That Time Shia LaBeouf Wrestled Tom Hardy While Naked

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"Lawless" Premiere - 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival
Tom Hardy and Shia Labeouf attend the "Lawless" Premiere during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2012 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Getty Images)

Shia LeBeouf has revealed he once wrestled Tom Hardy while naked.

The former Even Stevens actor appeared on Complexโ€™s Hot Ones YouTube series, where he addressed the long-lived rumor he knocked out Hardy on the set of their 2012 film Lawless.

Shia called Hardyโ€™s version โ€œa bunch of bullshit,โ€ and blamed the whole thing on Hardy, claiming that it was him who started a โ€œcutie wrestling matchโ€ between the pair when he snuck into Shiaโ€™s house to attack him by surprise.

My girlfriend at the time was over at my house, we were on this balcony. We saw him and his trainer coming back from the gym. We used to fuck with each other all the time but it just so happened that, this one week, my girlfriend was in town and he runs into the room. The girl I was with at the time was terrified. She covered up and she ran into the kitchen and he picked me up and I didnโ€™t have nothing on so now Iโ€™m naked on his shoulder. Weโ€™re in the hallway, weโ€™re wrestling around โ€ฆ We wound up inching over to the stairs and he fell down the stairs. He wound up hurting his back, so for the rest of the shoot he said I knocked him out, but that wasnโ€™t the case.

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US actors Tom Hardy (L) and Shia Labeouf
Tom Hardy (L) and Shia Labeouf take part in the TV show โ€œLe Grand Journalโ€ on the set of French TV Canal+ during the 65th Cannes film festival on May 18, 2012 in Cannes. (Photo credit LOIC VENANCE/AFP/GettyImages)

Apparently thereโ€™s footage of the incident floating around somewhere, as someone named โ€œPeanutโ€ was apparently filmed the entire thing.

Someone, please find this footage.

You can check out the wrestling story at the 17:40 mark:

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