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You won't believe some of the numbers these WWE stars put up in the gym.
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00:00Everybody wants to be strong. I don't know why. It must be hardwired into our DNA.
00:05Some fans still don't accept that overall mass doesn't equal overall strength either.
00:09I mean, go and watch the Olympic weightlifting that is on right now. You'll get some pretty
00:14small dudes walk out there and they lift up a crazy amount of weight because, again,
00:19it's all about training. It's also going to be a huge plus in wrestling because you do have to pick
00:22up some monsters and every now and then an individual does walk into this industry and
00:27they were just born with crazy power. I am Simon Miller. Let's go through some of these right now.
00:33Number 10, Bianca Belair. Bianca Belair is a super athlete and WWE was well aware of that
00:38when she was having that feud with Bayley. They were like, let's have Bianca do an obstacle course
00:43and she picked up Otis like he was nothing and just ran around the ring. It's like,
00:48he's a really large man and Bianca Belair is carrying him like he's a child. When you do
00:52get into her stats too, it's not surprising because look at this. She can bench 195 pounds,
00:57squat 320 pounds, deadlifts over 400 pounds. These are mad numbers, especially because Bianca Belair
01:03herself only weighs 165 pounds. I shouldn't say that because Bianca Belair herself has got a
01:08record and says, man, what does it matter what I weigh? And she's totally correct. But also,
01:13when you do throw it all into a big package, it just makes you go, oh my gosh, you're some kind
01:18of superhero. That's also one of the reasons she's one of the best baby faces on Raw and Smackdown.
01:23We don't talk about it enough. Number nine, John Cena. John Cena could absolutely be higher in
01:28this list. So many wrestlers have come out and gone, yeah, John Cena threw me around like I
01:32was a dog. The evidence is all there too because we have seen him pick up Brock Lesnar, Mark Henry
01:37or a big show like they were absolutely nothing. And he doesn't even break a sweat. There's an
01:42amazing interview with Paul Wight where he seems genuinely perturbed by this. He didn't even jump.
01:47His official bench press too is 480 pounds. But what I want you to do today is find the video of
01:53him squatting. Your jaw will hit the floor. John Cena cannot be human. Now, lots of silly comments
01:58are going to be said about this, but sometimes people just have power in their veins. Of course,
02:03I'm not saying that nobody here works their ass off. They all do. But this is some natural strength.
02:09And again, go and look at John, pick up the weights. He too was born to do it. Number eight,
02:14Braun Strowman. I mean, you can't just walk into a strongman competition and say, hey,
02:17I'm a large guy. Can I compete? You need to have some proof. And before Braun was a wrestler,
02:22that's exactly what he was doing. He won the Amateur Arnold Championship in 2012 and picked
02:27up a load of other medals to boot, which is how Mark Henry found out about him. He was all like,
02:31oh, hi, you should be a wrestler. But even when he's been coming back from injury,
02:35Strowman has posted videos of him benching around 450 pounds for eight reps. Even if you've never
02:42been to the gym, believe you me, that is totally nuts. If nothing else, once again, just go type
02:47all this into YouTube and watch the man lift, and your eyes will deceive your brain, because you
02:52will think you're staring at a cartoon. It's the fact that he makes it so easy as well. Like,
02:55he'll pick up some weights and just throw them around. And then you Google how much that is.
03:00Well, you just want to go lay down because it's really not fair. Number seven, Ken Patera. So
03:04this one is legendary. Everybody literally talked about it all the time. Because simply put,
03:09Ken Patera was a beast. I mean, he was the first ever guy to hit 500 pounds on the clean and jerk.
03:14And in the first ever World's Strongest Man contest, he finished third. Before that,
03:19he'd also won gold at the 1971 Pan American Games. This dude was just like muscle. Now,
03:24all of his records have been broken since, but he was just made of raw strength. And it really
03:29helped him in the 70s and 80s when he was wrestling too, because everybody there was absolutely
03:34massive. This is another person. He just picked everyone up like they weighed nine. Numerous
03:39people have also said that given all of this, if he could have just found his promo voice,
03:43he would have been a champion everywhere that he did go. But ultimately, it doesn't matter
03:47because here we are in 2024. We're still talking about it. Number six, Ryback. Ryback is a
03:53controversial figure, though I level with you. I'm still not over the fact that one day somebody
03:57replied to a tweet of mine and copied Ryback in. They said, Ryback, this is about you. And Ryback
04:02blocked me. It wasn't about Ryback at all. Sucks to be me. As you can tell from his physique,
04:08this guy went to the gym, but we've already touched upon the fact that just because you do
04:10have big muscles doesn't always equate to strength. Look, when it came to the back of the rye,
04:16he definitely had both. He was a powerhouse. He benched 500 pounds regularly and other individuals
04:21have said they even seen him doing 580 pounds. That's like something an alien would do. All of
04:27his other lifts absolutely rule as well because they do crazy numbers. People have talked about
04:32how much Ryback used to eat. There's even rumors out there that people in management would watch
04:36him and he would be secretly snacking and they'd be like, damn it, Ryback, we gave you a nutrition
04:41program. You've got to stick to it. Bryan Danielson, other than Daniel Bryan, used to find
04:45this hilarious. And every time he would see Ryback doing it or he had some food, he would just burst
04:50out laughing, which is why when you do see them together in interviews, it does almost feel like
04:55Bryan is bullying the man. It's still pretty damn funny. Number five, The Big Show. I mean,
05:00obviously just look at him. Rather than going to numbers this time, though, let's actually focus on
05:04a specific feud. When one Paul White, The Big Show, The Giant was feuding with Rey Mysterio.
05:09Now, I get that Rey isn't the largest of men, but after he had been wrecked and put on a stretcher,
05:14The Big Show picked up the damn stretcher and baseball batted it into the ring post. Now,
05:20I'm sorry. Rey Mysterio is still a human being and The Big Show picked it up. He was picking
05:26up some feathers. I'm still not over it. If you do want some stats too, The Show has always said
05:30that he's pretty sure he can bench way over 500 pounds. Look, this was a man that was just born
05:36to be a giant. Hence why when WCW saw him, they just went and called him The Giant. Number four,
05:41Big E. Now this one, we are doing the numbers because it's damn amazing. Squat, 711 pounds.
05:48Bench, 529 pounds. Deadlift, 799 pounds. Good grief. Big E also achieved those lifts when he
05:55was training to become a WWE wrestler. It's not like he was solely focused on lifting at the time.
06:00He was doing everything. That just makes me love him even more. And I think people
06:04realized this when he did arrive at FCW. Hence why we gave him the name Big E. I mean,
06:10unless you're trying to be facetious here, you can't put that on somebody's head unless they
06:14can go and back it up. There's even more reports here because one day Big E went to John Cena's
06:18gym and apparently recorded a 575 pound bench press, which didn't make it into the record books
06:24because it wasn't a proper official competitive lift. Screw that. If somebody picked up a car,
06:28I wouldn't go, well, I'm sorry. We didn't do it under the right conditions. I would just be like,
06:33please can I be your friend? I don't want to be out of line here too, but I just think Big E is
06:37built differently because even when he was dropped in his head, which is taken away from the wrestling
06:41ring, I actually think it was all this strength and muscle that did protect him. That can only
06:46be a good thing. And of course, it really would be great if Big E one day could return to the
06:50squared circle. But as he has said in many an interview, he is now living a pain-free life
06:55and he can train how he wants to train. That's a good thing for our own brains. You can't just
06:59focus on one thing. You need to make sure your life is balanced. Number three, Brock Lesnar.
07:04Another guy where huge men have said he just treated me like a child. Once again, you need to
07:09go and hear the Big Show talk about this. He is like a legit seven feet tall and the look in his
07:15eyes when he speaks about Brock, I think he's a little bit terrified. The crazy thing with Lesnar
07:19though, is that he is scarily quick too. And when he had that NFL tryout for the Minnesota
07:23Vikings all those years ago, he was clocked at benching 475 pounds. Paul Heyman has always said
07:28that he wasn't 100% during that trial either, which is ridiculous. And there's other reports
07:34that he won't bench 655 pounds. And that is ridiculous. Really though, he just has country
07:40boy strength. That ain't me saying that. Brock has said that time and time again, I'm going to do it.
07:45He was born with it. You also know that he does have mad genetics. There is so much stuff going
07:49around social media at the moment of his daughter. And she's like a shot put champion, which again,
07:54is just pick up the big heavy ball and see how far you can throw it. Even when he was in his 40s,
07:59Brock just picked up Braun Strowman like he was a little kitty cat or something. And I bet if he
08:04ever does return to WWE, he'll keep doing this. I mean, he'll probably never lose those natural
08:10gifts. Number two, Doug Furniss. So that's an interesting name. Not a lot of people are
08:14talking about Doug Furniss. He never won any major titles. He never got really a major push anywhere.
08:19He was a guy that could walk in and say, I can squat 955 pounds. I mean, just think about that
08:25for a second. I think it means he can lift an elephant. I mean, that's not true, but I'm going
08:29with it. The rest of his workout was nuts too, because apparently he could do a 600 pound bench
08:33press and his deadlift was 821 pounds. That is 372 kilograms, my UK friends. Imagine how dumb
08:41the bar must have looked. It means whoever you stacked him up against, he was going to be able
08:44to hold his own. Wrestlers still talk about this today. I mean, they would just go to the weight
08:48room and watch Doug and be totally confused by this. How the flub is he doing it? Number one,
08:54Mark Henry. I mean, it all comes down to his feats that really we do not talk about enough. I mean,
08:58you knew he was going to be number one because he was dubbed the world's strongest man,
09:02but let's go back to his teenage years. He was benching 525 pounds. I would actually die. He
09:09was a qualifier for the Olympics in 1992 when he was just 19 years old. And even after he had
09:14signed with the then WWF, he continually said, listen, I ain't doing no gimmicks, man. If you
09:19want me to do strong things, I will do it legitimately. That means he was pulling trucks,
09:23bending fryer pads and lifting cars just because he could do that. It's still a mystery. It took
09:29till 2010 when he was a world champion. It was a back injury, which stopped him really competing
09:33at the Olympics. But even then, he could still squat 855 pounds. There's also footage on YouTube
09:39you can watch right now of him lifting the infamous Thomas inch 172 pound dumbbell. And
09:44barely anyone in history has done that. The evidence is all you need to see when he is able
09:50to do it. The whole room loses their mind. This guy was something else. Now, of course, there'll
09:55be a bunch of strong wrestlers we haven't talked about. So make sure you drop them in the comments
09:58for you. Like the video, share the video and subscribe. Also click this video on the screen.
10:03I suppose it's going to be me talking about muscles. Thank you very much for stopping by
10:06as well, my friends, and I appreciate your time very, very much. I'll see you on the next one.

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