Joe Biden lookalike Bob, 80, from Preston goes viral on TikTok and Instagram with 90 MILLION hits in boxing video – Lancashire Post

A video of the retired Preston storage proprietor taking on a sparring machine has gone viral on each TikTok and Instagram.

Bob, who was a promising fighter as a schoolboy, has clocked up greater than 90 MILLION views making an attempt out the coaching system being promoted by his boxer grandson.

“I don’t do this social media thing,” laughed Bob, at residence in Bamber Bridge. “I feel I am a bit too outdated for that type of stuff.

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Bob taking on the Sparbar from the clip which went viral world wide.

“But I had a go on this bit of apparatus to see how I might do, the household put the video on the web and it simply went foolish after that.”

Grandson Louis “Goldenboy” Brow, 21, lives in Ilkley and is a Yorkshire welterweight champion. He just lately featured alongside his granddad in a nationwide newspaper chatting about, amongst different issues, social media and the distinction between as we speak’s younger individuals and Bob’s technology.

The video of Joe sparring with Sparbar – boxing’s equal of swingball – went viral virtually as quickly because it was aired on TikTok the place it at the moment has 88.four views, 2.5m likes and 12,000 shares. On Instagram his hits to date whole greater than 3m.

Son-on-law Mark Brow stated the response to the clip was “extraordinary.” And he added: “I feel he is huge in the States as a result of he seems like Joe Biden.”

Bob provides grandson Louis some ideas in the backyard fitness center.

Bob, who would not actually have a cell phone, laughs off the eye he has been getting, saying: “I am taking all of it with a pinch of salt. It’s come as a little bit of a shock and it is good I suppose, nevertheless it’s solely on the web, which I do not trouble with.

“Louis determined he needed to attempt and do one thing with this Sparbar factor and so it has been good publicity for him, that is what he wants. He’s an formidable younger man and good luck to him.

“When I attempted it I found if you do not get your timing proper you get whacked around the again of the pinnacle with it. It’s arduous to do, it is all about pace and co-ordination.”

Bob, who ran RJS Commercials making automobile our bodies in Preston till his retirement round 20 years in the past, was a budding star as a schoolboy. He boxed for Preston colleges and may have gone a lot additional, however his father stepped in and stopped him on the age of 14.

Proud as punch: Bob and his boxing grandson Louis.

“He hated boxing. He’d seen a lot of individuals damage through the warfare and did not need me damage in the boxing ring,” he explained. “That was it, so I took up biking.

“I still love watching boxing on the TV, but the fighters are getting bigger and bigger these days – they weren’t like that in my day.”

Son-in-law Mark added: “Even although Louis is standard on social media with his ‘Goldenboybrow’ model of tutorials, it is his granddad who has grew to become a world champion, going world!

“The video hits are nonetheless rising and gathering followers from each nook of the world. Even getting admiration and likes from celebrities like Roy ‘The Bones’ Jones, the legendary UFC fighter.

Put ’em up lad . . . it is time for some actual sparring.

“When we him asked about his new-found fame, Granddad Bob said: ‘This could be the start of a new career.’ He said he’s even considering coming out of retirement should Floyd Mayweather decide to take on a fighter with a bit of experience – over 80 years of it.”