Rob Lowe claims he was ‘knocked out’ by Tom Cruise during fight

US TV star Rob Lowe has made a wild confession about a run in he had with Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise.

Rob Lowe has claimed that he was once knocked out cold by Tom Cruise during a fight when the pair were younger.

The wild confession came as Lowe was asked by Rich Eisen on a recent episode of the Rich Eisen Show to share a memory from working with the Hollywood A-lister back in the 1980s.

US actor Rob Lowe has made a wild claim about an incident involving Tom Cruise. Picture: Unique Nicole / AFP.

Lowe revealed Cruise was living at actor Emilio Estevez’s house at the time, and said that the two Hollywood icons loved to work out and be “like running bros”.

“He’s so competitive that we used to box in the hallway of the hotel we were staying at during Outsiders,” shared Lowe. “So much testosterone. We’re 18-year-old guys stuck on location. So we would have headgear, and we’d have mouthpieces in, but we would legitimately spar.”

Lowe said that Cruise was “jacked” at the time, and that after the fight began a moment struck where he fell to the floor and remembered nothing of what had happened.

“The next I knew, I woke up — I was coming to, on the floor. And he, like, completely knocked me out.”

Meanwhile, it comes after fellow actor Glen Powell recalled his own wild experience with Cruise.

In an interview with GQ he shared that when Cruise was flying them back to London in a helicopter after they reshot a couple of scenes for Top Gun: Maverick.

Lowe’s confession comes after Glen Powell shared his own personal tale about Cruise. Picture: Richard Dobson.

“Tom goes, ‘Oh no, oh no,’ and he starts dropping the helicopter over London,” Powell recalled. “I was like, ‘Am I about to be the unnamed guy that dies with Tom in a smoking hole in the middle of London?’”

Since Powell and Cruise appeared in the high-profile movie together, Cruise has been a mentor to the younger star.

“The one thing I feel we’re kindred spirits in is he’s obsessed with movies. That was our love language on set,” Powell said. “I got to watch a guy who knew every department. He was able to clearly interface with everyone and be so friendly and respectful and be able to communicate that vision.”

While reflecting on Maverick, which proved to be the film that launched his career, Powell revealed that he initially intended to turn down the movie after he lost out on the second lead role, Rooster, which eventually went to Miles Teller.

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