Without a doubt one of the hardest men in the UK. Love him or hate him he was a product of his environment and so was his kids...sad really because he had massive potential.

Turned his back when getting tanked in the ring. Bullies never last in boxing because they have to take it back

Big shout out to warcry publishing... Absolutely brilliant well done to all involved 🥊

I can see why you're so interested in Paul sykes absolutely fascinating character. I see massive emotionally unstable personality disorder, it stems from childhood and leads to many more problems along the road . This coupled with Sykes physical size made him scary. He could well have been a gentleman deep down inside but life alcohol and drugs" on top of his personality disorders brought him to a sad end. Look forward to the film 😊

He also took liberties with defenceless people. Deserved all he got

These are great videos Jamie, keep them coming please mate

Excellent content. Thanks for uploading 👍

Another excellent talk. Thank you.

Being on the end of Sykes violence must have been a life-changing experience physically and emotionally.

Another great video of what has to be one of the most fascinating true life stories this millennia well done Jamie 👏 Look forward to the film 🎥

My friends dad was the landlord at a pub in Wakefield called Moody's. He said he came in the pub and would spit in your pint and I doubt anyone questioned it. Nice free afternoon on the drink.

Brilliant stuff, thanks Jaimie. I enjoyed that.

I was in Strangeways in 1983, and was told Sykes had just arrived. When on exercise I saw this scary monster, I knew straight away it was Sykes.

A heavyweight boxer in Liverpool called Eddie Palmer (from Toxteth) reminds me of Sykes. Got stabbed to death in 1978 by a guy who’d had enough of his bullying. Surprised that never happened to Sykes?

Always thought what Paul could have been if he wasn't a nutter and a alcoholic.He had the build of athlete and had talent to go with it.RIP Paul

Good video enjoyed it thoroughly you speak well keep em coming 👍

Looking forward to the film

I watched the documentary "Paul Sykes at large" back in the 80s (still got it recorded on VHS gathering dust) and was fascinated by him, can't wait for the film, hope they do Tyson fury film too before I pop off this mortal coil.

I can really see now how the legend of Paul Sykes can become so addictive.

Love your content mate! Equally fascinated by the man himself. Good watch this.

Getting addicted to listening to j.b.top channel 👍

Well done matey,very interesting indeed.

Interesting vid mate.

Great hands. Great, great hands.

Prime Jamie here

It's said people took liberty with him at end but what about the old men he wacked,that's also taking libertys aswell

He was a fearless man but alcohol fucks you up

My mate from castleford told me about Sykes’s chasing a boxers physio around chasing rooms and gettin knocked out by the boxer, is that true story then? What year was this?

Your knowledge is brilliant mate.. And the more stories I hear about the more I'm hooked on sykes I love it a really do..i Just need a t,shirt now 🥊

This is a legendary story within my family. My uncle George Hoult was from Lupset, and a hard man, and thought of a legend himself in the late 60's onwarfs He lost to Sykes as a kid in school. He was the total opposite to Sykes, not a thug. George went into the army, and won the army Heavyweight title. On home leave, he saw Sykes on a bus, and told him they had unfinished business and told him to get off the bus. Sykes refused, and said " dont want any trouble George"

Great friend, mad as a hatter in drink but a very well read guy. he was not a bully he fought the liberty takers and the wanabee gangsters. It was very sad when he was knocked about towards the end of his life in Wakefield, knocked about by young scrotes who then claimed to have "done" Paul Sykes. I met him in Blackpool cells when he was 23 yrs old, I was in for a poxy drink drive but Paul was in for far worse, we actually shared some custard creams , how daft is that !!! But we kept in touch everytime he came up to Blackpool, his name will live a long time but not for all the good reasons ,unfortunately.

What a great video. KZfaq is chockful of shit. I love the corners like these where there is pure brilliance. Thanks for sharing

I heard the two gym screw incident was in HMP Durham, unless a separate incident? I’ll try check that out with guy who told me that in late 1980s.

Thanks

Met Paul around 2001 down at bruces boat yard in Wakefield while we where doing flood defence work there you could see the anxiety in people faces when he was there I didn’t know who he was a was only 17 at the time a think he went down to the yard to tap for money

Good info

I have a friend from wakefield who owned a bookshop he said Paul would call into his shop and talk about his books apparently he had loads of different writings going on.

Very good video . Sykes must have been an absolute terror . Fasicinating character , but God forbid you should get on the wrong side of him .

Paul had the world in his large hands . unfortunately like many before Paul and after he let it slip through his fingers and lost it forever, sad so sad, keep up the good work Jamie, we'll done,, 🥊🥊

Nice 1 Jamie mate ;-) and warcry publishing ;-)

Paul almost certainly had a childhood very few have survived. He did the trauma that was installed in was always gonna beat the Paul that wanted to be Just Paul from Wakefield.

Sykes in his prime vs Lee duffy in his prime.. Sorry Mr Duffy but there's only 1 hand getting raised there x

What a real good watch. Wen is the release of the film

Need another book with what's missed out,💯👍

Top man Jamie 👍👍

Who was the Nigerian boxer who KOed him in his last fight, do you know the details of this?

A mans only as good as the father before him.

Jamie I am becoming hooked to your vids. Sykes is England's Sonny Liston - scary as f*ck. Your much better in your vids now you should not be camera shy you have discovered an audience who like what your doing. I am an author of sorts and ex cameraman & ex boxer I find it all extremely entertaining.

You know the young lads that abused him towards the end have something special coming

I'd like to hear some Paul Sykes ghost stories

I was in dovegate with his oldest son Hes funny as fuck

Don't forget the time when that shark approached Paul in the sea and Paul belted the shark round the earhole and it swam off!

All you clowns commenting on here never even knew the fella, you all go off of the Sykes at Large T.V. program and talk like you know Paul. That program was staged for the cameras, Sykesy was nothing like that in real life. Yes he could be a handful, but at 16st and 6ft4 that is no surprise, but if he liked you you couldn't of had a more loyal friend. Laugh, Jesus I never stopped laughing all through my sentence with Paul in Strangeways. Also remember Manners was 26 years Paul's junior, and was also a pro boxer. Sykes was a shell of his former self, a totally spent force by the time Manners sucker punched him. Remember this, all those of you that never knew Paul, and I don't mean knew of him, but actually spent time with him, only bad mouth him because of what you heard and truth doesn't get in your way. All those who did know Paul and bad mouth him only do so because you were scared of him. Like this guy spouting out tales in this film clip, tales hes got secondhand from people who Paul most likely give a clip round the ear to. Screws and prison governors don't have a good word for anyone only their own kind, definitely not ex inmates. But most of all Paul is not here to defend himself, remember that. Talk is cheap, and opinions are like arseholes, everybody's got one and they usually stink. You people live in your safe little worlds with your boring little bubble, what the fuck do you know about the real world? And who does "suffer fools gladly?" People like this guy talking, is fascinated because Paul was a man, and lets be honest, today men don't have a clue how to be men, walking around with hoovers and washing the dishes etc etc. I know who I'd want by my side going in to battle.

Very interesting Jamie , great work mate .. Makes you think Paul Sykes couldn't of been 100% cruel and heartless , because after beating the American Dave Wilson in Paul's 2nd pro fight , and putting him in a coma , Paul Sykes became visibly upset when being interviewed about Dave Wilson's conditions and being all alone in a British hospital so far from home , shown in the documentary Paul Sykes at large .

if there is a film done on sykesy it would be good if they done it right i hope that lecture he gave his kids is in it. there alot you can do with a character like him, sad how in the end the drink done him and i bet those that beat him up, beat up a frail old man, and were givin the billy big bollocks,after it

Hi mate, is the film still going to happen?

Paul Sykes would have certainly had a very successful boxing career if he'd been dedicated, coached and managed correctly and kept out of jail. He had talent and power, but at British title level and above that's not enough.

Larry Holmes met Paul Sykes?? Wow, Larry was my fave boxer, this bloke gets more and more fascinating. Did you ever get an interview with Cathy his ex wife by the way? that would be interesting to listen to. All these acts of violence that Paul committed, it sounds like the people had it coming, that elderly guy telling the kids to get away from Paul and then goes all to call him an idiot, I mean the old guy should have just kept his gob shut, same as those kids for having a go at him for the cowboy hat. My dad always said, keep you nose out of things that dont concern you because you never know the whole story. He was right.

Paul Sykes was a very tough man but i still think the Duffer would have annihilated him

When you see bits when he’s in prison on the bed reading , he’s the living double of robert De Niro spitting image, take a look , I watched when it first came out then on KZfaq

Me mate was a doorman at rooftop gardens nightclub and he told me some reet storys about him!

Nothing but a bully, Showed his true character when he fought John L Gardner for the British and commonwealth titles, like all bully's when someone gives em it back didn't want to know, turned his back and quit nearly hid behind the referee .

I'm desperate for a sykes t,shirt Jamie lad.... 🥊

What's brave about him , really

There isnt much about "the wild thing" Yates on youtube jamie, it's all about sykes,pretty boy and the governor just wondering if you have looked into him or that at anytime? Keep up the good work fella

Fucking hell ya can talk you 🥂 love ya bro lol

Why's there a big secret with the actor who's going to play Sykes?

Needed big hands to punch sharks

Even the sharks were scared of him ffs.

the one to play paul sykes...is the rugby player aptly named paul sykes hes his double...

I wonder if Sykes suffered brain damage from all those punches to the head when he was child. His prefrontal cortex might have been damaged and that could explain his lack of impulse control. He simply couldn’t control his violent impulses. That’s a serious neurological problem.

Wish I could say duffy would have beaten sykes but there's no way

Top man jamie👍.but what happened to pauls kids along those years during the 1990s and his wife ?

When’s the story of Shaw and Sykes gonna be on????

Good night till tomorrow's

10:13 👀😳

Watching his documentary then finding out how bad he ended up he needed to manners on the scumbags that's around now stabbing people

I was locked up with Paul's son Adam in HMP Doncaster when I was 19, this would have been 1999. He had curly(ish) hair from what I remember, he didn't look much like paul but he liked a fight. I watched him have a fight with a Bradford lad on 3C exercise yard....

syksy was a paronoid sycopath bully..but ther was certain people in wakey he would not mess with...

Id do what john wayne did

Who was mick manners jamie?

I thought he was a ok guy but when I found out he worked and was mates with Jimmy saville 🤢🤢

Believe me as a Yorkshire man a lot better than he was pls look in to this geat video j

Take it he didn't have any patience and he was tough then.

Ronnie Pickering who ? Ronnie Pickering

Paul spared the great joe frazier once.

I guess he’d have bested Lee Duffy. I guess

Who has Paul actually fought on the street ?

Mr Boyle if you've met Leeds hardmen or gangsters.. Can you please provide names.. I'm from Leeds and would be interested to know wether you've spoke to nobody's or people from rough areas and members of different notorious familes... Otherwise it's just rumour

Hope its not Craig Fairbrass who's gonna play Paul going by you saying the actor is practicing the Yorkshire accent... Craig is a good actor and is a big lad naturally but he's best sticking to the 'Pat Tate' roles

Had it come mr duffy would of battered him

Is it Brad Pitt playing him Jamie?

Sounds like he was a bad bully?

Stone cold sober?

Jay from inbetweeners grown up.

Don't let him see he but pit me in book and il say wat a good hate I was make you laff

HE WASNT ANYTHING BUT MISSJUDGED

Love the books you’ve done on Paul Sykes but Jesus h Christ I had to turn this off after 5 mins u start one sentence don’t finish it then jump straight into something else

Dude you need to finish your sentences and stop letting your mind go off track. I listened to most of your stories and still don’t know what happened. No hate, your books are awesome but you need to keep your focus when talking my man.

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