Eddie Hall reveals real reason why he wants to fight The Mountain True Geordie (YouTube)British strongman Eddie \u2018The Beast\u2019 Hall has revealed the real reason why he\u2019s looking forward to going blow-for-blow with Haf\u00fe\u00f3r \u2018The Mountain\u2019 Bj\u00f6rnsson, and it\u2019s not just because the Icelander took his world-record deadlift title. Immediately following his record-breaking lift on May 2, Thor challenged Hall to a boxing match of literally epic proportions to settle their ongoing feud. Less than 24 hours after the challenge, Eddie eagerly accepted. Now, he\u2019s explained to British YouTuber True Geordie (who\u2019s a very large human being in his own right) why he\u2019s really looking forward to the match, which has apparently been years in the making. Hall admitted that no human in their right mind (including himself) would want to enter the ring with his 6-foot nine-inch, 450 lb Icelandic rival. \u201cHe\u2019s a giant of a man, an absolute giant of a man, and given the choice I\u2019d never want to fight Thor, it\u2019d be a stupid life choice for anyone on the planet to fight a man that size,\u201d The Beast explained. \u201cBut this is more personal, it\u2019s not about the contract, it\u2019s not about the money offer, it\u2019s not about this stupid deadlift feud we\u2019ve got going on, it\u2019s the fact that he accused me of being a cheat at World\u2019s Strongest Man 2017.\u201d \u201cHe threw all these accusations out there that the referees were corrupt, the events were changed in my favor, that I knew the events in advance, it was just so much bullsh*t that Thor came up with,\u201d Hall continued. \u201cThat put this black cloud around my WSM win. At the time I didn\u2019t really think anything of it, but after I won every interview I did wasn\u2019t about the win, it was about this controversy.\u201d One of the biggest issues from WSM 2017, in Thor\u2019s eyes, was the Viking Press (as seen above), which Hall won by completing just one more full press than The Mountain. As a result of the event, Thor ended up getting just one less point scored than Eddie, and in the final rankings, Bj\u00f6rnsson was just one point behind Hall on the podium. \u201cIt genuinely hurt me deep down, I trained my whole life for this one moment, and this guy just tried to take it away from me because he couldn\u2019t take being beaten by a better man,\u201d Hall claimed. \u201cThat\u2019s why I want to fight him, he\u2019s put a black cloud over my career, and has done so ever since.\u201d Though he\u2019s given up on ever getting an apology from Thor, Hall said putting on the gloves and going toe to toe in the ring would be the next best thing. \u201cI\u2019m never going to get an apology from Thor, and he\u2019s never going to admit I beat him fair and square, but for me, this is my way of putting this to bed,\u201d The Beast told Geordie. \u201cI feel like, if I can rip this guy\u2019s head off in a boxing ring, this is perfect. This is my opportunity to get one back on Thor and like he did to me, belittle him for the whole world to see.\u201d Hall went into more depth and detail about the pair\u2019s feud and his thoughts on Thor\u2019s world-record in the full 50-minute interview with True Geordie, which definitely makes it worth a listen. With the date of the fight still over a year away in September of 2021, both men have ample time to train and sharpen their dislike for one another. But we already can\u2019t wait to watch this rivalry come to a head in the ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eddie Hall reveals real reason why he wants to fight The Mountain True Geordie (YouTube)British strongman Eddie \u2018The Beast\u2019 Hall has revealed the real reason why he\u2019s looking forward to going blow-for-blow with Haf\u00fe\u00f3r \u2018The Mountain\u2019 Bj\u00f6rnsson, and it\u2019s not just because the Icelander took his world-record deadlift title. Immediately following his record-breaking lift on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}