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Frank explains that the nightclub bouncer and bar-knuckle fighter known as “Britain’s Hardest Man” was his cousin. He had gone along with another relative to watch him fight another famed scrapper, Roy “Pretty Boy” Shaw in 1978. But it was clear almost from the outset that Lenny “didn’t train an inch for the fight”.
The burly bouncer only managed to throw one punch before “his legs went”. After that he just laced his arms though the ropes and challenged the fearsome East Ender to do his worst. Shaw duly obliged.
“My uncle gave me real b*llocking,” he explained. “He said ‘What is the matter with you? why would you let someone do that to you?’”
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After learning that Lenny and Roy were set for a re-match, Bob was determined to organise some proper training.
Frank continued: “My uncle then said ‘If you’re you’re going to fight someone, you’re going to with a trainer,’ so he got Freddie Hill who used to look after the Finnegan brothers – really good, quality fighters, Chris and Kevin Finnegan – and Freddie trained him. “So come the week of the fight he’s got no cornerman. On the night of the fight my Uncle Bob and me were his cornermen.” Frank admitted that he had no idea what he was doing at the time, but that fight – which Lenny managed to win – proved to be a turning-point in his career.
