Strongest wrestler of all time?

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I dont know how this is a question. One of the strongest people to ever walk the planet is employed by WWE. Mark Henry is the obvious answer.
 
I'm not a big wrasslin fan but it's not even close. Mark Henry is legitimately still a world record holder in power lifting for drug free lifters. The fact that his record still holds from '95 is astounding.
 
Mark Henry for sure

But an honorable mention to this guy...I was really into WWF/E as a kid and this dude was awesome to watch

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YesManKablam said:
I've heard some stories about Bad News Barrett which make him sound like the toughest motherfucker alive.

Okay found a post on /r/squaredcircle that covers this whole topic.

First off: Haku. This story from Rick Steiner really paints a picture;
"I was in LA one time with him and he fought eight cops, they shot him with mace and he closed his eyes and sucked it in. He just opened his mouth and took a deep breath. I mean, some of the stuff he did was like "What the hell" Scotty and I always thought we were tough guys but that was before we met Meng."
People were legit scared of him, such as Jake the Snake;
If I had a gun, and I was sitting in a tank, and I had one shell left, and Haku was three hundred yards away, he's mine, right? Well, the first thing I'm going to do is jump out of the tank and shoot myself - because I don't want to wound that son of a bitch and piss him off.
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GaimeGuy said:
Mark Henry. It's not even a contest. He's arguably the greatest powerlifter of all time (certainly top 2 or 3), and he was clean, and he was done by his early 20s... so he never even lifted professionally in his prime.

Andre the Giant might be up there. Probably the strongest non-bodybuilder/powerlifter, though no one knows just how strong he really was since he didn't even strength train or hit the weights.
Even guys who could bench 500 lbs were in awe of his strength.

(btw, the Andre flipping a car story is just an urban legend, but hiim drinking 154 beers is most definitely fact)
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I feel like this is the best answer. Andre was incredibly strong but he never competed or strength trained so it's impossible to really measure his strength. Without a doubt though, he's the strongest non-power lifter to ever grace the ring.

And as far as measurable strength goes.. as it's been said many times already, Mark Henry clearly takes it.
 
Technically, it's Jacob, in Genesis 32:24-28

So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,” he answered.

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
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Start breaking Mark Henry's records and then it's something. Before that it's just talk. And remember that everything that happens in the ring is assisted by the opponent. Still not easy, but not comparable to real competition.
 
I know Doug Furnas was supposed to be super strong. I personally always thought Goldberg, Rick Steiner, and Dr Death were awesomely strong.
 
OK, the strongest wrestler ever is probably Henry. The guy is a legit freak. Afterwards, it's a tossup.

People will say Andre, but Andre's size was greatly exaggerated for TV effects, and unfortunately, his disease ravaged his body, and even if he was freakishly strong, it's not likely that he could have really utilized his strength to his full capacity. BTW, that story about Andre lifting a car or whatever is FALSE. Even the WWE refutes it. http://www.wwe.com/classics/the-legend-of-andre-the-giant-26086326/page-6

Big Show's admitted max bench is 500 pounds, so I don't think he's the strongest.

Kane may be the second strongest ever. He benched 525, and he claims that he did without any support. No bench shirt, no wraps, nothing. I don't know much about benching, but a friend of mine says that's incredible to believe and makes lifting much, much harder. With that stuff, he was apparently getting above 600 pounds. http://www.wwe.com/inside/wwe-superstars-max-bench-press-26161895/page-7

The problem with Kane is that he lost a good deal of his strength in 2002 when he tore his biceps tendon (he apparently was trying to lift some crazy amount on one arm and it just torn the tendon off the bone). If that never happened, who knows where he could have gone with his strength.
 
Literally? Mark Henry, who really was the world's strongest man, and probably one of the strongest men in history at his peak.

Andre, Big Show, those sorts of giants are the other contenders. That comes with their size inevitably, but Andre would have had his peak in the 70s.

If you're going for non-strongmen, or non-giants, and looking at functional strength in the ring, someone like Brock Lesnar, Goldberg or Cesaro are up there. John Cena is also absurdly strong, given he's far from the largest guy.

According to Lesnar, at his peak Kane was the strongest, as the only man in 2002 WWE that Lesnar could not beat in an arm wrestling contest. Lesnar could even beat the likes of the Big Show at it, but he couldn't budge Kane.
 
Cesaro has it as far as "pound for pound". He doesn't look like a guy who should be able to pull off the feats of strength he does. Mark Henry, Kane, Goldberg, those guys LOOK like they should be able to do what they do. But not Cesaro.

He's not the strongest overall, but the ratio of ability compared to each pound of his personal weight, I'm betting he's one of the strongest.
 
Brock Lesnar is being modest because he is for sure strong as fuck. Swagger should be another guy who is up there too. These two guys wrestled 285lb men from HS through college and dominated in the USA during their times. Both were good enough to do it on the word stage if they had decided to.

Another guy is Kurt Angle. In his prime he could have legit picked up anyone in the WWE and dumped them on their head.
 
LOLOMGWTFBBQ said:
Cesaro's was better IMO

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Does anyone else think it was really irresponsible for Cesaro to dump bigshow out of the ring like that. At least Kane dropped him on the apron so he didn't fall as far. That can't be good on the legs for a man that size. Unless of course that's the way they worked it out and he knew it was coming but still.. It kind of makes me cringe.
 
Nitemare1 said:
Does anyone else think it was really irresponsible for Cesaro to dump bigshow out of the ring like that. At least Kane dropped him on the apron so he didn't fall as far. That can't be good on the legs for a man that size. Unless of course that's the way they worked it out and he knew it was coming but still.. It kind of makes me cringe.
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If you watch Big Show's arm he places it on the ring apron to break his fall. They will have worked it out in advance and made sure it's done in a safe way.
 
Nitemare1 said:
Does anyone else think it was really irresponsible for Cesaro to dump bigshow out of the ring like that. At least Kane dropped him on the apron so he didn't fall as far. That can't be good on the legs for a man that size. Unless of course that's the way they worked it out and he knew it was coming but still.. It kind of makes me cringe.
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That was the planned finish, guarantee it.

If Big Show didn't want to do it, they wouldn't do it. He's at a level now where he can refuse spots like that if he wants to. And while Cesaro could probably deadlift him, he wouldn't get Big Show close to the top rope unless Show was playing along.
 
Nitemare1 said:
Does anyone else think it was really irresponsible for Cesaro to dump bigshow out of the ring like that. At least Kane dropped him on the apron so he didn't fall as far. That can't be good on the legs for a man that size. Unless of course that's the way they worked it out and he knew it was coming but still.. It kind of makes me cringe.
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notice cesaro waits a second before dumping him over the ropes to let big show prepare himself.
 
SoulPlaya said:
BTW, that story about Andre lifting a car or whatever is FALSE. Even the WWE refutes it. http://www.wwe.com/classics/the-legend-of-andre-the-giant-26086326/page-6.
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While Andre probably could’ve spiked a Fiat if he wanted to, this urban legend is most likely FALSE.
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Doesn't seem like a definite statement.
The story was he chased them down, they hid inside their car & he tipped it over.
The police came afterwards & didn't believe their story & charged them with crashing their car while drunk.
 
Andre was strong but not one of the most powerful guys. What impressed Ken Patera (a guy who knew a little bit about power lifting) was that Andre was that strong and never did any type of exercise, let alone weight training. Patera felt Andre could have made a very good power lifter if he had dedicated himself to that sport.
 
I refuse to believe that Cesaro is anywhere near The Ultimate Warriors strength. Warrior OHP Hogan. I've never seen anyone Hogans size get OHP by anyone. Warrior also did that when he was gassed at the end of the match.
 
Host Samurai said:
I refuse to believe that Cesaro is anywhere near The Ultimate Warriors strength. Warrior OHP Hogan. I've never seen anyone Hogans size get OHP by anyone. Warrior also did that when he was gassed at the end of the match.
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Didn't Ultimate Warrior body slam Andre against his will? That's like 500 pounds of dead weight.
 
Kane and Goldberg were freaks back then, if you want to talk about pure str stats then Henry obviously.

Nowadays though? my biased pick would be Bork Laser.

Followed closely behind by Cesaro.
 
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