The spectacle of unconventional combat seems to grow bigger every week, especially in Europe. What happened during the last hours in the King George’s Hall from the English city of Blackburn is an extra share of this after the scandalous fight between a man and two women in Romania days ago.
Eddie Hallknown as The beast and called years ago as “the strongest man in the world”, he starred in the main fight against two brothers on the first day of an organization called World Freak Fight League and that he boasted on his social networks of carrying out a “card of unconventional confrontations”.
On this occasion, the man of 36 years once again dominated the media spotlight with this extravagant presentation. “Neffati brothers”, two brothers of smaller stature and clearly of much less weight. The twins Jamil and Jamel have more than one and a half million followers on instagram and about 19 million in TikTok. Born in 1993 (31 years old), these content creators from Poland are widely recognized in the United Kingdom where they even launched a clothing line.
On this occasion, they launched “The hunt for the beast as they cataloged the first evening of this exotic league that announces that it will hold competitions inside the MMA cage between “celebrities, influencers and athletes.” The truth is that this first stellar presentation, regardless of the opinion about the debatable nature of the event, has achieved the impact they were looking for due to the brutal knockout that the powerful 36-year-old fighter attempted. In 2017 he won the “Strongest Man in the World” award. and from there it has gained popularity.
During the first two-minute round, there was almost no contact between the three stars of the night. Hall demanded that they attack him, but they barely kicked him twice in the air without staying in place. The scene was repeated in the next one, with the British giant running them at times in the cage to try to have some crossover.
Only when there were just over 30 seconds left After the fight, the most extreme moment in Blackburn was experienced: the brothers pounced on Eddie, He flipped one of them through the air and as soon as he got up he hit him with a right hand to the chin that left him lying on the canvas.. After receiving medical attention, only one of the Neffati remained in the octagon and the referee had to stop the fight when Hall had him on the floor throwing punches at him.
The truth is that after what happened, both twins appeared standing with a smiling appearance and without apparent physical damage after what was seen minutes before inside the cage. “It must have been a good punch, since I don’t remember anything.”commented one of the brothers after the fight.
Commentary on the event in the British newspaper The Sunwho stated that Eddie Hall “weighed more than both of them combined,” was decisive: “For the first two rounds it was like a serious mistake made by a couple of drunks outside Wetherspoons. They seemed to sober up in the ring and realized what a monumental mistake they had made by upsetting this man. “Neither of them wanted to get close to him and was just trying to keep their distance.”
During the press conference prior to the event, Hall had said that he would “knock them both out” and clarified that he had had demanding training because “you have two eyes on four fists.” “It has really been difficult for me to find people as small as them, my 11-year-old son is bigger than both of us combined,” he had joked about the size of his rivals. On the other hand, they responded that they had done “training with professional fighters” and stated that Hall was “very slow” so “after 45 seconds he will want help or he will throw in the towel.” Which, clearly, didn’t happen.
He World Freak Fight League He shared videos of what happened on his networks and stated in instagram: “This is crazy! Eddie “The Beast” Hall just gave us the biggest fight in the world!”.
It should be remembered that Hall, in July 2016, became the first man to deadlift 500 kilograms during his participation in the World Deadlift Championships. The following year, the man who is over 1.90m tall won the World’s Strongest Man. However, his scepters became obsolete when Hafthor Bjornsson, popular for having played the character of The Mountain in Game Of Thrones, won the World’s Strongest Man contest in 2018.
Bjornsson, who stole the title of the strongest man in the world, also snatched another title from him in May 2020 when he deadlifted 1,104 pounds (500.77 kilograms) and took the historic mark. This media confrontation led to a boxing fight between the two that ended with a unanimous decision victory on the scorecards for Bjornsson.
