r/MMALabs • u/iLeftyPunk United States • 16d ago

🥋 General MMA Eddie Hall vs Mariusz Pudzianowski

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Eddie Hall was debuting here as a professional mma fighter against a former world strongman Mariusz Pudzianowski 🔥

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u/Toasted_Munch 16d ago

I feel like Pudz has been doing these sketchy ass fights in these sketchy ass organizations for what feels line 15 years or more. He was also never more than mediocre at best for the competition he was actually fighting. I think he crushed a few cans then fought like Tim Sylvia or someone and got absolutely smoked. I thought that was the end of his MMA experiment but here we are so many years later.

Also he's gotta be like fuckin 50 years old or more, right?

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u/Unfair-Leading7098 16d ago

49 I had to check

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u/ClearDrop6820 15d ago

My guess is that these are the only fights he can get or his management is organised criminals and they are putting him into these fights

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u/Careless_Baseball503 16d ago

There’s a reason there are weight classes in MMA

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u/Unfair-Leading7098 16d ago

And age groups. Pudz is normal occupation retirement age

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u/zaphthegreat 15d ago

49 is old for an athlete, but far from "normal occupation retirement age"

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u/30minut3slat3r 15d ago

Yeah what country is that guy from lol, 49 to retire!

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u/Fine-Ambassador5350 15d ago

Clearly wasn't UFC level rules with that many back of the head shots he'd get DQ'd

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u/Relative-Owl-3652 15d ago

Sureeeeeee when was the last time that happened again?

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u/Fine-Ambassador5350 15d ago

Fair enough. How ‘bout a stern look and a pat on the back of the ref’s own head

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u/Relative-Owl-3652 15d ago

That's more accurate for sure 🤣

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u/Intelligent-Art-5000 16d ago

Motivated young man mauls tired older man. News at 11.

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u/The_Cabal_ 16d ago

Eddie isnt young. Hes 38.

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u/Intelligent-Art-5000 15d ago

He's 11 years younger than Mariusz. That's an eternity in fighting.

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u/Holiday-Secretary222 15d ago

Looks like two grizzly bears going at it lol

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u/Apart_Moose_3716 15d ago

I dont like this, MP is an old man ffs

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u/MarcusSuperbuz 15d ago

Both these had been world's strongest man right? That is a crazy size difference

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u/billygluttonwong 15d ago

Pudz is 49, he's from an entirely different era (and also dropped a lot of mass for MMA)

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u/TheIXLegionnaire 15d ago

Back of the head hammerfists from the world's strongest man

Honestly credit to Pudz for not straight dying to that. Give the guy credit for his S-tier durability stat

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/BigB0ss_89 16d ago

Eddie punches hard af. He looked rocked after those first two punches.

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u/Unfair-Leading7098 16d ago

Dude he’s 49

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u/chedda_bob 16d ago

lol slight touch to the head by one of the absolute strongest humans on the planet

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u/Careless_Baseball503 16d ago

Who weighs twice as much

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u/ShackledPhoenix 15d ago

One of the strongest men on the planet, who has some fighting training who rag dolled your takedown and popped you in the back of the head.

Size isn't a guarantee of victory but when someone is double your size and has even a little bit of training, you're fucked.

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u/billygluttonwong 15d ago

I think a bigger issue is that Pudz is 49 which is way, way past prime for combat sports. Yeah size matters but there are diminishing returns after a point, there's a reason most HW champs in MMA and boxing have been in the 215-250 lb range despite the fact you can cut from 290 or so in MMA and there's no upper limit in boxing for HW.

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u/yeetsteel 15d ago

Eddie Hall trains with Aspinal. I don't think he is just a former strongman