The death of Leo Rex (Laith Abdullah Algaz) rocked the bodybuilding community. Rex ran the popular YouTube channel Loe and Longevity with 125,000 subscribers. The YouTubeer also collaborated with prominent content creators like More Plates More Date. Rex’s content was most educational, informing his audience about the use and effects of various substances, from bodybuilding to magic mushrooms to testosterone. On February 3, bodybuilding legend Lee Priest gave his opinion on Rex’s death and called out Dr. Tony Huge.
Lee Priest appeared on Dave Palumbo’s RxMuscle YouTube channel. The bodybuilder featured in the latest episode of the Iron Rage podcast. During their discussion, Priest gave his opinion on the death of Leo Rex at Tony Huge’s apartment in Thailand.
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The bodybuilding legend suspects the involvement of drugs
The Pattaya News had reported that Laith Abdullah Algaz was staying at Tony Huge’s Pattaya home when police got a call. When they arrived at the scene, the police found the fitness influencer lying on the floor. They found some blood on the floor, and the entire house was ransacked. What transpired in the moments leading up to the fitness influencer’s death remains a puzzle because he was alone, and Hughes wasn’t at home.
Knowing that Tony Huge experiments with various drugs to optimize muscle gain, Priest called out Huges. “I’ve seen those other videos of Tony Huge… where they’re doing these transformation things — and the amount of stuff he has people taking,” said Priest. He also said that after training under Huge for a few weeks, “guys are like, ‘I don’t feel good, my blood pressure is up, I got a fever.'”
“Whatever experiments you’re doing, knock it off. Because it doesn’t look good now that someone actually died in your place.”, the bodybuilding legend said about Huges. Lee Priest also said that the fitness Youtube was into drugs that enhance “brain function.” He said a wrong combination of such pills could be fatal. According to the US Sun, Rex’s family is launching a probe into his death.
What Tony Huge said after the fitness YouTuber’s death
Tony Huge reacted to Rex’s passing in a video he uploaded on YouTube on January 31. In the video, Huge said he hadn’t tried to contact Rex. Huge thought that Rex might have had “a sleeping pill and was just sleeping for 24 hours,” However, he got more suspicious as time went on and called the police when Rex didn’t open the door.
Police found 34-year-old fitness influencer Leo Rex (Laith Abdullah Algaz) dead in a bedroom with a private bathroom in Ransacked Thailand Home. pic.twitter.com/HbMgCjuhaI
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He said the police have done “a lot of forensic work,” and taken interviews. However, the situation remains “confusing”. Huge also dismissed the possibility of drugs being involved in Rex’s death.
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