The Guv'nor: The Autobiography of Lenny McLean

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But Lenny was also a warm, huge-hearted grizzly bear of a man, whose main weakness was an overwhelming desire to put the welfare of his mates ahead of his own well-being. If you're a "slag" (you live by a different set of values that Lenny doen't approve of) then you'll get a real pasting. Fighter, gangster, businessman or ordinary man in the street - do right by the Guv'nor and you'd have a friend for life; betray him at your peril. In these unedited conversations between Lenny and his 'book man' Peter Gerrard, featuring many anecdotes that did not appear in The Guv'nor, we get to see the man behind the public image.

Viciously abused by his step father from the age of five, Lenny turned to street fighting, determined that no man would ever take such liberties again. He was known to have lost several fights, although he always maintained that he had never lost a fight "on the cobbles" or outside the ring.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. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused.

McLean's widow, Valerie, co-authored Married To The Guv'nor with Gerrard in 2003, and produced a foreword to the 2007 book about McLean by Anthony Thomas titled The Guv'nor Through The Eyes Of Others.

After reading Jon’s post, I looked at a list of British heavyweight champions of the 1970s, and wonder if any of a fairly poor bunch would have stood up long against the ferocious McLean.