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The Guv'nor: The Autobiography of Lenny McLean

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By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts. By sharing the technology that has grown World of Books Group into the business it is today, we're helping charities increase revenue and reduce waste through re-commerce. THIS IS THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT STARTED AN ENTIRE GENRE – THE STORY OF THE MOST ICONIC HARDMAN OF THEM ALL. If I’d had any sense, I would have written the whole book about this era and based it around Lenny’s fights with Roy, because it was a lost time, a lost place.

Lenny Mclean was a hard bastard, he had a hard if not brutal upbringing in Hoxton - East End of London and emerged as the leading bare knuckle fighter of his time.

In this memoir, he describes his life of violence, how he fought a murder charge, and how he gave up violence to become an actor. People loved Lenny McLean, sorry, those people who weren't battered by Lenny McLean (and several who were) loved Lenny McLean. What I respect about Lenny is the fact that he’s not a bully, he won’t hurt weak people and he wouldn’t let it happen in front of him. It had an initial print run of 3,000 copies, but took off and soon occupied the number one position on the bestsellers' lists. if you are any way interested in the krays era or the older gangsters of England then I highly recommend this book.

These are touching tributes from the men and women that Lenny encountered on his journey through life. From the sweet easy life before his dad died to the hard harsh upbringing with his step father who beat him on a very regular basis to the man he became! It’s clear her parents loved their children and each other, despite their various issues, and this does come across in the many anecdotes in the book. In this autobiography he tells of how the mafia flew him to New York to take on their greatest bare-knuckle boxer in a multi-million pound illicit challenge bout. Roy Shaw on the other hand did have ten fights as a pro under the name Roy West, and was by all accounts something of a prospect before his life took another turn – hence his being able to hold his own with much bigger men like Lenny.McLean's charge was reduced to manslaughter, of which he was cleared at the Old Bailey when it emerged that Humphries had been in a scuffle with the police after being ejected from the nightclub. Only the loss to Roy was in The Guv’nor, and that Lenny blamed on a pair of boxing gloves that kept springing open on him. In his prime, the 6-foot-3-inch (191 cm) tall McLean weighed over 20 stone (280 lb; 130 kg) and was considered the "unofficial heavyweight champion of Great Britain".

He did, finally, and it was then that his fearsome reputation was put to work in the ring and on the streets. I have to say I was astonished to learn that he was only 49 when he passed, anytime I saw pictures of him I always thought he was around 20 years older, but then no wonder, looking at the game he was involved in. So much so that he has two bullet wounds in his back, and has been stabbed repeatedly—always from behind. He was uneducated and a product of his upbringing, traumatised by what he’d been through, and probably had mental health problems as a result of all that.Being a famous figure in unlicensed boxing, McLean made fans as well as enemies, such as the supporters of his boxing rivals and disgruntled punters who had lost money betting on McLean's opponents.

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