I don’t think you can compare the conditions to those of Eddie’s lift. Also, it’s a different feat to do something for the first time. And then to go only one kilogram beyond the current record and get it on ESPN? Seems petty to me. I’m happy with the attention all this noise is bringing to lifting, though.
I find the boxing match much more disappointing, though. These guys are strongman competitors, they’re not built to go the distance in the ring. It seems like part of the zeitgeist is that everyone has t box, regardless of their profession. What’s next, Trump versus Biden? I expect the whole thing to be a boring distraction. I would much rather see them compete in a strongman event and save boxing for people who actually train for it.
I dunno, there's a lot of silliness that happens in real high-level boxing with point scoring and stuff like that. It gets tiresome when one fighter gets ahead in points and just becomes utterly nonconfrontational. I'll probably watch the match out of curiosity sometime.
I’d go for Thor I think underneath he’s quite a psycho. I do agree that it’s a circus. It seems that hype sells fights which is why native english speakers sell so many seats as they can play the publicity game whereas Eastern European/near eastern boxers struggle despite being the best around (lomachenko,usyk,golovkin etc)
what benefit does a suit offer? Compression (of the quads/hams/glutes)?
Interesting how he lowers his hips at the start, but the bar does not begin to rise until his hips go up. Where have we heard that before.
I actually found myself looking at his form too. Not from a "he needs to fix X" standpoint of course, I'd feel like the most insufferable person nitpicking the world's heaviest deadlift like that. But just from a curiosity standpoint, I found it interesting. I noted he has a very wide deadlift stance, which I suspect is because of his proportions. Probably have to get the legs further apart to properly brace his back. I have noticed a lot of big powerlifter type guys also do the deadlift prep where they drop down really low almost like a squat, with the bar far out in front of them, and then roll it back into the shins as they come up to do the lift. I think that's how a lot of them sorta "Find their way" to end up in the right start position, but it seems like wasted energy.
One of the lift's commentators, English strongman Laurence Shahlaei, talked about that. He said a lot of the giant guys can't get a big breath with a conventional setup, so they roll the bar out to open their chest up a little more. I'd always wondered about that too.