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Les was one of the players that I really enjoyed watching go around the paddock. I would of loved to see Les playing in the era some 10 to 15 years earlier than he did.

Les did not cop fools to well on the field and was very handy with his hands. He was usually very closely watched by the men with the whistle.

I remember watching one game, it was between Cronulla and their "little brothers" St George. It was a TV game.

Les had tackled, and fairly tackled a Saints forward and stood up as you do to mark the tackled player at the play the ball. The tackled St George forward got to his feet and with the ball still locked up under one hand started punching Les about the head with his free hand. (Stupid thing to do I'd say) Les looked in the direction of the Ref as to say what do I do, as this player kept throwing punches.

Les retaliated to this barrage by landing one sharp punch to the Saints player knocking him cold. As the linesman was sprinting in another Saints player ran about 10 metres and started throwing punches at Les again. (another stupid act I'd say) Les took some defensive posturing but let fly in defence with another cracker of a blow and down went the second Saints player like an elevator.

Les stood his ground and was now standing over two maggoted saints players who were both prone on the deck. The Linesman arrived as the ref arrived and Les just sort of gestured, "it wasn't my fault" and the ref agreed penalising the first prone Saints player for starting it.

(I would love to hear some stories about Les when he was playing with the Mighty Souths)

FROM QUIGS 1/10/2004..... The information posted below arrived at Team Era on the 1/10/04 from an anon reliable source,

"The story on Les Davidson and St George was in 1994 and the first player dropped was the rooster Brad Mackay, probably the 1st and last punch he ever threw and the 2nd player was Wayne "Snoopy" Collins "

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Les Davidson and Greg Dowling I remember in a State of Origin game at the SCG in 87 or 88 Les Davidson laying Greg Dowling out flat with the greatest hit ever seen.

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COMMENT BY MIKE - As part of his Biff Voting submission....
Davo, (Les Davidson) he only threw 1 punch. It's all that was needed.

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Ian Russell, former Illawarra Steelers Great, run in with Davo

I tried to rough up Michel Speechly in a game between the Steelers and Sharks in the early 90's down at the Wollongong Showground.

The first person to arrive to assist Speech was Les Davidson.

He hit me so hard my eye required 'orbital' stitching of the socket.

Thanks Les

Thanks for taking the time to email Quigs at the Era Ian.

If you have any more RL stories I would love to hear them.

Enjoyed watching you go round....Ian's Illawarra record below.......

Year -Teams-- T -- G -- FG -- P
1988 Illawarra. 7 ............1 ... 29
1990 Illawarra .4 ...................16
1991 Illawarra. 2.... ................8
1992 Illawarra. ...............1 .....1
1994 Illawarra .1 ....................4
Totals ...........14 ...0 ......2... 58

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One of my greatest biff moments i saw at shark park was at a packed local derby.

Cronulla were on the attack and had the tap from St George's 22 with Les "Bundy" Davidson as the dummy runner.

Tap was taken, Bundy ran up, the ball floated behind him for the dummy run however he continued his run anyway right up to the St George line of defense where he unleashed a crunching right hook to a very young Jason Steven's jaw right in front of a packed hill.

Stevo stayed standing momentarily - out on his feet - with his knees trembling before collapsing.

He was out cold.

A huge cheer went round.

Great moment from one of Cronulla's all time great forwards.

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An add-on to the story about Les Davidson dropping Jason Stevens:

The following week Jason Stevens was a guest commentator on the ABC's coverage of the Saturday afternoon game.

When asked at half-time about a particular incident in the first half (probably a bit of a stoush between a couple of players), Jason said 'I don't think there was much in that - if you really want to hurt someone, just ask Les Davidson'

I heard some great stories about Les from a mate of mine who was involved with Souths when Les first arrived there.

Next time I see him I'll ask again and post them here.

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Saw Davidson belt old mate Mario Fenech at a Cronulla Norths match in about 91.

This occurred around the ruck area.

Mario's loyal captain Tony Rea runs in to look after him and Davidson just dropped him as well.

It was a comical sight to see even if you were a Bears supporter.

Now Don Mckinnon he might have been a little harder to knock out.

This was a hardened prop who got the better of Steve Bowden and others over the years.

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I received information of a prominent former player who captained Qld and Australia (so he knows what he is on about)that Bundy was the hardest bloke he played against.

Over a few beers, we quizzed our source over this raging debate.

He articulated it by saying that if Les walked into this pub and started knocking blokes out (his brother and father in law were there as well) he would not get involved.

He described Les's running style as dead weight.

As he approached the defensive line, he would let out a huge exhale and just launch this mass of dead weight into the player who 9 out of 10 times would just roll backwards and try and drag him down.

Another point he made was that if you watch games closely, it is pretty rare that you saw anyone give any treatment to Les when he was on the ground.

It was sort of an unspoken law to just let Les get up and play the ball and get out of there with your choppers in tact.

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I knew Les from being best friends with Reece(His son)and I was watching the finals match between Brisbane and I remember there was a turn over and Alfy Langer woudn't hand over the ball so Les got the ball of Alfy.

Alfy then threw a punch at les and Les threw about three punches at Alfy in the head, chest and somewhere else and snapped him.

It's like Les is invincable.

Sharks won. Yeah!

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We used to sing the song about the wise man.. built his house upon the rock and I think those three guys were the rock.

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You can have your Sirros, Cements and Gillys. If you think any of them are more feared than "Boondy," you've got rocks in your head.

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I had to ask the blokes around me. They'd call me in defence and tell me the numbers. Figured I'd come good eventually.
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If your looking for tough men you cant go further than don mckinnon from the bears.

I remember a reserve grade game in the 70s between norths & wests when an all in erupted, after what seemed like minutes the combatants broke up all except 2 blokes donny & les boyd who were still going at it for all they were worth.

Another memory is a norths manly game, a mellee broke out & manlys self appointed tough guy steve crey went straight for donny 3 times crey ended up on his back but he only got up twice, needless to say for the rest of the game he played on the opposite side of the ruck to "huey".

One last memory was when donny was playing his last season for manly, i think it was against souths when he & bundy davidson came together,they just stood there trading punch for punch neither giving an inch i was sitting about 50 metres away & could hear the sound of fist on jaw clearly.

I never saw another player stand up to davidson like that & simply stroll back into position afterwards like nothing had happened. a true legend

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I recall Penrith v Souths, Les Davidson planted one fair on Peter Kelly's chin.

Kel didn't even flinch, he just looked at the ref as if to say "Did you see that?".

The hit would have dropped just about any other player.

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