Eddie Hall has just shared a never-before-heard story… and it may also be his most insane one yet.
The former World’s Strongest Man opened up on the latest episode of the Joe Marler Will See You Now podcast, revealing a story he says he’s never told publicly before — one that started with a bizarre online message and ended in one of the most humiliating moments of his life.
Hall says it all began about 10 years ago, long before he was a household name. At the time, Hall was still working full-time while training as an amateur strongman, spending everything he earned on food, recovery, and travel.
“Money was a real tough subject for me back then,” he told Marler. “You know, I was spending every single pound I had on strongman.”
And as any public figure will tell you, weird messages come with the territory.
“You’d always get odd and weird requests online, you know. ‘Can I buy your dirty socks?’ ‘Can I buy your used underwear?’ All that kind of s*** — I’m sure you’ve had all that,” Hall said.
But then one message caught his attention.
“This was good money,” he explained. “You’d get people like, ‘Right, can you come and beat me up and I’ll pay you like $1,000 if you just come and stamp on my rib cage,’ and all that s***, you know?”
At first, Hall assumed it was another online oddball. But when a few hundred pounds landed in his PayPal, things got more serious.
“So I start talking to this guy and he’s getting a bit serious. So a bit of money comes my way,” Hall said. “He sends me a few hundred through PayPal, and I’m like, ‘Right, I’ll talk to you now.’”
From there, it escalated fast. “He said, ‘Can we meet? I’ll fly over from Florida. You come and beat me up, and I’ll pay you 10 grand,’” Hall recalled. “And then it just escalates every week like we’re going to meet.”
Until, as he put it, “it eventually escalates to, ‘Can you come and s*** on my chest?’”
Without missing a beat, Hall admitted: “So I set a price.”
Marler laughed: “Oh yeah?”
Hall shot back: “Everyone has a price for this kind of s***. And my price at that time was 50 grand.”
As far as Hall was concerned, this was a genuine (if deeply weird) offer. The man had already sent money, so it felt real enough. So he agreed to meet, told the supposed client to book the hotel, and even brought a friend for security — “just in case something goes wrong.”
“I was like, ‘Mate, I’m gonna have to bring a security guy with me.’ He said, ‘Yeah, yeah, fine,’” Hall recalled.
Everything was arranged. The date, the time, the hotel room number.
“So I’m driving to this f***ing hotel,” Hall continued. “Me and my pal are talking about how we’re going to f***ing spend this money. I’d already planned, you know, to put a deposit down on a car.”
That’s when his phone rang.
“It’s my brother, James,” Hall said. “He’s like, ‘What are you up to?’ and I’m like, ‘Just… just busy, mate. In the middle of something here.’”
James replied: “‘Oh right. It’s just that I’ve got something on, I could really do with some security.’”
That’s when everything clicked.
“I just knew straight away,” Hall said, laughing. “‘You mother******. You b***ard.’”
The “client” he’d been messaging for months — the man who wanted to fly from Florida and pay him fifty grand — was his own brother, running a prank with his rugby mates.
“It was my f***ing brother the whole time,” Hall said. “And I know for a fact he did it with all his rugby mates. They must have all been chiming in like, ‘Say this, say this.’”
Ever since, he says, the story has followed him around.
“Every time I bump into a rugby guy now, they’re like, ‘I’ve heard this f***ing story about you.’”
Marler could barely keep it together as Hall wrapped up the story.
“This will be the first time I’ve ever spoken about this,” Hall said, shaking his head. “But everyone’s got a price. What would your price be for that?”
Without hesitation, Marler replied: “Right now? 10 grand.”
It’s classic Eddie Hall — unfiltered, larger-than-life, and unafraid to laugh at his own expense. A story that started with a scam ended with one of the best pranks you’ll ever hear — and a reminder that even the World’s Strongest Man isn’t immune to being completely stitched up by his own family.
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