The Mountain from Game of Thrones breaks world dead weight lifting record (1 Viewer)

[NewlyRetired]

Holy hell....

https://www.espn.com/olympics/weightlifting/story/_/id/29126863/hafthor-bjornsson-breaks-world-record-501-kilogram-deadlift

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Absolute unit

 

[Kal El]

That's impressive. He's basically lifting 7x my weight.

 

[NewlyRetired]

By the way, this guy was Mountain number 3 in the 3 actors who played the role.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Holy moly. 

 

[fruity pebbles]

He got it pretty easily too

 

[dkp993]

By the way, this guy was Mountain number 3 in the 3 actors who played the role.

Most importantly he’s the Mountain we all know.  

 

[belljr]

His wife is 5'2"

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

He looks computer generated 

 

[need2know]

Freak

 

[comfortably numb]

That may have been a better ending to season 8

 

[TheWinz]

All the more impressive when you factor in he is 11 feet tall

 

[nightmare]

Does a 425 pound person lifting 1105 pounds equal a 200 pound person lifting 520?
Either way, it's 2.6 times your own weight. 

 

[Mister CIA]

Thor and Larry Wheels (ony 26 years-old) are two of my favorite youtube time sinks.  :notgay:

 

[GroveDiesel]

Deadlifting over a half ton is just crazy.

 

[Tool]

His wife is 5'2"

And hot, I mean the guy is famous and all but he's doing pretty well for himself.

 

[otb_lifer]

That may have been a better ending to season 8

best. ever. critique. 

 

[belljr]

And hot, I mean the guy is famous and all but he's doing pretty well for himself.

Well he had 2 previous bad relationships......

I saw a documentary, I'm not a stalker

 

[CletiusMaximus]

Holy hell....

https://www.espn.com/olympics/weightlifting/story/_/id/29126863/hafthor-bjornsson-breaks-world-record-501-kilogram-deadlift

It turns out there’s quite a bit of controversy around this lift because he did it at his home gym (due to the cv19 shutdown) rather than in a competition.  
 

Eddie Hall discusses it on True Geordie’s podcast: https://youtu.be/qEspWjWxNKM

They have quite a bit of history between them. 

Hall and Thor have now agreed to fight each other. Potentially awesome, more likely a let down.  

thor calls out Eddie https://youtu.be/yLxX3tLx09U

Eddie accepts https://youtu.be/oXn4Od2NOUE

 

[CletiusMaximus]

Hall and Thor have now agreed to fight each other. Potentially awesome, more likely a let down.  

Almost two years later, the fight just took place in Dubai.

/spoiler ---

It just ended - Halfthor won by unanimous decision.  My 17 year old has been following Eddie on social media and was certain he would win.  Reports are that Eddie was gassed and Halfthor knocked him down at least once.  The fight went 6 rounds. The Livestream was free, but many are complaining it was glitchy.