Eddie Hall has already made peace with how this all ends.
The former World’s Strongest Man is stepping back into the boxing spotlight this weekend to face Tommy Fury at Manchester’s AO Arena, but while the event itself has all the ingredients of another crossover spectacle, Hall is already thinking beyond Saturday night.
At 38 years old, Hall knows the clock is ticking on his combat sports run.
And unlike many fighters who talk about competing forever, ‘The Beast’ appears to have drawn a very clear line in the sand.
Hall faces Fury on a Misfits Boxing card that continues the growing trend of celebrity clashes and crossover events dominating headlines across combat sports. But for Hall, this latest outing is not just about spectacle.
It is part of a much bigger final chapter.
The former Strongman has embraced the chaos of the so-called ‘freak fight’ scene since making the move into combat sports, but he admits there is now a finite window left before he walks away for good.
“In just fights in general, I think I’ve got another two years in me,” Hall explained to Playbook Boxing. “I’m 40 in two years. I think that’s the age where any human being shouldn’t be getting hit in the head after 40.
“That’s my timeframe. And whether that gets filled with boxing, MMA, bare-knuckle, whatever. In essence, what I want to do is go out, put my name on the map, put a bit of money in the bank, and if I can finish on a bang, that would be a massive positive for me.”
It is a refreshingly blunt outlook from Hall, who has never pretended to be chasing a decade-long fighting career.
Instead, he has approached combat sports in much the same way he approached strongman — all in, full intensity, maximum entertainment.
And if Hall gets his way, the final act could come under the bright lights of KSW.
The Polish MMA promotion has become one of Europe’s biggest combat sports organisations, and Hall clearly believes there is unfinished business there following his explosive debut with the company.
Speaking about what could potentially be the final fight of his career, Hall revealed exactly what he is targeting.
“I’ve got my eyes on a world title in KSW,” he said. “That might possibly be my last fight… fight for a world title, win, draw or lose and just call it a day, that’ll be my last fight.”
For a man who only officially entered combat sports in recent years, the ambition might sound enormous on paper.
But Hall’s recent performances have changed the conversation entirely.
His first venture into boxing came against fellow strongman Hafthor Bjornsson back in 2022, a bout which he lost, largely due to a bicep injury he was carrying.
Since then, however, he has quietly rebuilt himself as a far more dangerous combat athlete.
Rather than jumping straight back into boxing, Hall shifted his focus toward MMA and immediately leaned into the unpredictability that has made him such a compelling attraction.
That included a bizarre but hugely talked-about two-versus-one MMA contest in 2024 before landing a major opportunity with KSW.
Then came the performance that suddenly made people take his fighting future seriously.
Last April, Hall demolished veteran Mariusz Pudzianowski in just 30 seconds during his second KSW appearance.
Pudzianowski entered the bout with 27 professional fights to his name and years of experience inside the cage, but Hall simply steamrolled through him.
The finish was violent, fast and impossible to ignore.
It also transformed what once felt like novelty matchmaking into something potentially more legitimate.
A world title shot no longer sounds completely absurd.
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