Who is the strongest

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also alonzo malone and ben gordon

[jlauber]

Basketball Rule #1:

Whenever Wilt Chamberlain does something, it doesn't count.

Example:

Guy #1: Wilt Chamberlain benched 500lbs

Guy#2: Doesn't count

Guy #1: Why?

Guy #2: Short White guys

[Eric Cartman]

Basketball Rule #1:

Whenever Wilt Chamberlain does something, it doesn't count.

Example:

Guy #1: Wilt Chamberlain benched 500lbs

Guy#2: Doesn't count

Guy #1: Why?

Guy #2: Short White guys

Wilt today = Prime Shaq.

[swi7ch]

My vote goes to Pau Gasol.

[bmulls]

You obviously have done NO research.

How about this SI article in '64, and long before Wilt peaked.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...91/2/index.htm



Or this EYE-WITNESS account in an interview in the 90's, and when Chamberlain was 59 years old?

http://wiltfan.tripod.com/chat.htm



http://volleyball.org/people/wilt_chamberlain.html



In Robert Cherry's book on Chamberlain, how about this? [Page 375] "One such buddy was Fluke Fluker, whom Wilt had first met when both worked out at the Mid-Valley Racquetball Club in the early nineties. "The first thing people saw about Wilt and me is that we're big, we're black, and we're athletic. And they end their definition there." Fluker said. "It may have been one of the things that brought us together. We both hated the image of the dumb, black athlete." Fluker, a 6'5" and about 250 lbs, claims that he can bench press 500 lbs. Even he was amassed at Wilt's strength. "The man could curl a 100 lb. dumbbell as easy as I can lift a telephone receiver."


How about this...

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f2/sto...99/index6.html



Go ahead and just GOOGLE Wilt's bench press, and get back to me. The internet is PLASTERED with articles claiming Wilt had a 500+ lb. bench press. And, BTW, find me ONE LEGITIMATE FIRST HAND account that DISPUTES those.

Find me ONE LEGITIMATE PICTURE OR VIDEO that PROVES this. Sorry, any article where the author spells "amazed" as "amassed" doesn't impress me.

Again, you obviously don't lift weights, otherwise you would realize how ridiculous that claim is. 500lbs is an absolutely monster bench press. I compete in bodybuilding and have lifted for 7+ years in many different gyms. I have never seen anybody bench even close to 500lbs. I watched the OU football team lift daily for 2 semesters. None of them could bench 500, and only the biggest, heaviest linemen would even try 405.


EDIT:

Also, do you realize the WORLD RECORD bench press in 1959 was 565 lbs. Do you honestly think Wilt Chamberlain was among the worlds strongest men?

[jlauber]

Find me ONE LEGITIMATE PICTURE OR VIDEO that PROVES this. Sorry, any article where the author spells "amazed" as "amassed" doesn't impress me.

Again, you obviously don't lift weights, otherwise you would realize how ridiculous that claim is. 500lbs is an absolutely monster bench press. I compete in bodybuilding and have lifted for 7+ years in many different gyms. I have never seen anybody bench even close to 500lbs. I watched the OU football team lift daily for 2 semesters. None of them could bench 500, and only the biggest, heaviest linemen would even try 405.


EDIT:

Also, do you realize the WORLD RECORD bench press in 1959 was 565 lbs. Do you honestly think Wilt Chamberlain was among the worlds strongest men?

Most certainly YES. Watch the YouTube footage of a Cosell interview with Ali and Chamberlain. In it he states that Wilt might be the strongest man in the world.

BTW, the entire Steeler offensive line reportedly was benching 500+ lbs in the early 70's (albeit it was obviously steroid-aided.)

[RRR3]

Shaq is pretty easily the strongest NBA player ever IMO. Who else brought the whole basket down the way he did? It's one thing to shatter the glass, but Shaq ****ing ripped the whole thing out of the foundation! IIRC the NBA strengthened the hoops after Shaq did it a few times.

[Kblaze8855]

Rafael Araujo is the raptor who was benching 500 pounds a while back.

[chazzy]

ben gordon

What?!

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What?!

he's one of the stronger smaller guys in the nba

[Cowboy Thunder]

OSU used to be so good at hoops

[NumberSix]

Shaq is pretty easily the strongest NBA player ever IMO. Who else brought the whole basket down the way he did? It's one thing to shatter the glass, but Shaq ****ing ripped the whole thing out of the foundation! IIRC the NBA strengthened the hoops after Shaq did it a few times.

That's more a matter of weight+strength than just pure strength.

[Burgz]

He only weighs 230 pounds. Pound for ppound he might be the strongest, but no way would he overall be the strongest compared to alot of dudes who weigh near 300 pounds. No way is he stronger than Al Jefferson, Zaza Patchulia, Dwight Howard, Nikola Pekovic, or Kendrick Perkins. All those dudes can push a car or pull a truck or lift bigger stones than Joey Graham.

he could lift more than anyone in the NBA at one point im not a bodybuilder but im pretty sure that makes him pretty much stronger than them

[Mr. I'm So Rad]

Real talk, I heard DJ Mbenga was strong as f*ck.

Larry Johnson was too

[Deuce Bigalow]

Chamberlain, Gilmore, and Shaq...in probably any order, although there were those that claimed that Wilt was benching over 500 lbs. Ben Wallace also reportedly had a 450 bench, but he was considerably shorter, with much shorter arms.

another tall tail from this f@gg0t