana White said I'm not giving you anymore fights .. you have got brain trauma his speech was changing his behaviour.. and he sparred hard for years used to box and play American football before MMA.. stories about him leaving the gym walking about looking for his car then going back to the gym shouting some fuckee has stolen my car I'm going to kill him.. then for a teammate to say Phil your cars round the back you parked it round there.. he couldn't remember.. and him going walks and not remembering how to get home.. but he fought on for another 10yr had wars in the cage and the gym.. now he's in a Mexican prison snapped and killed his girlfriend.. also had started drinking alot .. cte is a real thing that effects people's behaviour now BJ Penn.. MMA legend fought well past his prime had gym wars .. now he's getting arrested fighting guys in bars outside bars just acting crazy he's not the same guy now took to many punches kicks and knees to the head.. bet Sykes had cte that guy had been getting punched in the head from a kid .. then knocked out as he got older and was drunk all the time.. guy must have had some brain trauma growing up getting punched in the head .. not good for the brain .. listen to ex world champions now riddick Bowe James Toney Tommy hearns.. and many more they have problems just speaking now.. Ali he fought past his prime and got brain trauma.. even the trainer Freddy roach now has problems caused by getting punched.. Roger Mayweather.. his life as a boxer ruined his brain .. it's sad to see guys that were warriors now finding it difficult to speak remember things

Where the animals that set him alight any better. Definitely not. Rest in peace Paul.

He was always getting knocked out when drunk didn’t one of his friends say he couldn’t fight sleep when hammerd sober he was as hard as they come

He was old skool. A man's man. I Wouldn't want my worst enemies to perish through alcoholism and mental illness. It's a slow, painful death. May he rest in peace.

All these big hard bullies end up th same way...just look at brian cockeril now gettin his windows put out

Wow, what a winner.

If the stories about his bullying & abuse from his younger days are true then he got what he was due. Again, if the stories are true.

Paul did a lot of terrible things in his life time….. I’m 100% shaw of it. from the amount of story’s iv been told over the years. Regardless how horrible he was, he didn’t deserve to be burnt alive, or set upon while incapacitated. I found him very easy to talk to over his last few years of life. Albeit while he was pissed. Or smoking my joint or cigs at the time. He was actually sociable. My Old man knew him well, all through his early years they drank together quite often . He wasn’t all bad. But he was “Paul Skyes”

They wouldn't have done anything back in the day, or in front of Michael or Paul jnr. I lived on Lupset, ive seen cars and vans full of police going up the street to pauls House, you knew exactly where they were going...they were always at least 3 cars and a van full of old bill. He was a nightmare for police, doormen in Wakefield etc.. when he was banned from the pubs n clubs, he'd go to nightclub doormen, and get them to go grab him a crate from behind the bar! He couldn't even go to an off licence for ale, banned fom everywhere! Sad how he died. Ive seen his gravestone as hes burried near my old pal. His headstones got a picture of boxing gloves on it.

One hard man sadly treated badly by others who should have helped him after all they had money out of him

I’m from Wakefield and it was shocking the state Paul ended up in, he was basically a homeless alcoholic, people would beat him too! Was out with the Mrs one night and as we were leaving he burst through the door, he could hardly walk and was covered in blood from someone giving him a kicking… thought that was a low thing to do but after finding out what he did to young people in prison, I can understand why…. But still he was fu@Jed in the end

No man hides from karma

Shame how Sykes left this world.I think he had a very deep broken heart there was summit locked away inside this man's head. And what ever it was pulled him down the wrong path.WE WILL NEVER KNOW.. X

I got set on fire with petrol, it hurts , my legs were on fire I had to run an roll to put my self out , got a scar on back of my leg I was still at school, I used a hose pipe for pain until I got in ambulance it was scary af I thought I was going to die but I put it out thank god , I met Paul Sykes , he didn’t look as bad as that

When is the film due to be done?

Many stories like this and but for the grace of God we could have ended up the same through various circumstances. He was just a society rebel with a very good brain but used it the wrong way, however it was very sad how the end came about, hope he is at peace.

He lived a hard life. Heavy drinking and sleeping on the street will take a lot out of you.

i first came across a Paul Sykes video a few months ago.....i expected to see a man of about 19 stone, pure muscle, a menacing gruff voice, not a talker but moody and impossible to approach...i got the opposite of wot i expected!!..he came across as talkative and friendly a very educated man whom i could listen to for hours, he seemed like you could share a joke with him...i know people talk about the other side of him the violent side, but he wos a fascinating character nevertheless!....i find it sad how he ended up.. Legend Paul Sykes R.I.P.

I'm old myself and all the men i knew like Paul where never actually that bad but mostly wanted to show off and be liked and got it all messed up and alcohol is a very dangerous drug . Paul was like everyone else he had good and bad in him

When is the film out enjoyed that

I think Pauls upbringing had a lot to do with how he turned out. He said it himself about his father bashing him in the face what sort of parent does that to their lad.

Can't wait for the movie ♥️

His eyes say it all. Wasn't broken Jamie. People like him don't break. He didn't want to be here anymore. His time was up!

Hi , I think The Contender song about Boxer Jimmy Mcarthy suites being played to photos of Paul Sykes from Beginning to end would sum his life up very well. I'd love you to make this think it would do Paul justice and maybe make people forgive him. Paul Mgrath ' The Contender' version, I think this song really suits Paul Sykes and his end.

That pub brawl could have been the time he was beaten outside the horse & Jockey, Ossett. It wasn’t a pub brawl !! He was beaten by 5-6 men and kicked around the street. Do I have sympathy??? No. I think tat would be an insult to the young men he abused and bullied throughout his sad life. In saying that,,, may he r.i.p we shouldn’t speak I’ll of the dead.

Who gave him the shiner in the picture on the left?

Who was Mick senior?

Sounds like he reaped what he sowed.

That first picture was from a fight at rooftop gardens this was a few weeks before he was supposed to fight lenny mclean

Yep Jamie,whens the film out ?

The bigger they come type of thing - can only think life humbles you type of thing and PS was trying to be a more peaceful man and took the their abuse like man - he could obviously fight so must have just been so drunk he didn’t know what was happening or he let them attack him - do wonder if he even argued or provoked them in the end - major shame

So many stories like this around all the time, A guy in his prime was hard as fuck would knock this person out that person out and everyone was scared of them and there reputation or whatever and they were a big Drinker or an alcoholic, Used to abuse there kids violently and knock there wife about and bully them, Then when they hit 60 and they get frail and the booze has done the head and the reactions have gone and they start to mellow and regret how they were they want sympathy

I willl be visiting wakefield with a mate to walk in the footsteps of the great man very soon

Matt Hardy would nail that part. R.I.P Paul, u may be gone but u will never be forgotten. LEGEND. 🙏🇺🇸🗽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙏

Sharks

It wasn't tragic. I would not personally piss on anyone. Nor would I ever set a human being on fire. I wouldn't kick or punch a semi-conscious old drunk. Those are bestial things to do. But Paul Sykes was so far beyond being a bully for the first 40 years of his life. He was a dangerous sexual predator. A true psychopath. He was sadistic. He reveled not just in making his victims feel fear & pain but in humiliating and degrading them. Ironically he spent 20 years finding out how it felt to be the victim of people a lot like himself. That is what happened. I have no sympathy or admiration for Sykes and none at all for his tormentors. . I feel for his many victims and I hope they found peace at some point in their lives. But I know enough to realise that many of them did not. It is for them I'll save my empathy. This man left the world worse than he found it. The fact of him being an abused child did not give him leave to abuse so many other children when he grew to be a man.

Life is short huh

There seems to be an unending list of 'true crime' characters around these days. Either in books, youtube channels or both. 'Hard' men that now repent and want to contribute to society, yet seem to revel in their old stories of crime and violence. The truth is, most of them have just got old, way past their prime and the new breed would beat them up or probably just knife them.

There's always someone bigger out there mate🥴

The image on the right makes me so upset 😢 nobody deserves an end such as this, there is always time for forgiveness and repentance.

We learned about this fella in High School. The Screws from Durham would come and have a talk with all the lads in the last year, a scared straight sort of thing. I remember them asking, "what would you do if another prisoner tried it on with you" and one of the lads said "I'd snap his jaw" to which the screw replied "we had a champion boxer in, used to knock out young lads and have his way with them. He tied them to the bed, and would put a page 3 on their back" one of the Female Teachers was crying, due to the story. They might have said His name, but I don't remember... they were 100% talking about this fella though.

R.I.P Paul u will never be forgotten. 😞🇺🇲🗽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😞

Millions of the older generations recall this guy stern but fair.those youths stripped of their anonimity wouldn't manage half of his adventures.he knocked out a shark ffs

that's why fathers, who go round with his reputations should remember that some guys fall victim to there fathers sins, I watched the now. infamous documentary, on Sykes and find it hard to watch his poor 10 year old flinch, just because his hands were in the boys pocket, yeah very educational, and your correction no one deserves an ending like Sykes, except bacons

Will the film portray him rapping youths in prison not sad at all

Very old in the second picture. He died age 60. Your extremely biast, liver disease killed him and his skin is showing signs of it. Give it a rest ,

Just a bully by all accounts

a total narcissist

Very sad what happened to him at the end of his life , whatever he had done he was still a human being

Horrible bloke and his son

U on the pipe tonight Jamie I’m down ur way u got a link

The lighter fuel was karma calling for Syke's prison predator past.

People say he was intelligent, may I ask, how was he intelligent? Did he go to university? Did he get a degree? What kind(s). What is this man's educational history, does anybody know? Nice vid Warcry.

Didn't he abuse young lads in prison ? I heard rape as well ?

Didnt he hit women and kids? Im sure there is a documentary about him doing this..

Pals with jimmy savill ???????

Why you making the man look bad,just let it be fuck sake, we all get old

Sorry to abandon you thank you my dear friend for being a friend 😘 ❤️

2as a bully and peodo

Will never forget 🙏 💙💯

You got a beautiful relaxing voice jamie

I had a freind exactly same as sykes. And he also ended up like sykes

He could knock out sharks

live by the Sword you die by the sword , no such thing as a hard man just a fool wasting time , ask a dying man what a day means to him ? and yet so called men waste it as if it never ends , tears forgotten in the Rain .

He was a bully and ended up getting bullied, oh well swings and roundabouts

Paul liked younger lads from what screw's told me