Kama in the Million Dollar Corporation was shyte. Bad look, bad gimmick, bad storylines, always losing. I've no doubt that was Vince Vinceing all over the character but it was bad. Got it back together with Kama Mustafa in the Nation, then of course the Godfather. Papa Shango could have been epic.
This man seems like a extremely humble and kind person....very very well spoken and I still remember him from years ago.....this dude was a wicked wrestler....and he is really good at telling the past stories of the guys back in the day!!!!!!!!...... please keep bring the great content!!!!!!!!
Miss guys like this in the ring. He took the Papa Shango and Godfather roles and played them for all they were worth. Many others (most) would not have been successful doing them.
500lbs Bench Press Club: Old School - Mark Henry, Warlord, Godfather, Stevie Ray, Crush, Road Warrior Animal Modern era - Big E, Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, Big Show, Kane, Ryback Who else you think makes the list, past or present?
Man Godfather is one of the most down to earth guys the buisness ever had. He was so concerned about Big E and wanted to know how he was doing. The man is always smiling and I've never heard him really shoot on another superstar in a really bad way. An absolute Legend of the buisness.
@@NiktheEnglishGreekCypriot no kidding? what’s funny is that when he played Papa Shango, he didn’t look at all that big, since he usually matched up against big dudes too however, when he played The Godfather gimmick, and came out with a whole stable of ho’s, that’s when you clearly saw how much of a giant he was compared to all those tiny chicks he came out with! Dudes a legend, and seems like a cool dude to have a beer with!
@@crazyralph6386 if you re-watch his promos he was always slouching or leaning as papa shango to play up the whole "weird creepy guy can't even stand like a normal person" thing so he looked smaller than he was. And yeah wrestling a guy like the undertaker will make you look like a normal sized individual lol
I met this man in Las Vegas a long time ago in a restaurant sitting down having dinner with a young lady. A couple years after his Papa Shango gimmick as a matter of fact I mentioned it to him and he laughed. nice very respectable very down to earth laughed and joked with me even though I interrupted his dinner. Class Act
Benching 500lbs took me about a decade of training in powerlifting and strongman. I can’t imagine having a crazy schedule like pro wrestlers and still put up 5 plates.
Yes, and it isn't just the aging process that reduces how much someone can lift when they're older. It's the "frequency" that a person lifts while they're young. Yesterday, I heard an orthopedic surgeon tell his patient that the cartilage in his shoulders had worn away prematurely from years of "over-training" with weights. Training too often when you're young, can accelerate the degradation of cartilage in the joints. Thankfully, Charles Wright made enough money in pro wrestling, to where he can retire, because he's got chronic pain from lifting AND taking bumps in the ring.
@@Scorch1028 I am not as strong as I used to be when I was younger now that I am 46 but I have the best physique of my life now at least. Bodybuilding and strength training are not the same thing.
@@BigBadJerryRogers It's true that bodybuilding and strength training are not the same thing, but bodybuilding demands many, many repetitions to sustain your gains. There's a reason that Frank Zane and Lee Labrada have a more athletic look today, than a bodybuilder look. They each wore out their cartilage in their joints, in addition to naturally aging.
The Steiners, Luger, Ultimate Warrior, Ron Simmons, Butch Reed, Nikita Koloff and Scott Norton...are missing from this conversation....Going way back, Billy Graham, Bruno and Ken Patera as well
@Greg Bailey Kazmaier is off the charts strong but is he a legit wrestler? His wrestling career was 6 moths long? Ted Arcidi and Otis Sistrunk also had really short wrestling careers, if I remember correctly....
@Greg Bailey I can't say I have heard of Furnas getting that high but I know he was pretty jacked for a while. Plus for a short bit they called him the world's strongest man in WCW or something of the sort. Bill was obviously a near 700 lifter, I knew Bravo was 500+ legit.
@Greg Bailey Pretty cool, didn't know that. I figured he was up there but wouldn't have figured 600+. Hard for people to get up over 500, much less 600.
In the entire history of pro wrestling, there are probably fewer than 100 guys (total) in the 500-lb. Bench Press Club. A friend of mine told me that back in the 1980s, she saw Jimmy Snuka "bend the bar" from some massive amount of weight that he was bench pressing, at her local gym in Livingston, New Jersey. Snuka was not only ripped, he was very strong, pound-for-pound.
I don't think Snuka was that strong, he was a relatively small guy on a lot of steroids...and coke. There is a video out there somewhere of Snuka and Ricky Steamboat competing in bodybuilding, they both had decent physiques, but powerlifters, I doubt it.....
Female friend? Most women have no clue about weight lifting numbers....they think 225 is a good bench....lol You have the occasional ring rat, bodybuilding grouping etc that know, shit but that's a rare lady....
Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson were at a show near my hometown and my neighbor worked security and said Tony threw 500 bench with relative ease and curling 225. Mark Henry was obviously an absolute stud as a power lifter. Ron Simmons rarely worked out and apparently could do 500 bench like nothing too
I could never hit the 500 pound bench press club so I had to settle for the twice your bodyweight club. At 6 foot 212 pounds I hit 425 on the bench with just a belt and wrist wraps.
@@pjleon8391 Dude I was so excited when I was done, I was jumping around high fiving my partner. My initial goal was just to do 405 so to hit 425 was an amazing feeling.
@@RobTheUndertaker I will also like to point out that I did it with my back flat on the bench. I don't believe in all that high arching crap to shorten the movement. If you want to arch you might as well be doing decline bench press.
Its sad that there's only a small amount of wrestlers today who can press 500+. Indie Wrestler Shane Mercer is one of the most impressive strong wrestlers right now. Able to press 605-615lbs at a bodyweight of 210. I don't know how he's not more out there just for that alone.
Even some of the bigger guys of this era - Big E, Strowman, Wardlow, Brian Cage, Sheamus, McIntyre, etc - do very little in anything remarkable strength wise with their move sets. Cesaro/Claudio Castagnoli is the best example of someone who displays impressive strength feats in his moveset instead of the basic slams followed by chest beating/yelling/roaring that so many seem limited to. Jeff Cobb is another, probably the physically strongest wrestler currently working. Anyone who can deadlift Keith Lee multiple times in a match and suplex him multiple ways from a hang position is absurdly strong. This is also a guy who can then hit standing moonsaults and high angle dropkicks.
But his form sucks and he's not that back. All the guys listed in this threat kept their asses DOWN and were 250 plus. Mercer is a stick compared to them.
@@ToxicAvengerCleanYourMind True, however, everyone who is really strong isn’t always on roids. That’s usually something insecure people say who can’t lift impressive weights.
@@TitleMatchWrestling No, he was in the 600+ category. Frenchy Martin said that he could actually do the 700 pounds legit, but he's the only one who ever said that.
@@BigBadJerryRogers that's bs man. The world record in bench press at that time was just a little over 700 lbs with bench shirt by Ted arcidi. The raw bench press world record was 667 lbs at that time by Arcidi himself. Bravo was never close to those numbers. He probably would have done over 600 lbs but not anything close to 700 lbs.
Yeah we called that having “club muscles” back in the day but in fairness to the Godfather he really managed and worked as a bouncer at strip clubs! So he had the right equipment for the job.
Barbarian & Haku could put up 500 & the best bencher of all wrestlers all time would be Ted Arcedi who held the world record at over 700 Lbs at one time. The strongest wrestler of all time I would say would be Bill Kashmiere
@@BBBYpsi Kazmaier wasn't drug free. Henry was or even if he wasn't, he used very minimal drugs. Also, henry left lifting for pro wrestling at the very young age of 26 so, he didn't reach his physical prime. Had he continued lifting, he would have surpassed kazmaier's powerlifting total record for sure. He already had better deadlift and better squat than kaz by the age of just 24 years.
Barbarian and Warlord could do it as well.i think Warlord got a mention. Barbarian always reckoned to be stronger. Luger and Warrior, nice physiques for sure, but 500 pounds...not sure. Always reckon Hercules Hernandez looked capable as well.
Athletes today are more into staying healthy and leaner than guys in the 90s who put more emphasis on size and power. So your probably not going to see athletes pushing that weight unless there’s a reason (powerlifting). Although It was more fun to watch!
In this era of Seth Rollins, Miz, Young Bucks, Adam Cole, Finn Balor, Damian Priest, Darby Allen - ok nearly all of AEW's roster, the amount of truly impressive strength athletes has been unfortunately very slim.
@@ToxicAvengerCleanYourMind I forgot about Hobbs. He is very strong and has shown a varied lift/slam/throw moveset, but yeah having him job to bantamweights has been silly and strange.
Highest I gotten was 300lbs that was max weight on the bench and I got to the point where I could do 10 reps and 5 sets.. benching is Big weight is cool but curling Big weight is harder.. especially when it's rollercoaster time.. them Mfs will have your arms feelings so sore rs
@@Warrior51970 it wasn't a regular bench with bar and weights it was a bench with cables that had a stack of plates with a pin u push in on the weight u want and 300 was max on there.. I wish their had been more cuz u are right, I could've benched more especially being able to do 10 reps and did it constantly.. unfortunately I was in prison and those gyms only had Those types of weights.. I think they're called pull weights.. been years sense I been out so I don't remember.. but yeah 300 was max..
I’m guessing Undertaker could get 500, if just barely. He was a pretty huge guy. Big show I’m pretty certain could easily do it. Goldberg definitely. Triple H was pretty jacked back in the late 90s/early 2000s, roided up heavy and probably could do it. Ron Simmons was a strong guy too, most likely over 500. Scott Norton was one that people probably forget about, that dude was a powerhouse too.
Big show's best ever bench press is doing 500 lbs for 12 reps. If he would have tried maxing out, i m sure he would have done close to 600 or even little over 600 lbs. Goldberg's best over bench press is just a little over 400 lbs as he said in a interview although he was seen incline bench pressing 495 lbs for 5 reps at gold gym long Island so that 495 for 5 reps would make nearly 565 lbs in 1 rep max. Triple h unfortunately wasn't very strong, his best ever bench press was a little over 405 lbs, i think around 420-425 lbs. Ron simmons' best ever bench press is 565 lbs. Scott norton was the strongest out of all of them, he did 640 lbs bench press with a light bench shirt in a legit powerlifting competition. Undertaker just had a best bench press in the range of 365-395 lbs.
My high school two benches and divided big and little guys. I remember getting to 205 and could switch to big guy bench but plateaued. The joke was “he’ll be right back” lol
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Godfather never has anything bad to say about the business nor his coworkers. Such a nice human.
Unless its Ahmed Johnson but than again who the hell ever said a kind word about dude?
@@emanuelmartinez7267 . Ya, but he’s never MEAN with anything he says. It’s always, like “he didn’t get it”.
Or Hogan
Yeah seems like a really cool dude, enjoyed watching him as a kid back in the day.
He seems like the only wrestler from the glory days that doesn't have an ounce of bitterness in him.
One of the few wrestlers who could make any character work... Really speaks to his acting skills... My favorite was Papa Shango
MINE TOO 😀
Wish they had done more with the Papa Shango character. 😞
Kama in the Million Dollar Corporation was shyte. Bad look, bad gimmick, bad storylines, always losing. I've no doubt that was Vince Vinceing all over the character but it was bad. Got it back together with Kama Mustafa in the Nation, then of course the Godfather. Papa Shango could have been epic.
This man seems like a extremely humble and kind person....very very well spoken and I still remember him from years ago.....this dude was a wicked wrestler....and he is really good at telling the past stories of the guys back in the day!!!!!!!!...... please keep bring the great content!!!!!!!!
Yaa he’s great
Seems it but you never know he could have gone home and beat his wife for overcooking his meal 🙃
Who papa Shango yeah he's a real mellow guy , he FUCKING used voodo on people , that's real evil satanic shit
Agree
Class human being. No one has a bad thing to say about him, for good reason
Asking about Big E even though he’d never worked with him; that’s a good human being.
Godfather seems like a genuinely good guy... Love listening to his interviews...
Godfather is always fun to listen to. Humble guy seems like a solid dude.
He's so jolly and happy and nice. Seems like a genuinely good dude ^^
Got this man's autograph as the Godfather at Fan Access on the eve of Wrestlemania 18 in Toronto. Nothing short of decent and likeable.
Miss guys like this in the ring.
He took the Papa Shango and Godfather roles and played them for all they were worth.
Many others (most) would not have been successful doing them.
Honestly Papa Shango was better than he gets credit for.
Hope he does more interviews..he always has good interviews
Love the Godfather, good to see he's doing well
500 lb ~= 4 hos. 👩👩👩👩
Pimpin ain't easy!
@@taekwondotimeYou are exactly right. Takes a lot to please them Hoes 🤣
500lbs Bench Press Club:
Old School - Mark Henry, Warlord, Godfather, Stevie Ray, Crush, Road Warrior Animal
Modern era - Big E, Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, Big Show, Kane, Ryback
Who else you think makes the list, past or present?
Ted Arcidi, Ken Patera, Scott Norton
Ron Simmons, Cesaro and Cena come to mind
You forgot to put "spike dudley" in that list of all time power houses.
Doug Furnas
@@marklawson4694 Also Crash Holly. The man was a true, legit superheavyweight
Man Godfather is one of the most down to earth guys the buisness ever had. He was so concerned about Big E and wanted to know how he was doing. The man is always smiling and I've never heard him really shoot on another superstar in a really bad way. An absolute Legend of the buisness.
Never realized how big of a monster The Godfather was? One of the few who walks over the ropes instead of under!
He was a good 6”6 I’d say. Billy Gunn is another one who was huge back in the day, 6”4/5 and built like a brick shit house
@@NiktheEnglishGreekCypriot no kidding? what’s funny is that when he played Papa Shango, he didn’t look at all that big, since he usually matched up against big dudes too however, when he played The Godfather gimmick, and came out with a whole stable of ho’s, that’s when you clearly saw how much of a giant he was compared to all those tiny chicks he came out with! Dudes a legend, and seems like a cool dude to have a beer with!
@@crazyralph6386 he used to creep around as Papa Shango, so he hardly ever stood up straight.
@@NiktheEnglishGreekCypriot billy gun is still jacked too, he trains with mike ohearn a lot in his videos to this day
@@crazyralph6386 if you re-watch his promos he was always slouching or leaning as papa shango to play up the whole "weird creepy guy can't even stand like a normal person" thing so he looked smaller than he was. And yeah wrestling a guy like the undertaker will make you look like a normal sized individual lol
Dino Bravo, Big Papa Pump, Tony Atlas, Billy Graham, and of course Bruno San Martino.
I met this man in Las Vegas a long time ago in a restaurant sitting down having dinner with a young lady. A couple years after his Papa Shango gimmick as a matter of fact I mentioned it to him and he laughed. nice very respectable very down to earth laughed and joked with me even though I interrupted his dinner. Class Act
Benching 500lbs took me about a decade of training in powerlifting and strongman. I can’t imagine having a crazy schedule like pro wrestlers and still put up 5 plates.
I lifted 150 kg for biceps can you?
I bench 1205 lbs twice and I'm 6'2" and 205
Ya imagine getting slammed around on your shoulders everyday and then putting up that kind of weight haha these wrestlers are built different
Are you related to Nancy Pelosi?
@@michaelvoorhees5978 me too. I break it up into 2 sets of 5 reps.
The Godfather always has good stories and seems like he got along with everyone. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Everyone except ahmad johnson 🤣🤣🤣
You could see it back then with most of the now OG's that stepped in the ring 💪🏾
He’s so wholesome 🫶🫶🫶
Everybody get aboard the whoooolesome train!
@@ZealKingdom 😆😅🤣you win the internet for today.
Farooq without question could easily bench over 500lbs.
Once. And then he'd head out.
try 600
Florida State Seminole's Finest
@@chuck7952 in jeans
Same for Warlord.
The Godfather is such a nice man
Facts, me and my friend met him at a wrestling convention a few years ago, he was cool as shit.
He looks like the happiest wrestler of all time.
I would like to hear his opinion on the comedic African-Dream Akeem. 😆
Yea man it's very easy to lose strength after getting old and stopping training, very humble of him stating he wouldn't even try 350 these days..
Yes, and it isn't just the aging process that reduces how much someone can lift when they're older. It's the "frequency" that a person lifts while they're young. Yesterday, I heard an orthopedic surgeon tell his patient that the cartilage in his shoulders had worn away prematurely from years of "over-training" with weights. Training too often when you're young, can accelerate the degradation of cartilage in the joints. Thankfully, Charles Wright made enough money in pro wrestling, to where he can retire, because he's got chronic pain from lifting AND taking bumps in the ring.
Its the joints
@@Scorch1028 I am not as strong as I used to be when I was younger now that I am 46 but I have the best physique of my life now at least. Bodybuilding and strength training are not the same thing.
@@BigBadJerryRogers It's true that bodybuilding and strength training are not the same thing, but bodybuilding demands many, many repetitions to sustain your gains. There's a reason that Frank Zane and Lee Labrada have a more athletic look today, than a bodybuilder look. They each wore out their cartilage in their joints, in addition to naturally aging.
And stop taking the roids
Nothing but respect to The Godfather
Always smiling..... Much respect to Charles.
Godfather seems fun to talk to
The Steiners, Luger, Ultimate Warrior, Ron Simmons, Butch Reed, Nikita Koloff and Scott Norton...are missing from this conversation....Going way back, Billy Graham, Bruno and Ken Patera as well
Great adds. I'd imagine most if not all those names could hit 500lbs in their prime.
@@TitleMatchWrestling I'd say all of them except maybe Warrior and Koloff. All of the others are pretty well a lock for it.
@Greg Bailey Kazmaier is off the charts strong but is he a legit wrestler? His wrestling career was 6 moths long? Ted Arcidi and Otis Sistrunk also had really short wrestling careers, if I remember correctly....
@Greg Bailey I can't say I have heard of Furnas getting that high but I know he was pretty jacked for a while. Plus for a short bit they called him the world's strongest man in WCW or something of the sort. Bill was obviously a near 700 lifter, I knew Bravo was 500+ legit.
@Greg Bailey Pretty cool, didn't know that. I figured he was up there but wouldn't have figured 600+. Hard for people to get up over 500, much less 600.
Benching 500 his crazy. I'm 5'6" and 46 years old. 265 is hard for me to put up. I couldn't imagine being that strong.
I would enjoy a hour or 2 and a few brews just to listen to the GODFATHER wax about wrestling
Great interview short but sweet
In the entire history of pro wrestling, there are probably fewer than 100 guys (total) in the 500-lb. Bench Press Club. A friend of mine told me that back in the 1980s, she saw Jimmy Snuka "bend the bar" from some massive amount of weight that he was bench pressing, at her local gym in Livingston, New Jersey. Snuka was not only ripped, he was very strong, pound-for-pound.
I don't think Snuka was that strong, he was a relatively small guy on a lot of steroids...and coke. There is a video out there somewhere of Snuka and Ricky Steamboat competing in bodybuilding, they both had decent physiques, but powerlifters, I doubt it.....
Female friend? Most women have no clue about weight lifting numbers....they think 225 is a good bench....lol You have the occasional ring rat, bodybuilding grouping etc that know, shit but that's a rare lady....
Most of the physique wrestlers of the past maxed out somewhere in the 400s. A select few were 500+ and the very select elites could do 600+
Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson were at a show near my hometown and my neighbor worked security and said Tony threw 500 bench with relative ease and curling 225. Mark Henry was obviously an absolute stud as a power lifter. Ron Simmons rarely worked out and apparently could do 500 bench like nothing too
@Greg Bailey probably confused him with haku
Great storyteller right here!
Godfather probably wasn't around Animal in his prime, Animal was said to have benched 600 lbs.
635 was supposedly his best
Love this dude, God bless
Godfather you are a legend brother.
I could never hit the 500 pound bench press club so I had to settle for the twice your bodyweight club. At 6 foot 212 pounds I hit 425 on the bench with just a belt and wrist wraps.
How did ur heart feel during the lift
@@pjleon8391 Dude I was so excited when I was done, I was jumping around high fiving my partner. My initial goal was just to do 405 so to hit 425 was an amazing feeling.
Still a great bench press 👍
@@RobTheUndertaker I will also like to point out that I did it with my back flat on the bench. I don't believe in all that high arching crap to shorten the movement. If you want to arch you might as well be doing decline bench press.
I feel like that's strong enough. Get that speed and stamina up and you'll be more lethal than them bodybuilder types
This man seems like just a very nice guy
Met him in person , giant dude , very nice guy
Its sad that there's only a small amount of wrestlers today who can press 500+. Indie Wrestler Shane Mercer is one of the most impressive strong wrestlers right now. Able to press 605-615lbs at a bodyweight of 210. I don't know how he's not more out there just for that alone.
Even some of the bigger guys of this era - Big E, Strowman, Wardlow, Brian Cage, Sheamus, McIntyre, etc - do very little in anything remarkable strength wise with their move sets. Cesaro/Claudio Castagnoli is the best example of someone who displays impressive strength feats in his moveset instead of the basic slams followed by chest beating/yelling/roaring that so many seem limited to.
Jeff Cobb is another, probably the physically strongest wrestler currently working. Anyone who can deadlift Keith Lee multiple times in a match and suplex him multiple ways from a hang position is absurdly strong. This is also a guy who can then hit standing moonsaults and high angle dropkicks.
Well it's probably a good thing... Proves they're not juicing up
True, however, everyone who is really strong isn’t always on roids. That’s usually something insecure people say who can’t lift impressive weights.
But his form sucks and he's not that back. All the guys listed in this threat kept their asses DOWN and were 250 plus. Mercer is a stick compared to them.
@@ToxicAvengerCleanYourMind
True, however, everyone who is really strong isn’t always on roids. That’s usually something insecure people say who can’t lift impressive weights.
Godfather was a absolute tank at one point 🦾🦾
Don't know if this is before your time but curious to what was Dino Bravo best
Good question. I remember the 700lbs attempt at the first Rumble. Sure he could clear 500 easy
@@TitleMatchWrestling No, he was in the 600+ category. Frenchy Martin said that he could actually do the 700 pounds legit, but he's the only one who ever said that.
@@BigBadJerryRogers that's bs man. The world record in bench press at that time was just a little over 700 lbs with bench shirt by Ted arcidi. The raw bench press world record was 667 lbs at that time by Arcidi himself. Bravo was never close to those numbers. He probably would have done over 600 lbs but not anything close to 700 lbs.
watching WWF back from the 90s and godfather didn't have legs, no quad size. definitely an upper body guy
Yeah we called that having “club muscles” back in the day but in fairness to the Godfather he really managed and worked as a bouncer at strip clubs! So he had the right equipment for the job.
Hell yeah the godfather burns the buds down! Pimpn ain't EZ, but the buds sure helps a lot...
Big props to The Godfather aka Papa Shango. I love to hear him speak. Seems like a great guy.
I’m completely thrown off.. I had no idea animal passed, Rip
GOD!.....I Love the GodFather.
Mark Henry was the strongest and never took any roids... Now thats fuckin strong.
Stroman was a pro strongman. Very very strong
I heard Farooq / Ron Simmons was stupid strong but never worked out.
You missed bruno sammartino and Dino bravo
Godfather such a good vibe stoner hahaha not a bad word about anyone lol
Wilt Chamberlain claimed he could bench 500. But he seemed to be full of tall tales.
I heard he claimed 600. I don't think anyone believes that.
@@ZealKingdom he also claimed to have slept with 20,000 women. 🤦♀
What a cool dude really awesome
Love the reefer shirt.....
Barbarian & Haku could put up 500 & the best bencher of all wrestlers all time would be Ted Arcedi who held the world record at over 700 Lbs at one time. The strongest wrestler of all time I would say would be Bill Kashmiere
Drug free = Mark Henry Strongest ever.
@@WZ912 you should look up bill kashmir from the 1970s
@@BBBYpsi Kazmaier wasn't drug free. Henry was or even if he wasn't, he used very minimal drugs. Also, henry left lifting for pro wrestling at the very young age of 26 so, he didn't reach his physical prime.
Had he continued lifting, he would have surpassed kazmaier's powerlifting total record for sure. He already had better deadlift and better squat than kaz by the age of just 24 years.
Barbarian and Warlord could do it as well.i think Warlord got a mention. Barbarian always reckoned to be stronger. Luger and Warrior, nice physiques for sure, but 500 pounds...not sure. Always reckon Hercules Hernandez looked capable as well.
Dunno about lex but warrior could bench over 500
Athletes today are more into staying healthy and leaner than guys in the 90s who put more emphasis on size and power. So your probably not going to see athletes pushing that weight unless there’s a reason (powerlifting). Although It was more fun to watch!
Nice shirt
Crossed paths with the gfather at a fry's electronics in Sunnyvale CA years ago. Cool, cool dude.
Warlord benched 500 pounds for 19 reps. Those were not fake weights...him and Barbarian both were benching over 600 regularly...
The Smoke Train!!! 😎😎😎😎😎
Benching 500 pounds is wild
England would be much cooler with THIS King Charles. Waah-Wah wah wah wawa! Ain't nothing easy.
In this era of Seth Rollins, Miz, Young Bucks, Adam Cole, Finn Balor, Damian Priest, Darby Allen - ok nearly all of AEW's roster, the amount of truly impressive strength athletes has been unfortunately very slim.
They have Powerhouse Hobbs but he losses to puny guys like Orange Cassidy so Khan is obviously trying way too hard to be the anti-Vince
@@ToxicAvengerCleanYourMind I forgot about Hobbs. He is very strong and has shown a varied lift/slam/throw moveset, but yeah having him job to bantamweights has been silly and strange.
Rollins and Balor have good lean natural physiques though. Idk why you lumped them with the others.
And i bet every one of those guys will still be alive when they're 60. Unlike so many mass monsters of the old days.
@@herculesbrofister265 I am still amazed Hogan, Scott Steiner, and Ken Shamrock are alive.
Batista 2002-2004 ???
Highest I gotten was 300lbs that was max weight on the bench and I got to the point where I could do 10 reps and 5 sets.. benching is Big weight is cool but curling Big weight is harder.. especially when it's rollercoaster time.. them Mfs will have your arms feelings so sore rs
If you could do 10 reps you do more than 300 pounds unless that was all the weight the gym had.
@@Warrior51970 it wasn't a regular bench with bar and weights it was a bench with cables that had a stack of plates with a pin u push in on the weight u want and 300 was max on there.. I wish their had been more cuz u are right, I could've benched more especially being able to do 10 reps and did it constantly.. unfortunately I was in prison and those gyms only had Those types of weights.. I think they're called pull weights.. been years sense I been out so I don't remember.. but yeah 300 was max..
So if kayfabe was still alive back then did they have to leave the gym if they saw a rival already there?
500 bills is crazy strong.... weather you had help or not that a lot of weight
Not many 500 lb benchers now. Braun, Otis, Brock and Big E that's about it now
Ron Simmons
Andre The Giant could hold 4 chicks in his arms 💪😂
The Great Khali benched 600lbs. during his bodybuilding days. 😳
SINBAD 😎
I wonder if the undertaker was a part of the 500lbs club
Hulk Hogan's python's could out-bench all these guys, brother!
lol, take away all the steroids he used, and those pythons were reduced to a garden snake.
Not gonna work for me, brother.
@@MrMferg240 like everybody else in wrestling doesn't do them. Irrelevant
cool guy
Deano Bravo
I’m guessing Undertaker could get 500, if just barely. He was a pretty huge guy. Big show I’m pretty certain could easily do it. Goldberg definitely. Triple H was pretty jacked back in the late 90s/early 2000s, roided up heavy and probably could do it. Ron Simmons was a strong guy too, most likely over 500. Scott Norton was one that people probably forget about, that dude was a powerhouse too.
You're just guessing. Shut up if you don't know
Big show's best ever bench press is doing 500 lbs for 12 reps. If he would have tried maxing out, i m sure he would have done close to 600 or even little over 600 lbs. Goldberg's best over bench press is just a little over 400 lbs as he said in a interview although he was seen incline bench pressing 495 lbs for 5 reps at gold gym long Island so that 495 for 5 reps would make nearly 565 lbs in 1 rep max. Triple h unfortunately wasn't very strong, his best ever bench press was a little over 405 lbs, i think around 420-425 lbs. Ron simmons' best ever bench press is 565 lbs. Scott norton was the strongest out of all of them, he did 640 lbs bench press with a light bench shirt in a legit powerlifting competition. Undertaker just had a best bench press in the range of 365-395 lbs.
Tony atlas used to bench press 600lbs in his heyday
I did 480lbs at 215lb body weight. And I was 12% body fat. Never really went for 500. Wasn’t a big deal
I'm 6'2" 222 lbs and bench 950 twice and 47 years old
Looks like hed be Ice T's brother.
500 lb ~= 4 hos. 👩👩👩👩
Pimpin ain't easy!
I have never heard any of Hulk Hogan's max lifts.
Because there aren't numbers that go that high, brother
@@crummydryver 😂😂😂sounds about right coming from Hogan
Hogan didn't need strength. His big boot/leg drop could beat anyone the script called for
Over 700 lbs according to an interview I saw with big show
Crazy lod and hhh and hbk had similar relationships one was clean sober didn't party like hhh and hawk was into partying and drugs like hbk
He didn't mention Cena.
Because cena's best ever bench is 487 lbs.
If you watch videos of him in the nation of domination he was jacked.
My high school two benches and divided big and little guys. I remember getting to 205 and could switch to big guy bench but plateaued. The joke was “he’ll be right back” lol
I was going to a Casey’s working out a couple female body builders three times a week lolol
Awkward for a wrestling/body builder mark. Never got big or strong enough to jump in lolol
I saw this pretty big growly voiced guy I thought was a biker… was the macho man. Lol
Some the first wwf matches there was that guy from the gym lolol
Sounds impressive we went to the same gym. Lolol
John Cena puts up over 500
No his best ever bench press is of 487 lbs.
Today it would probably be Lesnar, Strowman, and Lashley... who else?
Batista had a 525 max
"I'm tha godfather"
Mark was ungodly strong!
What about "Tony Atlas"???
I heard he would bench over 600.
Pimping hos nationwide, lol 😆
Mr.USA Tony Atlas could bench 600 + pounds !
Big John Studd and Arcidi did 700
na big john studd hit 600 though
Kerry Von Erich benched 500 and Tony Atlas benched 600.
Didn't Ken Shamrock do over 600?
Stop smoking, or snorting or inhaling through sandwich bags or praying to the wrong folks....
*JUST STOP IT!!!!*
na probley around 450-475, still freakin strong
Mark henry is the strongest by fare.
Obviously
Ken Patera stronger then Mark Henry. Ken Patera military pressed 500 lbs. With no leg drive.
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