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Video: Heimdall is now a kickboxer, will beat your ass with hands of Asgard

Most folks will tell you longtime actor Idris Elba is best known for his role as Russell "Stringer" Bell on the HBO series “The Wire.” To that I say, “shut up” because his name is Heimdall to comic-book fanboys like me.

Deal with it.

Elba, 44, made his pro kickboxing debut last weekend at York Hall on Old Ford Road in Bethnal Green, London, England, as part of a three-part documentary on Discovery Channel that is expected to premiere in early 2017.

"It has been a lifelong ambition of mine to fight professionally," Elba said (via Mirror.