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Three of strength sport’s biggest names climbed into a boat to see if muscle beats a 700-pound fish, and the ocean won more than a few rounds.

BlacktipH’s Josh Jorgensen has built his channel around hauling in monsters most anglers only dream about, but his August 6, 2019 upload flipped the format. Instead of just chasing a giant catch, he stacked the deck with human horsepower — arm wrestling champion Devon Larratt, powerlifter Layne Norton, and acrobatic strongman Jon Call, better known online as Jujimufu — and set them loose on Atlantic goliath groupers using stand-up heavy tackle. The result, titled “Strongest Men VS Strongest Fish,” turned into one of the biggest releases in BlacktipH’s history almost overnight.

• Three elite strength athletes — Devon Larratt, Layne Norton, and Jon Call (Jujimufu) — joined host Josh Jorgensen to fight Atlantic goliath groupers, a species that can reach eight feet and top 700 pounds.
• Jorgensen’s stand-up rule forced every angler to fight the fish without ever letting the rod rest on the boat’s gunwale, stripping away the leverage most anglers rely on.
• The video generated tens of millions of views within days and quickly began trending on YouTube, becoming one of BlacktipH’s most successful uploads to date.

The Rules That Made It Brutal

Goliath grouper fishing is already a test of upper-body strength and technique — the fish are famous for diving straight back toward structure the instant they’re hooked, using their sheer mass to strip line and exhaust anglers. Jorgensen didn’t make it easier on his guests. Under his stand-up-only rules, none of the three athletes could brace their rods against the gunwale, the standard trick that lets ordinary anglers use the boat itself as leverage. Every pound of resistance had to be absorbed through their arms, backs, and legs instead.

That distinction mattered because it turned a fishing video into a genuine strength contest. A powerlifter like Norton and a special-forces-trained arm wrestler like Larratt bring different kinds of raw force to the table, but a goliath grouper doesn’t care about a one-rep max — it just pulls, and pulls, and pulls.

Larratt’s Grinding Battle

Devon Larratt, a world champion arm wrestler with a special forces background, is used to matches decided in seconds of explosive force. A goliath grouper doesn’t offer that kind of fight. According to the footage, Larratt’s battle stretched into an extended war of attrition against the fish’s pulling power, to the point that Jorgensen and his crew had to physically brace him just to keep him upright and in control of the rod.

Goliath groupers can grow past eight feet and 700 pounds — and stand-up tackle gives the angler nothing but their own body to fight that weight.

Jujimufu’s Clean Landing

Jon Call, the acrobatic fitness personality known online as Jujimufu, ended up delivering the most technically clean performance of the day. He successfully worked his grouper all the way to the boat while sticking to the no-touch rule the entire time, never letting the rod rest on the gunwale for relief. It was the kind of disciplined execution that showed off why his online following trusts him as much for control as for raw power.

Layne Norton, the world champion powerlifter, capped his own fight in a different way entirely — once his catch was landed, he climbed into the water alongside the grouper for photos, a moment that became one of the episode’s most shared clips.

Viral Content Gains Online Traction

Strength-based stunt content has become its own lane on YouTube, and BlacktipH tapped straight into it by pairing a niche fishing format with recognizable names from arm wrestling and powerlifting. It’s the same instinct that drives channels toward marathon physical tests like WORKING OUT FOR 24 HOURS STRAIGHT!! or oversized stunt videos such as World’s Largest Challenge! — audiences want to watch genuine physical limits get tested on camera, not staged drama. That crossover appeal is exactly what pushed “Strongest Men VS Strongest Fish” onto YouTube’s trending page and into tens of millions of views within days of its release.

Jorgensen has built BlacktipH around exactly this kind of high-stakes stand-up battle, and this episode proved the format scales far beyond his usual audience of hardcore anglers — Larratt, Norton, and Jujimufu each brought their own fan bases along for the fight, and the goliath groupers didn’t make it easy for a single one of them.