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Bloody hell, did Billy kill him?
Just looked. Its out of print.
He’d be permanently banned these days.'Hardest footballer' called 'evil' threw best punch Vinnie Jones ever saw in pub
Billy Whitehurst might not be the most recognisable name in football these days - but those who came across him in the 1980s and 1990s were left scars and stories to last a lifetimewww.dailystar.co.uk
Don’t think it was ever released? I may be totally wrong but I know it was all set to come out but I heard he had a fall out with the writer, Billy got a couple of subs off him as he was doing the book then shortly before the book was to come out he asked for more money, writer said no so Billy pulled the plug.
Seen that, and similar on other sites. It’s as though it was ready to be listed but never went on sale, no sales or reviews, same with Amazon. I’m sure it never actually went on sale, you’d think you’d be able to pick a second hand one up on eBay or Amazon if it ever went on sale. But there is zero trace of them.Football's Hardest Man: The Billy Whitehurst Story
Alan Shearer's Got My Shirt is the story of Billy White…www.goodreads.com
Ah right could be that then, I had heard it was pulled due to an argument over money which didn’t really make much sense.
There was a story that he got in a fight with a well known Sheffield light-middleweight and came second.
Suppose it’s a matter of opinion if anyone shaded the fight but my recollection is it was a draw, they knocked seven bells of shit out of each other and it just went on and on and on, so much so that they both called it to pack it in as neither could finish the other man, but it was some fight.. at the time of the fight one was the current reigning WBO world champion, the other was a pissed up pub landlord..
I'm intrigued!
Not my place to name the fighter but I’m sure it will be in Billy’s book if he ever finishes it. When Billy had the Cricketers if you drank there or London Rd it was not a big secret, Sundays in the Cricks were amazing back then, had strippers, karaoke and disco all on the Sunday afternoon, also guaranteed fights every week just about, if there was a hardman with a reputation or someone who acted the big man Billy would want to fight them, off top of my head I can think of three other fights he had against so called big hitters, but Billy was not daft and he would tell them to get in the toilet as it was a small space and he would maul them pretty easily, the boxer in question was also not daft and refused the toilet invitation and wanted the street outside with space hence why it went on a fair time.I'm intrigued!
This is the first I've ever heard of this, but internet searches brought up nothing
Initially I thought Ryan Rhodes but then realised he wasn't a WBO world champion, right?
More Googling brought up Paul "Silky" Jones - right weight class, and a WBO champ.
is this who we're talking about?
Must've happened yonks ago, granted - but you would have thought some fucker would've splashed it all over the internet by now!
I came across Billy when he was working for a contractor, as a store man, on a power station project a few years ago. I can confirm he is as hard as nails and even though you get some real hard cases on a construction site, everyone was scared of him! At that time he was still doing radio interviews and the like and would occasionally disappear from work, leaving the stores open for anyone to help themselves. It was strange, the boss never complained about it once! But if he was in a good mood, he used to tell some great tales about his past.'Hardest footballer' called 'evil' threw best punch Vinnie Jones ever saw in pub
Billy Whitehurst might not be the most recognisable name in football these days - but those who came across him in the 1980s and 1990s were left scars and stories to last a lifetime
Have to agree with you because most of the time he was a prick, could basically try and start with anyone for no reason whatsoever. But then he could be the nicest man you’ve ever met, a real jeckyll and hyde character to say the least.
I wasn't there, pal. The story I was told was that Billy got battered.
Yep, quite a few tough lads are like that, the late John Chidlaw, for one. Always a gent to me and the Mrs.
He didn’t, gave as good as he got and personally I’d say it was a draw. But if you were scoring it as a boxing match then who knows maybe the boxer won easily but it didn’t get stopped because one man was battering the other, got stopped because they were both fucked and it didn’t seem likely there was going to be a winner, both faces took a hammering.
Billy was one of the nicest blokes in the Bassett era, when he left he always made an effort to keep in touch.
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