Surely it's an indication of its hardness that a Honeybadger standing against lions for that long is a non-story? Any other animal of similar size and it'd be viral by now, with an accompanying Facebook group and novelty t-shirts.
You've got no chance of 'the misinformed' ever admitting that the Honeybadger is the pinnacle of 'hard', regardless of evidence such as the above. It's sad but true.