Crushing setback for bodybuilder Yakiboy as he’s refused bail
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Yakiboy, the bodybuilding influencer who boasts about his ‘Lamborghini body’, is behind bars and under lockdown, days after an elite police squad arrested him for a wild street fight.
Hossein Balapour’s bail was revoked on Monday following a dawn raid by elite officers from the New South Wales Police Raptor Squad who stormed his gym and led him away in handcuffs.
The social media personality’s arrest came three days after video surfaced of him allegedly fighting in broad daylight on a busy street with a high-profile personal trainer in eastern Sydney.
Daily Mail Australia has learned that police have successfully petitioned to have the Versace-loving gym addict’s release revoked, with Balapour swapping his designer clothes for green prison clothes at the city’s Parklea Correctional Centre.
The same prison was closed Friday morning with the guards’ union on strike over security concerns related to its reputation as the most violent prison in the state.
Bodybuilder Hossein ‘Yakiboy’ Balapour, who is a fitness influencer on Instagram, is behind bars and under prison strike lockdown, which means he has no access to the gym and limited access to healthy food.
He is confined to his cell inside Parklea prison. Above, a cell search in the same prison in previous years.
Raptor squad cops arrested Balapour in a morning raid on his gym three days after video surfaced of his savage street fight in broad daylight with another trainer over money.
This means the portly Balapour is among 1,350 inmates locked in their cells with no exit to prison yards for at least 48 hours, with no access to the prison gym and severely limited prison food.
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) says Parklea, where an inmate riot in July 2021 caused millions of dollars in damage, has the worst record of serious assaults on corrections officers in the condition.
Striking officers picketed outside the jail on Friday morning, and the facility will operate with very restricted movement of inmates over the weekend, with visits canceled and inmates confined to their cells.
Balapour normally trains six days a week with weights, does cardio on Sundays and eats a lean, protein-rich diet of egg whites, skinless chicken breast, kimchi and lots of vegetables.
This is so the muscular but ‘ripped’ six-foot-five, 107kg can make a living posting photos of his body on Instagram, modeling clothes and as a creator on the X-rated OnlyFans site.
Even the routine prison menu of white bread and jam for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and a hot tinfoil dinner including rice, pasta or potatoes could be substituted with less healthy options such as cakes under strike conditions. .
Balapour will be reduced to keeping fit by doing sit-ups in a small 2m by 3m shared cell.
His Instagram page, which has more than 350,000 followers, has gone silent since his imprisonment.
The six-foot-five, 107kg hulking muscleman who makes a living off his ‘ripped’ body on Instagram and Only Fans will have no access to the gym or his preferred high-protein, no-carb diet.
Balapour (above with his home fridge) normally trains seven days a week with weights and eats a lean, protein-rich diet of egg whites, skinless chicken breast, kimchi and lots of vegetables.
Under the strike lockdown, jailhouse meals are likely to be further restricted to offerings like these prison cakes (above) displayed at Silverwater’s sprawling remand facility.
An Instagram follower has written a teasing line below Balapour’s Instagram post that reads to “fly above the negativity,” joking that the bodybuilder could now “chill out in jail.” Fly above the negativity you say…LOL’
When he was arrested, Balapour, 28, was out on bail on another assault charge to which he pleaded not guilty.
Following a January 17 street fight with a former friend, well-known bodybuilder Marven Yacoub, the cult social media figure has been charged with brawling, using an offensive weapon with intent to commit an indictable offense and breach of bail.
In video of the fight, Balapour appears to attack Yacoub as the two stand in a group of men along a road in the inner Sydney suburb of Zetland.
After Balapour showered him with punches and kicks, he pulled out what looked like a long, slim weapon to hit Yacoub and chased him through traffic, dealing several blows until the other men could intervene.
Balapour (above at home dressed in Versace) has traded in his designer gear and gym clothes for green prison gear after having his bail revoked following a wild street fight
Balapour, whose ‘Lamborghini body’ earns him money on Instagram and Only Fans, is locked up 24 hours a day in his cell at Parklea, the most violent prison in the state.
Personal messages between Balapour and Yacoub revealed that a dispute over money may be at the center of their fight.
After the fight, Yacoub launched a WhatsApp exchange between himself and Balapour in which he appeared to futilely search for money he said was owed to him.
“Hey bro you need to transfer $2110 this week,” Yacoub wrote on Dec. 20.
Balapour replied: ‘Hey bro, yes, but I do half because I have to pay my lawyer $1200.’
He went on to say that he would ship as soon as he has the money.
Balapour (pictured) appeared to go after fellow bodybuilder Yacoub with a gun during their wild street fight caught on video that resulted in his arrest and his bail revoked.
It was a dramatic fight between Balapour and Yacoub (pictured together in 2019), who previously appeared to be close friends.
‘Ok bro, no problem,’ Yacoub replied.
‘Thank you brother,’ added Balapour.
Yacoub later said: ‘Don’t believe what you see on social media. Money is the root of evil.
The moral of the story is. People quickly forget what you do for them. But don’t believe the hype of what people show they have on social media.