I am the strongest,
I am the Viking - Yeah!
Time now for the Top 3 Mythical Moments of torture in strongman.
Alongside me, the legend Bill Kazmaier.
Kaz - how does torture make you feel?
It's sort of like me being covered on a hot day - with ice cubes and ice water.
What a chill and what a thrill!
Time now for Lou Ferrigno - The Hulk - Bar Bend '77 (1977).
Time limit's 90 seconds
Bend!
Our men of Muscle may have met their match.
And that foul is against George Friend
You can see those elbows draped over the ends of the bar, and he's out of the competition.
all of them trying to get added leverage lou ferrigno has it away from the back of his
neck and in his hands franco colombo's taking it out of his mouth this time
Bruce Wilhelm, who won the first week, trying to grab 10 more points.
Less than 30 seconds left
Now, if none of our strongmen can get the ends of that bar within at least eight inches of each other,
then whoever comes the closest - would be judged the winner.
Come on man!
A friend yelling encouragement to Patera.
It's going to be up to Hal Connolly, and that yardstick, to tell who won this.
Lou Ferrigno, 24 and a quarter inches.
24 and a quarter (inches) would be our leader right now
Mike Dayton it's beyond three feet
Alright, Franco Colombo - hold it, hold, hold.
26 and a quarter inches
Lou Ferrigno is the winner. He picks up 10 points.
Very nice job. What was the uh, key to that? You were grunting and groaning.
i looked behind and I saw a muscle god, and said: " Zeus, God almighty, just help me'', and he gave me the strength to do it.
Well that wasn't exactly health and safety friendly but what was in the 1970s, eh Kaz!?
What do you make of the bar bend?
Capes has dropped out for some reason.
And listen to Kazmaier, apparently they have suffered from some type of muscle pull.
Let''s hope it's not too severe.
Those bars are pretty tough.
Kaz! well maybe it's more torturous than I thought,
time now though for some real pain
Whit Baskin, 1999, Malta.
This young man only had to win against Laszlo Fekete and the others in his heat to then, hopefully go on to the final.
But he didn't just win, he made pain his friend!
For the first time in World Strongest Man we have two competitors eyeball to eyeball.
Facing each other, trying to psych each other out.
Easy by Whit Baskin, Fekete just behind him and the clock starts.
The target 52.56 seconds; and I suppose what we're looking at here is a real battle for this second qualifying place,
Venneberg is pretty much uh in the final already,
he's got a good lead over the rest, but the second place is between Laszlo Fekete
and Whit Baskin at the moment,
so there's everything to go for in this penultimate event.
The American solid
And if possible, Whit Baskin has to put as much space between himself and Fekete, as possible.
Fekete trying to block everything out,
That's Whit Baskin, the contrast in their expressions is incredible,
They're way past what Andreas Hofmann did.
And Fekete goes down, that was very sudden and Baskin is hanging on.
In the lead the American, his brother is in the audience shouting out the time to him,
This is phenomenal 75 seconds!
Way, way in the lead and still two very good competitors to go of course.
But Berend Venenberg the overall leader and the olympic weightlifter Raimonds Bergmanis.
And if those two could go ahead of Fekete as well, Whit Baskin may be safe in the final.
His brother saying "keep going".
this is getting ridiculous! I've never seen anybody approaching two minutes. T
We had it in Nevada a few years ago and the best time there was about 90 seconds,
we're over a hundred now approaching two minutes. Phenomenal! that's all i can say,
even Jamie Reeves there a former World Strongest Man next to Baskin must be amazed
at how he's hanging on by his fingertips. Oh, he's gone! That was unbelievable and Fekete totally perplexed,
well almost all the blood has drained away from Whit Baskin's head, he's
probably feeling a little bit faint but he'll be back soon. That was unbelievable!
Whit Baskin with a most incredible time,
That is the most impressive performance we've had in World's Strongest Man
this year and one of the best I've ever seen. I was just thinking about the pain the whole
time, how bad it hurts just almost unbearable, I thought my grip started to go early on, to be
honest with you once I hit about 30, I thought I was fixing to go and uh just keep on pushing it.
Wow! That was awesome! goodness me! What a glutton for punishment. Whit Baskin with that performance
surely proves that stamina is one of the key elements for strength.
Kaz? (pain sounds...)
This is strength!
I'm not gonna argue with Kaz on that one, anyway time now for someone you rarely see
on this channel. It's hammer time and he's the shoulder king, Eddie The Beast Hall!
Well it's uh the big two to come last currently second overall, remember we have another event
after this of course, we still have the stones. Who's the strongest says Kaz?
Certainly would appear to be Eddie Hall today to take his historic fourth title
ready to win, this it would give him even more points ahead of Shahlaei going in to the stones
and well with only 12 points up for grabs, if you take the win and someone's last then well, that
would mean Eddie Hall would have to uh probably injure himself to go down to the bottom in stones
as these two get on with it in a different way. Eddie Hall
trying to suck the air in, as much as possible concentrating on breathing, Shahlaei enjoys
the pain almost, he said that beforehand. I first was asking him what he predicted, he actually said
pain rather than a time. Now 47, 48 close to Paul Smith's time, 51 we've got past and Shahlaei's
perhaps best time ever in this event to come second, guess who has gone past the minute?
Well that is the longest time ever on those hammers. Remarkable by Eddie Hall,
66-55 he just loves to win.
oh! Shahalei, put in a great performance perhaps his best ever too,
but Eddie Hall, that massive chest, he can almost rest his arms on it.
Love him and I hate him, The Beast delivers again
a world record in the forward hold. Kaz surely that makes him maybe the strongest man ever.
Well it reaffirms my idea that I'm the strongest man who ever lived.
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