Category: Boxing

Life After Death Paul’s legacy continues to thrive almost twenty years since his passing. Yes, he had his many flaws, and wasn’t somebody you would have wanted to meet on the street, but he piques your curiosity, doesn’t he? This is proven by the fact you have read all the way up until now.   But… Read more

Downfall Last Resort Debt Collections Things deteriorated slowly at first. Throughout the 90s he retained a semblance of his hard man status.   He started his own debt collection company, “Last Resort Debt Collections”, and clients would hire him to collect their money for a fee of £200. A local character named Dennis Flint was the… Read more

Sweet Agony & At Large The 1980s Two monumental events occurred in 1990 that propelled Paul back into the public spotlight. He’d spent most of the 1980s behind bars, but the year 1990 was to be a rewarding year for him. After having served half of his sentence for intimidating a union official, between the… Read more

Boxing Career Professional Ambitions Since he’d started boxing all those years ago, Paul had always had ambitions of turning pro. In 1973, he competed in the ABA (Amateur Boxing Association) championship. He was quite successful in this tournament, reaching the semi-finals, and even though he hadn’t won, he’d showcased his talents to everybody there. Boxing… Read more

Crimes & Prison Time Wakefield Prison Despite Paul only being seventeen, he was “starred-up” and sent straight to an adult institution. Normally, only convicts aged twenty-one and over would be placed in these jails, so the teenager must have already caused concern for prison authorities. Nonetheless, was this the right placement for young Paul?   Obviously,… Read more

Wakefield & The Rise of its Most Notorious Thug Wakefield Wakefield, the West Yorkshire city where our story begins, and subsequently, where it will also end. I myself am a former inhabitant of Wakefield. I was born there in 1994 at Pinderfields Hospital, the same hospital where Paul Sykes died. I grew up in a… Read more