I knew Cliffy personally when I was a young teen, he was well past his prime by then and unfortunately had his problems, but he was a genuine lovely bloke, kind and gentle
Used to chat with Big cliff in Dunstable back in the day he was shot mentally to be honest by then He drank in a few local boozers but used to hide away in the corner to avoid any bother Was living like a someone homeless but I’m sure he actually had a flat in the town Always gave him a few quid and he was nothing but humble in return Sorry I couldn’t have done more really
It might also have been much better had the fictional London town of Walford didn't come into play @ 8:19 . It would massively help these click baiters to do some real research before punting out these kinda vids.
I was in hospital with Cliff and he was a good guy. His brothers used to come and visit him. He also had a bungalo in Tithe Farm Road but he smashed all the windows out of that and would just sit there watching the world go by. What a nice man he was. drink got the better of him and the people that encouraged it are all dead now.
Haha 😢, but to be honest with you mate I’ve never heard of Cliff Field myself, but he must’ve been a good boxer to fight Dunn who was a very good boxer has Cliff soon found out but, to beat Lenny McLean twice just shows us how good Cliff Field was also.
Was Cliff known to be susceptible to getting cut then? It's odd how some fighters are and some aren't, I mean skin is skin at the end of the day but there you go. Assume he must have had a solid chin as well.
Stumbled on this video and the name Ciff Field as a kid. Glad I watched this Vid as it saved me racking my brains. CF was a face in Dunstable-Luton area and also recalled he might have fought Cassias Clay as well as a few others. Well know for his ability to get cut.Too may holes in my recollection of CF, but this video did help me recall a lot I had forgotten and new stuff.Like everything, it’s all in there, just needs a a few reminders to unload more. Spanking Lenny McLean would have caused a mega sensation. To do it twice would have really been a big deal. Video was a bit sad, Boxing and boxers has always been a tale of ripping off people like Cliff Field in a mugs game.
@@mmaphilosophy Cliff Feilds was totally out-classed by Richard Dunn, Richard Dunn was kod in 1 round by Joe Bugner, Bugner was battered by a washed up Ali. Just shows how low level guys like Mclean and Feilds where.
I remember fields scrapyard on French’s avenue Dunstable, would regularly go there for parts, I think it’s possibly still there! I never knew cliff but when I went through Dunstable on my way to and from college in Luton he would generally be sat on a bench, alone and vacant, appeared a broken man, that’s the last I saw of him
A very sad story in truth he was a man who was used by others. He had potential but just never got the rub of the green. He was susceptible to being cut limited him in the professional fighter. He fought on the so called illegal fighting circuit proving himself the top man but he didn't get the accolades he was due because Lenny McLean was in with most of the top gangsters and looked the part. Cliff Fields was the top man for years in London RIP Cliff Fields 🙏🏽
@keithhumphries3707 yeah I know about roy but there seems to be others coming out of the woodwork now not necessarily the guys themselves claiming to have chinned him but others saying it
Wow what a guy. I'd never heard of cliff field sounds a lot like Henry cooper, he was another great boxer, but cut easily too. Going back to mr fields, I never knew anyone had beat Lenny McLean. But to beat him twice was no easy task. Mr Field sounds like he had a very interesting life
Good cutman and the life and career of Clifford Field may have been a whole different tale. Sure there's clips of both lenny McLean and Roy Shaw saying Cliff was the best about in there era in the unlicensed game.
He fought at the old Mayfair!? That was in Newcastle. Used to be a place for rock and metal music. Knocked down and now it's Eldon Garden....a shitty shopping centre. I spent many a night at the Mayfair
Workerd with cliff on the door's was a gentleman hated people swearing in front of women knocked a doorman out after he kept on swearing on front of women
@@Jammo1978Pedantic meaning : is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter
@@dagaffer2269Yh I hear ya...some folks brains wired different mate me n you was obvs got the point regardless off the details as its only youtube no harm dome...but obvs in the working or proffesional world you can't make such errors so people's brains just focus diff things may not be being pedatic purpisly or could be 😂..but yh if we map reading I don't wanna be that fair off the details 😂...but only youtube innit
Cliff Feilds was 11-4 as a pro, He lost to Richard Dunn who was 15-4 at the time, He lost two fights to Billy Aird who was 7-3 in the first fight, 9-3 in the second. He also lost to Brain Jewitt 4-3. Feilds 11 wins where against guys like Billy Winter 11-23, Jack Coats 2-5, Charlie White 7-7, His best win is probably Dennis Avoth who retired 22-20. Feilds was an INCREDIBLY low level pro, Yet was king of the unclinced circut, which just goes to show how terrible unclined fighters such as Mclean where. Mclean was outclassed and kod twice by Feilds.
So he did 10 years in the Navy, 2 years in prison, then made his pro boxing debut at the age of 25, so he was aged maximum aged 13 when he joined the navy, and he was 6 feet 7, they make this stuff up! None of it is correct Edit: my bad, seems he was that height, he has been misrepresented in the past as 6-2 or 6-3 but I stand corrected
Lol these big brute.. bash the living hell outta eachother.. but Still bros... ya gotta love it. That's what it's all about. Not enough of that these days.. The head up fair fight.. good old scrap. I fukkkin love it. RIP 2 both these knuckleheads.
Stop putting the annoying music over the content, it ruins it and is so unnecessary 🙄. Can the creator please explain the reason for this, I’m genuinely interested. Cheers
Heard about McClean being beaten by an old Canadian heavyweight - the fight was fixed but the old boy just keep standing and wore McClean out going distance before beating him
The photo with Bugner is deceiving. His family and friends, who run his Facebook group, list him as 6ft 7in, and so does BoxRec, which is generally reliable. How did you know him and his height?
@@tonycruzman162 Sorry to hear that. He fought a few pro fights as “Aussie Joe Bugner” after migrating here, but was well beyond his prime. However, for a number of years he was a great character in boxing circles and the media down here. I hope that when he goes, it’s with all of the dignity and respect that he deserves.
I grew up in Dunstable in the 60s and 70s and remember him. He was way way bigger than 6ft. He towered over everyone around him so that pic is not realistic at all.
I have a Cliff Fields story. I was actually their when Lenny shouted he was the hardest "after Cliff" I shouted "Well I'm try'na get some kip, and you pair of pansies are keeping me awake. Shut the hell up or I'll come down their and use Lenny as a bat, to beat Cliff" So they both scurried off, quick time. 😂😂
Why are none of them very bright like vocabulary is limited and just well i can punch thats not all the world as to offer when len. Talked it was almost inbarisment to others sad really
Even Frank Warren said in a recent interview about his own life, and how he starting in the unlicensed game promoting his first cousin, Lenny McLean, and that he did lose to Cliff Fields twice. Also Roy Shaw admits to losing to Cliff too, on Liam Galvins youtube channel.
From a good friend Donie henneey. Rip...
I knew Cliffy personally when I was a young teen, he was well past his prime by then and unfortunately had his problems, but he was a genuine lovely bloke, kind and gentle
Sounds exactly the same as mark rippley was.the hard guys of the past weren’t the loudest in the room like the people of today think
Used to chat with Big cliff in Dunstable back in the day he was shot mentally to be honest by then
He drank in a few local boozers but used to hide away in the corner to avoid any bother
Was living like a someone homeless but I’m sure he actually had a flat in the town
Always gave him a few quid and he was nothing but humble in return
Sorry I couldn’t have done more really
U ever follow him into the toilet and size up his hog?
bless u
Loved this story, but would have been much better without that irritating background noise
It might also have been much better had the fictional London town of Walford didn't come into play @ 8:19 . It would massively help these click baiters to do some real research before punting out these kinda vids.
I was in hospital with Cliff and he was a good guy. His brothers used to come and visit him. He also had a bungalo in Tithe Farm Road but he smashed all the windows out of that and would just sit there watching the world go by. What a nice man he was. drink got the better of him and the people that encouraged it are all dead now.
I have to admit that I had never heard of this man. I'm so glad that you uploaded this. Respect ❤
You obviously havnt did your homework on lenny McLean then either, otherwise you would know this man (Cliff)
Me too..cliff who
Haha 😢, but to be honest with you mate I’ve never heard of Cliff Field myself, but he must’ve been a good boxer to fight Dunn who was a very good boxer has Cliff soon found out but, to beat Lenny McLean twice just shows us how good Cliff Field was also.
@@mmaphilosophyI’m sure he’s heard of people that you’ve never heard of before also.
@@mrfugazi6713 Highly unlikely ;)
Absolute geezer. Never forget these blokes. ❤
Sad ending a lot of fighters were bleeders such as Henry Cooper but still did well in the ring a shame Cliff cut so badly. RIP champ
Was Cliff known to be susceptible to getting cut then? It's odd how some fighters are and some aren't, I mean skin is skin at the end of the day but there you go. Assume he must have had a solid chin as well.
He got them eyes,
Scary man !
Stumbled on this video and the name Ciff Field as a kid. Glad I watched this Vid as it saved me racking my brains.
CF was a face in Dunstable-Luton area and also recalled he might have fought Cassias Clay as well as a few others.
Well know for his ability to get cut.Too may holes in my recollection of CF, but this video did help me recall a lot I had forgotten and new stuff.Like everything, it’s all in there, just needs a a few reminders to unload more. Spanking Lenny McLean would have caused a mega sensation. To do it twice would have really been a big deal. Video was a bit sad, Boxing and boxers has always been a tale of ripping off people like Cliff Field in a mugs game.
I grew up on the next street t cliff he was a great character.
Course you did.....
@@adamstockman5278 Someone has to.
Brilliant that was 👌👊🏴
What a story.
amazing story i must admit i have never heard of him
Lenny “ I’m the hardest man in London!” Henry cooper “ hold my beer!”
Sir Henry would KO Lenny in round 1!!!
@@gert-janboot3928Cooper was in his late 50s at that point
Not true, it was Cliff Fields.
Maybe if it was the 1950s or 1960s I'd agree but Cooper wasn't the same after his fighting career in the 70s onwards
@@mmaphilosophy Cliff Feilds was totally out-classed by Richard Dunn, Richard Dunn was kod in 1 round by Joe Bugner, Bugner was battered by a washed up Ali. Just shows how low level guys like Mclean and Feilds where.
@@BiggieBigLnPac totally different type of boxing.
Put Ali in a unsanctioned boxing match and he wouldn't be able to do what he does
So the other guy had a knife and that didn’t mean Cliff’s life was in danger?!
It doesn't matter how bad or tough you are there is always someone madder and Tougher it's just Nature way
It wasn’t a beer glass that blinded him, the gypsys shot him with a catapult…. True story
Typical cheating gypo's🙄
2:54. His DAD was such a heavy weight he was sunk in the war. lol. That’s. A great line
Sad but sounds like a great guy
Luckily enough, I have the book...
R.I.P Cliff 🙏🥊♥️
He ended up homeless in dunstable respect 🙏
I remember fields scrapyard on French’s avenue Dunstable, would regularly go there for parts, I think it’s possibly still there! I never knew cliff but when I went through Dunstable on my way to and from college in Luton he would generally be sat on a bench, alone and vacant, appeared a broken man, that’s the last I saw of him
He comes across as a nice, quiet, humble man.
RIP Cliff you legend! 🙌
6'7" ? yet in the picture 04:50 Bugner 6' 4" looked a couple of inches taller.
A very sad story in truth he was a man who was used by others. He had potential but just never got the rub of the green. He was susceptible to being cut limited him in the professional fighter. He fought on the so called illegal fighting circuit proving himself the top man but he didn't get the accolades he was due because Lenny McLean was in with most of the top gangsters and looked the part. Cliff Fields was the top man for years in London RIP Cliff Fields 🙏🏽
Cliff did debt collecting aswell
Never heard people mentioning lenny getting beat when he was alive
Sure Roy Shaw beat him
@keithhumphries3707 yeah I know about roy but there seems to be others coming out of the woodwork now not necessarily the guys themselves claiming to have chinned him but others saying it
Johnny Waldron beat him twice too, and I never want to hear a reply "not on the cobbles" again as long as I live
The 'hardest' man in London would never claim it.
6Feet & inches= 204 cm and well trained, no wonder Cliff was the absolute number one in the unlicense division , truly a giant of a Man
This was a good video. Wish you'd cut the long winded "like comment and subscribe" spiel at the end though
He had a mask like face with very scary eyes. That's one scary man.
Oh thanks great story even greater because it's real
Such a tragic tale
Wow what a guy. I'd never heard of cliff field sounds a lot like Henry cooper, he was another great boxer, but cut easily too. Going back to mr fields, I never knew anyone had beat Lenny McLean. But to beat him twice was no easy task. Mr Field sounds like he had a very interesting life
Good watch
Good cutman and the life and career of Clifford Field may have been a whole different tale.
Sure there's clips of both lenny McLean and Roy Shaw saying Cliff was the best about in there era in the unlicensed game.
He fought at the old Mayfair!? That was in Newcastle. Used to be a place for rock and metal music. Knocked down and now it's Eldon Garden....a shitty shopping centre. I spent many a night at the Mayfair
Remember it well
looks like Dave Mirra( the bmx guy)
Workerd with cliff on the door's was a gentleman hated people swearing in front of women knocked a doorman out after he kept on swearing on front of women
What years were those
Around 1985 onwards I’d say
May God reword him accordingly hear after.
6000 back then does not equate to £108, 000 today, your well of the mark, it's equates to £32, 244
That's exactly what I was thinking 😂😂😂 I thought it would be about £25,000 in today's money though 😂😂😂
@@Jammo1978 you weren't far of Jammo, a lot closer than the narrator 😅
@@willmartin2078 okay thanks Mr Pedantic.
@@Jammo1978Pedantic meaning : is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter
@@dagaffer2269Yh I hear ya...some folks brains wired different mate me n you was obvs got the point regardless off the details as its only youtube no harm dome...but obvs in the working or proffesional world you can't make such errors so people's brains just focus diff things may not be being pedatic purpisly or could be 😂..but yh if we map reading I don't wanna be that fair off the details 😂...but only youtube innit
Drank with him lots in the wheatsheaf Dunstable. Lovely bloke
Where's both videos of this knocking the gov out and where can I watch mclean v shaw fight no.1 ???
Great video
I see Frank there in this.. bugger me Frank Warren is still at the top of his game in 2024.. incredible 😲
Good video but if you're going to have subtitles at least make them readable and on the the screen long enough to read them
Brian Jewitt was my sister in law’s uncle, nice bloke.
How exciting
The ref you pointed to, was not Mr Fields
Interesting documentary but the background music was not good and totally out of place in this subject.
Cliff Feilds was 11-4 as a pro, He lost to Richard Dunn who was 15-4 at the time, He lost two fights to Billy Aird who was 7-3 in the first fight, 9-3 in the second. He also lost to Brain Jewitt 4-3. Feilds 11 wins where against guys like Billy Winter 11-23, Jack Coats 2-5, Charlie White 7-7, His best win is probably Dennis Avoth who retired 22-20. Feilds was an INCREDIBLY low level pro, Yet was king of the unclinced circut, which just goes to show how terrible unclined fighters such as Mclean where. Mclean was outclassed and kod twice by Feilds.
That pic of him and bugner is a bit deceiving
he was tall but i dont think 6 feet 8 inches i thought about 6 feet 4 inches...
Thought the same
The book is worth a fortune if you can get hold of it by the way.
WOW. First ive heard of him. What a guy.... rest easy sailor
Field an english national treasure who never got a fair go Rip cliff iron field
National treasure? First most of us have heard of him.....hardly a treasure
So he did 10 years in the Navy, 2 years in prison, then made his pro boxing debut at the age of 25, so he was aged maximum aged 13 when he joined the navy, and he was 6 feet 7, they make this stuff up! None of it is correct
Edit: my bad, seems he was that height, he has been misrepresented in the past as 6-2 or 6-3 but I stand corrected
How tall was Bugner? Fields looked small in that picture next to him.
Lol these big brute.. bash the living hell outta eachother.. but Still bros... ya gotta love it.
That's what it's all about.
Not enough of that these days..
The head up fair fight.. good old scrap. I fukkkin love it.
RIP 2 both these knuckleheads.
Sounds like a nice guy, but the bottle is a demon.
What happened near the end,? Lost an eye etc ?
Sid and Shane ??
Sad ending to his life sleeping in local shop door ways
He never slept in a shop doorway , he had a flat up downside . I knew him really well .He had plenty of places to go .
Stop putting the annoying music over the content, it ruins it and is so unnecessary 🙄. Can the creator please explain the reason for this, I’m genuinely interested. Cheers
The background noise and those HORRIBLE a.i images ruin these stories man.
AI is a curse,it is ruining TH-cam!!
The moral of the story is this - cliff was not a great fighter. He was beat by Richard Dunne who himself by any means was no great fighter.
Rip to the true governor
Heard about McClean being beaten by an old Canadian heavyweight - the fight was fixed but the old boy just keep standing and wore McClean out going distance before beating him
Some terrible mistakes in this, cliff was absolutely not 6ft 7 ffs, he was around 6ft 3 . Joe bugner was taller than him and joe was around 6ft 4.
The photo with Bugner is deceiving. His family and friends, who run his Facebook group, list him as 6ft 7in, and so does BoxRec, which is generally reliable. How did you know him and his height?
yes correct joe in care home now with dementia in austraila
@@tonycruzman162 Sorry to hear that. He fought a few pro fights as “Aussie Joe Bugner” after migrating here, but was well beyond his prime. However, for a number of years he was a great character in boxing circles and the media down here. I hope that when he goes, it’s with all of the dignity and respect that he deserves.
FYI my name is cliff too
How fascinating....Not
You say he was 6ft 7. In the picture with Joe bugner he looks about 6 ft
Exactly I thought the same thing .Joe Bugner was not that tall.
I grew up in Dunstable in the 60s and 70s and remember him. He was way way bigger than 6ft. He towered over everyone around him so that pic is not realistic at all.
Held his licence bzck because he cut easily. You got to be kidding
Knocked out two leaving 198 to fight.
Hmm so cliff hittem with the left jabs a bit.. then rung their fkn bell with his big right..
Just like me..only I don't jab 😂😂😂
I did not see Cliff Fields
I have a Cliff Fields story. I was actually their when Lenny shouted he was the hardest "after Cliff"
I shouted "Well I'm try'na get some kip, and you pair of pansies are keeping me awake. Shut the hell up or I'll come down their and use Lenny as a bat, to beat Cliff" So they both scurried off, quick time. 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣£6000 in 1980 would be worth about £25,000 in today's money so stop chatting shite or nobody will believe anything else you say either 😂😂😂😂
Turned it off as soon as I heard the American voice over. I mean stick with a British accent
AI crap
@@mjh5437 yup
Lenny never lost a fight on the cobbles.
Johnny Waldron beat him twice
Shame about the BS AI images
Is it Fields or Field? ...because you're using both, and they're two different names ffs.
He was Field Monday to Friday. Fields on the weekends…
😂😂😂
Wow! Your a genius 🤭
@@markmcallan973You're* 🙄
AI generated content. The different ways of pronouncing names is a giveaway.
The state of the standard of his boxing in the first 2 mins 😂😂
Boyo
Has this been fact checked? Just asking
@@jamiehaston2196 I don’t think so?Some Geezer just said fact to me but I’m not sure at all?
Cliff FIELDS ..... not "Field". At least get his name right for god's sake.
Who cares he missed an S...ffs get a life
Why are none of them very bright like vocabulary is limited and just well i can punch thats not all the world as to offer when len. Talked it was almost inbarisment to others sad really
Inbarisment ? 😂
Lol its 2024 for christ sake, this is pathetic. 2 dead fellas used to be a bit "ardddddd" lol
He wasn't 6 foot 7
This Lenny bloke was useless
good street fighter but in the ring boxing wise not very good
Of course he was...pmsl tool
If he beat Lenny then how come nobody had ever mentioned his name?Ever?Not in the pretty boy shaw book or Lenny’s,I don’t think he beat Lenny at all.
He did. Fact
@@ianp7557 Maybe?Not sure about the fact bit though?
Go and read Joey Pyle's book ... it's called The Guvnor
@@dannyx2197 I’ve read Lenny’s Guvnor book more than once,If there is another then I’ll read it👍🏼
Even Frank Warren said in a recent interview about his own life, and how he starting in the unlicensed game promoting his first cousin, Lenny McLean, and that he did lose to Cliff Fields twice. Also Roy Shaw admits to losing to Cliff too, on Liam Galvins youtube channel.
A bum
Who?
Interesting mini doc spoilt by dreadful musak and cheesy narrating
What's musak? Is that a new curry?