“I just want to inspire the underdogs, those guys that society has counted out and viewed as a lost cause and let them know there’s a way to make it out. “Ultimately, I want to inspire people,” Maddox told the newspaper.
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Maddox weighed in at 449.5 pounds for Saturday’s competition, according to OpenPowerlifting, an archive of weightlifting data. I’ve achieved what I came for, so I’m going to pray about it and see where the Lord sends me.” “To be realistic, it’s not healthy to sit at this weight. “I want to go on a weight-loss transformation and lose about 100 pounds once I’ve wrapped up lifting,” Maddox told the newspaper. He has meets coming up in January and April, but says he also wants to lose weight. See you on the platform.”īut Maddox - who friends say overcame drug addiction and run-ins with the law before taking up the sport seven years ago - isn’t so sure about his long-term powerlifting prospects. “You are the beast brother,” Sarychev, 30, wrote on Instagram. Maddox said he’s already been offered several opportunities since breaking the record, including a challenge to lift 800 pounds and even a head-to-head lift-off with Sarychev - who is seemingly interested in getting his title back. (For contrast, the most Hall has ever benched in a contest is 285 kilograms, around. Someone people thought it would not be broken within 20 years, but I came in and changed the direction and changed everybody’s opinion. Julius Maddox became the world record holder in the raw bench press after lifting 744 pounds in September 2019.
“We weren’t expecting a world record this early - we were hoping maybe by December,” the Owensboro native told the newspaper. He then struggled somewhat with his right hand to bring the heavy rack down to his chest, but Maddox confirmed he wasn’t hurt and that the record was official. Julius Maddox attempted to break his own world bench press record in Chicago, Illinois, but failed in the quest.You can watch video of his world record attempt later in this article. “Just know this is the beginning!”įive men spotted Maddox as he raised the hefty weight during Saturday’s “Boss of Bosses” event in Mountain View, California, video shows. “They say it’s the most controversial lift in powerlifting,” Maddox posted on Instagram after his record-setting lift. The feat comes only months after Maddox raised the bar for American lifters, setting the US record at 723.1 pounds in June. Julius Maddox, 32, broke the previous world best of 738.5 pounds, which was set by Russian weightlifter Kirill Sarychev in 2015 during just his second attempt at the record. This Kentucky powerlifter is in a league of his own.Ī man who has been pumping iron for just seven years now holds the world record in the raw bench press after hoisting a staggering 739.6 pounds at an event on Saturday in California, the Owensboro Times reports.
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