Wild Cats

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By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. Billy ‘The Bomb’ Williams was a notorious heavyweight brawler, who was once trained by Muhammad Ali’s mentor Angelo Dundee.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In each episode, current and former gang members and active criminals are interviewed by presenter and former member of the Essex Boys gang, Bernard O'Mahoney. Our online collections hold information on over 800,000 film titles – including television programmes, documentaries, newsreels, as well as educational and training films. Danny Wollard was born and brought up in London's East End, and is one of the most well-known and recognisable faces from the underworld.

If they could have got hold of Billy Williams they would have killed him – quite deservedly, I thought, as he had taken a terrible liberty. I wanted too get this as some of my family are in this book and I needed too read for myself about life back then for them and since this books release some years ago different things are shared or kept away and Danny who wrote the book has since passed away so I’m glad I’ve now got my copy and can read myself. And according to Danny's book: “Lenny McLean and a few very large black men started to give this drunken youth a good kicking. Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.

One of the East End's most notorious gangsters, Danny's life has been one filled action, danger and villainy. In fact I'm pretty sure they would have welcomed a set too with any firm and no doubt would have given them a hiding to boot. Bill dragged this young man out, but unbeknown to anyone, ‘The Bomb’ set about this chap and gave him a proper hiding. Bernard O'Mahony (Standing) with (seated left - right) Bernie Khan, Danny Woolard, Billy Frost, Frank Fraser, Eddie Richardson, David Fraser, Lenny Hamilton and Nick Reynolds attend the launch party of British Gangster: Faces of the Underworld which will be on Yesterday channel and released on DVD through Revelation Films this November, at Maison Bertaux in central London. Yet if these anti-heroes might be conisdered, in a social sense, 'bad guys' they also have personnel qualities that in the end we cannot help but loyalty, courage, compassion and a real sense of fair play.Another added:” I think you can safely remove Mickey Rourke from any band of hard men, he’s all Hollywood. Anyhow, after that, I gave up boxing promoting for a while and concentrated on my scrap business, just to let things quieten down for a while. Wildcats" is the story of those untameable and unstoppable men, the hardened East End villains who are society's true 'wildcats', and whose exploits are the stuff of fiction rather than fact. In his book Wild Cats, he claimed the hooligans rocked up at Woodford Football Club after an ICF member was supposedly battered unconscious in the audience. McLean, who had ties to the criminal underworld, participated in more than 3,000 fights during his life.

Blighty | Cockney funerals Buried like kings Danny Woollard was a notorious gangster from the East End of London. The likes of Gene Hackman, Mickey Rourke and Jaws actor Richard Kiel were all said to be in attendance. Editorial media includes use as a visual reference to support your article, story, critique or educational text.But, according to ex-East End mobster Danny Woollard, he met his match when West Ham's infamous Inter City Firm (ICF) stormed a fight night he was headlining. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Things turned nasty when a drunk reveller from the crowd grabbed the shorts of a fallen fighter in the ring to prevent him getting back up. One of the most feared men in the country was sent running by West Ham's notorious football hooligan firm during a boxing fight, a former gangster has claimed.

It is told by one of those men himself, Danny Woollard, who recounts his early childhood days in Manor Park, and tells how, through a sense of youthful exuberance and adventurousness, he became embroiled in a life of 'crime and time', leading to an 11-year jail term.Rich in colourful characters and chaotic, often violent events, the book charts robberies, dog-fights, rape, furious vendettas and the frequent brutalities of prison life. The West Ham firm was co-founded by Cass Pennant in the 1970s and garnered a sinister reputation for leaving a business card on the fans they attacked that read: “Congratulations, you’ve just met the ICF.