{"id":123444,"date":"2025-09-06T04:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123444\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:20:07","slug":"ex-wwe-champ-challenges-clown-eddie-hall-to-misfits-boxing-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123444\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-WWE champ challenges &#8220;clown&#8221; Eddie Hall to Misfits Boxing bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Hall is seemingly targeting a fight with Dillon Danis, but there is another Bellator MMA alumnus who wants to throw down with the former World\u2019s Strongest Man. Gzim Selmani is the combatant in question, and they also plied their trade in pro wrestling, with Selmani being a former WWE titleholder who competed under the ring name Rezar as part of the Authors of Pain tag team.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eddie-hall-1024x582.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Eddie Hall\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Misfits Boxing, where Hall and Danis had their recent in-ring faceoff, is the promotional banner that \u2018The Albanian Psycho\u2019 would be keen to fight the hulking Hall under, and the pro wrestler is open to fighting under Queensberry Rules. Selmani stated as such on his personal X account, where he posted some pad work with a caption calling Hall a \u2018clown\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yo! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eddiehallWSM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@eddiehallWSM<\/a> , you clown, I challenge you! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MisfitsBoxing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@MisfitsBoxing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/boxing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#boxing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fighting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#fighting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wwe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#wwe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l0ucW60SF1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/l0ucW60SF1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gzim Selmani (@AlbanianPsycho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbanianPsycho\/status\/1963953108100284549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hall calling out Danis after the latter secured a fifteen-second submission win over Warren Spencer to claim MF MMA gold at Misfits Boxing 22 drew the ire of Selmani, as evidenced by his messaging on social media, as Selmani said [via <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/09\/05\/worlds-strongest-man-eddie-hall-called-out-for-fight-by-ex-wwe-champion-with-bellator-credentials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>],<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m returning to my roots as a fighter, and I have unfinished business in the world of combat sports. I\u2019ve been watching Eddie Hall trying to pick a fight with a welterweight, and that doesn\u2019t sit right with me. He thinks he is the big man coming in to fight sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell why doesn\u2019t he take on someone who can actually knock him out\u2026 Someone like me. This is a message for Eddie Hall, I challenge you to fist fight on any Misfits Boxing card. I need to remind &amp; teach everyone that I am the world\u2019s most dangerous professional wrestler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hall is seemingly targeting a fight with Dillon Danis, but there is another Bellator MMA alumnus who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,25300,10988,82,13015],"class_list":{"0":"post-123444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-eddie-hall","12":"tag-misfits-boxing","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wwe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}