Brian Oldfield & Lou Ferrigno Weight Lifting

[saleemisgod]

Oldfield is huge-if lou is 6`5" then Oldfield must be 6`7" at least-and look how small lou is

[combatesdeboxeo]

it is for the retards who think that big muscles = more strength. the bodybuilders are a fraud. the funtional strength is not = big muscles.

[a68rebel]

Uh...if you think bodybuilders are not strong, you are the retard. Most of todays bodybuilders can bench around 600lbs.....not to shabby.

[combatesdeboxeo]

@a68rebel his strength is not proportional with his huge size, in other sports like weight-lifting the guys are much stronger. and it is not 600 pounds in the bench, they catch the weight in the floor and they put it on his shoulders. AND THEY ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN A BODYBUILDER. YOU ARE THE RETARD

[a68rebel]

@combatesdeboxeo I've only been body building for 2 years and I can bench 450 pounds......so yes pro bodybuilders are plenty strong. When Ferrigno was younger and training in the movie "Pumping Iron" he pushpressed 250 pounds for reps of 10 in a row easily......go watch the movie tard boy.

[combatesdeboxeo]

@a68rebel i watched pumping iron before you was even born. and i tell you again, handling 450 pounds IN THE BENCH is not like to catch the weight on the floor, FUCK TARD

[combatesdeboxeo]

@a68rebel PLUS THEY USE ROIDS, IT IS NOT EVEN NATURAL.

[fixdeluxe1]

@combatesdeboxeo But there are people with large muscles who are strong.

[gws35]

YO Freakno....spit out the marbles for chrisakes! And stop makin little kids cry...40 bucks for an autograph kid or its hulkamania time! Just aint right... And suing yer kid brother and senior Mom for pocket change aint cool either fathead...the buffoon has NO SHAME!

[MrDrBroman]

What the second commentator said at 5:30 ('IF?") I was thinking the same thing.

[leahcimrac]

These lifts look terrible.

[kingwillie206]

Lou had bad technique, however, he handled the weight with relative ease. I'm not so sure Brian was stronger, rather it seems to me, he was more experience at that particular type of lift. If he was stronger, why was big Lou at the #1 spot in the overall competition?

[toejam498]

lou used weight for bodybuilding not world records which is quite obvious.those two gentleman basically jerked their own weight which is no big deal. i weigh 210 and can easily do my weight

[SpinDoctor91]

wow super rare footage very nice.

[baller7552]

lol, oldfield lifted that like it was nothing

[80gamer]

HULK SMASH

[JaloV2000]

Big Louie wasn't so big for this competition. He dropped 50 lbs to just 235 for this competition. Had he been Oldfield's weight like he normally is, he could have easily pressed the weight up. Louie competed in bodybuilding contests between 275 - 280 in those days (300+ in the '90's) absolutely cut. So, at 275 Louie was at his weakest due to dropping so much mass to get in contest shape ... now imagine him at 235! Remember, Louie beat Columbu and Cole in the 1977 WSM car lift at 278 lbs!

[1134BlackLabel]

Brian Oldfield is an explosive guy, exactly what this lift needs.

[weldean46]

it is all technique and power for sure

[flojogrande]

Franco Columbo was one of few body builders that was a power lifter as well. It is just a different discipline and takes practice and technique.

[senatus]

Docsavage20:

LOL. I tend to agree.

I do think I would've given Louie the 260, but I'm shocked a man his size wouldn't be stronger. Lou was an absolute monster in his heyday; he was so wide and thick from front to back, even top bodybuilders say he was like standing next to a refrigerator.

Oddly enough, some sources, probably ghost-written Weider rags, claimed Louie could bench 550. Unless he had a time machine and took one of those triple-ply shirts with him back to the 70s, no way :-)

[blacksocko]

@senatus hes still a mountain of a man, you seen him on 'King of Queens'? hes fking huge!

[cpande1]

Bodybuilder vs. real athlete; real athlete wins.

[weldean46]

@cpande1  you can have it both ways too

[chicoflaco]

lou just needs more practice in olympic lift technique, but he easily hoisted 310, just he lost balance

[magyari25]

Big Loui Respect!!!

[treetoptop]

Oldfield is a nut, but I mean that in a good way. He did it all, worlds strongest man, a legend of a thrower, what a character.

[johntone9950]

Is the video of Oldfield doing 300 five times on Youtube? I remember seeing it when I was a teenager.

[ekpremareggie1]

It would be a rare body builder that can compete with a power athlete in any lift. This video a demonstration of that point. However, that said, good effort Lou!

[superpredatorr]

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[pifpaf1970]

by the ways in 1976 just before the hulk lou ferrigno was not in real good shap you can see he was not in is best shap

[DandDskeeto]

come on a dynamic two handed press between a shot putter and a body builder. Any elite level shot putter against any body builder it doesn't bear discussion. Not a fair contest. I threw in college and got as heavy as 290 no body builder on the planet could compete IN THAT PARTICULAR LIFT with me or any other thrower. The guys today don't even know how to move dynamically. At least back in the day, body buiders still would do some cleans.

[harrystyle]

lou is the best...

[LordZuljian]

To all of those who said he just did 310, that is what he won at, that wasn't his max. Brian was an amazing athlete, as 70footer said he would destroy people in the shot, even though he wasn't the strongest. He had amazing leg strength though, he was able to dunk a 16 pound shot put, which they said he needed over 900 pounds of force on his legs to do so.

[pureivy05]

of course he did.  Have you even seen the guy nowadays?

[peck4111]

oldfield didnt take  juice

[soybean70]

Lou didn't complete a single lift here. Just threw up a partial rep and didn't lock out.

[premo1719]

Who is the real winner? Have you seen lou Ferrigno in Hulk 2? He Looks better than ever! But Brian on the otherhand, he walks with 1 sometimes 2 canes. He is hunched over. Not in the best shape! It's all in the training technique.

[Endevor3]

good point.....lou is in good shape and brian can bairly walk

[cdeavellar1]

thats because oldfield had to bad knee surgerys and thats why he is in the shape he is in. really not his fault. plus the arthertics to.

[eatonss]

brian is in a wheelchair now. But he is still one of my favorite athletes ever.

[billysue2]

nothing to do with his training,it could happen to anyone .

[cdeavellar1]

lou Ferrigno had no chance against brian oldfield in the jerk. oldfield could jerk well over 400 lbs

[thegrapplingguy]

URAGR8M8 i believe the bench is simply used more they the clean and press was then simply put the clean and press is a more function and more compound lift.I train oldschool i'm a oldschool lifter.all these men are strong for there sport,Lou is bodybuilder and was a success in is art surely dedicated and inspiring to me a many alike

[JuSeo91]

oldfield raped him,, haha bodybuilding aint for this kinda comp.

[ComicsLegend]

Cool video clips. I wish they had these old classic World's Strongest Man competitions on DVD.

[goldslip]

mmmm...Lou is flaming hot. ^_^ with his big, fine ass. Hulk forever, baby!

[jfko6]

Does Lou make the final lift: 5m01s

[ohedd]

Oldfield is the only real man in there. shot putters rapes everybody

[kuntryboy369]

amen! i dont even like lou anymore

[URAGR8M8]

The clean and press has far more technique then bench pressing. Bench pressing is more about strength for that very reason and it uses completely different muscles so there is no point in saying one is better than the other - one shows how strong some muscles are and the other shows how strong other muscles are.

Only people who call the bench overated are people who can't bench big.

[cdeavellar1]

well it sort is overrated; the bench press. i mean its not very important in lift in any sport. the jerk , clean snatch, squats and dead lifts are way more important in pretty much in most sports like basketball, football, track and field, wrestling and many other sports. strong legs are very important and the only really sport that a good bench is need is in power lifting and body building. not to say that i m not good bench presser. i get 365 lbs but it is overrated

[arnold1984t1000]

@URAGR8M8 how much you bench?

[docsavage20]

It was obvious Ferrigno hadn't trained for that style of lifting. Even big Lou couldn't do it on muscle alone. Oldfield had muscle and technique.

I was shocked to see the condition Brian Oldfield is in now. Don't know what happened to him, he's in a wheelchair and it's hard for him to talk, sounds like he's got emphysema. A shadow of the guy you see in this video.

[D1ManBattalion]

I know hes in a wheel chair and all but he sounds just fine. Came in to help out about two weeks ago. Great guy.

[docsavage20]

None of Ferrigno's lifts should have passed.

[Dreaddo]

This is just silly. Lou failed all of his lifts on this vid.

[allpimp]

hey man if you have more VIDS of this same competition that you could post, ID REALLY APPRECIATE IT! thanks... Oldfied is a fucking SUPERSTAR!!! lol

[yousirareGay]

oldfield fucking rapes this guy. he is god

[genghishan]

brian oldfield the shotputter is stronger.

[huthut91]

@genghishan Or just has more jerking practice.

[Zeptra]

anybody who says lou suck is a little dick eater

[Bish8907]

Oldfield is a bad ass.

[tootall67]

That brings back great memories! Good old school weight training. Check out my weight training website: BigGuysGym dot com

[gstu3227]

Agreed. Lou was repping 225lbs(possibly 245) on the military press in Pumping Iron for 10x. Surprising that he didn't have it here with the higher weights. His legs weren't under him like Brians were. Natural power vs. bodybuilding

[BrianAbruzzi]

I love Lou, but his technique is awful and I can't beleive they're giving him those lifts!!! He never locks out at the top! In Pumping Iron, he did use 225, then 245, but those were non-locking bodybuilding reps to keep the tension on the muscle. He should have trained with an Olympic Weightlifter to learn the technique.

[gitano71]

yeah he lost his footing.

though....i wouldve thought this weight would be nothing to lou.

i think i remember seeing this as a kid.

[djlucy1]

Lou looked slimmer here. I don't think he was more than 250.

[jayron77]

WTF is dat? Ferrigno failed on all attempts!

[Arnoldhashugemuscles]

God damn Ferrigno sucks!

[Zeptra]

you little bitch lou owns

[Ebuverthebicepcurler]

He isnt a strongman you know, not used to that sort of thing. The fact he nearly won proves something.

[stopperkoarl]

big guy, but bad genetic

[youngmun]

Even if i get flack from Ferrigno namby pambys, in my view these judges were biased towards Ferrigno. Those overhead lifts are testing core strength as well as delt power. Ferrigno showed poor core strength,could not achieve stability and staggered all over and his nano second lockouts therefore could not reasonably sustained or held, for these preceding reasons. Simply put, the 260 lbs was clearly a problem for him if not invalid, and any lifts after this should not have been allowed.

[JSEPTX]

Brian put a shot 75' and beat women sprinters in his glory years and he was always a phenominal athlete.

[oOLiquidNeoOo]

Damn how tall is that Brian? He looks like he towers over Lou and I know Lou is a big guy he is 6'5". I am guessing Brian is like 6'6", 6'7"?

[StanleyKu]

Lou's lift and lockout were good, he just lost his footing.

[nezpercenathan]

Don't know how many people remember it, but after Oldfield won with this weight, he went back to do an "exhibition" lift for the crowd with 350, and proceeded to do 5 reps with it!

[grat457]

man oldfield did that no problem

[jconna77]

Brian Oldfeild be my idle

[ItalianWarrior777]

Lou Frrigno had problems with his stability

[jagmany]

lou ferrignos dad is an ass.

[kudrias]

yeah man, you're right !

I don't like his father as well

[qbmasterman88]

these guys were body builders, not powerlifters; they are two very different ways of training

[asddfkfkfkfkf]

he didnt defeat the hulk, they both got 310! and even so 310 now-days isnt much, there women who can do that. but back then that must of been bestial. 3dkiller suck my balls u ass, he still military pressed 310 so hes not that weak is he. and oldfield could never squat 800lbs, or bench 500lbs so he can laugh all he wants but he cant lift it.

[GreatMilenko777]

Lou was one of the strongest men at one time and had incredible potential he wasn't at all at his peak strenght he was a bb he was strong naturally.310 is considerable afficent in qualiyfing in being strongman the use in wsm today in axle press.overhead liftnot popular as then actually in those days they could lift 500bls in clean and press no leg drive as 1972 nomore recognized the lift also few years laterly lou could lift 400lbs in the press and 500 was not out of the question

[70footer]

Oldfield wasn't the strongest shot putter and used to make fun of all the other guys with thier 800lb squats and 500lb bench presses, saying, "the shot only weighs 16lbs" then he'd go and throw one about 80 feet and say "throwing is alot more than how much you can bench press" and everyone would be speechless...

[PJTocci]

wtf kind of competition is this? clean the damn thing!

[RAKANKAN]

I believe that this Is the 1974 IFBB Mr. Universe held

In Verona Italy. I saw this on ABC Wide World Of Sports. I wonder If ABC will on day release this Videos.

[152monkeybiker]

All the people saying his form was bad and he was weak I would like to know how much you can lift.

[ImplementThrowing]

I have a 300lb push press and a 335 behind the neck jerk. Good enough for you? It's certainly more than you can do on your Bowflex I'm sure.

[HGthrower]

Oops that was me ... accidently posted under a friends user that hadn't logged out. Without steroids too. Either way monkeyboy, I mean biker, how much can you lift?

[blacksocko]

LMAO Ooooo. Thats a pretty big insult in the powerlifting world my friend. Strong words.

[eyedentifeye]

That sounds impressive; please show us a YouTube video of it

[HGthrower]

Brian Oldfield had the only clean lift out of any of them. Ferrigno never should have been awarded his lifts there was no lockout and he staggered all over the place.

[3dkiller]

ferrigno forgot to take his Steriods in,thats why hes so weak

[wiggasfuhdays]

Jesus Ferrigno's form was horrible, looks like he's never lifted weights before.

[dangot]

thats because people are so much more in to steroids now than they were then

[polinikz]

Thats it? 260lbs. for a push press was considered "elite" back then? Damn times have changed.

[NegroMente]

This was a superstars challenge, not a true Olympic style lifting competition of the days best lifters. Remember, 500 lbs on a bench lift was barley broken in the 80s! (and they had plenty of vitamin S back then!)

[ageofempires]

pro olympic weightlifters back then were lifting nearly 500 pounds back then.

[spider1963]

Does anyone remember those old celebrity Superstars competitions from the 1970s?

[nadador64]

Yes, I do. I remember watching them when I was younger. It would be great to see some of them here on YouTube.