Tommy Fury may be from a family of giants but the boxer joked that he’d never felt so small as when he was surrounded by some of the world’s strongest men.
Fury, who is 6ft 1in tall, shared photos with Hafthor Björnsson also known as ‘Thor’, Eddie Hall and Brian Shaw and looked minuscule in comparison.
The Love Island star, who is half-brother to legendary heavyweight Tyson Fury and fights at around 83kg, wrote: ‘Never felt so small in my life. Side note, I’m 6ft 1.’
Bjornsson is a behemoth of a man, stands at 6ft 9in and weighs around 200kg. The Icelandic strongman is known for his role as The Mountain in Game of Thrones, holds 129 world records and is regarded as the world’s largest athlete.
He’s won 32 competitions in his career and is the third most decorated strongman of all time.
His great rival, Eddie Hall, is best known for his record-setting 500kg deadlift and has transitioned into TV presenting since retiring from top level competition.
Tommy Fury was dwarfed by the Icelandic strongman Hafthor Björnsson (left)
The boxer shared a snap with British strongman legend Eddie Hall out in Malta
His latest show is called Battle of the Beasts and is in Malta, where Fury was rubbing shoulders with the great and the good of the strongman world.
The concept of the show is to pit some of the world’s best strength athletes against each other in a series of extraordinary challenges.
Hall and Bjornsson are not competing themselves and neither is Brian Shaw, the other monster Fury shared a snap with.
Shaw won the 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2016 World’s Strongest Man competitions and in his prime weighed 195kg. He stands at 6ft 8in and is the most decorated American strongman of all time.
Fury is used to being the alpha male but the boxer may feel the urge to head back to the gym after his visit to the TV set in Malta.
The 26-year-old’s boxing career took off after raising his profile having finished runners-up on Love Island with Molly May Hague back in 2019.
The couple have a daughter together and reconciled earlier this year having broken up.
Fury defeated YouTuber-turned-boxer KSI by unanimous decision and overcame Jake Paul in Saudi Arabia by split decision in his most high profile encounter.
Brian Shaw, who stands at 6ft 8in, was also on set in Malta with Fury over the weekend
Speaking on Eddie Hall’s The Good, The Bad & The Beast podcast, Fury said: ‘Even now, people message me like ‘if you fight him again, I think Jake is going to beat you’.
‘Ok, Jake might have been active than me recently but you can’t get better fighting 60-year-old men [Paul beat 58-year-old Tyson on a unanimous decision back in November last year].
I do not care who you are. At 60, you are not who you were. For him (Paul) to get better, he needs fights like he had with me. He has got the L. I am not chasing the fight.’
He added: ‘I think the Jake Paul fight. That is always going to be there because there is a lot of history with that fight.
‘It makes sense for both parties. There is not a doubt in my mind where I go into the ring with Jake Paul and I think he beats me.’
Fury was recently accused of lying about his completion of a triathlon after running his first along the French Riviera.
An article by Marathon Investigation declared that Fury did not actually finish the event, pointing to his bike splits, which showed he was not logged beyond the 48km point.
These splits were recorded every 6km along the route.
In fact, searching for Fury’s official time on the Sportstats website will reveal a large DNF next to his name, making him one of 93 athletes not to have completed the route.
Further investigation from tri247.com found that road closures had been shortened because the bike course for the amateurs had been changed since the event was first announced. The amateur groups were tasked with six laps of around 13km.
He had declared he completed the triathlon despite having just 10 days of training
Fury’s girlfriend Molly-Mae Hague said she was ‘so proud’ of him after the gruelling event
It then became apparent on the day that some amateurs, not just including Fury, were not going to be able to finish the bike leg before the roads were reopened.
The Professional Triathletes Organisation said: ‘Due to our permit for the road closures in France, unfortunately Tommy and some other athletes in the 100km amateur race were unable to complete the bike course before the cut-off time.
‘However, given our philosophy to grow the sport and encourage new athletes, we wanted to give them as full an experience as possible.
‘So they were all given the opportunity to do the 18km run and cross the finish line.’
Fury and other athletes wanted to continue when the roads were reopened and went on to complete the full 18km run before crossing the finish line.
However, his Instagram followers believe he should have been more truthful about his claim of officially conquering the triathlon.
