How STRONG was Eddie Hall Vs Hafthor Bjornsson in Strongman?
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2021
- How Strong is Eddie Hall Vs Hafthor Bjornsson when compared in Strongman Competitions?
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Thank you for this long awaited comparison Strength Universe. And let us all comment politely and respectfully. Both are two of those rare athletes who took human potential to the extreme and they deserve mutual respect.
@John Everyman 😞 the bane of my life
You forgot 10 times Iceland strongest man.
No I didn't, it's shown at the end of the video under National wins
hafthors peak was atleast 216kg, i know its not a big difference but just saying
Controversies aside, let us just respect that both athletes were incredibly strong and we are lucky to have witnessed both in action.
Absolutely, thanks for your comment
Agreed.
@@StrengthUniverse always welcome and keep up the awesome content brother!
@@BuJammy thank you brother!
@@Nirsterkur thanks mate.
"I'm stronger than both but I have no desire or time to show it to the world".
Internet strong guy.
Kyriakos Grizzly could legit say it, but he doesn't compare to humans
@@alessiobubbles5345 our lord
I do believe there are people like that, but they definitely wouldn't even lose their time commenting on the internet.
I can do 1 cock push up, apparently showing people is wrong so you'll have to take my word for it.
Well done mate. Much respect to you for being so strong and humble, not like these show offs.
The fact Thor was so good on mobile events and then improved on his static game so much he currently has both the traditional DL and Elephant Bar World Records while barely losing on mobility shows why he was one of the greatests of all time before retiring
He was much taller than Eddie and still just as statically strong, he was one of the heaviest strongmen but also one of the fastest. Is incredible how good he was in almost every event
Thor's the strongest man of all time, no question.
@@gabbeskillz6262 BS! He could barely bench 550 lbs after many months of training specifically for benching for his powerlifting event.
@@ytsux9259 not even going to bother arguing with someone that rates bench that highly.
@YT sux he had a six week prep for that meet
If Eddie put any effort comparable to his buildup to the 500kg deadlift into his axle OHP, I have a feeling he would have set a record that would have been untouched forever, or at the very least would have remained for a long time. When he broke that world record he used 0 leg drive, and not a single part of it was slow. I truly think he could have done 235kg
Maybe a healthy Eddie but he couldn't use leg drive bc of his bad knees. Like many heavyweight strongmen.
I'm not sure 235 is on the card any time in the next decade but I think he may of had the potential to get 220kg. The issue with the axle isn't so much the press from the shoulders, it's getting it into position
But haven't him competed at the Log lift Championship event alone for two year trying to break the record? Wasn't him training specific for that lift?
Eddie looked great on his 216kg axle press, but he actually really struggled on his 200kg attempt that day. I agree he could’ve set something higher. But then again Zydrunas Savickas set the previous record in 2010 and didn’t peak till 2015-2016. I think Big Z could’ve set a bigger record than Eddie could if they both prepped for it
He used 0 leg drive because he prefers leaning back and turning it into a standing bench press.
Honestly people don’t give Thor the credit he deserves he was just hitting his peak and in two years only lost one competition with a torn foot (can’t remember the name ) n if he continued he could have been the the best ever he really had no weakness
True mate, his final two years are probably the most winningness of any strongman in history
@@StrengthUniverse thanks for the reply 🙏🏽
He and Eddie both had that potential, both were essentially held back my health/injury. I think that's why the rivalry is compelling. Neither is the runaway winner.
If is a great word
No if he continued his health would have diminished far too much, he was a late bloomer and when you weigh 400+ pounds your body cannot afford to be a late bloomer. Woulda coulda shoulda, he was indeed one of the strongest human beings to walk this earth at one point but to say he woulda been anything more than he became is pointless🤷♂️ I believe both him and Eddie reached exactly what they were meant too in strong man. Not anymore or less
I dunno that’s just me, have a great day😊
The difference between using momentum during the axel press compared to sheer pressing strength is massively impressive from Eddie, saviskus used to be the same.
Was gonna say the same rn. Also eddie lifting the 500kg deadlift was u thinkable at the time. The same cant be said for 501. Eddie hall was the strongest man in history for his sheer strength. Brian shaw was the greatest strongman ever
If there wasan't so much drama around these 2 athletes, i think it would have been more people agreeing with your work here 👍
Thank you. That's the trouble mate and why I have stayed clear of the subject until now, really don't like the bickering
I think Thor showed us all when he went for the deadlift record, what kind of a static monster he can be if he trains for it. I think for the most part, he had a different strategy than Eddie. He realised by training too much of big, static powerlifting-ish movements, he'd fall too far behind in movement events, which has very often screwed over other big names. Not to mention that Thor was active for quite a few more years, and seemingly intended to continue his strongman career for many years (until the boxing thing was agreed upon), so he had to think a bit differently to Eddie in that regard. Eddie has said that he only ever wanted to win WSM once, then get the hell out of the sport. Which he did. So he was able to chuck on weight and risk his health to a larger degree. So in that sense its to a degree an unfair comparison.
I think the best overall athlete is Thor, and his titles say he's the best strongman of the two. It would however be really interesting to see what Eddie could've done if he had stayed in the sport for a few more years. Would love to see Eddie and Thor compete against eachother in WSM. In my opinion they're in a different league compared to the currently competing athletes (except Shaw, but he's old, has family and business taking up his mind, not at his peak anymore). I'd love to see more strongman competitions focus on more static events again, but as we've seen with both Thor and Eddie, it gets to a point where they have to carry around so much weight that it's too much of a burden to be worth it. They can't sleep, can barely breathe, has to consume an entire cow after walking 10 meters etc. Alas, maybe the PED's and food science of the future will allow it.
Tldr.: eddie is the rosberg of this sport, thor is prost
Thor is as strong as Eddie in static events and much better at dynamic events. So he’s a better strongman overall.
Thor could have possibly been the greatest Strongman ever if he didn’t retire so young and Eddie could have been very likely the greatest powerlifter ever. Eddie was made for static strength while Thor was made for Strongman! Thor could have also broken the powerlifting record as he did 1 meet with only a few weeks of prep and got one of the top total ever!
None of them comes close to Big Z in his prime. Tbf no other athlete comes closes when you're factoring in all the competitions he's done.
"consume an entire cow after walking 10 meters" 🤣
Eddie & Halfthor had two of the greatest peaks of all time in Strongman, but their overall greatness diminishes next to the longevity of Big Z & Shaw.
I couldn't have said it better 👍
Eddie spearheaded through the strength world doing the 500 kg and winning WSM the same year. Statically unbeatable Id say only Big Z would compare with him, Thor is overall strong but statically can't overcome the losses in the static events until WSM 2018 came. You set competition with events and each person will have there events there good at..
Hafthor has more International titles than Brian, mate.
Brian Z era was better, less hype.
Love them both. Eddie is a great example of dedication, stubborness and work ethic. 2018-2020 Thor achieved godlike status, and he has personally matured a great deal over the years - he seems a quite happy and more balanced person nowadays.
I think the difference in height is quite relevant, specially for some of those dynamic events. It just shows how much work Eddie had to put in to compete against these natural giants like Thor and B. Shaw
Matured? He threw all his toys out of the pram in 2017. Or do you mean he’s matured since then?
@@spacebum Since then.
I have been analyzing by my way that both strongmen are the reference point of how far a human being can be, that's to say, if you wonder how strong a human being, Eddie and Thor can answer that doubt. They showed us the limit of how strong is possible to be.
Excellent video. You have improved a lot your method to analyze these kind of stuff.
Hathor I believe had more potential than any strongman I have ever seen. He always let himself down by the odd silly mistakes that cost some WSM titles. At his peak he definitely could of gone on to win more
I agree. Thor almost definitely would’ve won the past 2 WSM competitions if he had competed barring injury
Defo some truth to that. I remember one year he was heading towards the win at WSM and then messed up squats. And came nearly last in that event. Think he didn’t wear a squat suit or something. He might have come second to shaw that year.
Hathor on the squat lift and deadlift he stopped early and could have done more weight as you see him not struggle as much on those lifts as Eddie
Great video. Very thorough.
Your analysis shows what I was expecting. At their bests, Eddie was arguably statically stronger, but Thor is the arguably the better or ‘stronger’ strongman when dynamic events are added. I think Eddie’s career was purposely short lived relatively speaking because he put everything on the line to be the best he could. He didn’t look that healthy towards the end of his run. Your thumbnail for this vid pretty much says it all!
Thanks Matt, great to read something balanced and positive
@@StrengthUniverse to be fair I started reading other posts after I posted my comments and a lot of others have already said similar. 👍🏻
Idea for a new miniseries, maybe:
Best ever at certain events comparison. Pick an event (like Truck Pull, Stones, Yoke, etc) and compare different results over time (maybe some for reps, timed world records, heaviest weights, stuff like that). Might get a bit convoluted once you look at more than just world records (which by itself would make for a short video, haha) but could be really interesting.
Thanks Tobias
Your videos and especially music you put in them are amazing, never stop.
Thanks buddy👍
Really pleased to see this one, straight to the point!
Thanks Anton👍
i still think Eddie increasing the world record with almost 40kg in 9 months is the most insane shit ever. You can see how easy 470kg is for him the year after
I believe that at the time Thor did the 501kg deadlift, that he was most likely the strongest person to have ever lived. Eddie struggled with his 500kg, and he even said himself that he almost died. That was most likely his peak, once your body shuts down like his after a lift, that's a strong sign to stop. However, Thor's 501kg went up without a problem and looked like he still had more in him. He probably could've done 505-510kg that day. I just wish we could've seen him max out his other lifts before retiring.
Goliath was stronger 💪
There was a clear difference between Eddie Hall and Hafthors half ton lift.
Eddie was breaking human limit, hafthor wasn't and that's what made his lift easier than Eddie Hall's.
@@dawson6196that makes no sense at all
@@shlokgurudatta8466 You need a brain to figure out the difference or else people think like you.
@@shlokgurudatta8466Buddy was talking out of his arse
This video will put some fuel on an. Already hot fire..
The Year Thor won every major title is a testament to how good one man can be in one year, no man before or since has won all major titles, for this I would give Thor the marginal victory, he surpassed bothe Eddie and Brian dare I say in that year even the GOAT Z would have been hard pushed to beat him...
You're righ Goat Z is the GOAT. Tbf no other athlete comes closes when you're factoring in all the competitions he's done
Thor was a much better strongman. Eddie only beat him once in his entire career. In static strenght Eddie had the edge by a little bit although i think both wouldve become much stronger if they didnt retire so early. Thors static strenght also peaked much later in his career as it is with most taller strenght athletes.
As a competitor, there is no denying Hafthor beats Eddie.
But when you compare prime Eddie to prime Hafthor, Eddie was better than him in almost every event.
@@GoofballLOL Well they both competed against each other in eddies peak and he still only won once. He had about a handful of events in which he beat thor in regularly. When hafthor sorted his static strenght issues out he literally was unbeatable. Winning every major comp in one year. Never been done before. He had no weakness placing top 3 in every event he did. Eddie had a few weaknesses
@@GoofballLOL
Prime Eddie only defeated Thor once before his prime by one point. How is he better in almost every event?
@@GoofballLOL Eddie won once by one point and with the help of Colin. Let’s get real here
@@joebot9309 that is why WSM 2017 was Taylor to static event to win the event. Eddie was great at static events. it's questionable Eddie best mate "Colin" setup this even for Eddie to win.
OH MY LORD. I swear on my mother I had searched for whether you had made a video covering this sometime this week and here it is
Both amazing strongman, but to me the 3 Arnold classic titles from Thor tells who had the best career.
looking at some of those events, i do consider that halfthor has a 6 inch height advantage, which helped in timed events.
It is generally agreed upon that 2020 Hafthor would best 2017 Eddie in nearly all strongman exercises.
Great video as always and happy Thanksgiving. Both athletes were incredibly strong and I love watching them compete. Miss seeing both of them
Thanks Doug, Happy Thanksgiving buddy!
That was what I was waiting for😎
After already seeing a comment accusing me of bias despite the video being based on facts, I'm regret making it
@@StrengthUniverse do not feel that way. Eddie and Thor just have a lot of fans and no matter how you present it, there will be an argument for bias, great content as usual.
@@charlieweislastbeltloop7804 Thanks mate, I just wish there was more respect
I waitet for this vid so long😳
Hafthor is also 10 times Iceland's strongest man
He is mate, that's listed in the video as "National titles"
@@StrengthUniverse i missed it at 00:25 and thought you forgot it.
@@pridefaith6561 No buddy, it's at 5:58
@@StrengthUniverse Oh yeah, sorry. Besides all of this Hafthor for me is still stronger. Besides all his titles he came also 3 times 2nd and 3 times 3rd in WSM competitions. Making Podium in WSM is also something that not all athletes achieve. If he still competing i think he is the only candidate to take 5 and maybe more than Pudzianowski
Yea dnt think will b broken if ever!Talk about dominant alpha,god dammit!🤔🤯😯👊💪💪💪🌶
This man's voice is so soothing I fell asleep and had to circle back and finish the video later.
Sorry buddy
Great content 👍
Thank you
I think Thor is stronger.
Bill Kazmaier vs Brian Shaw would be interesting. I know the different eras are hard to match against each other
I think it's unfair for Kaz. For his time he was way ahead of the competition but nowadays, the sport has evolved so much.
So, Thor is on the same level with Eddie in many events (static strength), but let’s not forget about Thors world records in other events
Bag over bar (100 pounds) WR, Atlas stones in 2017 (heavy set) WR and several and a few more records
Honestly, Eddie is so Fragil and always injured for competitions ... Hafthor played an actor rol and got 1 of the best scores in powerlifting history competition (being a former strongman not pro-powerlifter)... so it was pretty obvious the winner
@@StrengthUniverse Done
I tip my hat to both of these men! They are both winners in my mind! 🏆
Absolutely!
Eddie was statically stronger for most of these years but Hafthor was the better strongman. Eddie was certainly more specialised in what he was good at. Hafthor caught up with him in lower body strength later but who knows how much Eddie would have improved. Maybe he wouldn't have improved. Tough to say, really.
Personally, I tend to look at strength in terms of maximal strength and thus would give Eddie the edge up to a point when talking about the strongest ever. But I would not mention Eddie in a conversation for the greatest strongman ever, unlike Hafthor. Had Hafthor pulled sth like 510 or 515, I maybe would change my mind about the static strength part.
"but who knows how much Eddie would have improved. Maybe he wouldn't have improved. Tough to say, really."
Considering Eddie "almost died" due to his weigh increase, it's clear he was at his peak. Thor never went for static strength. He's more clever and went for overall strength, mobility and stamina, which is why he's the superior strongman.
Just look at what Thor did to Eddie's DL record. He smashed it. He just realized that being that big meant he would lose pace, and stamina.
Eddie was stronger at pressing. He could bench 660 lbs, while Thor trained benching for many months for his powerlifting event but could only bench 550. Thor was better at some events though.
@@ytsux9259 Eddie has been practicing benchpressing for years. It's one of his typicall exercises. Hafthor on the other hand didn't really do it cause it's quite useless for strongmen. He only practiced it for a few months and then pretty much stopped. I'm surprised Thor did 550 after such a short period of time.
Bear in mind that Eddie tried to chase 300+ kg benchpress for months and failed. That alone shows that he was at his peak in this particular exercise. Hafthor on the other hand could have still progressed in it.
@@dctPL he only benches once a week, as he feels that it is not as necessary. I think he tells us this in his video with Julius Maddox
@@dctPL I agree both Eddie and Brian Shaw were shooting for a 700 pound bench neither followed through with it however I do think if those three guy's trained for max bench for the same amount of time, I think Eddie would press the most there's more money in S.M than there is in Powerlifting so no reason to really train for it as it could cause more potential injuries.
Can you make Markus Rühl vs ronnie coleman next time pls love your videos keep it up
It's hard to compare, the reason Eddie always beat Hafthor in static events is because that's what he focussed on, which is why he has so many fewer event wins. Hafthor didn't focus on becoming an absolute giant until the end of his career, while Eddie always did, so I don't think he was capable of improving similarly to how Hafthor did. This means that comparing them becomes exceedingly hard since Eddie was basically always in the version of his physique that Hafthor was by the end. And if we compare for instance Hafthors elephant bar deadlift his max in competition also beats Eddies I believe.
Also can't really compare years in the field since as I remember it Hafthor started earlier, that means that his extra years are mostly during his "not at his peak yet" years. Just because Eddie wasn't competing at that time doesn't really indicate that he'd have won anything if he had, Hafthor barely did.
Eddie should have honestly become a powerlifter. With his insane pressing strength, deadlift and squat, powerlifting would have been more fitting
Agree. He never had stamina, even when was way smaller he lacked the stamina
But someone told him he couldn't be a strongman and he proved him wrong. Also i agree with you 100%. I saw a clip of Eddie where he was very young(22 yo) and very small and he bench pressed like 260kg i guess with no arch and no leg drive.
@@RamanSingh-zr7pk he did a 265x5 paused bench press. Literally one of the strongest lifts ever. Lets say he could have done 300kg bench, 440 squat and 460 deadlift in his prime under powerlifting rules. Thats a 1200kg total
@@Bavarian_Lifting yeah i also believe he could do 700lbs. He himself used to believe it. He even started a series for Road to 700lbs bench. So in comp he could do 300kg i guess.
Eddie only turned pro in 2014 previous to this he was doing strongman in his spare time, soon as he turned pro his improvement was sysmic! He fitness was always in question on medleys but I'd argue the same mass on a shorter frame makes picking up some of the massive implements twice as hard!
I love both! Wish you would do a video on WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO SEE EDDIE AN HATHOR SPEND AN DINNER A LAUGH TOGETHER. that fight got some grate people pushed out 😢
Another well put together video, many thanks. I always find it fascinating when people discus the greatest athlete in the world of strength, as there is more than one way to judge it, and I guess its mostly subjective? For me, most competitions are a great way to show whom is the best all-round strongman, but not necessarily who is the 'Strongest' In my opinion that comes down to, literally the heaviest weights lifted, which of course tend to be static events. Eddie and Hafthor are two of the strongest men to ever walk the Earth, I would go with Eddie ultimately being stronger statically, and Thor being the better allrounder. By way of an example of my point, I think Brian Shaw has a much better head to head record against Thor, and overall competition wins, obviously including WSM. But I would still lean towards Thor as statically stronger.
Thank you very much, I'm pleased you liked it and agree with much of what you said.
@@StrengthUniverse Cheers for the reply. And if you haven't already done it? may I suggest - Shaw vs Thor, two of the biggest men in strength, would make a very interesting comparison!
@@shepchester3567 It's coming soon bud
The way I look at it it's only truly accurate if they're both at their peak
Correct
Shame they left strongman. A thor vs Eddie rivalry for 5 more years would've been truly epic.
Strongman messed up by not offering them the kind of money they needed to justify staying in the sport.
can you do brian shaw vs hafthor they are both giants and id love to see it?
I wish both of them would've kept at it for a few more years. At the very least, I wish Eddie would've kept competing up til 2020 like Thor did because it's almost guaranteed that they would've had some epic battles that would've been amazing for strongman fans to watch.
That would have been good for the fans but retiring was the right choice for their health and wealth.
@@StrengthUniverse With the amount of weight Eddie Hall was carrying, as fit as he was, I think he would have been dead. The heart can only take so much.
Its quite clear that Eddie was unmatched in static lifts but his height was a massive disadvantage in dynamic events.
I see the comment that says this but i feel the same I've been waiting for this one
Also could have put Log lift in too?
Both strong lads though and a decent video, well done
Thanks mate, I didn't include the log lift because both have a peak in competition of 213kg (a draw) so it wouldn't have added anything to the result
@@StrengthUniverse I’d assume that Eddie has the edge when they have faced off in competition?
@@Dluger123 Over the years yes, he has won overhead every time, except one (Log, Axle, Viking Press etc etc), I included that stat in the spreadsheet
Bro please tell me the music you use in the video? Anyone know?
C'est chaud que cette vidéo soit pas sortie avant
Eddie is the better power lifter and thor Is the better strongman .... he has too many titles, beat Eddie too many times for people to think they are even close.
They both have opened more career opportunities for themselves after competing at highest level in their sport. These guys are pretty smart businessmen as well along with being insanely strong.
I think Eddies squat shape didn’t help in dynamic events, where Thors more athletic physique worked better. But that squat powerhouse physique worked much better at statics. It’s like going back to Capes and Kazmaier
Eddie's shoulder strength. Man i want that. I just wish i had the presses of Eddie. Man he is so strong and compact.
I just want to add that the automatic subtitles named Thor has “half full beyoncé”. Apt.
Why did you mention Eddies uk/brittain strongest man wins but not Hafthors Icelands strongest man wins in their respective title breakdowns?
If you're measuring strength with strongman events, then Thor probably edges in front. If you measure with static lifts, then I think Eddie takes the win. If you include the bench press, that would be another lift that Eddie easily wins, albeit Thor probably hasn't practiced this lift very much. I think both athletes could have won many more WSM events if they continued with the sport and I believe that one victory each isn't really indicative of their amazing strength and potential.
I think It's safe to say that Hafthor is the one with the greatest potential of strength in history. Eddie hit a barrier with the 500 (which is highly impressive) but Thor kept on getting stronger and his 501kg looked very comfortable.
You realize it took Thor 4 years to catch up to Eddie's deadlift, right? Eddie simply retired as he didn't want to kill himself, literally. Thor never beat Eddie in a deadlift even, and never would have surpassed Eddie if he didn't retire. Eddie said it himself, he probably would have only lived another 10 years if he stayed at that weight. The man set a goal to win the WSM and then was going to retire, which he did.
What crack rocks are you smoking? Eddie didn't want to continue deadlifting after that but he could have very easily. Dude was setting records day in and day out.
@@chrisplante8977 Yeah, in order to get to that level of strength Eddie had to do things his body couldn't handle, exactly, which is why Thor is clearly stronger.
Saying it took Thor 4 years to catch up is just so oversimplified to the point that it's a sheer lie.
If I start training deadlift today, and pull 501 tomorrow, then it didn't take me 6 years to "catch up to Eddie".
Eddie was always focussing on becoming a static monster, he trained fundamentally differently than Thor, and with different goals, which is why Thor consistently beat him at nearly all competitions. That's not Hafthor being unable to catch up with Eddie at deadlift, that's Hafthor being a fundamentally more well rounded strongman.
Hafthor didn't start work on becoming a static monster until years later than Eddie, and with a body that makes it an entirely different challenge as well.
Eddie said he was going to do 500, he went of to train for it, then he came back and did it, Thor did the exact same thing, even the time the training took them was relatively equal.
@@DutchDread But Eddie could handle it, it just looked a little more difficult and he did it in front of an audience at a competition. Eddie could have kept going. He lifted 500+ on other types of deadlift multiple times.
@@sethdaboss245 The whole competition thing is irrelevant, people really need to stop mentioning it, had Thor asked another dude to also lift with the promise that he'd give him 5 bucks if he won, then the fact that it was in competition doesn't suddenly make it more fair.
The whole made up "has to be in competition" rule unfairly advantages athletes like Eddie Hall who are literally the co-owner of a mayor strongman organization, because they can simply organize a sham competition build around the record they want to break, and then the athlete in question simply only does that one lift, making the whole thing a sham that unfairly harms less influential athletes.
And no, he didn't handle it, his entire body gave out to the point where he went temporarily blind, his entire system went into shock, he nearly died.
And other deadlifts don't matter, the fact that you bring this up shows me you don't know a lot about strongman, there are a bunch of different deadlift records, and some are far beyond 500 because there are a bunch of factors that simply make them easier, like the height of the bar.
I‘d like to see a comparison with Lasha Talakhadze
Eddie got 9th at the 2015 Europe's at Thor won.
It should also be noted that these are not necessarily max effort attempts - the athletes very most often only do what they have to - to win an event and nothing more.
Europe's Strongest Man is considered a major title in most people's books.
Outside of events and records managed by Colin, Eddie for some reason never did well. Wonder why?
Europes is a big comp but certainly not in the same league as WSM, Arnolds or WUS because it's not an international comp. Re 2015 Europes, Eddie got 9th because he withdraw during the second event due to injury
Because he only wanted wsm?
have you ever done a video about Paul Anderson?
Hi Timothy. Not yet
Hafthor is actually stronger. Eddie Hall has an advantage for having short limbs yet Hafthor is still stronger especially when doing dynamic exercises it's taxing for being tall and have long limbs.
In my opinion, on their best day, these are the 2 strongest people in modern history
Eddie's best day wouldn't come close to big z or Brian's best days eddie is overrated took him to nearly die to win his wsm and the deadlift as he was super unhealthy the true greats havent had to push to that limit to achieve more and compete for longer
@@rob2406. i don't have the time or piece of mind, but i have done extensive inquiry and i stand by my syatement. You could go back and look at the old video od his best gym lifts. Actually he has made a few bwtter lifts than the ones in the video, but they are impressive. Especially the deadlift pyramid that is unapproachable
Good video but definitely should've used different music
I remember being 33,so young and full of piss and vinegar.Both great athletes
i think eddie won the deadlift, he lifted only 1kg less than Hafthor but held it much longer
Hafthor is the superior athlete. Eddie wins as far as static pressing is concerned
Both as great as each other very even really
I think this is pretty accurate and the events for comparison are fair for strongman. I’m happy with Eddie taking overhead, deadlift and squats. His overhead was so clean, no leg drive, and his deadlift had always been on top as long as he was still doing strongman.
It makes sense Hafthor kind of wins in this comparison. The pulling event suits his height, and he is generally more athletic and gets around easier than Eddie I think. Eddie brute forced his strength through his strongman career and that’s damn impressive, but I’d say hafthor had a slow more strategic approach that payed off
Bro what is chest size hafther thor and who is stronger in thor and big z olease reply my question ❓
I want you to do a Thor v Larry wheels video. I swear your head would pop. Your two favorites.
Both of them are great.
I feel like if Eddie were to have competed longer his competition wins would have been higher. If you took Thor’s wins from his beginning five years it may look different. Other than that i love the videos and we done and an amazing job!
Thanks Sean
the thing is eddie maxed out his potential and put himself in a very dangrous position bcz of his bodyweight in ratio to his height and frame... hafthor on the other hand had so much more potential left in strongman or tbh we saw his peak in his form of 2018 and this was impressiv but he could have gone strong for the next 5 years easily. But on the other hand its fine bcz also for him its healthy to go down with weight and do stuff like boxing were he also gets paid far better. Both athlets have nothing more to proof in the world of strength.
Leroy Walker vs Larry Wheels 🙏🙏
Great athletes how about just giv each other a great hug and get over it. Forgivnes shows beauty of a heart. ❤️
This is a fight between monsters
Crazy how big they used to be
Eddie was a bit better at static strength (not by a large margin), but being good at static strength exclusively doesn't make you a great strongman. Hafthor was just shy of being as good as Eddie when it comes to static strength but much better at everything else, making him a much better strongman. Eddie's strength was something else, but as a strongman, I have to say he is overrated, thanks to his big mouth.
In competition is not the same as isolated lift. I'm a Thor fan, but he should have gone up by 5+ Kg to take the deadlift WR properly
Eddie did an isolated lift as well. He didn't do any events besides the deadlift.
Is that with or with out gear.
SO CLOSE in strength that it’s too close to call… probably the two strongest men in the world and would have loved to see them compete against each other in powerlifting competitions…
It's a pity this is just 'head to head' as Thor's strength in deadlifting and squatting increased dramatically in later years, his 2018 domination and easy 501kg deadlift are proof of that. In deadlift and bag over bar no one could beat him. He was also close to unbeatable in atlas stones.
The video was Part 1 which looks at their competitive history. Part 2 which I realised immediately after this video looks at the static strength.
Eddie deadlifted 500 KG
Hafthor deadlifted 501 KG
Hafthor is the strongest
Joke of the century
Like both athletes. It's clear Hall's more compact frame gave him the advantage in static lifts (Hall would likely out bench press HB and Shaw, but maybe not Z) but Bjornsson's height gave him more leverage to perform better in dynamic lifts. It's especially clear in the tire flip and vehicle pull. this is why strength competitions are broken into weight classes. Pound for pound Hall was stronger, but over all Bjornsson is stronger.
They are so strong that I get concerned about bone breakage. Unbelievable!
Thor is overall clearly stronger because he is better at so many strength events . Human body has 600 muscles and using 3 static lifts ( squat , deadlift , overhead/bench ) as measurement of someone strength is stupid .
Powerstairs requires extreme fuctional strength and I would use them as better measurement of strength than for example bench press .
Dynamic events , static events , throwing things , pulling things , grip exercises all of those are indicators of persons strength and should all be taken into account when deciding who is overall stronger.
Thats what makes strongman competitions so great they really show us how strong someone truly is. " He is stronger in static events " is just poor excuse fans throw when fighting each other .
Can you do Zohan Dvir vs Larry Wheels?
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I believe there is no comparision between those two. Thor is miles ahead of Eddie. Eddie clearly was at his peak, almost dying and looking like a walking heart attack from the steroid abuse. He is the first strongman that i can remember to have palumboism and that's easy to understand when you hear him talking in his old interviews and how much he was willing to risk his life for it. He clearly reach a new level of static strength because he was willing to sacrifice his health and mobility in a way no strongman ever did. He reach 197 kg i believe, so imagine what kind of weight Thor could push if he was willing to bump his static strength like Eddie did, but that would mean he would not win major competitions like did, the type of cometition that puts your name out there to be considered the strongest. That, Eddie never reached, being a solid winner on high level comps. For Thor to even match Eddie's type of strength on the static lifts, puts him even above Eddie, because Eddie can't hold a candle on Thor's dynamic events. So, we're comparing a strongman that was good in a variety of events, almost with no weakness, with pretty good static strength while even increasing that on the end of his career against the guy that abused drugs and pushed his body to the absolute limit to gain weight and as a result lost a lot of mobility and dynamic strength. Seriously, there is no comparision, Eddie reached his peak and almost payed with his life but Thor never did. We never saw Thor's peak, im happy for his family and for his new life style, but we never saw his peak on the sport. When i saw him getting interview by Arnold on 2018 i believe, i saw the biggest human being to ever walk on earth, he made Brian Shaw look small. What would mean for Thor if he kept pushing his body to Eddie's levels? 220kg? 230kg? What about his static strength that already was at Eddie's level and even greater on lifts like the DL? That's what most people need to understand when they think about Eddie's static strength compared to Thor's, Eddie risked it all and was at his absolute limit, Thor wasnt. Eddie pushed his limits so hard, that his body got deformed, meanwhile Thor is looking like a bodybuilder without even training for it.
OK I didn't read that whole essay so maybe you mentioned this but Eddie also only won by one point in 2017 and Thor only got better from then
and you have proof of Eddie doing drugs?
@@heretoannoyu4706 he 1000% was lol. Pretty sure he would even admit it. All the top strongmen do
Lmfao look at this basement dweller
@@None-zv2qk again wheres your proof, what do you mean Eddies body was deformed, have you never heard of hard work, Thor took longer to win WSM, he even tried cheating and then cried cos he lost, Eddie worked hard to get where he is, got what he wanted and moved on
Imagine if both of them were still in wsm and someone like larry wheels put on some weight and was competing as well.
And like you said if Eddie wouldn't have retired you have no idea what he would be capable of when it comes to Deadman contest and lifting for records
Battle of the best friends Eddie vs Brian
Should have compared viking press
Love the video and comparison I would have to disagree on one that would be the deadlift yes Hafthor lifted two more pounds but look how long Eddie held the weight he easily could have done more so Hafthor would still edge out Eddie in an extremely close matchup it can definitely be argued for both guys to get the win. I love them both but I would give the slightest edge to Hafthor.
that's fair enough.
Can I ask how holding it for longer makes u able to do more?
As i always said these past 4 years eddie was the stronger in his prime on static lift, impressive shoulder,chest,quads,back power, but when he has to move hes not on the top, at least they dont have the same genetics eddie is not a 2meters viking haftor is stronger by his nature, eddie put all he could when he won the tittle, he almost died on scene lol, haftor with the training, the weight gained, he became stronger than eddie when eddies retired but i guess witout taking those risk like eddie
Like how they used a bulked Eddie for the image and an image that makes thor look bigger but either way both are strong but I prefer eddie
Eddie hall strict pressed 476 pounds relatively easily..... Thor had to push press 454 and barely got it....
Thor is on video strict pressing 450 on a regular barbell. Eddie turns his axle press into an incline
Brian Shaw vs Halfthor bjornsson