{"id":781002,"date":"2026-07-05T03:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781002\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:12:28","slug":"eddie-hall-calls-boxing-fans-the-worst-fans-on-planet-earth-eyes-first-mma-title-against-ex-ufc-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781002\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hall calls boxing fans \u2018the worst fans on planet earth,\u2019 eyes first MMA title against ex-UFC heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI want to call out boxing fans, specifically boxing fans,\u201d Hall told Fight Your Corner<\/a> (via Fight Book MMA<\/a>). \u201cNot MMA fans, not fighting fans, just boxing fans. They\u2019re the worst fans on planet earth. They remind me of the Simpsons mob, they\u2019ll have an argument across the street, then change sides depending on what a fighter does. They\u2019re all f*****g experts. I\u2019ve had a lot said about me in my life, but boxing fans, they all think they\u2019re experts. They\u2019re all better than you, all harder than you, would\u2019ve done this and that better. Someone was giving me s**t online, and I click on his account, and he\u2019s a barber. Boxing fans are the f*****g worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like boxing takes away my best attribute, which is my strength, whereas in MMA, my best strength is my strength,\u201d Hall said. \u201cWhen you get on the floor with somebody, they might be much more highly skilled than you but you can grab, move out the way and smash. That\u2019s where I feel most at home. Whatever comes in the next few years, whether it\u2019s boxing, MMA, I\u2019m happy to do both. I would love to fight for a world title in KSW. Phil De Fries has been the heavyweight champion for 12 years, maybe more, and we\u2019ve been in talks [to fight].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI want to call out boxing fans, specifically boxing fans,\u201d Hall told Fight Your Corner (via Fight Book…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,36109,49,48,50911,33601,82],"class_list":["post-781002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-international-mma-news-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781002","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=781002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}