Can YOU work out who this British athlete from when he was 13?

What were you like at the age of 13? 

We all mature at different rates, but it’s safe to say some hit the semblance of adulthood much sooner than others. 

You get some superhuman teens who can cut it with the very best – think Ethan Nwaneri making his Premier League debut aged 15 years and 181 days. 

Meanwhile, there are others who look beyond their years. People joked that Luke Littler looked 35 when he made his entrance on the World Darts Championship stage aged 16 in 2023.

And fans are in disbelief over a rare photo which has been posted by a British sporting favourite, allegedly from when he was 13.

The image shows the youngster stood shirtless near a beach wearing nothing but shorts, trainers, and a ring piercing on his left nipple. Can you guess who it is? 

If you need a clue, think plane-pulling and keg tossing.

That doesn’t ring a bell?

He’s a former World’s Strongest man winner, having claimed the gong in 2017 when he edged out Hafthor Bjornsson and Brian Shaw, and now plies his trade as an MMA fighter. 

Still not sure?

Well, it’s none other than Eddie Hall, AKA ‘The Beast,’ who now towers six foot, three inches tall over most other men.

He’s the former holder of the world’s heaviest deadlift at 500kg, before Bjornsson came along and broke it by a kilogram.

Hall claimed he drank 20 bottles of Lucozade the night before that record attempt and that he ‘put on two stone overnight’

Muhdo, an English Health consultant company, analysed his DNA and epigenetics and found a variant in the gene MSTN.

That anomaly allows for a greater muscle mass and size, partially explaining how he went on to be one of the world’s brawniest brutes. 

Fans on Facebook were in disbelief that we was ’13’ at the time of the post. He also claimed that he was ‘on the doors’ at the time – perhaps a jest, but likely a reference to the security work he picked up in his teenage years. 

‘Thirteen my left foot… that’s a 19/20 year old man,’ wrote one fan.

‘Good muscles for 13,’ said another. 

‘You must be kidding me, bro looks like me at 29 years old,’ one commented.

‘Thirteenth birthday bash at working men’s club after 30 pints,’ another quipped.

‘Thirteen years old grown man,’ one said.  

Hall has done this shtick before, and it is hard to know whether he is being serious. 

Last year he shared a photo of himself, apparently at 16, looking like a fully-fledged movie villain, packing muscles most men could only dream of.   

First three picture credits: Eddie Hall – The Beast/Facebook