Bryan Fletcher and Nathan Hindmarsh were back at it again, with Nelson Asofa-Solomona the latest target of their comedic ways.
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But unlike some of the other former and current NRL players to have been stitched up by the duo, Asofa-Solomona proved he is “smarter” than he looks as he had the last laugh.
Asofa-Solomona returns to the ring this Sunday against Jarrod Wallace as part of Tim Tszyu’s undercard and landed in Sydney, only to very quickly realise this was far from a normal chauffeur service.
Instead, Fletch and Hindy enlisted a bit of help to try and prank Asofa-Solomona. The key word there being try because while they were left guessing early on, the towering front rower turned fighter made it clear at the very end of the journey that he had not been fooled.
Instead, Asofa-Solomona could see the prank coming and ended up spotting the hidden camera early on, telling Fletch and Hindy: “You tried to get me, aye?”.
“I’m smarter than I look boys,” he added.
Still, it made for an amusing watch as Fletch and Hindy’s driver, with an earpiece in being fed lines from the duo, tried his best to get under Asofa-Solomona’s skin.
It started with commentary on the size of the heavyweight’s head, claiming he was blocking his vision while driving.
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“You’re f***ing head is pretty big, can you just move that way? I can’t see out the back,” he said, later asking if Asofa-Solomona “gets charged twice for your haircuts”.
Then attention turned to Asofa-Solomona’s Melbourne exit, with the driver asking if he left the club or was “sacked”.
“And is that why you’re fighting,” he added.
Fletch and Hindy then got the driver to pretend to fall asleep and stop in traffic, while sitting right behind them in a trailing card and honking on their horn.
They then started to follow Asofa-Solomona, pretending to be infuriated by the car’s antics, prompting the driver to exclaim: “If I have to fight here, don’t touch him. I don’t want it to be like Bali again”, referencing the Kiwi’s involvement in a brawl outside of a Bali club.
But Asofa-Solomona couldn’t be fooled, and in the end it was the former Storm forward who had the last laugh.
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