Eddie Hall is facing a setback in his ongoing pivot to professional boxer. The former World’s Strongest Man, who has been leaning down considerably over the last two years to focus on fighting, recently sustained a detached bicep during a training session, he explains in a new video on his YouTube channel.
“All I did was throw a lazy hook,” he says. “Nothing too strenuous, it was just like a lining up hook to line up a backhand, it just snapped off. It’s probably an underlying issue from strongman; I probably half-detached it from my strongman days, and then a hook, probably thrown a bit too hard, it was just enough to take the rest of it off, and it rolled up my arm.”
After rapid consultation with doctors, Hall learned that his injury was a relatively easy one to repair via surgery, with a positive prognosis in terms of healing and recovery. “We reckon I’ll be back in action in two months,” he says. “Obviously I have to recover properly.”
The surgeon explains that a small incision will be made in Hall’s arm, through which he will reach to reattach the tendon to the bone. “It’s like a button in a shirt,” he says, adding: “Part of the tendon is diseased—we’ll cut this part—otherwise it wouldn’t rupture… The tendon has been suffering for years. Micro-trauma.”
Hall actually ends up being conscious for the procedure, with a powerful local anaesthetic being injected into his arm. “It’s a bit surreal that you’ve literally got a gouge of my arm and reattaching the tendon,” he says during the surgery.
“It wasn’t as torturous as I thought it would be,” he says once the operation is complete, adding that he feels optimistic about beginning the rehab process as quickly as possible.
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