Many consider Lenny McLean the “Hardest Man in Britain.” With a claim to 20,000 barroom brawls to his credit, Lenny has retired. But the legend of “The Guv’nor” lives on in every bar and every club in England. As a bouncer Lenny’s stare was known far and wide. Once he gave you “the look” you were in trouble.
At 48, Lenny is weathered, but still seems as tough as he ever was. He now pursues work as an actor, but that doesn’t mean he has forgotten the moves that made him the bare knuckles boxing champion of England for years.
As the retired legend, and at 48 Lenny is considered ancient, Lenny offers a different perspective on bouncing nowadays, “The new breed of doormen are what you call poseurs, they look good, but when it goes off where are they? In the corner, looking good.”
Lenny recalls days when it was the attitude of a bouncer that counted and not a badge or a haircut. “I want to lose weight, cause I know the less weight you carry, the faster you are, but these guys you got on the door now, their pumping steroids in them and their getting larger…when a fight happens it takes ‘em three weeks to get their hands up!” - from
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