A boxing match between Eddie Hall and Hafthor Bjornsson has been set for Las Vegas next year with the Beast vs the Mountain billed as “The Heaviest Boxing Match in History”.
The two former winners of World’s Strongest Man will step into the ring in September 2021 in a mammoth fight shown on pay-per-view.
Hall stands 6’2″ and weighs around 361 pounds, while Bjornsson is much the bigger man at 6’9″ and 425 pounds.
Bjornsson, who played The Mountain in Game of Thrones, broke Hall’s deadlift world record at the weekend, lifting 501kg and edging ahead of Hall by just 1kg.
After the monstrous feat, the Icelandic giant called out the Brit for a boxing match and the Beast is not one to back down.
In no time at all the fight has been put together and while a specific date and venue is yet to be announced, we know the scrap is set for September next year in Sin City.
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Still 16 months away, two of the planet’s strongest men will turn their full attention to learning the sweet science before the huge contest.
Bjornsson wrote on his Instagram: ‘It’s official. September 2021 in Las Vegas Nevada, the Mountain vs the Beast.
‘The next year and a half of my career will be solely dedicated towards this fight. I can’t wait to have my family ringside as I throw down. I’m coming for you @eddiehallwsm’
The Mountain called out the Beast after his record-breaking deadlift, saying: ‘CoreSports just offered me a seven-figure contract, I have signed it already. Eddie Hall has been running his mouth now for weeks and I know he has been given the same contract.
‘So Eddie, I just knocked out your record. And now I’m ready to knock you out in the ring.
‘It’s time to put your fist where your big mouth is, and sign the CoreSports contract. I’m ready. Are you ready?’
Hall most certainly is ready, and explained how their beef runs back to the 2017 World’s Strongest Man event.
‘1,000 per cent I’m going to sign those papers,’ Hall said on a Facebook video. ‘And you know why I’m going to sign those papers… it’s not the money, it’s not the dead lift feud we’ve got going on, nothing to do with that.
“It’s because you called me a cheat at World’s Strongest Man 2017.
“I can’t put that to bed, I can’t forget it. People may forget it, but you’ve never apologised.
‘You think you should’ve won that year, regardless of the trophies or not, and you let people know that.
‘I don’t care if you’re 6ft 9in, I don’t care if you’re an actual giant. I don’t care. I’m gonna train the hardest, prepare the hardest… do everything in my power to step in that ring and rip your f***ing head off. So Thor, get training, I’ll see you in the ring.’
The Icelandic giant finished one point behind Hall in the 2017 World’s Strongest Man competition, but felt he had completed one more rep than he was awarded in the Viking press event, therefore costing him the title/
Hall was not impressed with these claims and was happy to rub salt in the wound.
‘Hafthor had the bit of controversy,’ said the Beast. ‘Claiming he was robbed of the title but all I can say is that it’s not a game of cards, you can’t slip an ace in and cheat. It’s not that kind of sport.
‘It’s who can lift the most weight from A to B as many times as you can. There’s no hiding, there’s no cheating and there’s no fakery.
‘At the end of the day, he got his arse handed to him in a strongman competition and the little pussy cat can’t take it. That’s it.’
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