General Classic World Strongest Man Competitions.

[kvr28]

Loved watching these on ESPN classics back in the day.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjvF2kHppJo

 

[Lennybishop]

Pluto tv has a channel dedicated to these. The wife and I would watch it. Some of the things they do are crazy. The "side line" reporter. Where unintentionally hilarious.

 

[Chrit]

Its crazy just how much stronger the competitors are now.

Throw Thor, Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall, Mitch Hooper, and Tom Stoltman into one of those old competitions and they would wreck shop.

 

[Jamie999]

Its crazy just how much stronger the competitors are now.

Throw Thor, Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall, Mitch Hooper, and Tom Stoltman into one of those old competitions and they would wreck shop.

Hardly.. They wouldn't have access to any of the training knowledge, drugs, drug knowledge they do now.. They'd be shells of themselves.

 

[Chrit]

Hardly.. They wouldn't have access to any of the training knowledge, drugs, drug knowledge they do now.. They'd be shells of themselves.

Thor and Brian Shaw would dominate in any era just due to their size.

 

[Rambo John J]

These were awesome
half hour segments on ESPN I believe

 

[Wiggy]

To be fair, almost all of today's competitors are actual strongman competitors...meaning they train for actual strongman as their primary training function.

I actually happened to be writing (a little) about the inaugural WSM in 1977 - it was bodybuilders vs O-lifters vs martial artists vs track & field throwers vs football players vs powerlifters vs etc.

(Franco Columbu (RIP) was <190lbs bodyweight and was co-leading the event with Lou Ferrigno at one point.)

Guys didn't start actually training for strongman until years later, and even then, they were other types of lifters & such first. It wasn't until *way* later that guys were training for primarily strongman.

Early WSM compared to modern-day strongman is like comparing 1993-1995 UFC to modern-day MMA.

 

[Chrit]

To be fair, almost all of today's competitors are actual strongman competitors...meaning they train for actual strongman as their primary training function.

I actually happened to be writing (a little) about the inaugural WSM in 1977 - it was bodybuilders vs O-lifters vs martial artists vs track & field throwers vs football players vs powerlifters vs etc.

(Franco Columbu (RIP) was <190lbs bodyweight and was co-leading the event with Lou Ferrigno at one point.)

Guys didn't start actually training for strongman until years later, and even then, they were other types of lifters & such first. It wasn't until *way* later that guys were training for primarily strongman.

Early WSM compared to modern-day strongman is like comparing 1993-1995 UFC to modern-day MMA.

Its also interesting now that WSM isn't even really the premier strongman competition anymore.

Strongest Man on Earth and Rogue Invitational pay better... and SMOE is really the premier comp when it comes to brute strength.

 

[kvr28]

To be fair, almost all of today's competitors are actual strongman competitors...meaning they train for actual strongman as their primary training function.

I actually happened to be writing (a little) about the inaugural WSM in 1977 - it was bodybuilders vs O-lifters vs martial artists vs track & field throwers vs football players vs powerlifters vs etc.

(Franco Columbu (RIP) was <190lbs bodyweight and was co-leading the event with Lou Ferrigno at one point.)

Guys didn't start actually training for strongman until years later, and even then, they were other types of lifters & such first. It wasn't until *way* later that guys were training for primarily strongman.

Early WSM compared to modern-day strongman is like comparing 1993-1995 UFC to modern-day MMA.

it is a classic


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHHPJGFtoYQ