Pudzian tu wyglada jak @MarcinNajman
kilka lat temu 😉
#KSW105 pic.twitter.com/5UVp9A9Jdt— Siemiński Tomek 🏊🚴 (@SieminskiTomek)
April 26, 2025
One of the most buzzworthy fights of the past weekend took place
under the
Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki banner, when Eddie Hall
dispatched longtime promotional favorite Mariusz
Pudzianowski via technical knockout in just 30 seconds.
Advertisement
Hall isn’t looking to climb to the top of the sport following a
successful mixed martial arts debut at
KSW 105, however. Instead, the 37-year-old former World’s
Strongest Man is realistic about his future prospects going
forward. (The bout is classified as an exhibition, per the Sherdog
database).
“Jon
Jones. Just kidding. No Jon Jones,”
Hall said in a post-fight scrum. “I’ve got to step back. I’ve got to
evaluate. If the rematch with Mariusz is there, I’d like to do the
rematch with Mariusz. Two-minute rounds, like we agreed on the
first time. But I’ve got no aspirations to be a ranked fighter. I
don’t want to be No. 1 in KSW. So I’m going to take fights that
make sense to me. If they can find me another World’s Strongest Man
that wants to fight, I think that makes sense. I don’t want to
fight KSW No. 1.”
It didn’t take long for Hall to put his fellow World’s Strongest
Man on the retreat this past Saturday at Prezero Arena in Gliwice,
Poland.
“I sort of threw that first jab, he bounced back, and I could see
the fear in his eyes,” Hall said in a separate post-fight interview
on TikTok. “So I threw a one-two, it was that
quick, he dropped his guard, and I caught him with that second one.
That’s when his eyes rolled, and I just kept that pressure on,
threw him around, and just kept plowing my fist into his head as
hard as I could.”
However, during his haste to finish the fight, “The Beast” landed a
couple inadvertent shots to the back of his opponent’s head. Hall
apologized to Pudzianowski after the fact.
“Obviously, when he was on the floor, I was just hammerfisting,”
Hall said. “You just lose — again, my apologies, [it was] my first
fight. I think I hit him once or twice in the back of the head.
Then I heard the ref shout at me, and it clicked, and then I went
back to the face. So again, my apologies. My experience — I
wouldn’t like to be hit in the back of the head, so I’m sorry,
Mariusz. But these things happen. It was an accident.”