Big Stacks, the influencer who calls himself 'The Hardest Man in the UK', has made an honest admission about how hard he really is. When asked to rate his own hardness out of 10, he said: "I'd say about six. There's some harder c**** out there.' I'm hard, but there's some savages out there."
Boxing return against Jordan McCann
Big Stacks, real name Charlie Robert, made his boxing debut earlier this year and returns to the ring tonight against Jordan McCann. The fight is available to watch live on DAZN.
Big Stacks spent more than six years in prison after attacking a rival gang member with a baseball bat. He insists his moniker started as a joke.
How the 'Hardest Man' nickname began
"I looked in the camera and said, 'There's not one man in the UK that can beat me in a fight Any type of skill level you got, I'll smash your head in'," he said. "Obviously I was joking about it. I didn't think people would believe it, and it rattled the whole boxing industry. Not all of them, but there are a lot of boxers, professional boxers, cage fighters, bare-knuckle fighters wanted to fight me, wanted to give it a test, see if they could beat me."
"But I just ran with it, and then started mocking all these fighters, and then it just sort of stuck. I don't know, like now everyone calls me 'The Hardest Man in the UK'. It's got me in loads of trouble. When it first started, I had serious phone calls saying, 'Mate, we've been told to come and do you, come fill you in properly.'"
Trouble from serious gangsters
"They were some serious travellers from my manor, and I'm like, 'What the f***?'. I didn't really understand, because I thought everyone knew it was a joke. But people have got egos, and see, old-school people back in the day, because there are some serious gangsters, at first they couldn't stand me. Now they've sort of like warmed to the 'Hardest Man', but at first it did give me a little trouble."
