Britains 'Deadliest' Doormen : Northeast v Southeast Part 1

[@mattlegg1976]

Thank you for the shout out mate. I appreciate your confidence in me, lol Even though there's no footage of Lee Duffy, he's built up a massive reputation from word of mouth. At the end of the day we're all beatable on any given day, nobody is unbeatable. Catch up soon mate 🥊👊

[@enquirer2.0]

Yes bro difficult with no footage il call u in a bit if your free 👊

[@mancman7337]

Thing is mate your proven not to be a bully and a calm persona makes for a dangerous person to cross 👊🥊

[@mancman7337]

@enquirer2.0 hope your good Ben 👍

[@snakeman9902]

@mancman7337 I second that motion,look what he has done with big Adam a fighter and a gentleman...

[@toughluck1966]

Class as always matt

[@davidhipperson448]

That list alone is enough to stop an invasion of a country. All great , known 2 over the years you mentioned, not naming but great memories made, first class professional lads. Loved seeing this

[@JonnyWilkinson-yh3ct]

The hardest man will always be the one who trains hard but stays at home. Unknown to the violent people. The hardest man will be sat at home 💯

[@jamiemitchell5215]

Very true mate my dad was hard as fuck and died at a young age but he was crazy in a fight

[@petermontgomery8707]

So in the north east that’s probably Earnie Bewick and eddy Elwood from what I’ve heard

[@RichardHarrison-vu3sq]

Very wise words my friend

[@Carl-nb7lq]

@@JonnyWilkinson-yh3ct maybe but most the time men who get a reputation it’s because they are tried and tested N have a talent for it there’s no way of knowing if your any good at fighting until you do it there isn’t a hard man out there though who carnt get knocked out so when people say they are undefeated they haven’t had enough tough fights that’s how I see it

[@snakeman9902]

Matt Legg, all day, legend and a beast...

[@MichelleHoggarthUK]

Fucking mug. Lee Duffy in under a round.

[@LGlifeisgood]

When men stood and fight not like the kids today stabbing each other,

[@kevthegoat8774]

Matt Legg and Lee Chapman are the top dogs here

[@boldverg484]

Another awesome vid,you and Matt Legg have the best channel's of this kind on KZbin or anything else,love it!

[@enquirer2.0]

Thankyou mate very kind

[@thebulls0731]

Great video! Agree with you on Brian Cockerill, that he was a real force in his day and could definitely hold his own. Also agree that Lee Chapman might’ve been a bit too much for him, however - another scary man but seems a gent, too. Look forward to part 2 👍

[@enquirer2.0]

Thanks mate much appreciated mate

[@jamiewilson5679]

Brian had lightning handspeed. ☝️

[@notmeoru1]

I always enjoy these kind of videos with many names of my youth, but the best bits are the comments. Stories of myth urban legend and a fair bit of poetic license, always entertaining stuff. Lookin forward to part 2 😊

[@LG-cm3ib]

Matt legg for skill power and knowledge

[@da90sReAlvloc]

You forgot terry mccann. He was one hell of a doorman/minder

[@samitysam2904]

One of your own , good as gold

[@AlexMackenzie-nx5qq]

@da90sReAlvloc proper gentleman too, Tel would have been two minutes with most of these so called gangsters but he promised his old mum he'd stay out of trouble

[@futureskipper4616]

The hardest doorman I've ever seen was Ginger Bob, at one point he ran 120 guys from ICF.

[@johndean4765]

Future Skipper if it was the ICF main firm there's no way he'd get the better of them.

[@ptommo1543]

Matt Legg….absolute diamond 😊

[@JonfitzFitzjohn-k6s]

Nice One Mate

[@liquidbulletproductionz]

Great video pal

[@Paulcat]

There’s a humble gentleman from Sunderland you missed out probably the best man in the north east a certain mr Ernie Bewick

[@enquirer2.0]

Not been missed this is part one

[@magscheshire8375]

Ian Freeman of Sunderland. I’ve read his book as well. Ian Freeman went into the UFC and was the first British person to do so. He also beat Frank Mir. Very hard man from what he has achieved.

[@waynegrow]

Was there when Ian freeman beat him..think it was royal Albert hall. Not to sure. But lee Murray done tito Ortiz outside China white that night. Was about 2002 or thereabouts

[@DuncanLeslie-nv3wu]

Tony Tucker couldn’t fight sleep just a lump

[@johndean4765]

Duncan Leslie wasn't Tony Tucker the one who beat up a worker in a pizza shop.If so that's ever so brave.

[@gonefishing5142]

@@johndean4765 That was Pat Tate afaik.

[@sreverussell2921]

Matt legg, eddie elwood, viv graham , lee chapman and Michael kelly for me

[@haydndavies2475]

Thumbs up. Great video.👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@enquirer2.0]

Thankyou mate

[@officialjackdraper]

Quality video top man is matt legg and good friend 🙏👌

[@brianhogan6672]

Yet again mint podcast keep em coming

[@jenkooper8647]

Awesome video!!

[@theunemployedtrucker]

I don't care what your opinion is of Brian Cockrell but in his prime he was a very dangerous man and someone you would not want to fall out with, plus he took that vicious kicking off several blokes armed with hammers and iron bars and baseball bats and still managed to do some of those blokes serious damage and got out alive . Any lesser man would have died in that situation.

[@henryclarke5363]

heavy hitting list ben.

[@liquidbulletproductionz]

Did u do a video on Gary spires already ??? people keep asking us do do one on his but it’s not really our thing we do more interviews with people

[@enquirer2.0]

Hi mate yes done a few it's under playlist

[@clarencebodicker3299]

No mention of Ronnie Pickering??

[@tomh4712]

Richie Horsley is missing from this list Brian Cockerill would have been a handful for anybody back then , ruthless , huge , would fight extremely dirty , do whatever to win. Tony Tucker is laughable , who did he ever fight ? Unless it was three handed and he was full of crack. One of the biggest bullies on the list that got what was coming to him. Pat Tate would have flattened Tony Tucker with his hands tied and eyes closed. Lee Duffy wouldnt have backed down from anybody on that list. He was a trained boxer and did work on the doors , he was scared of no man

[@enquirer2.0]

There's a part 2 as explained in the video. Many people slag tucker off cus they watch to much rofs. He was dangerous. As I said in the video not best fighter but was no mug

[@tomh4712]

@enquirer2.0 I dunno like, I've seen a few videos where his friends have talked about him getting a good hiding. Legged it when Nipper stood up to him after his drugged up bully tactics pushed him too far. Good video mate

[@johnmann6287]

Bullshit duffy only got a name because of tinfoil bullshit books

[@s4squatch1]

Matt would use Lee Duffy as a 'test your strength' punching power machine.

[@CraigObrien-r5e]

Enquirer 2.0 now do you have only 30k love your stuff mate class

[@northernirishviking7283]

Louis spence, light on his feet, balance of a ballerina, strike hard, strike fast, shows no mercy to bums either

[@Paul-jo7gw]

Lee Duffy was a once in a lifetime hard man, so they say, he come to Newcastle twice to challenge Viv Graham who wanted nothing of it. If Matt Legg beats him Matt Legg must be a machine. Like you said hard to call but for me, Duffy beats leg.

[@mmaphilosophy]

Duffy would use anything to win

[@leechinnery2791]

Legg would've knocked Duffy spark out,he was a top boxer and Duffy wouldn't have got near him.

[@mmaphilosophy]

@@leechinnery2791 In the ring yes but on the cobbles no chance

[@MichelleHoggarthUK]

Bull shit ya fucking no mark.​@@leechinnery2791

[@allangreenley9901]

​@mmaphilosophy .Yes on the cobbles Duffy possibly..

[@davidturnbull265]

Ernie Bewick from Sunderland. Ask Brian Cockerill about him.

[@killshot007]

💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@peternufc1981]

💯

[@jamiewilson5679]

Brian had hideous strength.☝️

[@Wvsolo12]

And lightning hand speed​@@jamiewilson5679

[@JB-Thatisme]

​@@jamiewilson5679With lightning speed 😂 Broke jaws with just the sound of his voice!! Wouldn't listen to a word from that Walter Mitty!

[@johnbartley8838]

Brilliant that pal 👍

[@enquirer2.0]

Thankyou mate

[@johnbartley8838]

@@enquirer2.0 the comparison's from different places is a great idea lad like different people with similar crimes to see who would be top dog of that particular crime would be a good 1 or something along them lines pal

[@JonnyWilkinson-yh3ct]

Lewis welch from Darlington.

[@pablopanayi8625]

@@JonnyWilkinson-yh3ct Now Jonny how you doing?

[@JonnyWilkinson-yh3ct]

@@pablopanayi8625 I’m well thanks you 👍🏻👍🏻

[@davidmckay2386]

Another great one mate

[@davidmckay2386]

Brian Schumacher was a tough bloke on door...ad few conflicts .good doc o utube

[@BoredShitless76]

Ernie Bewick and Crazy Horse should definitely be on that list and maybe Vulture as well 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@enquirer2.0]

There a part 2 coming up

[@jamiewilson5679]

Brian was a crazier horse.

[@garethhammond5478]

What the fuck hahah no-one any further down south than scotch corner can fill a sick note in never mind fight 😅

[@PrivateEye121]

Viv was on the verge of being a pro boxer, he was amateur at the highest of level. Me and my best mate was trained by the same trainer. And we knock people out with one punch..

[@franko1174]

Wow your hard😂

[@AnnaConnelly-kc4le]

Private eye he was the best all lies about Lee Duffy we know simply the very best 🙏

[@nickgodfrey1148]

How come he couldn’t put that bouncer down then, despite whacking him quite a few times?

[@AnnaConnelly-kc4le]

@@nickgodfrey1148 hi nick coz it was a set up viv got him on a pressure point and told stew he didn’t want to hit him but everyone has there own opinion have a nice day 🙏

[@nickgodfrey1148]

@@AnnaConnelly-kc4le What kind of set up? You mean the bouncer set him up?

[@nuetral2374]

Paul vennis was the hardest door men north of England (his own works) great vid as always 👍🏻

[@brianwilliams3365]

Paul venis is no where near the hardest doorman in the north east not even in top 10 what drugs u been smoking even Paul wud agree 😂

[@nuetral2374]

@brianwilliams3365 brian it's on video on one of his podcast I laughed when I heard him say it 🤣

[@nuetral2374]

Lee chapo one hard man quite an respectful but dangerous if needed to be .

[@AlexMackenzie-nx5qq]

There us a story in one of the Krays documentaries that they tried their luck in Blackpool and it didn't go well for them

[@enquirer2.0]

Can you remember which book mate?

[@AlexMackenzie-nx5qq]

@enquirer2.0 It was a load of their old contemporaries doing interviews rather than a dramatisation, but that's all I can remember I've watched so many

[@AlexMackenzie-nx5qq]

@enquirer2.0 I've thought about it it was a documentary on KZbin called The Krays by those who knew them, I'm sure Blackpool was mentioned

[@JM80s]

I've read and heard too many things from people that know the facts to disregard big Bri from any convo about who the best fighters are / were. Drug abuse changes people, I think about fighters at their absolute peak for things like this.

[@ProfessorM-he9rl]

Thank you for this post, opinions may vary but everyone of those mentioned were top doormen. When will you do a top women post?

[@theunemployedtrucker]

Tony Tuckers worst mistake in life was hanging around with pat tate .

[@john-k6k6w]

I have All the Time in the World for Matt and Ernie

[@jamiewilson5679]

Brian has even MORE time for Matt than you or anyone else☝️.

[@leighwallis5782]

All top 18 stone fighters with top of the range cars.....

[@davidhopkins848]

Geoff Thompson and garry spiers are missing

[@enquirer2.0]

There North & midlands

[@davidhopkins848]

@@enquirer2.0 fairenough 👊

[@marvinhagler001]

Lee duffy was tough as nails, concrete wall, knock out punch in both hands. Scared of no one. It’s not worth talking now he’s gone.

[@kevh7941]

Let's not forget he was killed at 26, spent most of his adult life behind bars and still had such a big reputation. For me the most badass top lad from the northeast

[@tropicalpalmtree]

@@kevh7941 Not a patch on Ernie Bewick.

[@kevh7941]

@@tropicalpalmtree not saying he could have done Ernie deffo not but he was the ultimate boyo he couldn't give a fuck

[@loughy934]

Watched a Micheal Kelly podcast really interesting fella really good watch

[@gacha.life.with.crystal9359]

Plenty hard men ine Bristol love your Chanel

[@enquirer2.0]

I'm on bristol soon mate thankyou

[@Potbellypugilist]

Good few in south wales aswell.

[@JonnyMack33]

Bernie out of his skull 😂

[@piet5756]

Matt got my vote 💪🏻🤌🏻

[@legitprowrestling6653]

Ian The Machine Freeman should be on that list!

[@enquirer2.0]

Ians a mate this is part 1 part 2 coming up in few days with mire big hitters

[@Mindersonagain]

The pen is mightier than the sword, fact!

[@seanbarker9272]

Ellwood looks like he could be Greg Kovacs brother

[@mmaphilosophy]

Difference between lee and matt is that Lee would use anything to win

[@mathewfletcher1820]

Lee Duffy the hardest on this video

[@javyruckshunson2525]

I was in jail with the lad who pored petrol over Duffy and he's hilarious I have to say. When Duffy was going round the bars looking for him he'd go in 20 mins later asking where's Duffy, doing it to wind him up. And he's only a small skinny guy. It was the way he was telling it to me, I was in stitches man. Funny lad and I thought was canny craic.

[@Slufnyt1]

Richie Horsley Hartlepool

[@19bootsy68]

Im going for Viv. He was an outstanding boxer he could of turned pro...very fast, as strong as a ox, heavy handed and was able to end a fight fast. So big he bacame a major headache for a Newcastle crime family who had him shot dead. That business with Lee Duffy coming up to Newcastle to have it out with Viv...no one ever came forward to say it was true in any books or podcast all these doorman Lee was supposed to knockout surely one of them would tell all. The only people that witnessed it all was a certain Newcastle family and a good friend of a nonce. Lee would of known where Viv trained and that would of been a perfect opportunity for Lee to fight Viv.

[@kevh7941]

I've seen an interview with the bloke who took Lee up to Newcastle in a car and witnessed him knocking out the bouncers. It's Paul Venis farther in law can't remember his name now

[@brianwilliams3365]

Viv hid when duffy went looking for him😂😂

[@geordiemod4149]

Scotty gee from wallsend, proper hard 😂

[@mmaphilosophy]

Ian freeman also

[@jimbo6693]

Love to have seen the Matt Legg v Lee Duffy fight. I'd go for Legg in the ring Duffy 💯 on the street. Ps you forgot to choose between the last two. 👍🏻

[@da90sReAlvloc]

Also what about dalton. He k!lled a guy , Roadhouse,

[@mickclarke5741]

Matt Leg would win by destruction! Not saying Lee wasnt extremely tough! But there's levels.

[@brianwilliams3365]

Duffy easy even lenny mclaren wwudnt be match for the duffer

[@MrTruth-w5n]

Lee duffy and Dr rackpull all day

[@Michael-fy6ux]

Got to be lenny McLean, paul sykes, micky gluckstesd, bill " the bomb" Williams in part 2..

[@ianmacbeth5874]

It was hobo's night club where viv did stu, viv was a gentleman always had a smile

[@andyleonard7219]

ian tucker chapman mike kelly and marcus redwood. now that would be a tidy team

[@mikelavine9452]

Dave Hunt going into part 2?

[@enquirer2.0]

Asked me not put him in any videos cus of his business and family

[@paulyoung1139]

Another amazing video matt leg well deserved his inclusion and woukd be ti well skilled for lee duffy all tough to call

[@AlexMackenzie-nx5qq]

I think the biggest reason Tony Tucker gets abuse is that terrible hairdo ive never heard or seen anyone claiming he wasnt hard

[@lionheart3735]

Tony tucker lmaoooo

[@mmaphilosophy]

Who would you of picked between Viv and Matt Legg ?

[@tropicalpalmtree]

Why is Ernie Bewick not on this? He's the hardest bloke of the lot.

[@shaunmorgan1349]

Steve Sinclair from Blackpool

[@jimmyoconnell6167]

You missed Ernie Bewick from Sunderland

[@WLBarton4466]

Mr.Shirley is top 3 forccertain.

[@marvinhagler001]

Viv Graham believe me he was very very tough man.

[@brianwilliams3365]

Viv hid when duffy looking for him viv was a pussy 😂

[@ChrisOld-of1hd]

👍 👌

[@michaelmccarthy9781]

Matt leg wold of won hands down

[@SD-rn1fn]

When you can box bullets you be the hardest man in ghe world ..

[@maxwellanderson8173]

One of the most frightening people, I've ever known of,was,a black guy that use too walk with a walking stick, inside the walking stick was a sword,he use too put the fear of God into people like this, and the people he worked for,use to get people like this to do things for them

[@CarpNowandThen]

Lee Chapman for me

[@davidhopkins848]

Matt legg, in my opinion, would obliterate Lee duffy i really enjoyed this episode thanks muka have a top weekend

[@seanunsworthwigan4640]

Alf barnes from wigan top fella and a top boxer in his day

[@StuartAnderson-xl4bo]

Billy Robinson from the snakepit catch as catch can wrestler would have done what ever he wanted with any man on this list R.I.P

[@kevthegoat8774]

Robinson was a very tough guy who had a huge advantage with amateur wrestling and submissions, I'm sure him and Peter Maivia who he famously got into It with would take everyone on this list with the biggest threats to them being Matt Legg and Lee Chapman. Billy Robinson did actually get beaten up pretty badly by Canadian wrestler Ed Sailor White in the 80's, Sailor White was a nasty man who was an ex bouncer.

[@CraigObrien-r5e]

Matt legg did not no he was like that

[@ralph3428]

Matt would have beaten them all as he was training and sparring on a daily basis which helps big time ….but anyone can get caught on any given day.

[@michaelbennett5959]

Gary jordan

[@MarkAlexander-v5j]

Tom aspinell the best heavyweight in UFC would wipe floor with anyone on any list in there prime

[@kevthegoat8774]

True, Aspinall worked the doors too

[@SD-rn1fn]

Elwood was a big lump but not in any criminal way , other crims would have walked through him .

[@andyleonard7219]

bully boy is right

[@bobmathews9072]

one who gets overlooked is Mark Potter , the heavyweight boxer who fought Danny Williams & Butterbean . Not only was he a doorman but a landlord too , he ran the Tavern-On-The-Hill in Walthamstow . Sadly he died very young of cancer a year ago : kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnenfmuPnM1oi9ksi=gHluTa71bJvKNmYP

[@enquirer2.0]

Great shout

[@kevthegoat8774]

Potter was a beast, fought in MMA too and definitely could have gone further with it if that's what he really wanted.

[@spartan-ls3zz]

it gets me how you can have a few picked out and call them deadliest doorman ,their are hundreds out here who have kept a low profile for obviouse reasons ,people like you are just trying too get veiws sad

[@loughy934]

Bri cockerel was naughty back in the day

[@kevincarpenter3428]

Big fish in little ponds. Surely if they were that tough,they would have cleaned up as pro boxers and top ranked mma guys.i wouldn't want to meet any of them down a dark alley.but I'm fascinated by it all.how they would fair against professional top tier fighters.id love to watch a ufc titled British hard men against our champions.ian freeman was a man who deserved respect.a known hard man that proved to the world he could earn his reputation.

[@michaelkelly3638]

That’s a question I always get asked. Firstly, there was no such thing as MMA in our day. I started out sparring with guys like proud Kilimanjaro & Hugh Roy currie but the giants had arrived by then & I was only 16st. I was too smart to continue as a paid sparring p and got into doorwork, like chapman and made out fortune that way. You have to understand there was no sky tv back then and to become a boxer you had only 4-5 pro trainers-promoters to help. I had Russians work for me who were Soviet champions and arrived here flat broke. I had loads like that who worked the door for a tenner an hour until they settled and found their own way. One of them, val Riazanov, can be found on you tube teaching ballistic striking around the world. He ended up thru Chris Ewbank going to Dubai to train combat tactics to the Dubai police. He made his fortune there. My answer to your question is this: guys fight, and if good enough make their fortune, when there is no better option. The failure rate is horrendous. It’s always an annoying assertion that doormen are failed fighters, when usually fighters did doorwork for a regular wage and the comradeship.

[@pablopanayi8625]

Lee Duffy was never a doorman. Mick Sorby used to pick on kids within the pubs of Hartlepool lmao.

[@enquirer2.0]

Duffy did the door a few times as stated in the video confirmed

[@pablopanayi8625]

@@enquirer2.0 Honestly, no he never did, neither was he a boxer, I can back all this up as his sister lives across the road from me.

[@alex-E7WHU]

I heard he got a good kicking from h'angus the monkey.

[@matthewsmith6051]

@@pablopanayi8625 Can she supply you with this weeks' winning lottery numbers as well?

[@enquirer2.0]

​@pablopanayi8625 I was told he did a couple nights and seen pics if him boxing training etc wasn't pro no

[@rodeheath1]

Big Joe Jordan

[@jamiewade8668]

Paul Sykes.