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It's hard at times, you know, becoming successful can definitely be lonely because you isolate yourself from a lot of things, a lot of people sometimes because you just have to stay focused, like my days a lot of people I don't have a lot of freedom, you know, like sometimes I feel like I'm not in a jail but like I have a routine from the moment I wake up, from the moment I go to sleep there were a few things changed in the middle of the competition that I was unhappy with that I spoke a lot about, Adi wasn't happy about that he felt like I called him a cheater he made a fake documentary film showing that I didn't shake his hand so I clearly did, I did shake his hand and he's been salty about that for years now since 2017 and he's been dragging that along for many many many years since 2017 basically he hasn't got over that yet he has said himself online that he would have fought me injured and I'm tired of waiting for him to get the ready so he is sad at once so back up your words Adi, you always talk about that, back up your words if you get injured again, fight me injured I'm not waiting any longer, I'm not waiting any longer just get ready, train smart let's fight in March, I don't care injured or not it's not my fault, just train smart Adi, get ready and let's fight we're on, today's guest we've got Halfer, Bjornsson Halfer Bjornsson Yes, how are you big man? Good, how are you man? Really good, thank you first of all thanks for taking your time out and coming on the podcast you're a man of many talents world strong man, actor, boxer, world record holder it's great achievements, admit your father who's actually bigger than you which is unbelievable, I didn't think anybody could actually be bigger than you but first and foremost how are you brother? Firstly thank you so much for having me, absolutely pleasure being on your podcast and yeah I am good, a bit tired, been training extremely hard here in Scotland with my coach Billy Nelson everything is going well, I'm in preparation, camp before my fight against Adi Hall that hopefully happens in March if everything goes well that's the plan at least as of today it was supposed to happen this September but Erie got injured so it looks like he is healing well so the plan is to fight in March so I'm in mid prep now to prepare myself for that Like I said it's going to be a mega fight and shout out to my brother Billy Nelson I can't believe you're actually sitting in the air, far from Game of Thrones sitting in the air, it's quite a surreal experience brother but always go back to the start with my guests where you grew up and how it all began I grew up in a small town called Agranes lived there until I was 12 years old just a normal life, normal kid spent my summers at a farm my grandfather had a farm for over 30 years so I spent many summers there growing up and we moved to close to the capital when I was 12 years old we moved to a place called Cobor, very close to Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland and yeah, lived there my whole life normal life, I can't say I lived any when you use your life, it's just a normal family, lived a normal life as a kid I played basketball I was my real hobby and I really wanted to become professional in that sport had some injuries growing up my right foot was bothering me a few times so I took a break in basketball when I was around 16, 17 years old started to lift weights I was always a big fan of muscles as a kid so I used to do push-ups, chin-ups, syrups daily I remember myself eating at the farm where I spent many summers I remember myself weighing up and just doing push-ups because I just thought if I do a lot of push-ups, my muscles will grow so I just remember myself doing, I don't even know how many I just woke up, I was light so I could easily do 50-100 push-ups in 1-1 setting, I did them every day and then when I took the break from basketball I started to lift weights seriously grew very fast, my muscles, I saw them just packing on me I never went back to basketball because of that because of the addiction I got from seeing my body change I got addicted to that and I didn't really know where that was going at the time I didn't really know my plans, my future, I was young, I was 17, 18 I had no clue what I wanted to do in life I worked as a security guy in a bank that was my main job when I was 19 I completed my first ever strongman competition and did rather well I would say my first event in the show, I played second in the second event of the show I broke an Icelandic record carrying a horse over the stone so I was just like ok I'm doing quite well here maybe this is something I could do and I remember it wasn't a whole lot but after the show you got some money and I was like wait a minute I'd do this and I could get paid I thought to myself this is fun so I took it more seriously and I thought to myself if I do well in the show in Iceland I could possibly travel the world and compete and get paid so I thought to myself I'm just going to give it my all I'm going to go and start training the events take my food seriously and just give it my go like try and I tried and slowly but surely I started to do better Was there anybody else in your family who'd done that sort of thing I was watching from the old, John Paul Siegnersen who was a mega star from Iceland back in the day he won the strongman three or four times did you know, is that how you kind of inspired to once you kind of moved through the ranks at the strongman competitions? Yeah so no one in my family ever did strongman or any really sport to be honest my dad was a very strong guy and his as well as my grandfather but yeah I would say definitely like John Paul Magnusser Magnussen those guys like they opened the path for the younger generation for the new generation to first and foremost believe believe that we as a small nation we are able and we can become the best they opened the door first because it usually just starts here you have to believe in yourself and if you believe in yourself anything is possible I'm a big believer in that Yeah same, same when you are doing that though I used to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger videos and he used to say I didn't want to just bend the mountain jodeling my mum and dad just wanted me to stay there have kids and stuff do you ever feel that from yourself when you wanted to do strongman competitions that your family or friends ever say you are making a mistake, get a normal job this and that, was there any negative towards you doing it at the start? Definitely the beginning because the year decided that I wanted to try to go for strongman like early on I quit school decided I'm just going to quit school it's in the way, it's taking too much time I want to focus on my nutrition my sleep my training and recovery those things I just wanted, I was just obsessed with getting better and stronger so I quit my job and quit school and everything went into strongman at the very early stage so yeah for sure my family was just like I thought are you sure you want to do this is this the right decision is this marched, you're throwing away everything, you're throwing away your future like many people believe you should stay in school like I definitely recommend all kids to do I'm on the feel that it actually did work out it worked out okay for myself Yes that's not in this podcast there certainly has bro Yeah absolutely but you know there was something inside me that just told me follow your heart, follow your dream not that becoming the world's strongest man at that stage in my life was my dream I just, I had the passion to do something different not to do like everyone else like staying in school, do this and that I wanted to be different, I wanted to be the best in something and I believed like there was a small small belief inside of myself early on in my career that I believed and I believed that I could like make a living and I could do well for myself in this I just had to work hard and I wanted to work hard in those areas like that was my passion so I thought well if I just eat well, sleep well, train hard which I already enjoy I didn't get paid that was my, honestly like a lot of people say you should never like do it because of that and that but that was my motivation because like I rather do that thing than work in a bank as a security guy that's just the fact Did anybody ever try and rob the bank when you were there? No, the bank was safe I wouldn't fucking rob the bank mate if you were standing at the door anyway Where did you get that, where did you get that belief from? Where does that come from? It's a very, very, very good question you know what It's a very good question I have a great support all of myself I remember even during my basketball days my dad would drive me pick me up watch all the games be involved in everything he could be involved in and that I guess that helps you know a lot and also you want to make the people around you proud they're helping you, they're supporting you and you feel obligated to do well like in some areas, in some ways like you just mentioned you know my dad this year today I'm 32 years old and actually turning 33 in this month he's still supporting me he's still here with me and that itself is a huge motivation for myself Yeah, having a backing from family members or friends because I'd imagine it would get a lonely journey from you like the constant training the eating like the constant self-doubt everything that comes with it but if you've got that support network there then if you all like to believe your number one are unstoppable having that support network just fucking raises you to the stratosphere where nothing's going to stop you even your dad Taylor who I've spoken to is a great man you can see how proud he is of you everything you've achieved at 32 is kind of unbelievable from Iceland taking the risk and taking the chance that's why it's important for people watching to understand that you can't achieve anything with a strong belief system but you have to work like fuck to go and chase those dreams to make it happen put that into existence do you still feel that like because I know how you talk about your family all the time how close you are with them that network of when you're not working, you're with your family like is that a major impact on your life to keep you grounded? Yeah, absolutely, I'm a big family guy and but the road to success is also lonely sometimes for example I'm here for almost two months in a camp without my wife and son and daughter I miss them deeply but I have to think like I'm doing this for them I'm building a few I'm doing it as much as for them as well as for myself I want to make sure they are taken care of it's hard at times becoming successful can definitely be lonely because you isolate yourself from a lot of things many people sometimes because you just have to stay focused like my days I don't have a lot of freedom sometimes I feel like I'm not in a jail but I have a routine from the moment I wake up from the moment I go to sleep I wake up I eat my breakfast I train and you know there's this schedule throughout the day every single day and I always go to sleep at 10 p.m. so I get my body ready the next day and this is just what I have to do to become better as good as possible as I can't become in anything I do and that's the mindset that I have I have a great coach that's willing to help me and I have to take the advances of that and try to become as good as possible within the time frame I have that's important though to be the better version that you were yesterday to keep improving your success leaves close to 2018 your results obviously winning the strongman was it 2018 you were second, third, third, second so many times I believe 99% of success is failure I believe you've got to keep failing but the thing about yourself is you never gave up, you never quit where does that also come from was that just a belief that your dad ingrained into you or was it something that you'd learned through the years never to give up that people throw in the till after one failure second and third isn't a failure but it's so close where it can break people so much to go I just don't think I'm good enough but for years you kept working at it where did you get that I'm not going to equip mentality until I succeed probably a combination of a lot of things probably helps a lot like you said I have a good network around me good support from family that believes in me and then just the mindset that I had that I always truly believed that I could become the best I never gave up no matter what I wanted to see my goals and I kept fighting every winner every successful person has failed in their lives and there's just facts but the reason why they became successful because they never gave up yeah what was your first strongman competition was it 2012 2009 you started so how old were you then 19 where did you finish then fourth and what was the hype then did that change your life that no I competed in Iceland wait 2000 I might be the thing is I'm so bad at timings I might have been 21 actually I might have been 21 I might have been 21 but anyways age system number doesn't matter yeah that didn't change my life no that was just the beginning but soon though soon my life changed because I took it very seriously I made progress quite fast how was your what year did you finish second 2012 I played second two times I played third four four times second three times you remember right and then first ones how was that then coming second how was that feeling for you working all year round working your whole life to get to where you are then finishing second was there ever a moment in your mind you weren't good enough or you were going to quit or was it just straight back to the gym again and fight for that first place just ran away to the gym and never thought to a moment I wasn't good enough because I knew I was good enough was always just like to be honest with you it mattered sometimes half a second or less the first time I played second was in 2014 against the greatest tournament of all time Seater on Savikas and I made some silly mistakes that year but I didn't give up I knew that if it was that close I can definitely become the world's strongest man if I'm that close against Seater on Savikas the greatest of all time and at that year 2014 he was strong so I definitely knew that I would become the best what sacrifices do you need to make to become the strongest man on the planet? you know you have to sacrifice friendships time with family social networking there's a lot of things you have to sacrifice mostly times with friends and then obviously family times as well for example now I was always with my wife and son and my daughter but I have to stay focused and they can't be here but I have to be here so I have to do what has to be done how do you deal with that then being away from family like obviously we're on the road quite a lot and I have to be away from my kids but I'm on the way for like 4 or 5 days then I'm home for maybe 3 or 4 days and I just in my mind it's to give them more opportunities that I didn't have like on the 26th of September he's birthday my son's a 27th that's how I know that but I've seen you with a picture of your son and he already looks massive is he going to be a future a world strong man you know what I get this question a lot and I'm going to support my kid in anything whatever he wants to do but as a parent you know kind of choose where they start that and I'll probably start with him in swimming classes gymnastics something something that's just good for him as a kid if he has the passion for strongman I'm never going to say no but it wouldn't be my preference it wouldn't be my preference I would want him to rather just stay in school and do basketball football soccer is that because it's such a tough industry it's a tough sport and what you have to put your body through as well put your body through a lot being that heavy isn't healthy long term so I wouldn't want that for my son but I would never ever say that he couldn't do anything if he wants to do something I'm going to support him no matter what how does a kid from Iceland then get offered a part in Game of Thrones the biggest series of all time watched by hundreds of millions like worldwide no acting experience did you ever visualise that did you ever think of that that you were going to be an actor was that any part of your plan how did that come into existence did you ever thought that I would become an actor like you said I had no acting experience at all and during those years my English wasn't even that good for some reason speaking English was a challenge for myself in the beginning of my strongman years but over the years it became better and better so like I was obviously nervous like I thought myself speaking roles of the talk memories things am I going to be good enough is it going to look okay a lot of these things you think about self doubt you're doing it for the first time like anything it doesn't matter what you're doing in life if you're doing it for the first time I'd be surprised if someone out there listening they say that's nothing if you haven't done it before you get nervous that's just absolutely normal so I definitely got nervous luckily for me as an unexperienced actor I didn't have many lines I had very few lines that was nice I killed a lot of people a lot of physical stuff physical stuff that I do which was bad for me because I'm good in those areas body weight I'm able to learn those things fast so that was easier for me to do so it was a good beginning of my acting career very good how big that show would have been did you know that was going to be a worldwide success I came in in season 4 so it was already quite already successful and I was watching the show when I heard the news that they wanted to see me wanted to get me in for audition I was watching the show so I was like what I didn't believe it I thought it was some kind of prank but it wasn't see the training you've done for the fighting scenes do you think that benefited you getting into the boxing yeah probably in small degrees boxing you have to move very well but you know maybe in small degrees boxing is very technical extremely difficult sport there's so much to learn like it's but it definitely probably didn't in small ways how do people then treat you and the world's strong ones when you become a successful actor you basically become a superstar does people want to be your friend are they kind of a lot of jealousy because of what you're achieving also I think it's like both some people become very jealous and some people want to obviously become your friends so it's like both so 2007 they say it was the best finals ever on the Strongman with you you and Eddie Hall you lost with one point how was that feeling because that was the closest you come to winning that I was closer I was quite close there but there were years before 2014 half a point versus that year was quite frustrating for me to say at least there were few things changed in the middle of the competition I was unhappy with I spoke a lot about Eddie wasn't happy about that he felt like I called him a cheater he made a fake documentary film showing that I didn't take his hand so I clearly did I did take his hand he's been salty about that for years now since 2017 and he's been dragging that along for many many years since 2017 basically he hasn't got over that yet that I was unhappy with the ways how things were were done that year but you know it's just it's competition you know I wanted to win he wanted to win like call me live if you want but things were changed to the fucking competition that's just facts people know that he knows it they make it look like it was the Viking press that was the biggest issue when in fact that wasn't the biggest issue and so that documentary that Eddie posted on Giant's Life that was posted by Eddie Hall just him an official strawman page which is owned by Eddie Hall and Colin Price his best friend I believe it was also posted on maybe Giant's Life page but it was taken down there fast and I truly believe it was taken down because the World Series men, people weren't happy that's just my thoughts I just wonder why they took it down but it's still up on Eddie's page but only there on other pages it's up yet it's on his page he wasn't happy with Hawaii I made a post basically saying that I wasn't happy with how things were run that year I took the post half an hour later because I felt like I acted fast I thought things through better but then I've moved on he hasn't, he's still salty about that he's still unhappy with that I've said congratulations I said congratulations back in 2017 I feel like he wants me to say it again but I'm not doing that back in 2017 move on, let's fight let's finish this after the fight, let's move on and just forget about this it's affecting him more than anyone else and it's damaging his when he is damaging his when more than anyone else by talking about it so much he's making people talk about it and making people doubt it he's making people doubt his win by constantly mentioning it so Eddie, if you're watching this just move on for yourself let's fight I'm excited, I'm training hard I hope you're training hard as well and soon you'll feel this fist I can't wait is that where your beef started? 2017? it started the main beef started then for sure we were okay before that we were there was nothing we were okay before that but yeah, it started there did you not have a stroke on 2017 as well? 2017 I had not a stroke a lot of people think it was a stroke I had Bell's Pulse which can come because of stress 2017 I had a lot of things going on in my life my daughter was taking away from me so that was a big big stress in my life and other things probably the loss as well which is a lot of things that happened that year so I got Bell's policy which is basically half your face gets paralysed and yeah were you still okay to why did they let you carry on the tournament? I got Bell's policy when was it few that was even before Bell's policy was it? yeah right before Europe's strongest man probably when I think about it probably got it just because of the stress not seeing my daughter and that was right before a week or so before a few days before Europe's strongest man 2017 was a by way of one yeah because I seen the interviews and the lips down and stuff and that was the world's strongest man I seen that in 2017 as well so we still able to carry on and do everything as normal as well so the doctors recommend you to rest completely when that happens but I'm just not that kind of like sometimes I don't listen and they told me to rest but I was just like I can't rest I have a competition coming up so I compete it even though they recommend me to rest and that's probably one of the reasons why it took me so long to recover from it and I am still recovering actually and it's 2021 almost 2022 so after that event then after all the kind of emotions and everything through it like what was the game plan for you then to take rest or go straight back in because you won it a year later so what was that year all about then once you came so close again and going through everything from the media and all the bullshit to then winning it in 2018 how was that year training so tell you a crazy, crazy fact I never really rest it I always trained like a maniac for 10 years straight I'm not joking I might have maximum rested for a few days back in the gym I never took a vacation rest or anything I just trained like a maniac that's probably one of the things that my wife probably hates the most about me is that we never have vacation I keep telling her well I'm young now I'm doing well we like face well now while I can to work hard now while I can now I'm doing well for us now I'm building our future now I have to work hard we'll rest when we're older see I say all that shit as well but sometimes I think to myself I try and convince myself because I try and keep busy the busy area I am the list of demons in the head tell me things like any mental health issues I probably do without even knowing I probably do because I feel the happiest when I'm the busiest when I have a when I have a schedule when I'm training my ass off I feel the happiest when I'm on a vacation sitting around doing nothing eating junk food maybe and whatever I get depressed I feel inside I feel I'm getting behind I feel like I'm wasting my time so even on a vacation if I go to a vacation still training sounds never really a fucking holiday no it's crazy that the one it but then again how can you judge it when you've achieved so much at such a young age as well do you feel that that you feel as if you're wasting time if you take a couple hours rest do you feel as if you're obviously I take day off rest is important but when I'm talking about vacation I'm talking about weeks 2-3 weeks I rarely ever do that but as you get older you appreciate the rest more so I'm gonna try to be better that as well obviously having my son having my daughter I really have to think about them as well my wife try to be better at that in the coming years hopefully after the fight against Eddie but that's the thing as well you finish some goal some of the else comes up and you're like fuck I have to be prepared for that I feel like I never can take time off but I wanna though in my mind right now I want to do it I wanna take time off and I wanna like treat my family treat my wife just go and just do nothing for 2-3 weeks hopefully I'm able to kick myself in the head and do that after this fight but that's a luxury to have to have so many job opportunities to have keeping so busy like that's the sacrifice to be one of the greatest the sacrifice of not spending time with family the sacrifice of not spending time with friends that to be the best you've got to do what the rest can't do and that's to spend a lot of time alone to work hard to progress to because I believe when I'm on my own I think differently I come up with better ideas and if I'm surrounded with people it's just noise constant noise and everything's kind of muddled up but to be the best like you say you've just got to fucking sacrifice until you get to a level but for me looking at you I don't think you could have a fucking stop I think you'll be constantly you'll be working on Game of Thrones season 45 and in your 70s if it comes back but it's unbelievable what you're achieving but when you won in 2018 how was that feeling because you broke all sorts of records you won the European you won the Arnold Schwarzenegger what was that competition so I won everything I competed in that year I won the World Swordsman I won Euro Swordsman Arnold Classic in Ohio I won World Ultimate Strongman and I won also Ice Swordsman so all the big shows that competed in that year I won and those were the biggest shows that year that anyone could compete at and that's very hard to do you see guys they win one show and that's great and that's awesome you win the World Swordsman that's great but going from one show to another show winning that you have to be very good to do that because a strongman can be very good at 5 events and you would be lucky to get your best 5 events in that show but to be able to go from a show to a show to a show to a show and win them all against all the best guys that's something that very few athletes can do only handful of guys in the world has done I can like Marius Putzkinowski has done that he actually has never won even he's talked about as one of the best ever but he has never won the Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic but he though he won like he won the Worlds a lot of other titles you know but he never won the Classic we talked about Brian Shaw known as one of the best he won the Arnold he won the World Swordsman and other big shows as well he obviously can compete at the EU because he's not from Europe then we talked about Cetron Savicas who is known as the best best ever he has won like multiple shows as well so it's only handful of guys that have ever done that that has gone from a show to a show to a show and just won it why is that because it's extremely difficult why is it difficult because you have to be so good in so many different events tell me that's when you won all those events did you ever feel satisfied tonight yeah yeah absolutely I was very happy with 2018 obviously but you want to keep going that's just the person I am even though I won everything I want to keep going because I'm a winner I'm not a quitter and I kept going and did well that year as well won some classic one year as a man and then I went into 2020 just compete at the Arnold's and then obviously I broke the world record in that lift 501kg under world conditions I was supposed to fly to buy that year to lift the weight but because of covid and everything in lockdown the promoters asked me if I wanted to do it back home in Iceland for the people at home watching and just live streaming it making it available for millions of people to view and it was actually very successful a lot of people watched it a lot of people tuned in and I pulled 501kg I would have loved to do it in a different situation but it wasn't in my hands covid hit us I was in the peaks of my life there and I wanted to do it and I did it Why did you choose that World Record to beat was that because Eddie Hall had that one it's a good world record 501kg is a lot of weight but also just to poke you a bit just to show him that he can be a bit dramatic sometimes showing that he almost passed away and died that day people can do it without dying and I did it with a smile on my face put the weight down and walked away healthy was trained in the back the next day nothing like the assignment that he has done by lifting 500kg was remarkable great but let's be honest a little bit dramatic a little bit dramatic but it was great though Do you feel as if you could have left it more? that day I truly believe I feel like I could have left it more but that was also one of the reasons I have a one was just like just teasing why white the more there's no need to do more it's more than 500kg I'm not here to make it impossible for others to break the record I want the next generation to beat the world record I want others to have the opportunity to beat my world record and there's a lot of strong guys out there that can and I truly believe that in the next few years there's someone going to come and beat the world record Andy Hall didn't take the world record lightly he made a lot of accusations saying that there's refs in your pockets it should have been done in front of fans and stuff like that like how does that kinda can you not enjoy that moment or is it kinda will say what you've got to say it didn't affect me he can say all he wants saying that the ref was in my pockets absolutely nonsense we had one of the best referees in the whole world most respected referee in the whole world who is referee at the World Series Man referee at the Aldousen One Classic the best referee that you can ever ask for and you could just watch the lift itself like how can he cheat that it was live streamed every single plate was wait live streamed it's not it isn't possible to cheat it in any way it's not possible for him saying it is you know in my opinion a bit cheltis of him but he can have his opinions you know that's fine it's not gonna affect me he's a grown man he's a both one so you can see where the conflict comes obviously he's one at 2017 you've won it 2018 then broke his world record he knows he's been put out a joint where that's where you're being targeted to then the boxing fight eventually happening yeah I mean the boxing fight is definitely happening because of the beef between me and Eddie it's real I dislike him and he dislikes me he wants to knock me out I want to knock him out and that's why I truly believe that people want to see this fight because I truly believe that he's doing anything in his power to train as hard as possible he's probably training right now and I'm doing everything in my power to to be ready I'm sacrificing my time with my family to be here to train with the best condition I can be in before the fight with the best cuts I can possibly find in my opinion, Billy Nelson with the like yeah like there's nothing else I could do to get myself in a better place for this fight how did it start how did the who called to force for the boxing match so after the 501 I called him out there wasn't discussions before but I called him out and now here we are because he's supposed to fight in September but he pulled the bicep yeah he I think he tore it during a sparring session is that right? how's that feeling then to be training hard and then everybody talking about the fight world headlines, sacrifice and family time as well to then it's obviously super frustrating and he has said himself online that he would have fought me injured and I'm tired of waiting for him to get ready so he is sad at once so back up your words you always talk about that back up your words if you get injured again fight me injured I'm not waiting any longer just get ready train smart let's fight in March I don't care injured or not just train smart get ready and let's fight what was it like the first time you started boxing? uh... I thought I would have a heart attack like seriously I thought I would fucking die and I mean I still feel like that sometimes obviously it has gotten a lot better a lot better sparring three times a week right now I'm able to spar and feel good and get hit and hit back it's getting a lot better I remember the first time Billy said to me Thor skip for 12 minutes straight 12 minutes straight fuck but you know you get used to it you get used to it are you getting used to the intensity of it the movement like it's a totally different ballgame different from strongman what do you think is harder actually strongman or boxing training wise boxing do you feel as if it's got easier that you've lost more weight yeah for sure the thing is it's kind of my memory in the strongman maybe was easier because I had already done it for 10 years and my body got used to it used the movements and everything when I started the boxing journey every time after each session my knuckles my wrists, my body would be in agony because my body was not used to hitting the backs but now I've been doing this for a year and a half or slightly more and I'm more used to it my hands are not in pain anymore my body feels better I'm recovering better I'm learning more the reason why I've done these exhibition matches is so I can know how to pick for a fight learn from my mistakes do better that's what it's all about is to learn and get better and it definitely feels harder the reason why it might be first off I'm so new to the sport how did you feel with your first professional fight I wouldn't call it professional I don't know I have a huge, huge respect for boxing respect for fighters I would never call myself professional but no headguards in that that takes balls man to do that shit especially the guys you're fighting it's not as if they're fucking amateurs they're monsters as well who was the guy you fought I fought first Steven Ward and then Samuel Wallin who was he but what was his background who was he again he's from UK I can't remember his record he's a professional boxer good moments been doing it since he was young I mean I don't know who was the one you fought the ice rink or the ice hockey ice hockey? yeah was it an ice rink you were fighting in sorry? I've seen a boxing match but I thought it was like an ice rink oh yeah Daven he is an arm wrestler so that was a bit unmasked even in my opinion well my first two fights was also a match because my opponents had much more experience but they were also lighter so I mean I don't know see when you do the fights in Eddie Hall because the fight you were supposed to fight Eddie in the 18th he watched the fight back cause the injury watched it back do you watch those videos when he's watching videos of you talking about your fight I've actually seen that and it's funny it's easy to sit down and criticize people and what it is at home and he's been saying online that I my punches are weak and he wouldn't be scared to get punched like with my power and okay that's fine Eddie like say all you want you better be standing tall after those six rounds if not you can look bad it's everything you said he's been talking he's been very loud saying this and that saying that my technique is awful and weak and my punches do not hurt okay Eddie that's fine say all you want we'll see do you think after the fight though with the last four years all the cheating allegations they're not really everything that's been said between both of you do you think he can move on squash the briefing and that's it done or do you think there'll be like a rematch or more shit all behind that I've actually moved on even though I don't like the guy obviously when someone yeah I don't like the guy but I've moved on since 2017 he hasn't he's still there he's still grumpy he's still angry and he'll probably never move on but I've moved on so there's nothing for me to move on like I just want to beat him up just because I want to beat him up it's nice when you get when you dislike someone you actually can beat them up and it's fucking legal that's fucking perfect like whoa when you say chase for me I can beat this guy up and like no one can say anything people can dispose it so that's great but I've moved on and I'll take his hand after after that match he'll probably he'll probably make a dog rematch film and he'll probably remove that handshake probably as well that's okay that's okay he can do whatever he wants yeah did you feel targeted when all that shit kind of went on like I looked at him and shook his hand definitely I got messages every single day from fans saying that they were disappointed I didn't shake his hand this and that and that and like I can't be answering everyone and I'm not going to make fucking excuses I'm not going to come up with something you know if you believe that fucking nonsense you believe it then fucking unfollow me and I don't fucking give a fuck I don't need to give an explanation yeah see when you you started how did the sparring session we call on McGregor become about well I was filming in Palfo city and and he obviously from Dublin was training for a fight was training for one of his biggest fights it was just alto and a good friend of mine Gunnar Nelson was training with him in a training camp and I knew that so I sent him a message say hey I'm in Belfast city can I come can I just have a free day can I come hang out you want to come hang out so I went we took some pictures we chilled did some grappling a little bit and then afterwards um did some sauna and it was good times did they try and hit you hard it looked as if they're not trying to kick you in the belly or something or punch you in the belly what happens if you in a real fight obviously with his combat skills he's a world athlete like he's next level superstar after that alto fight but you two coming together and really having a fight if you grab him obviously he's finished but would you take your chances fighting somebody at that weight no silly it wouldn't look good for me I wouldn't do that like a lot of guys say you should fight a lot of guys keep saying you should fight Logan Paul I feel like he's too small too small for me to fight you know that would be good for my profile he's a superstar but I mean if he would call me out I wouldn't say no but I'm not going to call him out I think for those Logan and Jake Paul I think what they're doing is unbelievable I think it's great for this but I think they're making Mullians are a couple of young kids are anybody that's looking for inspiration understand all the shit talk they do about it's business people need to understand that they're creating a platform look how big they are they're fighting world champions possibly Mike Tyson one's flopped Mayweather what's your opinions on the what's your opinions first of all on Logan Paul because I know you've been on his podcast I think he's a great guy I like the guy cool guy smart guy business guy doing well for himself and good for him and if he called you out for a fight you would accept yeah I mean I would be a friend to fight I wouldn't call him out because I feel like it's kind of silly you know he's smaller lighter but if he calls me out that's a different story I think he's got a set of balls on him I think they both can fight anyway like I think they would I think they don't give a fuck I honestly do you heard Jake Paul saying that he wants to fight Canelo it's kind of silly huh but he would I think he would not maybe tomorrow but maybe in a few years yeah but they're getting 10, 15 Malina fight it's unbelievable what those two kids have achieved it's unbelievable I genuinely respect that people can what they can achieve and get themselves into a world stardom by fighting professional fighters it's unbelievable but if Jake if Logan called you out then you would accept but you think you would take about a billion if you called him out yeah I think so wouldn't you agree it's a different story if he calls me out yeah it's unbelievable what about Jake Paul who's accused he fighting Jake Paul is fighting Tommy Fury the kids are on 10, 15 Malina fight it's unbelievable so say after you won when I first spoke about about in 2018 you were a world strongman what was going through your mind how was that feeling for you I mean it was a relief a big relief to finally achieve your goal to win something that big I worked really hard for it for many years most on the podium since 2012 my first ever world strongman competition was back in 2011 been in the finals every single year that I competed at the world strongman so it was a big relief and yeah it was good but you know I'm that kind of guy even though I see my goals I don't just sit down and stop I started to think right away okay I achieved this what's next I don't really give much elements break to celebrate do things that is like I won great what's next a bit crazy there how long do you enjoy it for a day two days do you have a beer or do you just eat what you want for a couple of days I might have actually when I think about it I remember we went back to the hotel we got a table at the hotel didn't even go out I had a table at the hotel and I think I had maybe a glass of wine with my coats and my family a glass max and then I went to bed that's that celebration time that's my celebration your wife as well she was meeting a Canada she was a waitress the support does that help from your wife and obviously your son to then back you to just let you do what you've got to do to achieve what you're achieving she's super supportive super understanding she would never say no to me if I tell her I'm going for a camp she says okay she's a very supportive understanding wife she's just great she's the best and that's a great thing to then be doing what you're doing because there's no pressure no bullshit no nagging just understand what you're doing understand what you're doing for the kid I support you 100% she understands 100% and which is great I couldn't ask for a better wife but obviously it's hard luckily we have a good support system at home as well like you guys know my fans know I'm very close to my family we have a home in Iceland a house and my sister my mom are just always just 10 minutes away so if she ever needs help they're always there what's the plans for the future brother you've done you've seemed to have achieved so much at 32 years old like the acting career strongman boxing events like after the whole fight what's on the agenda for you if you've got big plans you go to rest eventually take that vacation I might take a two maybe hopefully I want to say I can't promise I want to I want to take two weeks off but I can't promise because I'm just I'm crazy like that if I'm able to take two weeks off that'd be nice and then I'm really enjoying boxing actually I'm really enjoying boxing I have I'm always a busy guy I have a lot of things lined up work wise I could definitely myself doing more boxing I definitely could see myself spending more time with Billy here doing more camps and fighting more you must be fucking crazy brother if you want to spend more time here you must have Scottish in your blood somewhere fucking hell I want to do everything so I can get to fuck from here I'm crazy that's true just before we finish up who would you like to fight then if you're enjoying it so much who's on your eye line you know what I haven't gotten there yet one step at a time one goal at a time I'm not going to get the hell out after that I'll sit down with my team with my coach we'll see what's open and what's available and we'll take a decision from there and we'll see a WWE not come calling yet I mean there's a lot of things that have been a lot of offers throughout the years but I wouldn't do UFC to be honest with you I'll stick to boxing I'll stick to boxing just before we finish up brother give me a prediction for the fight we've had the Hall and Match a prediction truly believe that I'm able to finish him in third fourth round with an apocot apocot or body shot is that your strongest shot I have a lot of talking like I'm so good but you know I can hurt him in a lot of different ways so we'll see last question brother for anybody that's watching maybe going through a bit of struggling life or want to achieve something what advice would you give for them remember you're not alone things get hard with everyone for myself for you, for anyone out there don't give up and if you ever feel like you need help, seek it and God bless you all the best to you and your family absolute pleasure brother for giving me the time I very much enjoyed that and I can't wait to see what you do for the future good luck for your fight and match and thanks to your dad take care everyone take care guys, all the best