Can you guess Williams’s world record?

By Vassiliki Bakogianni
Published: 28 April 2025
Williams with eyes popping out

Meet Williams Martin Sanchez Lopez from Uruguay – and get ready to be amazed by his super big eyeballs!

Williams is a dad from Montevideo, Uruguay, and he has a super wacky talent…

He can pop out his eyeballs! 🤯

It’s so shocking that he’s even made it into the record books.

Don’t worry, Williams knows what he’s doing and he’s being very safe about it – he relaxes the muscles around his eyes and safely pushes out his eyeballs, a process called ‘protrusion’, which is how he got the record title of farthest eyeball pop (male).

When he showed his doctor, it was such a surprise it gave them a little scare!

His eyes can pop out an amazing 19 millimetres (0.74 inches) – WOW.

Williams pretending to hold bow and arrow

Williams first realized he had inflating eyeballs when he was 8-9 years old, when messing around with his friends at school.

Do you know anyone with the same talent? 👀

He said: “I could basically move the upper and lower part of the muscles around my eyes, [and] over time I perfected my skill until at last I was able to move the eye completely out of its socket.”

Williams facing mirror

Naturally, Williams’s favourite part about his skill is the reactions he gets from people.

“The funniest thing is when maybe a person doesn’t realize what they’re about to see, when I come close to them and pop out my entire eyeball in this way, people definitely don’t just sit there and watch, but they basically jump two metres high,” Williams joked.

“So then they ask me to do it one more time to see it better, because they are stunned by this thing that not everyone can do.”

How would you react if you saw Williams in real life?! 😮

Williams close up

Williams, who has 4 kids, works in logistics and now lives in a part of Milan, Italy.

He loves showing off his eye-popping talent on social media. 😂

And of course, his fans can’t get enough – some even ask him to shout their names while popping out his eyes!

Williams does it again and again, and every time, he gets MILLIONS of views.

“I’m a person that likes to kid around and laugh, so the fact that I can pop out my eyes, let’s say that it’s a very different point of view in general,” he said. “And this has helped me take this very important step and recognize who Williams is.”

William popping eyes with open mouth

Do you think one day someone else might be able to pop their eyes even farther?

Williams explains that he doesn’t mind if that happens, and says “it will still have been a beautiful, very beautiful experience I’ve had here at Guinness World Records.”

And we’re very happy to have met Williams. ❤️

William with one eye popped

His kids are super proud of him!

His daughter, Rosa Sanchez Lopez, said: “I’m very proud of my dad, I believe in him, I always knew he could do it and he’s had a beautiful journey.”

And to anyone who thinks all this fame might go to Williams’s head, Rosa says…

“I don’t think my father could ever change because of a record, because he’s always been a kind and altruistic person.” 

Congratulations, Williams, you are Officially Amazing!

William on side profile