Eddie Hall is seeking to return to combat sports following his recent outing but he’s struggling to search out a relevant dance partner.
Over the past few years, freak show fights in combat sports have turn out to be way more regular, especially with the growing popularity of promotions like Misfits Boxing.
And one fighter who has been involved in several freak show events including bizarre 2 vs 1 fights is former World’s Strongest Man, Eddie Hall.
The Behemoth recently competed in his MMA debut against fellow strongman Mariusz Pudzianowski. The fight was over after just 30 seconds as Hall scored the rapid finish, however it got here covered in controversy.
Pudzianowski accused Hall of striking him to the back of the top, claiming that’s what led to the finish, nevertheless things quickly blew over.
Eddie Hall turned down by Dillon Danis for freak show fight
Following his win over the Pole, ‘The Beast’ admitted that he desired to get back into motion sooner relatively than later, and was excited by taking one other MMA fight.
Talks even sparked regarding a possible super fight between Hall and former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, but nothing escalated any further.
Despite that, Hall recently revealed that he was in talks with the agent of controversial MMA star Dillon Danis for a possible freak show fight.
“There was even a chat of me fighting KSI at one point, but he’s too f—— p—- to do it,” Hall said on The Fellas Podcast.
“There’s been talks with Dillon Danis, that was one other one through Misfits, in order that they’ve been mentioning that one. I form of spoke to his, well, met his agent out in Amsterdam recently and again he was like ‘No f—— probability, you’d kill him.’
“Dillon Danis your manager said you’re a p—- principally, so if you ought to have a word with him and tell him to man up and let you may have a fight then stop being a p—- then that’d be great,” Hall continued.
Eddie Hall targeting potential fight against Ngannou
Although fans sparked chat of a possible fight between Hall and Ngannou before, it was more hopeful fan talk than anything.
Nevertheless, Hall has stated that he would really like to fight ‘The Predator’ in what could be an enormous fight in the game.
“I’m quite keen to hold it on and I’ve got no aspirations to be a ranked fighter or be the primary fighter in any (promotion), I just need to rejoice.
“I just need to fight people like Mariusz Pudzianowski, I wanna fight mad fights like perhaps fight Francis Ngannou, just absolutely crazy things, like out of this world, just generate income and rejoice.”