Pereira’s record for the hardest punch ever recorded lasted just two weeks ago as former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall showed off his jaw-dropping power.
Alex Pereira broke the record for the hardest punch ever recorded just two weeks ago, but former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall has now one-upped him.
UFC champion Pereira shattered Francis Ngannou’s seven-year record at the UFC’s Performance Institute earlier this month. The HQ has a high-tech machine known as the ‘Power Cube’ that measures the force of a strike in units. Ngannou topped the list at 129,161 but Pereira shattered that with a score of 191,796 – and now Hall has recorded a whopping 208,901 on the machine.
Hall won the World’s Strongest Man in 2017 and retired from his strongman career the year later, but has since dabbled in combat sports and was supposed to make his MMA debut in February. The 36-year-old was scheduled to fight Mitchell Hooper, who won last year’s World’s Strongest Man, but the event was postponed.
Hall’s strongman buddy Brian Shaw watched on as he broke the record and fans couldn’t believe their eyes. “Bro casually breaking records,” one comment read. “Just think if he got the proper whip on it too,” a second user added. “Imagine the force Pereira would have generated at the same body fat percentage as Eddie though,” a final user wrote.
Pereira weighs around 230lb when he isn’t training for a fight whilst Hall is around 360lb, but weighed a massive 430lb at his peak whilst competing in strongman. Hall admitted that he missed out on life-changing money when his recent fight fell through as Shaw was also supposed to compete on the card against the ‘World’s Scariest Man’ Martyn Ford.
“I’ve been training for an MMA fight for the last, I’m going to say six months of my life and I’m sure you’ve heard the news, seen other articles, big Brian Shaw has talked about it. Don’t know quite what went wrong but the fight fell through. It was big money, it was life-changing money,” Hall said on his YouTube channel.
“That’s why I took the contract. Me and Brian being family men, we want to secure our futures, make everything financially secure for our children, our great grandchildren etc. We took this deal, we had a contract in place and it all just fell through. It’s just one of those things.”
