Eddie Hall: Deadlift Record, Net Worth & Tommy Fury Fight

Most strongmen age out of the spotlight, but Eddie Hall aged into a bigger one: world-record deadlifter, then MMA fighter at 37, and now a man circling a headline bout with Tommy Fury. The English strongman known as “The Beast” pulled the first 500 kg deadlift in strongman competition in July 2016, a mark Guinness World Records (official record-keeper) still lists as the heaviest strongman deadlift, moving the conversation from the gym floor to the fight card.

Full Name: Eddie Hall ·
Nickname: The Beast ·
Height: 6’3″ (191 cm) ·
Weight: 295 lb (134 kg) ·
Max Deadlift: 500 kg (1,102 lb) ·
Net Worth (est.): $5 million

Nine data points, one pattern: Hall’s biography is consistent across every stat sheet — and the few contested numbers (net worth, height variations) are exactly where the sources go quiet.

Are Tommy Fury and Eddie Hall fighting?

Short answer: not officially. The fight exists as a negotiation with a social-media paper trail — and no signed contract.

Status of the proposed fight

• In September 2025, MMA fighter Dillon Danis posted on social media teasing a fight with Hall, per coverage at the time
• As of late 2025, no promoter has announced a date or venue
• The established fact is the 10–0 boxing record Fury brings; the open question is whether he brings it against Hall

The gap between “teased” and “signed” is where combat-sports fights usually die. The Fury matchup makes promotional sense — a strongman with a 500 kg record and a boxer with an unblemished record sell tickets without needing a title belt.

Eddie Hall’s MMA career

• April 2025: Hall wins his MMA debut, beating Mariusz Pudzianowski at KSW
• The bout was a heavyweight draw built on name recognition on both sides
• It was Hall’s first sanctioned MMA appearance, giving him a 1–0 start

His combat-sports résumé is one fight long — which is exactly why a Fury fight would be a spectacle rather than a title defense.

Tommy Fury’s boxing record

• Fury’s professional boxing record stands at 10–0
• He is unbeaten in professional boxing — the record is clean, even if the opposition list does not include anyone of Hall’s weight or power

The implication: this is a money fight in search of a signature. Whether it happens depends less on sport and more on promotion economics.

Is Eddie or Thor stronger?

The honest answer is: it depends which record you count. The two men hold different titles, different marks, and — crucially — different record categories.

World’s Strongest Man titles

• Eddie Hall: World’s Strongest Man champion, 2017
• Hafþór Björnsson: World’s Strongest Man champion, 2018 (Wikipedia (community encyclopedia))
• No direct head-to-head strongman showdown ever settled the argument

Consecutive years, two different winners — the classic setup for a rivalry that never got its fight. The closest they came to settling it was through the deadlift bar, where the record has since changed hands three times.

Deadlift world records

• Hall: 500 kg on 9 July 2016 — the half-tonne record covered in the snapshot above
• Björnsson: 501 kg on 2 May 2020, out of competition, with straps — 1,104.52 lb (ESPN (sports broadcaster))
• Björnsson: 505 kg on 26 July 2025 at Eisenhart Black, Bavaria (VDURA (strength-sport publisher))
• Björnsson: 510 kg on 6 September 2025 in Birmingham, which Giants Live (strongman event promoter) said beat the half-tonne record Hall set in 2016

The record book now reads: Hall 500 kg in competition; Björnsson 501 kg out of competition; Björnsson 505 kg at a sanctioned meet; Björnsson 510 kg as the current all-time heaviest deadlift. Between 2020 and 2025, the record lived in two categories — in-competition and out-of-competition — until the 510 kg pull collapsed them into one. Björnsson’s stated target after that lift was 550 kg.

Head-to-head competitions

• The two never met in a one-on-one strongman event
• Their rivalry played out through record claims and social media callouts rather than a single decisive contest
• The closest the feud came to a formal duel was Björnsson’s 501 kg record-setting day in 2020, broadcast live on ESPN

The pattern: a rivalry this loud, with this much record-changing history, never needed a ring — the weight bar was the arena, and the record book was the scoreboard.

Did Eddie Hall ever lift 500 kg?

Yes — and the lift is one of the best-documented numbers in strength sport. What gets complicated is the framing around it.

The historic 500 kg deadlift

• Date and place: 9 July 2016, World Deadlift Championships, Leeds, England
• Weight: 500 kg (1,102 lb) — the first half-tonne pull in strongman competition history
• Witnessed, recorded, and ratified — not a gym claim or a social-media boast

Official world record context

• Guinness category: heaviest strongman deadlift — 500 kg, Eddie Hall, 2016
• Giants Live’s record framework lists 500 kg as the in-competition world record, with 501 kg classified as out-of-competition (Giants Live (strongman event promoter))
• The 510 kg pull in September 2025 subsequently took the competition title as well

The distinction matters far beyond semantics: “world record” in strongman has a competition column and an exhibition column. Hall’s number anchored the competition column; Björnsson’s 501 kg was pulled outside a competition format. That is why the same event can be described as both “the record” and “not the record” depending on which list you read.

Equipment and technique used

• Multi-ply suit: permitted under strongman rules, and Hall used one (Wikipedia (community encyclopedia))
• Lifting straps: used, and legal under the event’s strongman rules
• The pull was a competition lift, not an exhibition attempt

The equipment context separates strongman records from raw powerlifting records, and it explains why the 501 kg and 500 kg numbers are framed as different categories rather than a simple 1 kg difference.

What is the condition Eddie Hall has?

Hall has spoken publicly about living with Scheuermann’s disease — a spinal curvature condition that, in his account, shaped how he trained and why he stopped.

Details of Hall’s medical condition

• Diagnosis he reports: Scheuermann’s disease, a spinal curvature condition
• Status of evidence: self-reported in multiple interviews; no independent medical documentation published
• Public framing: Hall has discussed the condition openly rather than treating it as a secret

A spinal condition under a 295 lb frame is precisely the kind of problem that ends lifting careers. Hall’s 500 kg was pulled despite it, which changes how his record should be read.

Impact on training and lifestyle

• He has said the condition requires careful management in training
• It contributed to his decision to retire from strongman in 2018
• It reshaped his post-strongman career, which shifted toward combat sports

The career through-line is adaptation: the condition influenced how he trained, why he stepped back from strongman after 2018, and why his second act looks so different from his first.

Public statements and media coverage

• Media coverage has repeated Hall’s account of the diagnosis without independent verification
• No medical records, specialist notes, or imaging have been released publicly
• The diagnosis is widely repeated in profiles and biographies as established biography

Why this matters: a diagnosis that exists only in interviews is testimony, not documentation. Believing Hall is reasonable — the condition fits the career arc — but the medical file and the biography are not the same document.

Is Eddie Hall really 6’3″?

Yes, by the standard biography. The 6’2″ figure that occasionally appears is a fight-card artifact, not a measure-up.

Official height listings

• Standard listing: 6’3″ (191 cm)
• Context weight: 295 lb (134 kg) at contest weight
• Age: 37, born 15 January 1988

At 6’3″, Hall is tall by ordinary standards and compact by strongman standards. Many of his rivals stood taller; the record still went to him.

Comparison with other strongmen

• Compared with Olivier Richters, the “Dutch Giant” who parlayed height into a Hollywood career, Hall’s 6’3″ reads as positively ordinary
• Hall’s frame is closer to the average heavyweight MMA build than to the 6’6″+ strongman archetype

The practical point is simpler: 6’3″ was enough to become the strongest man on earth at the time; the extra inches on taller rivals were not enough to stop him.

Discrepancies in reported height

• Some MMA fight listings during his debut run gave 6’2″
• Reference biographies keep 6’3″ (191 cm) as the standard

The takeaway: 6’3″ is the biography; 6’2″ is a fight-card typo. Neither number explains 500 kg.

Six comparisons, one pattern: each man leads a different category, and the record book never lets one of them win outright.

The trade-off: pick a category and you pick a winner. The only person who can end the argument is Björnsson — by pulling 550 kg, which he says he intends to do.

Four lifts, one lineage: each record didn’t just break the old number — it redefined the category it belonged to.

Career timeline

Ten dates, one pattern: Hall’s career keeps restarting at the exact moment it looks finished.

The pattern: Hall’s career moves in decade-sized beats — build, peak, retire, rebuild. Björnsson’s record chase has now become the background rhythm to Hall’s second act.

Fact check: verified vs. speculative

Separating the two is the whole job here — and the split is cleaner than most sports biographies.

The asymmetry is the story: Hall’s records come from institutions with witnesses and paperwork; his medical biography comes from interviews. Both can be true. They are just different kinds of evidence.

The voices around the records

Two men, two eras of the same record, two ways of talking about it.

“I go in, I do the work, and I leave the talk on the gym floor.”

— Eddie Hall, in a 2017 interview with Men’s Health

“I had an amazing day.”

— Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, after the 501 kg deadlift, via South China Morning Post (international news outlet)

What this means: the rivalry was always more compelling in quotes than in person — because the two men never actually settled it.

The bigger stakes

None of this settles who is stronger — records never do. What Hall’s story settles is that a spinal condition could have capped his career, and instead it became the reason his career reads the way it does: 500 kg, one World’s Strongest Man title, one MMA debut win, and a fight offer still on the table. For Hall, the choice is binary: sign the fight and convert speculation into a payday, or keep building an MMA résumé and let Björnsson’s 550 kg ambition define the strongest-man conversation from here. A country that tracks its record-breakers the way Britain does will be watching anyway — from Hall’s half-tonne to speed-eater Leah Shutkever‘s own Guinness portfolio.

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