World's STRONGEST Man VS SUMO Champion!!

Hawkeye! Hello YouTube! Welcome back to the channel. This is Will Strongest Man. Try sumo. Looking forward to you wiping the floor with everybody today and teaching our guys a bloody good lesson. Hello YouTube! Welcome back to the channel. Today I'm going to try my hand at sumo wrestling. I'm with Steve Patesman who has been the British sumo champion 12 years in a row at some point. He was the third best in the world at sumo. You've been over to Japan and you've repeatedly got the best in the world. I'm in probably one of five places in the UK that still practice sumo wrestling. Today I'm going to get stuck in with some British champions and Steve's going to show me the ropes. Good luck Eddie! Tell us a little bit about it. Obviously the history is from Japan, that's where it started. Well sumo, like most forms of wrestling, is thousands of years old. The beauty of sumo is very, very simple. Push your opponent outside the circle or push them to the ground. It's that easy. There's no complicated rules. The referee just says, and away you go. So your whole objective is to push your opponent outside this ring? Exactly, or push them to the floor. Right, and I believe you gentlemen wear a certain, what's it called? It's called a mawashi. Basically a loincloth, probably about eight metres long. Might be a bit shorter because you're quite slim, Eddie. Yeah, yeah. Probably weighs about three kilos or so. But if you can grab hold of that, Eddie, I can't see anybody beating you. Use your strength. Grab hold of that mawashi. Let's see if you can lift those 180 kilo wrestlers up in the air and march them out. You're the man. I am the man. Let's get it. Right, Eddie, Greek banger. 100 kilo British champion. Wow. A lot lighter than you, 175, perhaps 180. But banger is highly technical. All I want you to do is try to usher banger out without falling flat on your face or without accidentally stepping out. Yes. You might want to try to lift him out and walk him out, or you may just usher him out, just push him out. Oshi-sumo, pushing. Okay, so let's do it step by step. Should we go from here? Can I do it? He's already got me in the low position. So what would I do if he gets this position? Just stand your ground. Okay. Now, he's got a slight advantage, although he has turned his head to the side. Grab his belt. Okay. Slowly, slowly. Stop there. Did you see how, watch me. Did you see how, when you push him out, banger moves to the side. You've got to catch him off. When you're pushing banger out, like this, he's starting to move to the side. Right. Yeah? Yeah. Good. That's it. But, at the end there, do you see what you did? You stepped out. Right. You didn't lose that one, but you could do. Yeah. So be very careful. So make sure you stay behind. Be aware of where you are. Don't get into the habit of not following them out. If you have to, sometimes you have to. But, don't do this. Yeah. Don't assume that you're going to push them out. They're not out until they're out. Hug it! Hug? Get it down, because if you touch the floor with any part of your body, apart from the soles of your feet, you lose. That's right. That's fast. Like a squirrel. It's crazy. Just use your legs now, Eddie. Push out. Don't move backwards. Do not move backwards. Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly. Edge him out. That's it. Hug it! How? You must have, like, spider sensors on your feet or something. I'm like 70 kilos heavier than him. How did that happen? Okay, stop. Whoa. In a sumo contest, you go against someone, how many bouts do you have? Just one. Just one? Normally, sumo is just a knockout. You lose the first round, that's it, finished. What we do in this country is everybody will fight everybody twice, and then whoever has the most wins, that will be the winner, the champion. Plus, I want you, Eddie, to learn from any possible mistakes you may make. Say if one of my wrestlers beats you in the first section, you've got to say to yourself, I'm having that blighter in the second round. Yeah. I'm having him. You've got a great brain for lifting things and pushing things. Strongman is perfect training for sumo. I'm looking forward to you wiping the floor with everybody today and teaching our guys a bloody good lesson. That's a bit cool, there we go. No pressure. I know, yeah. So when you go to these big world sumo events, how big are the big guys? That chap I fought, the world champion, at 300 kilos, is the biggest ever. There's not that many people more than 200 kilograms, but there are a few. I'm sorry, 300 kilos? I fought the world champion in Geneva a few years ago, well, perhaps a few decades ago, and the world champion was 300 kilograms. Now, I managed to beat him purely because I was quite a technical wrestler, a bit like Banger, but to fight people over 200 kilograms, there are a few and far between, but they are there. Yeah, right. Your weight is uncommon. So at my biggest, I was 196 kilos. Right. So 433 pounds or something. That was my very biggest. And I know how big I was. So to think that there's human beings out there bigger than me, that's quite scary. That is very scary. All right, the room's filling up now. Me and Banger are just warming up, and we've got some of the big players here. I think we've got the… Are you the current British champion, D? I'm the open weight champion, and this is the heavyweight champion. We've literally got the open champion and the heavyweight British heavyweight champion. And the 100-kilo champion. So we've got a room full of champions. Soon not to be. Guys, 15 minutes warm-up, please. 15 minutes of destruction. Eddie versus Banger. Round one. Hockey on it! Was that me? You stepped out, and he's like this. So in that instance, am I better off just falling on him? No, just take your time. Did you get what I mean? Take your time. Just ease him out. Did you get what I mean? I did that just so I didn't fall on you. Hockey on it! 3-2, Eddie. Good job, man. Hockey on it! Okay, that's the end of the first round. Okay. Round two. Banger and Eddie. Oh, wait, aren't you knackered, Eddie? No, I'm okay. You're blowing a bit. I don't want you to think I am. Round two. Hockey on it! Stand up! Hockey on it! Nice weave. Okay, let's squeeze deep. Hockey on it! Squeeze the face. Hockey on it! Okay, let's squeeze deep. Hockey on it! Good job, mate. Hockey on it! I want to set up a podium. I've got three of my white desks in the middle down there, two to one side. I've checked and double-checked everything and there were two players, two fighters, who have just had two losses. So, the grand final is between Eddie and Deep. Okay. Give yourselves a couple of minutes to get yourselves together. Sight yourself up. No, no. Deep. Let's get it. Final round. Back from the west. Eddie Hall, also his man. From the east. Deep. From London. White day. They all squeeze him out the nose. Hockey on it! Yes! Good job, mate. Good job. Way to go, Mr Hall. Good job, good job. Results are in. In third place, Courtney. Thank you, big man. In second place, Deep. And the winner, former world's strongest man, Eddie the Beast Hall! I just want to see you squeeze me in the middle. The sumo trophy! Awesome. You look all right. Yeah. Congratulations, Eddie. Thank you very much. I told you you could do it. I'm well happy. And do you know what, mate? Above anything else, I've really enjoyed today. Fantastic. It's been really enjoyable for me. I mean, banger. Gave you a few lessons in the warm up, didn't he? Yeah. But after that, your brain clicked in. The strong man brain where you've got to adapt to all sorts of situations. That clicked in. Yeah. And as you progressed, you got better and better. Really proud of you. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. The other lads were just talking to me there. You've got the world championships in October in Japan. Yes, we have. And they were itching for me to come and have a go. Well, it's a possibility. What would I have to do to come along with you guys? Under your guidance, what would be the procedure? You'd have to win the next little competition to decide the heavyweight or the openweight category. That goes. So then you would compete in the heavier categories. Right. So I reckon you'd do very, very well in the openweight. Right. You know. Is the openweight the higher tier one, so to say? Well, they're all great. If you're a world champion of heavyweight or the openweight, they're all fantastic. But once we got a young lady through to the final of the world championships in Japan, she had 12 weeks training, and she got through to the final. Adele Jones from Derby. She got beat by a goliath of a Russian woman. But it'd be great to get someone else through to the final of the world championships in Tokyo. In Tokyo. A home of sumo. It sounds interesting. It sounds very tempting. So how many times would I have to train per week, per month? Obviously winning the next contest. But what would I have to do to get there, so to say? Well, the thing about you, Eddie, is you're obviously very strong. You've got good balance. But most importantly, you've got a good brain. But on top of everything, you're very competitive. Yes. So if you trained, carry on doing the training you're doing, and then just come sumo once a week, you'd progress 500%, and you'd have a good chance of winning that world title for Great Britain. That would be phenomenal. Is it an Olympic sport? It wants to be an Olympic sport. It's not quite there yet, but it will probably in not the next Olympics, but the one after. So there you go. Eddie Hall, world sumo champion, coming later this year. Steve, I want to thank you again. Fantastic. Welcoming to your gym, and your lights have been fantastic. I've enjoyed myself. Well done, Eddie. Thank you. And congratulations on a fantastic victory. You've beat some very strong guys. 190 kilo, Courtney, and very well done. Awesome. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. Thank you. Right, there we go, guys. Hope you enjoyed that, because I did. That was so much fun hanging. I mean, these are British champions. These are open and heavyweight. So to go up against these guys today and do what I've done, I'm very, very happy with myself. I'm very tempted. This world championship in Tokyo in Japan in October, I am very, very tempted. Really tempted, in fact. So watch this space. Right then, guys. Hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to like the video, subscribe to the channel, and I'll see you next time. Big Love to Beast. Take care.