Hugh Jackman denies breaking wrestler’s jaw

Hugh Jackman has denied breaking the jaw of WWE star Dolph Ziggler. However, the Australian actor – who was promoting upcoming robot movie Real Steel – admitted that his contact with him was “pretty hard”.

31-year-old Ziggler took to Twitter the day after the fight claiming that he had suffered a hairline fracture.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Jackman explained: “It was scripted that I would go for that punch. But just before we went on, Dolph was yelling at me, ‘You hit me man! Just f***ing hit me!’

“During rehearsal I said, ‘I’d like to do it, but I’ve spent 20 years pulling punches, trying not to hit. Trying to make it look real, but not really hit’.

“There’s no way. There’s cameras everywhere, there’s crowd everywhere, there’s no way we can ‘whiff it’, as they call it.”

Jackman continued: “So I hit him. He said, ‘Hit me as hard as you can’. So I hit him pretty hard. And you can see it in my eyes.

“I watched [the clip] again, and you can see me going ‘Uh oh…’ a little. I’m acting like, ‘Yeah!’ but I’m really like, ‘S**t, I kind of really clocked him in the jaw’.

“The next day I read he really broke his jaw and I wasn’t surprised – but I don’t think he did. He’s prone to exaggeration – which is why I hit him! Nah, just kidding!”

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