William Kazmaier (born December 30, 1953) is a former American world champion powerlifter, a strong world champion and professional wrestler. During the 1970s and 1980s, he set many world records of powerlifting and strongman, and won two World Championship Powerlifting Federation (IPF) and three Worlds Strongest Human titles. In the 1980s, Kazmaier became famous for his claim to be "the strongest man who ever lived" by matching and surpassing the spectacular and versatile achievements of the powerful forces of the famous men of the 20th century. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest competitors of all time in the power competition.
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Kazmaier is of German descent. A star athlete in high school, Kazmaier played football for two years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before dropping out in 1974 to concentrate on lifting weights at Madison YMCA. There he learned the basics of powerlifting. Kazmaier then struggled to earn a living as an oil rigger, a bouncer, and a woodcutter.
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Career weightlifting
At the 1978 National Amateur Championship (AAU) National Championships in Los Angeles, California, Kazmaier squatted 782 pounds, bench pressed 534 pounds, and 804 Â £ dinars in the 275-pound weight class, which immediately put him at the top spot in his first national powerlifting appearance. In 1979 at the age of 25, he set a world record with a bench press of £ 622 en route to win his first IPF World Powerlifting Championship in Dayton, Ohio. Lifts include 865 pounds squat, bench bench 622 lbs, and 804 pound deadlift with a total of 2292 pounds. He repeated his success in 1983 by winning the Powerlifting Championship of the United States Federation of Powerlifting (USPF) in July and then the IPF World Championship in November for the second time. He won this IPF World Championship despite two major injuries. He had a severe chest injury, from which he never fully recovered, and shortly before the IPF Championship, had torn his hip flexor in a squat.
The world record bench record at the beginning of 1979 was 612 pounds, held by Lars Hedlund. Kazmaier moved the world record gradually up from 617.3 pounds in July 1979 to 622.8 pounds in November 1979 to 633.8 pounds in May 1980 and eventually became 661.4 pounds at the USPF, West Georgia Open Powerlifting Championships, held at Columbus, Georgia. on January 31, 1981. In this competition, Kazmaier officially became the first human being to bench press 300 kg (661.4 pounds) (raw) in an IPF approved meeting * and recorded his best lifetime. lift-total of 2425 Â £ (1100 kg), a world record of powerlifting that has remained unchallenged for more than a decade. Elevators that he won were: 925.9 pounds squat (420 kg), bench press 661.4 pounds (300 kg) and deadlift 837.8 pounds (380 kg). The press bench and deadlift are done raw (unequipped), while squatting is done with wraps and a marathon squat suit. Its powerlifting performance is considered to be one of the best of all time. In November 1981, Kazmaier became one of the few lifters in history to hold the world record in three of four driving events at the same time by setting a new deadlift world record at 402 kg (886.7 pounds) raw in the competition. From 1981 onward Kazmaier's career was affected by many tears and muscle injuries, preventing him from setting the bar higher. He suffered a chest, shoulder and tricep injury, putting further notes in the bench press.
- * Jim Williams had a bench pressed 675.5 pounds (306.2 kg) (raw) earlier than Kazmaier in 1972 just before the establishment of the IPF. But his appointment was done by wrapping the elbow bandage, which was then banned so it was not counted as an official world record.
Strong career
Kazmaier competes in six of the World's Strongest Human Contests. In 1979 the World's Strongest Man, he came in third after leading many competitions and defeating Don Reinhoudt's powerlifting icon in a lift car by switching off a 2555 pound car. In the following years, he dominated the competition in 1980, 1981, and 1982, winning all by a large margin. He was the first to win the WSM title three times and remains one of two people who have won it three times in a row.
In his 1980 title victory, Kazmaier won five out of ten events and tied for first elsewhere. He won a wooden elevator, a machine race, a steel bar, a squat girl's lift, a silver dollar deadlift, and a last-ditch war. Runner-up in the competition, Lars Hedlund, more than 28 points behind.
During the Kazmaier title defense in World's Strongest Man 1981 he won the squat event with 969 pounds (440 kg) (on a smith machine) for world records, right after tearing down his major pectoralis muscle while bending the cold rolled steel bar at the previous event dam bar. After this tear, he lost more than a hundred pounds from his bench press, making the 1983 IPF world championship win all that much more significant. After his victory in squatting, he went on to win a silver dollar deadlift with a 940 pound (426.4 kg) lift. Of the 11 events he has five wins, two second places, one third and fourth. His victories include wooden lifts, deadlifts, squats, race races, and machine races.
In World's Strongest Human Competition 1982, Kazmaier won the first three events. The outstanding performance in this WSM is its 1055 pound sterling silver deadlift.
Despite being a defending champion, the committee decided not to invite Kazmaier to compete in the following four WSM competitions because he was too dominant. His absence paved the way for Kazmaier's main rival Geoff Capes to win the title in 1983. Kazmaier continued to compete in lesser-known tournaments, such as the Scottish Power Challenge and Le Defi Mark Ten International.
He returned to the World's Strongest Human Contest in 1988, where he won three out of eight events - press logs, deadlifts and sack racing - and picked up two second places including a tug truck, but he was disqualified for moving his hand in the sausage forward, stopped prematurely. With two matches going on, he leads the field and becomes a favorite to win the "weight above the event bar", where a weight of £ 56 should be thrown over the bar. He holds the World Record in this event from Highland Games 1984 with a height of 18 feet 3 inches. The event happened to the water for the first time and Bill's attention to problems with his orientation on water was borne. Though he threw the weight at least 3 feet higher than the bar, he failed to get the right direction. So he broke up just 15 feet 1 inch. With closest rival Kazmaier JÃÆ'³n PÃÆ'¡n Sigmarsson winning the event with a throw over 15 feet 7 inches, Kazmaier came in second overall to JÃÆ'³n PÃÆ'¡ll. Kazmaier had defeated Sigmarsson in 1987 at the Le Defi Mark Ten show in Canada, and also before WSM in 1988, at the World Musclepower Classic.
In the final appearance of WSM Kazmaiers on World's Strongest Man 1989, he severely injured his ankle in the first event and already had a torn bicep. He came in fourth, just behind JÃÆ'³n PÃÆ'¡ll Sigmarsson. Kazmaier was the first to suppress the inevitable "Thomas Inch dumbbell" and became the fifth person to lift him above the knee, setting this record on October 13, 1990.
In addition to the WSM contest, Kazmaier also competes in other strong competitions, such as Strongbow Strongman Challenge, Scottish Strength Challenge, Le Defi Mark Ten Challenge, World Muscle Strength Championship, and Pure Power contest. He ended his career as a competitive strongman in 1990.
With three Worlds Strongest Human titles, Kazmaier is one of the most successful contenders in the history of the contest. The power of writer David Webster calls him "the greatest American power athlete of all time", and a 2008 poll of experts judging him as the super-heavyweight lifter of all time and "one of the strongest men who ever lived." She was featured in Flex magazine in May 2008, where the top ten list of the strongest men in history was published. Kazmaier was voted "the third strongest man ever to live", just behind Mark Henry and? Ydr? Nas Savickas.
Professional wrestling career
Inspired by Jim Thorpe, Kazmaier sought to transfer his talents to other sports, tried for the NFL Green Bay Packers in 1981 and also participated in the Wrestling World Championships. Trained by Verne Gagne and Brad Rheingans, Kazmaier began wrestling in 1986, and wrestled with a single WWF match in Calgary, Alberta on November 10, 1986, beating David Barbie. During the 1980s, he has struggled with promotions such as Stampede Wrestling in Canada and the Continental Wrestling Championships in America. He will also wrestle for Network Fighting in Japan in early 1991.
His greatest national exposure occurred when he debuted for World Championship Wrestling in the summer of 1991. He received several shots at WGW World Heavyweight Championship Lex Luger but failed to win the title. He also had time to work with Rick Steiner, only to lose to The Enforcers in the final tournament for World Tag Team Championship WCW. At Halloween Havoc 1991, in Chattanooga, he defeated Oz with submission. In 1991 Starrcade Battlebowl: The Lethal Lottery, Kazmaier and his colleague Jushin "Thunder" Liger beat Diamond Dallas Page and Mike Graham in Norfolk, Virginia. While in WCW, Kazmaier also wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling. At NJPW, his theme music is "Poundcake" by Van Halen.
Life after competition
Kazmaier opened a fitness club, Kaz Fitness Center, in Auburn, Alabama in the early 1980s. The fitness center was closed in 2005. Kazmaier then opened, and continues to operate, S.W.A.T. gym in Opelika, Alabama. Both serve as a place for him to train and as a base for DynaKaz Inc., Kazmaier's import and export import equipments company, which markets fitness products worldwide.
After retiring from active rivalry in the 1990s, Kazmaier was hired as a co-commentator for ESPN America's broadcast of the annual World's Strongest Human Competition along with Todd Harris and World's Strongest Human Winner 2006, Phil Pfister. He also commented on the British broadcast.
Kazmaier considers his most important contribution to public life to be his work as a motivational speaker for 3D Sports Tech, dealing with YMCA schools and groups. "I can and I will" is the message he conveyed to inspire young people to lead a healthier and more productive life.
Personal life
Bill Kazmaier's nickname is "Kaz". He is William Bartholomew's youngest son and Florence Louise Steinhoff Kazmaier. He has one brother, two brothers, and a half brother. His father owns a soda bottling factory in Burlington and Kenosha, Wisconsin.
In 1974, Kazmaier experienced a "spiritual awakening" after reading a Bible verse in Psalm 40 while at Madison YMCA. He is known as a devoted Christian, praising most of his success and his tremendous power for "the power of Jesus Christ." He lives in Auburn, Alabama and has a son, Eric.
Recordings
Powerlifting records
was conducted in 1981 in a fully authorized powerlifting meeting
- Squatting - 420 kg (925.9 lbs) in the 80s squat marathon setting
- Bench press - 300Ã, kg (661,4Ã, lbs) raw
- -> a former IPF world record in the SHW class (regardless of heavyweight); surpassed by 666.9 pounds Ted Arcidi (raw) in 1984
- Deadlift - 402Ã, kg (886,7Ã, lbs) * raw
- -> a former IPF world record in the SHW class (regardless of heavyweight); surpassed by 903.9 pounds Doyle Kenady (equipped with a deadlift suit) in 1986
- Total - 1100 kg (420.0/300.0/380.0)/2425.08 pound (925.9/661.4/837.8) * in a marathon squat setting 80s
- -> a former IPF world record in the SHW class (regardless of heavyweight); surpassed by £ 2427 John Ware (equipped with a squat suit and a bench shirt) in 1989
- Deadlift - 410Ã, kg (903.9Ã, lbs) with a wrist strap
- Deadlift - 415Ã, kg (914.9Ã, lb) Raw, no wrist strap, in the 1981 Highland Games. The elevator is officially 404 kg (890.6 lb) but then weighed to 415 kg (914.9 lb). Judged by Douglas Edmunds.
- Lifting of the Car (Deadlift): 2555 lbs cars - won the 1979 lift (lifted two tires off the ground)
- Elevator Cement Block (Squatting at Smith Machine) - 440 kg (969 Â £) lift victory, WSM 1981
- Silver Dollar Deadlift - 480Ã,¼ (1055 Ã,  £) WSM 1982 lift lift (18 "from floor with wrist strap)
- Elevator Log Overhead - 170Ã, kg (375 Ã, Â £) win lift WSM 1988 (wooden logs awkward with large circumference) It was noted that in 1988 timber was used for The elevator logs are not machines as in modern competition, and are very unbalanced in terms of weight. Bill pressed logs easily, not using a foot drive at all.
- Hungarian Farm Cart Deadlift - 510Ã,¼, (1124Ã, lbs) WSM lift victory 1988
- Seat Military Press - 215 kg (475 lb) - 203 kg (448 pounds) for 3 reps.
- Standing Overhead Press - 225Ã, kg (495Ã, lb) tight press, no foot drive.
- Bench Press - 305Ã, kg (700lbs.)
- Pure Power 4 Team Challenge - winner (1990)
- World's Strongest Man - 4th place (1989)
- Pure Power 3 Team Challenge - 2nd Winner (1989)
- Scottish Power Challenge - winner (1989)
- World's Strongest Man - 2nd Place (1988)
- Pure Power 2 Team Challenge - winner (1988)
- Scottish Power Challenge - winner (1988)
- Pure Power - Main Challenge - 2nd Winner (1987)
- Le Defi Mark Ten Challenge - winner (1987)
- Scottish Power Challenge - winner (1987)
- Scottish Power Challenge - winner (1986)
- Scottish Power Challenge - winner (1985)
- Scottish Power Challenge - winner (1984)
- World's Strongest Man - winner (1982)
- World's Strongest Man - winner (1981)
- Superman Strongbow Contest - winner (1981)
- Strongman Strongman Contest - winner (1980)
- World's Strongest Man - winner (1980)
- World's Strongest Man - 3rd Place (1979)
* the former world record created in 1981
Total career aggregate (3 best official lift) - 1122 kg (420 300 402)/2474,0 pounds (925.9 661.4 886.7)
done in 1983 Powerlifting Exhibition
World's Strongest Human Record
Other Expertise
(305kg = 671 pounds) so is it 305kg? Or 318kg ??
Achievements
Professional Competitive Record - [1 (14), 2 (3), 3 (3) - Of Total (21)]
Performance Metrics -.967 [United -, 970 International -.966]
BIGGEST GROUP
World Strongman Challenge - 3rd place (1988)
World Muscle Strength Championships - winners (1988)
World Muscle Strength Championship - 3rd place (1985)
Career statistics
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