Eddie Hall vs Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson.

It’s a joke, it’s stupid and I’ll be surprised if they both don’t die from a heart attack.

If it was a exhibition fight, sure, it’s a fun fight to do, but to make it a pro fight it’s just disrespectful to real pro fighters.

 

If they market it as well as Floyd vs McNugget, they can make alot of money from it.

 

Thor seems to surround himself with sycophants so would be funny to see him KO'd.

 

It'll probably do fairly large numbers if they market it well. Both men have a large following and strong social media presence.

The fight itself will look like Tony Galento vs Nikolai Valuev in slow motion, but that won't stop anyone tuning in.

 

There'll probably be real pro fighters on the undercard who'll get a nice payday (not that any of of the meatheads that follow either guy will tune into those).

To talk about disrespect assumes this sport has any respect for itself to begin with.

 

They're both reasonably athletic guys, Eddie was a good schoolboy swimmer, 'Thor' apparently a fairly handy basketball player, given this and their size & strength either would obviously murder the proverbial 'man in the street' [as opposed to a trained fighter] in a fight of any kind.

But... yeah, I mean, for this to have any value as a spectacle it's presumably going to have to last a decent amount of time, at the very least 10-15 minutes [right?] and I suppose I just don't see how two men that of size [and with their injury histories] will be able to keep up any kind of work rate for anywhere near as much as half that time, right? Or am I missing something?

Boxing doesn't really feel a great fit for their skillsets, it's only tangentially related to physical strength, they'd have IMO been better off trying to devise a televised event featuring some sort of say best of five head-to-head 'combat' challenge involving say arm wrestling, tug of war, maybe some sumo-type wrestling, er, another couple of things, I suppose maybe a round or two of boxing if they really insisted...

 

Thor pumped full of drugs couldn't last 2 minutes against that fat guy in that old sparring footage on YouTube. He was blowing out of his ass after swinging a few shots

Hall by KO.

 

The fight is 18 months away, Hall doesn't do strongman anymore, Thor does. Hall has 18 months to train boxing, Thor Willbe half adding it and still doing strongman, hall should win

 

Who gives a ****. Boxing is becoming something to laugh at. People DIE in this sport, don't make a mockery of it!!!

 

I hope Thor knocks Eddie out

 

allen vs helenius undercard.

 

Eddie used to spar with Scott Lawton.

I don’t know if he still does.

 

Thor said he’s skipping WSM 2020 and focusing exclusively on this.

 

The average Joe with a few years of striking training (doesn't even have to be pure boxing) would go the distance with Thor, if it's a 10 round fight and he plays it smart. At the end of the first round his whole body will be turning red, after the 2nd purple and after the 3rd blue. The guy would probably get a heart attack if you just jab and move for a few rounds.