Feuds, fights, four Rolls Royces - wild life of Dougie Joyce

The left hook wouldn't have looked out of place in the boxing ring. Neither would the straight right that followed moments later.

But bare knuckle boxer Dougie Joyce wasn't in the ring - he was sat on a stool in the back room of a Northern Quarter pub. And the man on the receiving end of the barrage of punches was a defenceless 78-year-old pensioner.

Last week Joyce, a member of one of Greater Manchester's most well-known Traveller families, was jailed for the vicious assault. After he was sent down for 19 months, police described him as an 'aggressive and violent man who intended to intimidate and inflict pain on a vulnerable 78-year-old'.

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Joyce, 35, the eldest of seven brothers and four sisters, began boxing aged six. A successful schoolboy and amateur fighter, he reportedly turned down a role in Channel 4's My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding to become 'the next Tyson Fury'.

In The Joyce Family Documentary on Amazon, which 'explores the world of the travelling community', Joyce told how he was raised to stand up for himself. "The way I've been taught, all my life, is you fight fire with fire," he said. "You learn how to defend yourself and that's it."

And he also described the discrimination he faced as a child. "I had it when I was young," he said. "We were always on the move. Every time you went in a school you were the odd one out.

"No-one ever liked a traveller. I was a 'little g****'. Every day I went in there I had a fight. I went through the thick of it. Not only myself, every traveller in the country."

As a young