After a frustrating few rounds of fighting, Eddie Hall delivered a string of ferocious knockouts in his bizarre cage debut tonight.
The 2017 World's Strongest Man winner weighed in at a whopping 366 pounds, and faced off in an unusual two-on-one mixed martial arts “freak fight” against the influencer brothers Nefertiti, both of whom weighed less than half his weight, at a combined 291 pounds.
The brothers had competed in double-team matches at FAME MMA in Poland, so they knew what to do and had a near-perfect game plan, but when Hall managed to land a hit, it only took one punch to bring the bout to a violent end.
Eddie Hall takes down two men in his 2-on-1 MMA debut with a brutal one-punch KO
The bout started comically slow, with the referee stepping in multiple times as the Neferty brothers kept their distance and literally ran around the cage at times. Hall's size limited his movement, but he knew enough to keep his back to the cage to counter any sneaky moves.
So the fans at George's Hall in Blackburn booed the trio vehemently as the strongman pleaded with his opponent to step forward. Not a single punch landed in the first two rounds and both fighters took turns trying leg kicks before sprinting back to positions on opposite sides of the cage.
But with just seconds left on the clock, Jamil and Jamel launched a well-planned attack that looked to be aimed at a double single-leg takedown, but Hall quickly manhandled them both, tossing them across the cage as one of them attacked.
With one of the brothers hanging on to his lead leg, Hall managed to knock Jamil to the floor and land the only clean punch the referee needed to stop the bout, which continued after the first brother regained consciousness and was able to leave the cage.
Eddie Hall wins 2-on-1 MMA debut, defeating both opponents in the same bout
When it came to Hall vs. Jamel, the fight looked absurdly disproportionate as Jamel lumbered towards his opponent, who weighed just over 147 pounds, meaning the weight gap between the two men was over 200 pounds in the final seconds of the bout.
The Neferty brothers wisely tried to escape Hall on their bicycles, a plan that nearly worked until they were dragged to the ground with just seconds left, and Hall felt bad for unleashing some ground-and-pound on his opponent as he crouched on the floor.
But when the referee insisted on throwing something to end the bout, he landed a few light punches and the bout was called off with just a few seconds left, causing an uproar from the crowd, who were initially extremely annoyed by the ridiculous nature of the bout.
The night was so stop-and-go that none of the undercard bouts, including a couples fight pitting a man and a woman against each other, also featured a mixed martial arts fight between an Ed Sheeran impersonator and a Stormzy lookalike, with a weight difference of over 40 pounds.
The closest anyone came to a final gong was Hall's bout, which lasted three two-minute rounds, and there was also a boxing match between Rak-Su's Miles Stephenson and Poland's Love Island star Kamil Jagielski that went over three minutes with no time limit.
One of the more interesting bouts for MMA fans was the match between former UFC star Chris Fishgold and boxer Jack Faye, where the two were expected to fight in three different disciplines: first MMA, then K1, and finally boxing, but the first bout ended by stoppage due to an injury suffered by Fishgold.
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