Don't be a barbell hipster, Wolf. To be fair, CFers are tangentially tied to weightliftng at best; lots of the CF folks I've met at local meets were there simply because they figured it'd be a fun thing to do on a Saturday since they already knew how to do the lifts, i.e. they're not wading through Charniga's articles or watching the 1979 Soviet National Championships to break down Rigert's technique frame by frame....er...not that I do that on sexually frustrated, bourbon-soaked Saturday nights or anything.....
Also, they're confused specifically because as you probably know, the weight class rearrangements were deliberately meant to be obfuscating, as weightlifting in the 1980s was the most shamelessly doped up sport at the Olympics and was on the chopping block to make room for yet another form of horseriding; clearing out the old records was a misguided attempt by the fools at IWF central to try to clean the slate and restart under supposedly stronger doping regulations. So the CFers are understandable in being confused, and teeeeccchnically they're right in that 264 is the heaviest ever under the current set of rules...i.e. according to the tests, Lovchev has never tested positive for the stuff that Taranenko was openly and legally using.