hard-man

The scenario where the sprawling anti-hero gets his comeuppance and the champion walks off into the sunset with his arm around the prize, usually a woman, is a pleasing one. This media personification of what a hero is all about used to be the common norm. Examining past events can confirm this convoluted outlook that sees the baddie being portrayed as some sort of evil manifestation sent to cause havoc by any means possible.

Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name __alcolm Price_ was used.

Malcolm Price embodies all that is Welsh, aside from the green valleys and male voice choirs. The will to win against insurmountable odds is a penchant of the Welsh, put this with a propensity to never say __ie_ and that is what makes the Welsh so durable.

Today, these doormen, they wear body armour, armoured gloves, stab proof vests and all sorts; it__ totally changed, you get shot at the door you are paid to stand at, never mind getting stabbed. Druggies go away, get a gun, return and start shooting at you! Yeah, times are changing fast and there are some nice kids out there and some of them are fucking wild. I can__ see it getting better with these drug mugs because they get on them and they can__ get off them again.

Remember, I was only in to fighting; I wasn__ a high-ranking underworld figure selling the Crown Jewels! I wasn__ the Merthyr Mafia and I had no connections with the goings on of petty criminal matters.

People keep telling me that I__ a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here__ my understanding on that, what__ a legend? I don__ really know what a legend is, I don__ even know the word. I__ not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I__ not King Arthur.

A normal fighter in the street fights in a different way than a disciplined boxer, but a boxer is from the other world, it__ a big difference. A boxer can throw a six-inch punch. A six-inch punch can knock you clean down. I__ very wary of those boxers, I can tell you. If you get a boxer that can street fight and he mixes it together then it makes a lethal combination! I mixed boxing and street fighting in to a cocktail and when I knocked them down I kept them down by use of the boot.

In a dancehall in Kendal, I chased the bouncers out of the fucking dancehall, they were wearing white coats and they took these coats off, put them on the floor and jacked; Ginger Harris and me, we put the white coats on and took over for the night!

As much as Merthyr is a fighting town, these people also have hearts of gold. I worked all over Monmouth, and then the Aberfan disaster happened! That was a very emotional episode in my life. I never want to see anything like that ever again! In my opinion, the tip should have been moved well before the rain got in to it, and the old tip came rolling down the hillside on the school and the walls just caved in!

Examining the background of anyone can bring skeletons to our attention; a blot on the landscape can mar all what pleases the eye. This is how Malcolm Price was perceived by those who would stand back in fear of what he was all about, yet nothing could be further from the truth!

As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider__ head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy__ head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road.

There was just one cheeky bastard in the club that night and it started World War Three. There was a bloodbath down there, they all got locked up, and the police dogs didn__ need feeding for a week after that.

On this world you have the animals and they have as much right to be on this world as us; and it__ man who is the reason they are pushed to extinction. They__e killing them for their tusks and their horns, and these fucking idiots, they think claws will give them sex appeal and they get all fucking sissy on you.

I__e had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it__ not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.

I never knew any of these people who were using my name, if I had a fiver for every time my name was used for protective purposes by these people to ward off trouble then I__ be a millionaire many times over by now.

I believe in most men there is a certain amount of violence. Every man has a bit of fight in him, but some of them have to look deeper within themselves, further than most. The fight is there if you search for it; people don__ think they__e got it at all, but they have got it, like the weakest fucking crony you could see on earth. If someone broke in to the house, I believe he__ fucking have a go rather than somebody hurt his wife and kids; it would press him to his limits. If he__ not going to defend his pitch, he__ not worth a cup of cold fucking water.

Obviously it__ hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!