Eddie Hall is confident that he would come out on top in a street fight against Thor Bjornsson despite losing to his strongman rival in the ring.
Former World's Strongest Man Hall made his boxing debut against bitter rival Bjornsson in the 'heaviest fight in boxing history' earlier this year, but was dropped twice on his way to losing an unanimous decision. Hall had a tattoo of Bjornsson's name inked on his foot in the hopes of securing a rematch against him, but the Icelandic strongman has put a two year timeline a potential rematch against his rival.
Speaking to Mirror Fighting after launching his own ‘BEAST’ range with the healthier alternative food and drink brand The Skinny Food Co, Hall said: "In all brutal honesty, you could tell in the lead up to it that I just wanted to fight Thor anywhere. I wanted him on the street because that's where I know 100 per cent I can have him, but we ended up fighting in the ring and he got the better of me and that's that."
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Their fight was originally scheduled to take place in September of last year, but Hall suffered a detached bicep in training which pushed the fight back six months. Hall's injury was still bothering him once the rescheduled date came around and to make matters even worse, he caught Covid a week before the fight.
"I'm not a man of excuses," he added. "I went into that fight with one arm and I did have Covid a week before but I'm not using those as excuses. I genuinely believed I was going to beat Thor with one arm, I did believe that. My coach wanted to pull me out and I said 'no'. I didn't want to drag it on anymore, I just wanted to smack him in the face."
Over six months on from the fight and Hall has insisted he is likely done with boxing as he wants to spend more time with his family. The 2017 World's Strongest Man wasn't interested in "big money" offers against other opponents after his boxing debut as he was gunning for a second fight with Bjornsson.
"Thor put a statement out saying that he didn't want to fight for another two or three years and I thought the rematch was going to happen in three to six months or it wasn't going to happen at all," Hall added. "That was said behind the scenes in the contract and then Thor said that. So I thought 'he doesn't want to fight again, fair enough.'"
