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It was during an ‘Evening with Vinnie Jones’ — by then a Hollywood star — that he was asked what it was like to be the hardest man in football. Jones pointed towards the front row and Whitehurst — a special guest — and said: ‘You best ask that man.’
Jones respected Whitehurst and wrote in his autobiography of the night Big Billy stepped in as trouble brewed in a Sheffield bar.
‘There were a few players out having a drink,’ says Whitehurst. ‘Next thing, about 30 Wednesday hooligans came in. They started giving Jonesey a bit of stick. Then a bottle flew over my head and cut Dave Barnes on the side of his face.
‘I turned around and this big p**** among them said, “You can turn back around as well, you ugly b*****d”. Well he couldn’t have been talking to me, so I went up to him, “Come on big man, you and me outside”.
‘I floored him with one punch. I thought I’d killed him. The next day CID came to the training ground and wanted to speak to us — as witnesses!’
Jones described the punch as the best he had ever seen, inside or outside of a boxing ring.
It was during an ‘Evening with Vinnie Jones’ — by then a Hollywood star — that he was asked what it was like to be the hardest man in football. Jones pointed towards the front row and Whitehurst — a special guest — and said: ‘You best ask that man.’
Jones respected Whitehurst and wrote in his autobiography of the night Big Billy stepped in as trouble brewed in a Sheffield bar.
‘There were a few players out having a drink,’ says Whitehurst. ‘Next thing, about 30 Wednesday hooligans came in. They started giving Jonesey a bit of stick. Then a bottle flew over my head and cut Dave Barnes on the side of his face.
‘I turned around and this big p**** among them said, “You can turn back around as well, you ugly b*****d”. Well he couldn’t have been talking to me, so I went up to him, “Come on big man, you and me outside”.
‘I floored him with one punch. I thought I’d killed him. The next day CID came to the training ground and wanted to speak to us — as witnesses!’
Jones described the punch as the best he had ever seen, inside or outside of a boxing ring.
