Tony trained at a gym in Hamden, CT when he was in the WWF. Saw him flat bench 500 pounds. He was about 6'2.5" for those who are interested because of the exaggerated heights of wrestlers. His legs looked even worse in person. As an aside most of the WWF wrestlers of that time worked out in Hamden. Jesse Ventura mostly stood around and talked more than he lifted. Jesse was also about 6'2" tall. Good sized guy but not huge. Swede Hanson had the biggest wrists I ever saw on a human being. He was in the gym on a Sunday morning going thru the motions and said to me - "I need a beer".
About five years ago, I watched Tony still bench 405 five times as if it were weightless. (I could barely bench press my body weight at my best.) I put 270 on one of those safety squat bars you can squat from the floor, which weighed 75 pounds, put a foam pad on the bar, lifted it on my forearms across my chest and walked it across the floor as part of my deadlift workout. He stopped to watch me as I showed what I could do well at 50+. I already had told him I could never do what he does so easily.
I used to workout in a now defunct Gold’s gym and the wrestlers would workout there when in town to wrestle at Maple Leaf Gardens. I met many of them including Ventura, Steamboat, Studd, Mosca etc, etc. None of them blew me away in terms of their size or workouts. Ventura was trying to forge a career as a rock singer and his voice was trashed. This was sometime around when he was in that terrible sci-fi movie Abraxis.
I met Tony Atlas when I worked at JFK airport back in the 80's.He was very friendly,signing autographs and just being a very down to earth class act guy.
In 1979, a new pro wrestling publication hit newsstands and magazine racks across the nation. It was Pro Wrestling Illustrated. When the first issue went to press, Ken Patera was ranked at #4 in the National Wrestling Alliance and in the Most Hated Wrestler category. He and John Studd were also ranked at #4 in the Tag Team Division.
Because he was a loose cannon that fit the heel role perfectly. Patera always seemed awkward as a babyface. He was much more suited to be a heel. A perfect example of his real life loose cannon persona would be the McDonalds incident in which he tossed a 30 pound boulder through a McDonalds window after being refused service. He then beat the shit out of several cops as they tried to arrest him. He spent 2 years in prison. Thats why he was the perfect heel, cuz he was also one in real life
I remember this. I never saw Patera in person, but I saw Atlas twice; June 1978 against Cyclone Negro in Columbia, SC, then in November 1992 as a heel against Brad Armstrong in Greenwood.
i lived in minnesota in 1973, when gagne was crowing about snagging patera after the olympics. gagna snagged and trained so many top shelf wrestlers but couldn't keep them.
i might be wrong here but i think the trick to exploding the hot water bag is, if you look at tony's left hand which is on the side of the bag that you cant see, he has a finger taped likely with a blade so when the bag is stretched enough he cuts it.
maziku If he could inflate it until it turned white like that, that is really dangerous. If it blows back into his lungs, it could cause a pulmonary hemorrhage.
"Did you see henry ripping off ken's act by holding back a car." Yes I did, the WWF/WWE wants legitimate strongmen to do that so they do it.What's your point? "Henry didn't compete long enough in any sport to be considered the strongest." He did not compete long,but nonetheless he came up with the highest Supertotal of all time,all-time squat and deadlift and drug-free total World Records&an instant Strongman Champion at the ASC-The short time and little effort makes all even more impressive!
You have to remember that henry had no competition for those olympic titles when he was winning them.Ken did it during the golden age of american weightlifting.When ken won the nationals in 69 Joe Dube from the USA won the world title.Ken was beating the likes of bednarski and dube during his later years.he was alsop competing againest Alexeev for the world titles.
He was dangerously close to Alexeev in his prime. Patera had great potential and Alexeev admitted Patera was actually stronger but he had superior technique.
"Alexeev won 8 world titles,two olympic golds,8 russian titles.8 european titles and 80 world records but henry is stronger." Yeah Henry's stronger because he had more absolute strength. Patera was arguably stronger than Alexeev as well. Alexeev was none the less a better Oly.Lifter than both without a doubt. Why? Superior technique, skill, balance, flexibility, practice, agility. Alexeev is a weightliting legend but not the strongest man in history!
@ThorMaxx No, I mean, literally SMASHING THE NAIL. As in destroying the nail, bending it, crushing it. Without damaging the piece of wood used to smash the nail with. I would love to see that.
He wqs supporting himself and his family. Wrestlers didn't make as much as they do now in Tony's day. I'm sure he did whatever was asked of him in order to pay the bills. Wouldn't you if you were in his position. Alot of these interviews with the older wrestlers have them talking about being on the road all the time to make money to support thier families.
+kelamo It's probably because he has heat with WWE. Patera has had some not so nice things to say about Vince over the years including that he wears dresses at night. Plus, Patera blames Vince for getting convicted for the McDonalds thing, where as he got Jimmy Snuka off the hook with a murder charge.
@@AlbanianMan As far as I know he doesn't blame Vince for him getting convicted. In fact, he said himself that Vince took care of his family while he was in prison. He does have heat with WWE however, but Patera is kind of a loose-cannon and the last thing they need to do is give him a live-microphone in this PC atmosphere.
D2K Prime he holds a grudge against Vince because while he was sending checks to his family, it was also seen as a loan in which he had to pay Vince back with money that came out of his WWE salary. He is also part of that concussion lawsuit that was filed a little while back. But I think the main reason is like has been mentioned , He’s a loose cannon and they don’t want to give someone like that a live mic in WWE’s current PC atmosphere.
He was 320 in the Olympics, but I think he was about 350 give-or-take when he started wrestling, he was also several inches shorter than Henry. I've seen pictures of Patera back then and the height/mass ratio was pretty similar. He was a big block of a guy. But I wasn't comparing Patera to Henry in strength, I was talking about how he dropped his mass and altered his in-ring style.
@@fjccommish Ken can kiss my Barbie. I know, that was crude, but I couldn't resist. 😅 Seriously though, in wrestling, I'd say overall they had roughly equal success, they both wrestled roughly the same amount of years, but while Patera had more overall titles spread throughout the Territories he was never really The Guy, at best he was the guy to get through to get to The Guy
Never worked his legs All upper body power house I have a 38 inch inseam Old as Ken Same game as Tony But could jump 36 vertical 100 meters 11 flat until late 30 Weight's Leg strength A Fing sissy 😂 Bench shameless 375 12 time's Biggest asset's Speed Power then pride Pic's real 67 Not one of grey Fighting M.s. Aortic aneurysm 4 Stroke and Brain lessions Last dance Age 47 Not too 🤓 Life very short laugh at yourself Never Quit
In the WWF the let Rocky Johnson handle most of the promos when they tagged so it didn't look as bad, he was illiterate in reality, met him before. And the pay sucked back then he lived in the hood in the Bx for years in the 80's.
For the front squat he did 650 in front of Bruce Wilhelm easily.Olympic lifters don't really do the power lifts but Ken benched 560,reportley did a 1,000 in the back squat and pulled over 900.His dunk was flat footed bigf difference and what about the 66 plus shot put(officail) ?Henry never came close to competing in the olympis in anything but weightlifting.Ken was close enough in the shot to almost make the team.Henrylifts were 25 years after ken and he still couldn't beat them.
Ken Patera was first man to press 500 pounds and he was an olympian and this was in the 70's. Mark Henry set a world record with lifting but injury forced him out of Olympics. Mark henry also won the Arnold Classic where he basically lifted a Hummer. Patera claiming the World's strongest Wrestler was a good gimmick for him but Henry at one time Truly was the World's strongest man....a world record power lift proves it
People don't realize how much stronger Ken is lifting then Toney 1 is a body builder 1 is a powerlifter a Olympic medal winner record holding that even mark Henry didnt break and that's strong
does anybody know what the white guy said at 2:02???? i thought he said "im not gonna show NOBODY" but then when you really listen and watch his mouth it dont look like that is wat hes sayn
"Zavikus won 6 arnolds 2 wsm and 3 wsm 2nd place" Yes he has won even much more than that - he's the most accomplished strongman in history, he is also stronger than Pudzianowski, no doubt. I don't argue that Henry was necessarily stronger than him, but it's reasonable to say that if Henry would have trained and competed in strongman comps he could have been on the level of Savickas. And Henry's raw squat>Savickas eq squat + Henry's deadlift>Savickas deadlift. That's fact. So potential-wise H>S
"not deep unlike kaz's." Kaz had good depth and walked the squats out, but Henry had absolutely good depth as well! There's no discussion whether the lifs were good! And again Kaz's best was 925lb squat in an early squat suit&wraps and Mark did 953 raw with wraps. Henry was the better squatter. Henry also deadlifted 903 and 887 in the same year. Kaz's all-time best was 886.sumthing!
As for the powerlifitng records they don't stand anymore and what federation did he do it in.The ipf is regarded as the most legitimate org.Don Reinhoudt holds the squat records in many people's eyes as i believe he used no wraps nor a belt.Bill kazmaier was the first to clean and press the thomas inch.But that's like a 5 pound dumbell today as the lifters are using 250 pound dumbells now.Ken did his records in the late 60's and early 70's don't you think henry should be way past them in the 90s
"and he benched over 600 as well."Reinhoudts best is 607. Henrys best is 585lb and he never trained it.There is absolutely no doubt that he would get in the 600lb range if he had stick to powerlifting and trained it. He has a 65 inch chest - A trained Henry at 30-35 years old would easily smoke that as well as squat a grand and deadlift in the 1000lb range. He squatted 1000 in training. His official deadlift is higher than Reinhoudt's as well.And Reinhoudt has the greatest raw total of all time.
Zavikus won 6 arnolds 2 wsm and 3 wsm 2nd place finishes but henrys stronger,kaz won 2 ipf titles and the wsm 2 times and holds the pl record total but henry is stronger.Don Reinhoudt won 4 ipf worlds titles and 1 wsm titles and a 2nd place finish yet henrys stronger.Alexeev won 8 world titles,two olympic golds,8 russian titles.8 european titles and 80 world records but henry is stronger.Jon paul won 4 wsm titles
He is intelligent as he is a great storyteller and remembers details about everything and you can tell he thinks about things and presents it in order. However he is illiterate or to say it nicer not educated so his language and speech are simple and not proper and refined. I don't think Tony really cares either he's a down to earth simple country guy who likes to enjoy life. He had the best wrestling physique ever and probably had all the women he wanted. Tony knows he was done wrong but admits his responsibility for some of it but isn't bitter. That speaks a lot about his intelligence regardless of his education, diction and vocabulary.
Henry has a guy in the 240,220 class lifitng with him.Henry used wraps ,he used suits not like the suits of today but suits however.ASk yourself what's better 901 at 220 or 903 at 380.
Look at the difference in size of Tony Atlas between 1978 and 1980. I think somebody introduced him to T, DD, and HGH during that time. He had to be 40 lbs. more muscular in 1980.
Ken looks absolutely TERRIBLE in this video. Normally, he looked like Mr. Universe. At his top level, Patera had the best body in wrestling, and one of the best bodies in the world.
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This is a great example of the good thing's that surrounded pro wrestling at that time. Tony was very young in this video too.
Thank you!
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Tony trained at a gym in Hamden, CT when he was in the WWF. Saw him flat bench 500 pounds. He was about 6'2.5" for those who are interested because of the exaggerated heights of wrestlers. His legs looked even worse in person. As an aside most of the WWF wrestlers of that time worked out in Hamden. Jesse Ventura mostly stood around and talked more than he lifted. Jesse was also about 6'2" tall. Good sized guy but not huge. Swede Hanson had the biggest wrists I ever saw on a human being. He was in the gym on a Sunday morning going thru the motions and said to me - "I need a beer".
It cause it was an upper body business back I the day
About five years ago, I watched Tony still bench 405 five times as if it were weightless. (I could barely bench press my body weight at my best.) I put 270 on one of those safety squat bars you can squat from the floor, which weighed 75 pounds, put a foam pad on the bar, lifted it on my forearms across my chest and walked it across the floor as part of my deadlift workout. He stopped to watch me as I showed what I could do well at 50+. I already had told him I could never do what he does so easily.
Jesse was big dude in his day and he was a navy seal. He was legit
I work in Hamden
I used to workout in a now defunct Gold’s gym and the wrestlers would workout there when in town to wrestle at Maple Leaf Gardens. I met many of them including Ventura, Steamboat, Studd, Mosca etc, etc. None of them blew me away in terms of their size or workouts. Ventura was trying to forge a career as a rock singer and his voice was trashed. This was sometime around when he was in that terrible sci-fi movie Abraxis.
Ken Patera was one of my all time favorite wrestlers, His brother Jack was the original head coach of the Seattle Seahawks.
No way. I didn't know that
I had the honor of meeting and hanging out with Mr. Patera back in the late 80's , he was one hell of a nice guy .
This is funny....Times have changed....lol
"have an opportunity to find out how much hot air you have" Love it!
Tony was great, he played a role and matched Ken Patera's bad guy role move for move, classic!
Patera was every bit as strong on the mic as he was in person!
Silly foolishness!
Oh come on, that was embarrassing.
I met Tony Atlas when I worked at JFK airport back in the 80's.He was very friendly,signing autographs and just being a very down to earth class act guy.
Was he supposed to spit on you?
@@wileecoyote5749 WTF??
Love these guys, Great performers
Love this channel. So many classic videos from a great wrestling era. I grew up watching these wrestlers. I love that i can show my kids these.
In 1979, a new pro wrestling publication hit newsstands and magazine racks across the nation. It was Pro Wrestling Illustrated. When the first issue went to press, Ken Patera was ranked at #4 in the National Wrestling Alliance and in the Most Hated Wrestler category. He and John Studd were also ranked at #4 in the Tag Team Division.
Tony Atlas Was Massive , Legend in the Sport ..... not to mention he was Strong as all outdoors .
Patera looks surprised when Tony drove that nail through that pine board.
Because he was a loose cannon that fit the heel role perfectly. Patera always seemed awkward as a babyface. He was much more suited to be a heel. A perfect example of his real life loose cannon persona would be the McDonalds incident in which he tossed a 30 pound boulder through a McDonalds window after being refused service. He then beat the shit out of several cops as they tried to arrest him. He spent 2 years in prison. Thats why he was the perfect heel, cuz he was also one in real life
1:47 "We'll put all that stuff over there, for the time being." I don't know why, but that line killed me.
giantkiller56 because it was just a lil spike and a steel rod lol
I dunno, man. I think it's more about how awkward the delivery was. The whole segment was just, wow.
This is really interesting, actually.
love ken's sideburns !!!
Now who could not like this video, hilarious!
I remember this. I never saw Patera in person, but I saw Atlas twice; June 1978 against Cyclone Negro in Columbia, SC, then in November 1992 as a heel against Brad Armstrong in Greenwood.
Hell I had almost forgot Patera , the Man is quite amusing .
3:20 with headphones in you can hear ric flair cutting a promo
He came to my high school when I was a kid and did this
I remember this as a kid…
Gotta love the OG strong men of wrestling from back in the day 💪
I wish I could have witnessed the 70's...
Tony Atlas was so jive!!!!LMAO!
Tony Atlas sounds like Cleveland Jr. Lol
Atlas should have been a comedian
Good old days
Nostalgic
Thank God they weren’t having a mike skills contest.
They are more about action than talking.
i lived in minnesota in 1973, when gagne was crowing about snagging patera after the olympics. gagna snagged and trained so many top shelf wrestlers but couldn't keep them.
Dude, I'm telling you, old ladies can smash a board with their fists. Now, smashing the nail without breaking the board. That's something else.
i might be wrong here but i think the trick to exploding the hot water bag is, if you look at tony's left hand which is on the side of the bag that you cant see, he has a finger taped likely with a blade so when the bag is stretched enough he cuts it.
maziku If he could inflate it until it turned white like that, that is really dangerous. If it blows back into his lungs, it could cause a pulmonary hemorrhage.
"Did you see henry ripping off ken's act by holding back a car." Yes I did, the WWF/WWE wants legitimate strongmen to do that so they do it.What's your point?
"Henry didn't compete long enough in any sport to be considered the strongest." He did not compete long,but nonetheless he came up with the highest Supertotal of all time,all-time squat and deadlift and drug-free total World Records&an instant Strongman Champion at the ASC-The short time and little effort makes all even more impressive!
Umm why does tony atlas's tights looks like a diaper..
paul kersey fuck u little bitch
Hey man Tony's cool. Save that for New Jack
paul kersey don't say dat shit no more..
J'ron Hardiman fuck outta here nigga
it's called a "fight diaper"
Atlas was a charisma machine!
I always enjoyed Ken Patera especially on his shoots he's no holds barred, between Atlas and Patera neither really was super for mic work; lol
You have to remember that henry had no competition for those olympic titles when he was winning them.Ken did it during the golden age of american weightlifting.When ken won the nationals in 69 Joe Dube from the USA won the world title.Ken was beating the likes of bednarski and dube during his later years.he was alsop competing againest Alexeev for the world titles.
He was dangerously close to Alexeev in his prime.
Patera had great potential and Alexeev admitted Patera was actually stronger but he had superior technique.
Lol. Love Tony's down-home, country, plain-speak.
Saw Tont Atlas jogging in Auburn Maine years ago
LMFAO
What a classic!
"Alexeev won 8 world titles,two olympic golds,8 russian titles.8 european titles and 80 world records but henry is stronger." Yeah Henry's stronger because he had more absolute strength. Patera was arguably stronger than Alexeev as well. Alexeev was none the less a better Oly.Lifter than both without a doubt. Why? Superior technique, skill, balance, flexibility, practice, agility. Alexeev is a weightliting legend but not the strongest man in history!
“I don’t have to talk about myself” he says after 30 seconds of him talking about himself and his accomplishments.
Is that andrew dice clay?
Tony Atlas was great with this "Yessabossin" act
Yassuhh Massa Jones
Stephon Fitchett
@ThorMaxx No, I mean, literally SMASHING THE NAIL. As in destroying the nail, bending it, crushing it. Without damaging the piece of wood used to smash the nail with. I would love to see that.
Looks like Flava Flav after ten years of steroids, lol
Both classy guys....
Imagine myself having the strength of Ken and Tony all in person by age 25. I would have had loads of fun.
Black Atlas was my favored wrestler
Patera murders another promo
Tony Atlas was of walking minstrel show. I can't believe he allowed himself to be displayed in this manner.
Atlas was a lovable lummox that played his part well!
It was beautiful.
He wqs supporting himself and his family. Wrestlers didn't make as much as they do now in Tony's day. I'm sure he did whatever was asked of him in order to pay the bills.
Wouldn't you if you were in his position. Alot of these interviews with the older wrestlers have them talking about being on the road all the time to make money to support thier families.
@@teller121 fuck you
@@joeyburrows8256 Man you do realize wrestling was scripted don’t you? It was ALL an act to get fans to go see the live shows .
Amazing! The 2nd Intercontinental champion, Ken Patera is NOT in the WWE Hall of Fame!
+kelamo It's probably because he has heat with WWE. Patera has had some not so nice things to say about Vince over the years including that he wears dresses at night. Plus, Patera blames Vince for getting convicted for the McDonalds thing, where as he got Jimmy Snuka off the hook with a murder charge.
@@AlbanianMan As far as I know he doesn't blame Vince for him getting convicted. In fact, he said himself that Vince took care of his family while he was in prison. He does have heat with WWE however, but Patera is kind of a loose-cannon and the last thing they need to do is give him a live-microphone in this PC atmosphere.
D2K Prime he holds a grudge against Vince because while he was sending checks to his family, it was also seen as a loan in which he had to pay Vince back with money that came out of his WWE salary. He is also part of that concussion lawsuit that was filed a little while back. But I think the main reason is like has been mentioned , He’s a loose cannon and they don’t want to give someone like that a live mic in WWE’s current PC atmosphere.
If Tony Atlas had trained his legs at all he'd have competed for Mr Olympia.
Pure Heat Patara
He was 320 in the Olympics, but I think he was about 350 give-or-take when he started wrestling, he was also several inches shorter than Henry. I've seen pictures of Patera back then and the height/mass ratio was pretty similar. He was a big block of a guy. But I wasn't comparing Patera to Henry in strength, I was talking about how he dropped his mass and altered his in-ring style.
In wrestling, Henry doesn't hold a candle to Ken.
@@fjccommish Ken can kiss my Barbie.
I know, that was crude, but I couldn't resist. 😅
Seriously though, in wrestling, I'd say overall they had roughly equal success, they both wrestled roughly the same amount of years, but while Patera had more overall titles spread throughout the Territories he was never really The Guy, at best he was the guy to get through to get to The Guy
Man, Tony`s legs weres a disgrace in comparison to his upper body.
You can tell he hated leg days.
This is early tony was small here. Lol. And yes the legs
Yet he won numerous bodybuilding competitions
Never worked his legs
All upper body power house
I have a 38 inch inseam
Old as Ken
Same game as Tony
But could jump
36 vertical
100 meters
11 flat until late 30
Weight's
Leg strength
A Fing sissy 😂
Bench shameless
375 12 time's
Biggest asset's
Speed
Power then pride
Pic's real
67
Not one of grey
Fighting
M.s.
Aortic aneurysm 4
Stroke and Brain lessions
Last dance
Age 47
Not too 🤓
Life very short laugh at yourself
Never
Quit
tony's celebration dance @ 3:29 LOL
I have a feeling that Tony Atlas has blown more than water bottles... lol
In the WWF the let Rocky Johnson handle most of the promos when they tagged so it didn't look as bad, he was illiterate in reality, met him before. And the pay sucked back then he lived in the hood in the Bx for years in the 80's.
Is Atlas for real?
LOL @ tony's victory dance
For the front squat he did 650 in front of Bruce Wilhelm easily.Olympic lifters don't really do the power lifts but Ken benched 560,reportley did a 1,000 in the back squat and pulled over 900.His dunk was flat footed bigf difference and what about the 66 plus shot put(officail) ?Henry never came close to competing in the olympis in anything but weightlifting.Ken was close enough in the shot to almost make the team.Henrylifts were 25 years after ken and he still couldn't beat them.
He turned his gang of henchmen on me...his goon squad.
Now Ken Patera has to get in full gear.
3:25 "I'm Ric Flair"
LMAO! My God! I had no idea how Tony Atlas talk s-o-o-o-oo-o-o-o-o-o country.
Ken Patera was first man to press 500 pounds and he was an olympian and this was in the 70's. Mark Henry set a world record with lifting but injury forced him out of Olympics. Mark henry also won the Arnold Classic where he basically lifted a Hummer. Patera claiming the World's strongest Wrestler was a good gimmick for him but Henry at one time Truly was the World's strongest man....a world record power lift proves it
People don't realize how much stronger Ken is lifting then Toney 1 is a body builder 1 is a powerlifter a Olympic medal winner record holding that even mark Henry didnt break and that's strong
does anybody know what the white guy said at 2:02???? i thought he said "im not gonna show NOBODY" but then when you really listen and watch his mouth it dont look like that is wat hes sayn
looks like Tony is wearing Depends, lol
"Zavikus won 6 arnolds 2 wsm and 3 wsm 2nd place" Yes he has won even much more than that - he's the most accomplished strongman in history, he is also stronger than Pudzianowski, no doubt. I don't argue that Henry was necessarily stronger than him, but it's reasonable to say that if Henry would have trained and competed in strongman comps he could have been on the level of Savickas. And Henry's raw squat>Savickas eq squat + Henry's deadlift>Savickas deadlift. That's fact. So potential-wise H>S
He said I’m like horseshit I’m everywhere !
Patera was a good shit talker when he wasn't stammering or drunk.
WTF !!!,............. TONY ATLAS sounds just like AL SHARPTON when he speak., lol
"not deep unlike kaz's." Kaz had good depth and walked the squats out, but Henry had absolutely good depth as well! There's no discussion whether the lifs were good! And again Kaz's best was 925lb squat in an early squat suit&wraps and Mark did 953 raw with wraps. Henry was the better squatter. Henry also deadlifted 903 and 887 in the same year. Kaz's all-time best was 886.sumthing!
As for the powerlifitng records they don't stand anymore and what federation did he do it in.The ipf is regarded as the most legitimate org.Don Reinhoudt holds the squat records in many people's eyes as i believe he used no wraps nor a belt.Bill kazmaier was the first to clean and press the thomas inch.But that's like a 5 pound dumbell today as the lifters are using 250 pound dumbells now.Ken did his records in the late 60's and early 70's don't you think henry should be way past them in the 90s
"and he benched over 600 as well."Reinhoudts best is 607. Henrys best is 585lb and he never trained it.There is absolutely no doubt that he would get in the 600lb range if he had stick to powerlifting and trained it. He has a 65 inch chest - A trained Henry at 30-35 years old would easily smoke that as well as squat a grand and deadlift in the 1000lb range. He squatted 1000 in training. His official deadlift is higher than Reinhoudt's as well.And Reinhoudt has the greatest raw total of all time.
Zavikus won 6 arnolds 2 wsm and 3 wsm 2nd place finishes but henrys stronger,kaz won 2 ipf titles and the wsm 2 times and holds the pl record total but henry is stronger.Don Reinhoudt won 4 ipf worlds titles and 1 wsm titles and a 2nd place finish yet henrys stronger.Alexeev won 8 world titles,two olympic golds,8 russian titles.8 european titles and 80 world records but henry is stronger.Jon paul won 4 wsm titles
i'm an avid fan of atlas but those trunks look like adult protective underwear.
Tony Atlas, the black Superman.
ABC Wide World of Sports, not CBS, then, was he psychic?
Look up the Petera shoot interview. VERY VERY sad :(
"Ken Patera 11"
Feets of strenf.
I gotta say, Tony Atlas is putting on a show here lol, his "yessabossin" act really went over with the fans in the south.......
@Bloodsport1
What's he doing now?
Tony atlas was a very smart man he was just acting
Kind of sad he had to act like that
He is a dummy
He is intelligent as he is a great storyteller and remembers details about everything and you can tell he thinks about things and presents it in order.
However he is illiterate or to say it nicer not educated so his language and speech are simple and not proper and refined.
I don't think Tony really cares either he's a down to earth simple country guy who likes to enjoy life.
He had the best wrestling physique ever and probably had all the women he wanted.
Tony knows he was done wrong but admits his responsibility for some of it but isn't bitter.
That speaks a lot about his intelligence regardless of his education, diction and vocabulary.
why the hell Tony is talking like that? Its 1980s not the 1880's man.
A Hot Water Bottle! LOLOLOL. haven't seen one of those in YEARS.
Uncle Chael is that you?
when i was a kid i never noticed patera talked so feminin
Henry has a guy in the 240,220 class lifitng with him.Henry used wraps ,he used suits not like the suits of today but suits however.ASk yourself what's better 901 at 220 or 903 at 380.
Dream Match: Brock Lesnar & Bill Goldberg vs Ken Patera & Tony Atlas.
Look at the difference in size of Tony Atlas between 1978 and 1980. I think somebody introduced him to T, DD, and HGH during that time. He had to be 40 lbs. more muscular in 1980.
No doubt he was on various cocktails, but HGH back then was only available from cadavers and probably too pricey even for a wrestler.
Answwer this is henry stronger the big z??Is henry stronger then Don??Is hery stronger them Kaz??
Why does tony sound like chicken George?
They got him looking and acting like buckwheat
Lol ya soft pine!Try that with a hard wood like oak!
Ken looks absolutely TERRIBLE in this video. Normally, he looked like Mr. Universe. At his top level, Patera had the best body in wrestling, and one of the best bodies in the world.