World’s Strongest Man winner Eddie Hall is back in the gym training MMA, and he plans to punch Dillon Danis in the face harder than anyone ever has.
Hall is best known for his impressive run in the strongman community where he cleaned up with multiple title wins before retiring in 2018. Since then he’s dabbled in combat sports, losing a boxing match to “The Mountain” Thor Bjornsson in 2020. In 2024 he won a 2 vs. 1 freakshow MMA fight, and in 2025 he defeated another strongman turned fighter Mariusz
Pudzianowski at KSW 105.
If he has his way, his next fight will be against Dillon Danis at a Misfits event in the near future. Hall posted video in the gym working his standup and had a threat for the BJJ fighter.
“Coming soon,” Hall wrote. “Some say Dillon’s world class jiu-jitsu will be too much for me. Others say he’s never felt a real punch and I’ve got the hardest recorded punch on the planet. FACT.”
Hall does indeed hold the record for strongest punch recorded at the UFC Performance Institute. Alex Pereira had the old record of 191, but after a few tries the strongman managed to blast past that, reaching an eye-watering 208.
Eddie Hall wants the fight. Misfits is definitely interested in the fight. But will Dillon Danis accept? Danis competed in MMA for the first time since 2019 at Misfits & DAZN X Series 22, tapping a clearly outmatched Warren Spencer in just 15 seconds. That bout was something of a gimme to make up for an aborted KSI matchup with the promotion that was cancelled in March.
When asked about fighting Hall, Danis initially suggested the strongman would have to cut a limb or two off to make the fight happen.
“He has to make at least UFC weight,” Danis said. “He can’t even make the UFC heavyweight limit. But if he makes it, hell yeah I’ll do it. 425 is what he wants to fight at, I’m 170. So, like, come on. Make at least make the UFC limit.”
Maybe the offered paycheck changed his tune, because he later sounded all in.
“In a world first, I’m stepping in at 170 pounds against the World’s Strongest Man weighing 465 [pounds],” Danis wrote on social media. “That’s balls of steel. Tell me who wouldn’t pay to watch that. I’m literally gonna suplex him over the ropes. I can’t wait.”
