Eddie & Thor the battle of the giants - genuinely interesting or a snooze fest?
This fight has divided the sport of strongman. Many strongman fans fairly blunt on their assessment of the Hafthor Bjornsson vs Eddie Hall boxing match. Most strongman fans are interested in the sport, to quite simply, watch super strong athletes lift unbelievably heavy objects. The sport of strongman has also, arguably, lost a potential great in Hafthor. His stature, strength and depth in the sport across events could have seen a new Big Z and hall of famer emerge. Laurence Shahlaei even suggested Thor could have been ‘one of the greatest of all time’. Eddie had always maintained his ultimate goal was to win WSM. Not multiple times, but once. Thor has commented that he will never compete at a Giants Live event again after the controversy of WSM 2017. That doesn’t rule him out of Arnold comps etc but does take him out of one of the sports pinnacle competitions. Eddies Deadlift world record was a PR masterpiece by Giants live, Eddie and his management team. Like it or not, the 50