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  • Gzim Selmani Eyes BKFC Title, Calls Out Eddie Hall, Targets Summer Return

    Gzim Selmani Eyes BKFC Title, Calls Out Eddie Hall, Targets Summer Return

    Gzim Selmani is back in training less than a week after his BKFC debut KO, targeting a return around summer 2026 — and he has the heavyweight title firmly in his sights.

    The former WWE tag team champion, known in wrestling as Rezar of the Authors of Pain, laid out his competitive roadmap on The Ariel Helwani Show following his 2nd-round finish of Daniel Curtain in Newcastle, England.

    “I hope somewhere around the summertime I’ll be in there again.”

    The Title Picture

    Selmani made no secret of where he sees himself in the BKFC heavyweight division. Selmani noted that the path to a title shot in BKFC doesn’t necessarily require a lengthy queue.

    “Not too far away, I think. Let me rack up some wins — and I’ll knock them out, too.”

    He pointed to the fact that Andrei Arlovski received a title shot after only a handful of BKFC fights as evidence that big names move quickly in the promotion.

    With Selmani’s combat sports pedigree — trained by Golden Glory alongside Alistair Overeem, a Bellator veteran who nearly signed with the UFC — he considers himself an immediate contender.

    Eddie Hall Callout — No Response

    Selmani also addressed a callout he made to World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall, who had been targeting smaller opponents including Dylan Danis.

    “He was calling out Dylan Danis, and I’m watching from home thinking, ‘What the hell are you doing? This guy is a quarter of your size. If you’re really that tough, call out a heavyweight.’ He got beat up by his buddy Hafthor Bjornsson, and now you want to call out this little kid? So I called him out — but his management didn’t want anything to do with it.”

    The Conor McGregor Connection

    UFC legend Conor McGregor — who is a part-owner and partner in BKFC — personally invited Selmani to a show in Manchester, which introduced him to the promotion. Selmani mentioned McGregor by name in his viral post-fight promo and described the investor group’s conviction in BKFC’s global potential.

    “They really believe in the company — they know it’s going to go globally and be as big as UFC or bigger.”

    It’s a significant vote of confidence for a promotion that McGregor has been tied to as an investor since 2024, and one that Selmani clearly views as far more than a post-WWE landing spot. His identity in BKFC is built on a simple philosophy he has carried his entire career — the bad guy who keeps beating hometown heroes in front of hostile crowds.

    “I was automatically always a bad guy. I used to go to all the other countries to fight — Macedonia, England, Bosnia — and I always fought the hometown heroes, and I always beat them up. They always boo me, and I love it. Let me be the bad guy, but I’ll still knock your favorite out.”

    Newcastle was the latest chapter in that story. Summer 2026 will be the next one.

  • Why Dillon Danis vs Eddie Hall Must Happen According to UFC Veteran

    Why Dillon Danis vs Eddie Hall Must Happen According to UFC Veteran

    UFC veteran Chael Sonnen has explained why he wants to see a bizarre crossover fight take place between Dillon Danis and Eddie Hall.

    For the longest time now, Dillon Danis has been among the top 10 most hated fighters in mixed martial arts – and potentially combat sports as a whole. After an initially promising start to his MMA career, Danis seemed to fall back on his friendship with Conor McGregor. In addition to that, he opted to troll just about everyone he could on social media, which really became his ‘signature’ move.

    Nowadays, though, it seems as if Dillon Danis is working his way into a position of prominence in the influencer fighting scene. There have even been suggestions that he wants to square off with Eddie Hall who, for those who don’t know, is a former World’s Strongest Man. While that may seem like an absolutely insane idea, it’d likely be in a setting that would allow Dillon to utilize his jiu-jitsu skills.

    Either way, in the current landscape, Dillon Danis vs Eddie Hall is a fight that can actually happen – whether you love it or hate it. Chael Sonnen, who has had his fair share to say on the influencer scene, recently had the following thoughts on Danis vs Hall.

    Chael Sonnen wants to see Dillon Danis vs Eddie Hall

    “Big guy, game vs smaller guy with skills. Story told many times. Fascinating. Promoter would book it, audience there. Eddie Hall will do it, Dillon will too.”

    What a world we live in.

  • ‘NGANNOU VS. HALL WHEN’ – Fans React As Eddie Hall Shockingly Upsets 28-Fight Veteran In MMA Debut At KSW 105

    ‘NGANNOU VS. HALL WHEN’ – Fans React As Eddie Hall Shockingly Upsets 28-Fight Veteran In MMA Debut At KSW 105

    It didn’t take long for Eddie Hall to pull off an absolute stunner in his professional MMA debut at KSW 105, needing just 30 seconds to put away Mariusz Pudzianowski.

    In a battle of strongmen champions, Hall landed a combination mere seconds into round one that caused Pudzianowski to stumble. Pudzianowski attempted to fight back and regain his footing, but a series of continuous strikes from Hall saw him flop to the floor completely.

    Hall then landed unrelenting ground-and-pound until the referee halted the action.

    Fans React As Eddie Hall Jawdroppingly Stops Mariusz Pudzianowski In Under A Minute

    Hall, who had been training with UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall in the lead-up to this fight, won a number of England, Britain, and UK’s Strongest Man titles before winning the World’s Strongest Man competition in 2017. Hall competed in an exhibition boxing match in 2022, losing by decision to another strongman – Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson.

    Pudzianowski, who won several World’s Strongest Man titles during the 2000s, has now dropped three straight fights. This was also his first fight in just under two years, having most recently fought at KSW 83 in June 2023, losing to Artur Szpilka.