King of the gypsies - Bartley Gorman

Wherever hard men meet, they speak of Bartley Gorman. As renowned in the shadowy world of illegal fighting as Muhammad Ali in boxing, he reigned for twenty years as the bareknuckle champion of Great Britain. He challenged infamous London hard men Lenny McLean and Roy Shaw - neither accepted - and beat all comers in brutal contests up and down the country. Gorman, now 56 and retired, lifts the lid on a dark but fascinating underworld, revealing for the first time the top fighting men of today with many never-before-seen photographs. Essential.