There are some people in this world who you never want to get on the wrong side of.
While on the outside some of these people may be friendly or calm, don’t let that
confuse you.
Some of them have spent their entire lives working to become the biggest, the baddest,
or the most skilled people in the world, and no matter how tough you think you are TRUST
ME, they can take you.
So while you wouldn’t want to mess with these incredible examples of human excellence,
that doesn’t mean their exploits won’t absolutely blow your mind.
Ready to meet these incredible people?
Well let's get it on!
SERGEI TCIRULNIKOV!
However Sergei Tcirulnikov arrived at the ideas for his insane viral videos, I’ll
never understand, but I’m very glad that he did because they’re some of the craziest
things I’ve ever witnessed.
Just to name a few of the seemingly impossible feats of raw strength and power he’s shown
off, Sergei has pulled a 180-ton train with his body alone, ripped through iron chains
and padlocks just by flexing his muscles, kept not one, but TWO planes from taking off
with just his arms, and that’s barely scratching the surface.
Whether or not he’ll ever find something he can’t do is yet to be determined, but
the Kazakhstan phenomenon has certainly proven that he’s pretty much the closest thing
we’ve got to a real-life superhuman walking around right now.
Through his tireless training and thirst to perform unthinkable feats, Sergei has gotten
at least 4 world records under his belt, which he claims he only started breaking ironically,
making a joke out of taking the rankings away from athletes who trained their entire lives
to earn them.
In case you can’t tell, anyone who sets World Strength Records as a joke is probably
someone you should go far out of your way to never upset.
ISLAM BADURGAV!
If you’ve ever been lucky enough to score a quick selfie with the UFC Notorious Connor
MacGregor, then I might have some bad news for you.
The person in your photo, while he might have the same tattoos, build and hair color, may
actually have been professional McGregor impersonator Islam Badurgav.
Of course, not just anyone can impersonate one of the most skilled fighters on the planet
and get away with it.
In order to be able to pull off his pranks, Islam really does have to train incredibly
hard to have a body that someone would mistake for the Irish champion’s.
He spends most of his time doing street workouts and calisthenics, and he’s at the point
where he makes absurdly hard tricks like the muscle-up and flagpole seem easy as pie.
While we’re not sure if Connor is aware of his very popular look-alike, it’s pretty
safe to say that anyone confident enough to risk stealing the image of one of the best
fighters on Earth is probably not someone you’d ever want to go toe-to-toe with.
THOMAS WU!
Boxing is a dangerous sport that requires a combination of talent and training to become
any good at, and Thomas Wu seems to have hit the jackpot on talent.
At just 21 years old, Wu is known to many as the fastest puncher in the world, after
he created a nearly impossible to replicate online trend called the Floating Ball Challenge,
which, if you can’t tell by the name, involves punching a ball fast enough to keep it spinning
in midair.
Not just the speed of Thomas’ fists, but their precision and control show that he was
born for this sport, which he says he actually got into by accident when looking for a way
to gain some hip mobility to help with his baseball career.
Eight years of training later and he’s worlds ahead of athletes that have been training
for twice as long, with 4 National Championship titles to his name.
Thomas claims that his current goal is to head to the Olympics and be crowned the best
boxer in the world, and with hands so fast that his instagram videos look like they’re
on fast forward, that goal doesn’t seem all that farfetched.
DIAMOND OTT!
There are over 1.3 million men and women enlisted in the United States military, each trained
to stay at peak physical and mental performance year-round, which makes it all the more impressive
to find out that First Sergeant Diamond Ott is widely known as the strongest soldier.
Looking at his wild and creative workouts though, it begins to become clear that Diamond
has muscles as hard as..um… well, as DIAMOND!
Many people can’t even manage a pull-up, but Ott performs spinning acrobatic ones with
ease, can hold huge plates up with nothing but his core, and obviously doesn’t suffer
from the common problem of being big with no flexibility.
He can even do dips with 245 pounds, or more than his own body weight strapped to his waist,
and that’s not some personal record, that’s just a regular part of his everyday routine.
That is an absurd accomplishment.
Add onto that wild level of strength and coordination his decade and a half of tactical military
training, and this guy can more than likely take down any opponent he comes across in
a few hundred different ways.
After 16 years of service, Diamond has no intention of slowing down and continues pushing
his mental and physical limits in service to his country, and maybe just a little bit
for his Instagram followers.
VITO PIRBAZARI!
With his iron-clad musculature, deep-set expressions and truly intimidating demeanor, German bodybuilder
and actor Vito Pirbazari certainly cuts an imposing figure, and I suppose that’s why
he was cast for his fearsome role in Dogs of Berlin.
If you’re tricked by that though, that just means he’s very good at his job, because
Vito is one of the nicest guys around.
The German giant dedicates himself to showing off his workout and diet routines, both incredibly
important ingredients for maintaining his trademark tough-guy look, with his fans on
his rapidly growing social media.
Still, judging by the way he knocks around a punching bag, I still wouldn’t want to
get on his bad side.
EVGENY LOS!
When you see someone with a physique this insane, it should be obvious that you wouldn’t
want to catch them on a bad day, but just in case you’re feeling unsure, just watch
how hard Evgeny Los can swing a hammer.
Yeah, if that tire were your head, you’d be having a pretty hard time.
Thankfully though, this Belarusian behemoth is much more likely to be saving your life
than threatening it.
Evgeny works as a firefighter in Belarus and dedicates himself to working out and achieving
a peak physique, as well as pursuing feats that literally nobody else on Earth can complete.
Oh yeah, we’re talking Guinness World Records.
Evgeny holds the world record for most weighted push-ups on uneven bars performed in one minute,
pulling off, or should I say pushing up an unbelievable 53 weighted push-ups in just
60 seconds, absolutely obliterating the previous record of 40.
Watching him workout though, this was probably just another day at the park for Evgeny, and
he claims that he’s itching to pursue more calisthenic records in the near future.
Still, even though you’d never want to mess with Evgeny Los, you’d definitely be relieved
if he were the one rescuing you in an emergency.
KERIM DUYGU!
Usually a martial arts master will be able to defeat opponents with their hands or their
feet, or reasonably even their elbows, but Kerim Duygu could take on any opponent with
nothing more than his shins.
While most people’s shins are little more than a very painful spot to bump into obstacles
with, somehow Kerim is insanely tough enough to actually fight with these vital weak points
on most humans without showing a shred of discomfort.
He’s so wildly skilled with his shins in fact, that he actually holds a very unique
world record.
See, while mobsters use baseball bats to break peoples’ shins, Kerim uses his shins to
break baseball bats.
In his crazy run for a Guinness ranking, he managed to break numerous baseball bats using
only his shins in one minute; that’s more than one bat a second!
Just watching this makes me wince with pain, but clearly Kerim’s years of martial arts
training, and probably a dash of mania, keep him from feeling anything but exhilaration
as he earns his very unique spot in history, and anyone with that kind of power and pain
tolerance combined is definitely someone you never want to mess with.
MASAAKI IKEMIYAGI!
Karate is an ancient art meant to focus on discipline and self-defense and is never supposed
to be used as a weapon.
That’s pretty lucky for all of us when there are karate masters like Masaaki Ikemayagi
out there.
Ikemayagi has been practicing karate since he was a boy, when he was deemed worthy to
be trained by the disciple of the founder of his style.
In case you’re wondering what might have made him stand out so much, take a look at
what this martial arts master can do to 7.5 centimeters of solid hardwood with a single
punch.
That’s what’s known as the deadliest punch in the world, a technique honed through a
lifetime of intense dedication.
It’s often said that Ikemiyagi can shatter bones with a single blow, and he likely wouldn’t
have to try very hard to do it, as sometimes the master doesn’t even seem to know his
own strength.
That was just a training shot, if you were placed up against this legendary karate practitioner
in a fight, just imagine what he could do if he were serious.
Thankfully, Ikemiyagi is a peaceful man, more interested in helping others through his international
series of dojos than hurting them, and he’s actually never been in a fight outside of
a dojo or competition in his life.
But, that’s likely because everyone on Earth knows never to mess with the man with the
deadliest punch on the planet.
SAMUEL ERICCSON!
Originally born in South Korea, Samuel Ericcson found a connection to his heritage in practicing
TaeKwonDo at 7 years old.
The boy quickly found he had a knack for martial arts, and began to pursue more and more styles,
eventually training as an MMA fighter.
Not everything was sunshine and rainbows for Samuel though, as he struggled through many
personal and health-related issues in his teenage years, which ended up with him waking
up in a hospital room after a particularly nasty street fight saw him knocked unconscious.
It was that moment that Samuel decided to make a change, and he dedicated the next year
of his life to getting better.
MMA was like therapy for him, and as he started posting his videos online, people quickly
took notice of his insane martial arts skills, and his follower count began to grow.
Finding that his workouts were inspiring people all around the world, he trained harder and
harder, saying he had found his purpose in the gym.
Today, he’s a signed fighter in the UFC, and his unrelenting quickness and power are
very plain to see in his training videos.
This guy is literally paid to beat up other trained fighters, do you really think you
should mess with him?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.