Friday’s Daily Telegraph reported that the former NRL bad boy allegedly decked a security guard at the Pullman Hotel on Wednesday night because he was denied entry.
The paper alleges the officer was punched in the head but has decided against involving police.
But an angry Hopoate took to social media on Friday afternoon, pouring cold water on the yarn.
He wrote: “Love how these F..s just make stuff up to sell there (sic) papers. If I hit the bloke he'd be still asleep and I'd be locked up.”
