The phone call came completely 'out of the blue'.

Notorious gangster Billy Webb and several members of his firm had turned up at Kiss nightclub in Bolton and 'kicked the s***' out of one of the doormen before helping themselves to drinks from behind the bar. The violence might have been unexpected, but Paul 'One Punch' Doyle understood what was going on.

It was the early 90s and the infamous Manchester door wars were raging. And Doyle, a former football hooligan, fearsome bouncer and self-confessed 'grafter', was in the thick of it.

Doyle was at loggerheads with his one-time friend Salford 'Mr Big' Paul Massey . They had once been close - it was Massey who is said to have given his pal his nickname after witnessing him knock out five men, one after the other, at Pips nightcl

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