Thor Bjornsson threw an energy drink at rival Eddie Hall as the pair were held apart during a heated row ahead of their boxing fight.
Bjornsson and Hall will finally do battle in Dubai on Saturday having exchanged verbal jabs and heated words since their rivalry began in 2017. The pair have already been involved in a fiery confrontation when crossing paths at the shared hotel gym in the Middle East.
Bjornsson and Hall have clashed again with the Icelandic star seeing red and throwing an open can of energy drink at his rival. The pair initially stood up and threatened each other with Hall shouting: "You want to go now, let's step up and f****** do it." Bjornsson became quickly angered by the words and rose to his feet with his coach Billy Nelson and security holding him back.
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Hall quickly mocked Bjornsson pretending to run away and joking: "Stop holding me back, stop holding me back you f****** fanny. You are a scared little boy and a scared little child. Your whole life everyone has been scared of you but as soon as someone stands up to you, you s*** yourself." Bjornsson briefly fired back: "F*** you."
Bjornsson then pointed out Hall's son being in the room to which the Briton comically responded: "My son doesn't care he thinks you are a k***head." The pair were then sat down and appeared calm before Hall quickly shouted: "Pipe your mum down as well."
The 33-year-old was furious with the comments and shouted: "How the f*** you talk about my mum like that... I will knock you out." He then rose to his feet and grabbed an energy drink, opened it and threw it towards Hall before being held back by security and pushed well away from the scene.
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The Icelandic star's team quickly calmed the situation with Hall having the last word, shouting: "See you Saturday or see you at the weigh-in if you can learn to control your temper."
Both Bjornsson and Hall had heated words for each other throughout the press conference with the incident during their 2017 World's Strongest Man rivalry coming to the fore. Hall walked out after the press conference descended into a chaotic brawl.
He sent a vicious message to Bjornsson, telling iFL TV : "Thor just can't control himself. He is obviously just a wild man. He thinks he has had three fights, but he hasn't been in the ring with someone who is going to take his head off.
"He is a little boy, a little baby and as soon as someone stands up to him he s***s himself. I didn't say anything about his mum I just told him to shut her up. My final prediction is that Thor is going to get knocked the f*** out simple as that."
