Supposedly (though I have never used a suit) it makes coming off of the floor much easier, so I believe you’re correct there. However, Marakov has also hit a 490 kg deadlift that didn’t look like a true 1RM, which if I am not mistaken is the 3rd biggest deadlift in history (behind Eddie and Hafthor). Also Marakov says he was having issues that day, like something was off. Sure, for you or I to hit a 1RM deadlift (which I’m certain is no where near 500kg, my 1RM is a paltry 265 kg) It doesn’t take nearly the mental focus or alignment of the stars. Even still I know that There can be easily a 10% difference on my 1RM from day to day in the gym depending on too many factors to understand them all.
I guess my point is that I don’t believe he is all that far off.
Dude they’ll have a boxing match, right? I think Eddie is just provoking a response from Hafthor for the sake of hype.
Honestly I think this whole Hafthor versus Eddie thing is great. I think it’s a little bit too disrespectful for Eddie to say Hafthor’s deadlift was fake, but if it ends up infuriating Hafthor to fight better and increase the whole hype, then that’s great. It’ll only do the sport of strongman good.
Eddie has charisma, or at least very smart. He is a very successful YouTuber after all.
The announcers gave plenty of praise, as well as various people in the comments, but the truth of the matter is, Thor is atrociously slow, drops his hands every time he punches in a big way, etc. His angles and footwork seem to be improving, but Eddie looks to be approximately 3x faster and is 100# heavier at the same height as Thor’s opponent here.
Only saw clips but Ward looked very relaxed throughout (think he took the last 15 seconds seriously lol) and Thor looked exactly like you’d think a 6’9" 350lbs first timer would look. I’d be surprised if Eddie moved as fast, let alone faster than Ward here but haven’t seen much of him
Having boxed a little and spared a lot I just say Thor will have learned way more about boxing by having a proper a fight before than Eddie. Just seeing that happens to yo it body, your technique etc when all that adrenaline goes through your system. Good job by Thor really.
On a different note, Eddie is just really annoying these days. Seems to come across like he believes he’s a legend or something but let’s me honest, he isn’t. There are plenty of people that broke records that people in 5 years won’t talk about but he only won worlds strongest once on a year it was rigged for him.
I’m a fan of his but he’s just a big annoying at the moment like that kid who wants to be your mate that’s just trying a little too hard.
My “analysis” - for what its worth (I didn’t watch much of the fight. It was very boring).
Thor was slow and walked forward with his jab hand out. This “lazy jab” is something that bigger guys can suffer from. Its a lot of effort to keep a jab snappy when your arm weights 35kg. And as a bigger guy he’ll be looking for the hay maker every time. Which he does.
Looking for the haymaker will be his go to. Again bigger guys can suffer from this looking for the knock out. Its his mind saying “you’re strong and can smash this guy. Go all hulk.”. Its also a comment on fitness. Guys that are unfit tend to drop all the set up and just go for broke. In the last round all Thor does is wade in with body shots. I don;t know if he was asked to not go for the head. But it looks like it to me.
Fighting against a guy as big as him he’d suffer a massive shock. The oppo here had to back up. Eddie wont. He’s as big / strong. If Thor comes in hands down swinging for the fences with no set up I can see big shots being landed. IF (and big if) Eddie is any good.
Lastly - Thor done 90% of the walking in there. The other guy held the middle of the ring. Thor is a big guy and should be commanding the middle. But he did not. I think this will be a big take away for his team.
I agree, haha. Eddie is annoying, and besides the fact that this fight is a joke I’d love to see Thor smash him. But the fact is they were both untrained, and Eddie went the full boxing lifestyle route immediately, whereas Thor did another Iceland’s Strongest Man and had somebody who had no idea what they were doing “train” him for a couple months after that.
The best progress he made was during a one-time session with Bas Rutten, who seemed to get his jab to snap very quickly. Love me some Bas.
Eddie is major douche, I think the reason he got annoying lately is becaues he was more private before.
I really want Thor to win but have to agree Eddie looks insanely faster than Thor. This fight will look like a prime Tyson vs his biggest slowest opponent.
I watched the full 3 rounds all I can say is good job for Thor it was only 3 he was eating a lot of shots at the end, they called a draw I believe, but that’s got to have been a predetermined outcome, Thor sucked.
Eddie’s also a massive tool and I say that as a Brit who was grateful to see a Brit win WSM, hopefully one of the stotlman brothers can win so Eddie can lose some lime light and other nicer Brits can take it.
Lol I looked at my post and I made it sound like Eddie was 3x faster than Ward. He’s not as fast as him. He’s 3x (hyperbole, but way faster) as fast as Thor. I screwed up my grammar there. Point is, Eddie, at a much, much heavier weight, with a harder hit, is fast enough to tag Thor quickly.
Bas nails it, of course -Thor’s footwork on defense, going back is surprisingly good, plus he keeps his hands up; going forward, his balance sucks, probably due to flailing too much with the punches. In general, the more experience in the ring Thor gets, the more relaxed he should get, and less flailing should result. Ring time is key for total newbies. If Eddie goes into the fight with no actual sparring, I will be looking to lay some bets on Thor.
Eddie Hall is training like he’s frickin’ Mayweather/Ali talent wise, with the hands down, relying on head movement to avoid punches. Will work if he’s got the talent…hah.
The X factor in these things is gonna be The Chin. Contrary to what Hall believes, Ali’s chin was one of his big strengths, because even Ali took plenty of shots.
As an aside to all the references about how much “faster” Hall is, I’m a little puzzled -it’s easy to look fast in an edited video doing stuff one is good at; but if we look at the only real life comparison available, wasn’t Thor much faster than Hall in all of the “moving” strongman events?
I agree, we should take Eddie’s videos with a grain of salt, but a snappier jab is easy to spot regardless. Thor was stronger, and with less fat, and just a way better strongman, but I don’t think that moving events in strongman have much of a correlation with one’s punching speed, to be honest.
