Former heavyweight world champ Wladimir Klitschko terrified Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat pranked plenty of people back in the day but he may have met his match with former boxing champ Wladimir Klitschko.

It wasn’t nice for Sacha Baron Cohen.

Former World heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko once terrified Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen with a brutal prank.

Klitschko is undoubtedly a terrifying man as the record holder for the longest combined world championship reign in heavyweight history at 4383 days and used every bit of his imposing figure to scare the actor.

Borat, released in 2006, was Baron Cohen’s satirical mockumentary where he played a fictitious journalist from Kazakhstan who travelled through the US and interacted with real Americans.

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The film was a major critical and commercial success, and helping to make Baron Cohen a worldwide celebrity.

But his fearless facade faded quickly when he met Klitschko, who was originally born in Semey, Kazakhstan.

Speaking to the Philippine Daily Inquirer last month, Baron Cohen said his first meeting with Klitschko had him going — even though he mixed Wladimir up with his brother Vitali.

Klitschko cleared up the misunderstanding in an Instagram video Q&A.

#klitschkoscorner #episode2: Thanks for your questions! Hope you enjoy my answers, @Gavsimms1 & @goggs87! Who wants to know the background of my answer to question 5, ask @SachaBaronCohen or follow: https://t.co/SPtFanhw2y
Anything else you would like to know? Just ask me…
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— Klitschko (@Klitschko) September 2, 2019

Asked by a fan “Do you try and sound like Borat or is it just pure natural ability?’ Klitschko offered his best Borat impression before correcting the story.

“I love Borat so Sasha is a great pranker but I pranked the pranker,” he said.

He’s widely regarded as one of the best heavyweights of all time.

Klitschko added he must have been “punched in the face really hard” because he couldn’t tell the brothers apart.

It could have something to do with the fear.

In the interview last month, Baron Cohen revealed the brutal prank.

“When I made Borat, I was in a restaurant and somebody said ‘Vitali Klitschko wants to speak to you’,” Baron Cohen said. “I went over to the table and Vitali (Wladimir) grabbed my hand. He was with three other boxers. This was when he was a world champion.

“I could tell by the way he grabbed my hand that this was not going to be fun. I couldn’t get my hand away. He goes ‘You have humiliated my country. You humiliated Kazakhstan, and you humiliated me’.

“I go ‘There was no intention’. I tried to pull my hand away and he goes ‘No, no, no, you don’t go’. He goes ‘You humiliated me, and it’s time for revenge’.

“My wife (Isla Fisher) was there. She saw that I was in trouble. She goes ‘Hey, I am a fan. Can you sign this?’ He goes ‘Go away’. And he’s holding my hand, squeezing it for about two minutes.

Good job Isla.

“I’m thinking, how do I get away? I’m a very weak man. How do I fight the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, particularly when he’s surrounded by three people who are bigger than him? After about two minutes, he started laughing and he was basically tricking me.”

Klitschko was clearly proud of his handy work.

The boxing champ then ended his video with a menacing “I did it and I know where you live — I’m going to get you Sasha.”

Very nice Wladimir.