Professional Smash Bros. Melee Payer Hungrybox Popped Off So Hard After Winning a Game That He Literally Fainted

Professional Super Smash Bros. Melee subordinate Juan ‘Hungrybox’ Debiedma went viral implicit the play aft fainting portion celebrating a triumph implicit chap subordinate Hugh ‘SluG’ Hegarty.

Supernova is simply a monolithic Smash Bros. tourney successful Baltimore that takes spot each summer. 33-year-old Hungrybox — known arsenic 1 of the ‘Five Gods’ of the competitory Melee country — was successful attendance, and helium celebrated a triumph truthful hard that helium virtually passed out.

Hungrybox was facing disconnected against SluG to unafraid a spot successful the Top 16 bracket erstwhile the viral infinitesimal happened. It was an highly adjacent game, with Hbox saying helium went down to the ligament against his hostile successful a nail-biting 3-2 set, going down to his past banal successful crippled five.

— hungrybox (@LiquidHbox) August 8, 2026

As is contented wrong the warring crippled community, Hungrybox popped disconnected aft winning the last game… but helium might’ve popped disconnected a small excessively hard, arsenic helium stumbled and fainted, falling to the floor.

Videos of the incidental rapidly went viral wrong the broader FGC, sparking concerns astir the player’s health. Luckily, Hbox confirmed that helium was unharmed, and adjacent “had h2o and a precise bully lobster rotation for luncheon prior.”

In effect to the influx of disquieted comments, Hungrybox opened up astir his ongoing value nonaccomplishment travel successful different post, clarifying that he’d astir apt fainted owed to screaming precise loudly aft abruptly jumping up from his spot — thing that happened erstwhile earlier successful 2021 erstwhile helium won a acceptable against Avery ‘Ginger’ Wilson during a unrecorded stream.

— hungrybox (@LiquidHbox) August 10, 2026

“You can’t perceive it successful the video excessively well, but I fundamentally shriek arsenic large arsenic I tin for an extended play of time, and that’s what caused maine to faint,” helium wrote. “I deliberation if anyone tries to outcry for 10 seconds consecutive lasting up without taking a breath, they’d get dizzy too, lol. [It] wasn’t astir getting up excessively quick, and I’ve ne'er passed retired from conscionable getting up from a seat lol.”

“When I went to the doc past clip astir it a fewer years agone (first faint), determination wasn’t truly thing conclusive, isolated from a somewhat elevated reddish humor compartment count. Blood unit was mean and inactive is, but yeah, I’ll apt spell again conscionable to treble cheque anyway. Just wanted to stock successful lawsuit radical were curious.”

In the end, Hungrybox made it each the mode to the Top 8 bracket successful Losers side, yet finishing 4th with a nonaccomplishment to Zain.

This mf HBox forgot his badge, got stopped successful beforehand of VIP, and conscionable pointed astatine a adjacent advertisement with his fkn look connected it and got in. pic.twitter.com/1JfQ0PgS5L

— XIF (@TheXIF) August 9, 2026

This wasn't the lone chaotic happening that happened to Hungrybox astatine Supernova; the Melee deity forgot his badge for the lawsuit and was stopped by security, prompting him to constituent astatine his look connected a Zenni eyewear advertisement to corroborate his identity.

This is the latest large infinitesimal to hap successful the Smash Scene aft 2 women won Doubles astatine a SuperMajor for the archetypal clip successful past the erstwhile weekend, a record-setting accomplishment that Hungrybox celebrated connected societal media.

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