Eddie Hall is looking to return to combat sports following his recent outing but he is struggling to find a relevant dance partner.
Over the past few years, freak show fights in combat sports have become far 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, but it came covered in controversy.
Pudzianowski accused Hall of striking him to the back of the head, claiming that’s what led to the finish, however things quickly blew over.
Image of Eddie Hall punching Mariusz Pudzianowski at KSW 105. Credit KSW/Jorden CurranEddie Hall turned down by Dillon Danis for freak show fight
Following his win over the Pole, ‘The Beast’ admitted that he wanted to get back into action sooner rather than later, and was interested in taking another MMA fight.
Talks even sparked regarding a potential 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 potential 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 another one through Misfits, so they’ve been mentioning that one. I sort of spoke to his, well, met his agent out in Amsterdam recently and again he was like ‘No f—— chance, you’d kill him.’
“Dillon Danis your manager said you’re a p—- basically, so if you want to have a word with him and tell him to man up and let you 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 potential fight between Hall and Ngannou before, it was more hopeful fan talk than anything else.
However, Hall has stated that he would like to fight ‘The Predator’ in what would be a huge fight in the sport.
“I’m quite keen to carry it on and I’ve got no aspirations to be a ranked fighter or be the number one fighter in any (promotion), I just want to have fun.
“I just want to fight people like Mariusz Pudzianowski, I wanna fight mad fights like maybe fight Francis Ngannou, just absolutely crazy things, like out of this world, just make money and have fun.”