Eddie Hall recently took down Mariusz Pudzianowski in an MMA debut and came home hoping to have some calm time to rest. However, he was instead involved in a scandal once the video of him chasing down multiple cars was shared on the internet. Well, Eddie shared a YouTube video of his own, revealing exactly what led to the intense situation and backed it up with CCTV footage.
The video of Eddie Hall confronting a driver of a vehicle emerged on the internet and quickly gained a lot of attention. In the video, Eddie was seen exchanging words with another man before chasing down multiple cars in a very aggressive manner. He also allegedly punched one person and damaged a car. So, Eddie decided to counter the charges with video footage that was captured on his CCTV.
Check out the altercation here:
Eddie Hall’s Explanation of The Situation
After the three cars parked in front of Eddie Hall’s driveway, his partner, Alex, came out with a guard dog, asking the people to move. However, they remained in the vicinity of the property, which continued to put Eddie Hall on edge. So, seven minutes later, Eddie decided to talk to the people, only wanting them to move.
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“Three cars with blacked-out windows came to my home, beeping horns, revving engines, very loud exhaust, and basically sat there for a total of ten minutes before Alex went out to tell them to go away very politely. They then went from one side of my driveway to the other side of my driveway and stayed there for a further seven minutes.
I was in the garden enjoying a nice fire with my son, smoking a cigar — pretty chill, you know. I’ve just come back from a fight in Poland… And then Alex sort of comes to me and tells me what happened. I look at the CCTV and they’re still there. So, I go down… I don’t want to hurt them, don’t want to aggravate them, and don’t want to upset them. I just want them to leave.”
While he was talking to the driver of one car, they revealed that they came to get a picture with Eddie Hall, as per his statement. However, Eddie was already agitated due to the disrespect that was shown to him and his family. So, he reiterated that he wanted them to move away from his property.
“So I’m telling this guy to f**k off. Just get away from my house, get away from my family. You’re scaring my kids. They’re in bed, you know; they’re looking out the windows. Why is the car there, sitting there with blacked-out windows, revving their engines? Just go away. I’ve got no interest in what you’ve got to say.
He then says something like, ‘Look, I just want to get a picture with my kids.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t care, mate. I don’t care. Just f**k off.’ And he says, ‘You’ve upset my kids.’ And you can hear in the video I said, ‘What about my kids?’ You know, you want me to respect your children’s emotions? Respect my children’s emotions. Just f**k off.”
Once the car started moving away from Eddie Hall’s driveway, the driver apparently told him that he was going to knock him out. That was the drop that spilled Hall’s cup, as he started chasing the cars and threatening the driver. Once he saw the person recording, Eddie started to chase the other car. His only intention was to grab the phone and throw it away.
“And then he starts creeping away, and as he’s creeping away, he looks at me and he says, ‘I’m going to knock you the f**k out.’ Of course, after an 18-minute interaction — I’ll prove it with the CCTV in a second — you see red, you know. I’m protecting my kids; I’m protecting my family. You don’t say that to someone who just wants you to leave their property, man. So I blow up, you know, ‘Get out of the car. I’m going to twist your head off,’ all that kind of thing.”
As for the accusations of physical harm and damage to the vehicles, Eddie Hall points out that the person filming would have a much more noticeable reaction if he was in fact the victim of his punch.
“He’s saying I punched him in the jaw and smashed the cars up. Did you see any of that in the video?
And you can clearly see as he’s driving off — if I had hit that guy in the jaw, I think he would have said, ‘Ow,’ you know. I think he would have been like, ‘Oh, you booger,’ or, you know, some kind of reaction. But I didn’t touch the guy. I did not touch the guy whatsoever.”
Eddie Hall also touched on the topic of the pressure that he feels when it comes to fan interactions at times, as well as the effect that it has on their children. In doing so, he got emotional and mentioned a similar interaction where people slandered him for rejecting a photo with a fan shortly after he and his partner sadly lost their unborn baby.
“No one is welcome to my home… People who come to my home, you are going to get told to leave. I am not doing pictures with kids, adults, infants, babies, or old people. I don’t care. This is a place of peace…
Alex miscarried; we lost our baby. As I was walking out of the hospital, someone asked me for a picture. I said, ‘Not today, mate’. He posted online and said, ‘Asked Eddie for a picture today; he is too big time, wouldn’t do a picture with me’.
It is like, I can’t even lose a child without someone coming and asking me to stand there and smile for their precious picture… And then you get f**kers like this that think it is okay to come and harass you any day of the week.”
Watch the full video here:
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Eddie Hall also revealed that the police did get involved in the case. However, they apparently didn’t find any marks of physical harm or damage to the vehicle. So, it remains to be seen how the situation will play out.
As for his career, Eddie Hall has recently talked about his future in MMA. Specifically, he addressed the possibility of taking on one of the greatest MMA fighters in history, Francis Ngannou. Despite being scared of the fighter, Eddie stated that he would be ready to accept the match if the money is right. So, we might see another spectacular fight from Eddie Hall in the future.
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