Bill kazmaier

Bill Kazmaier
By: Jeffrey Lara

Some may not know who Bill Kazmaier really was. In the article Bill Kazmaier by Curtis Dennis Jr. he tells us a little bit about the legendary Kazmaier or Kaz as most people called him. Kazmaier was the first man to win the Worlds Strongest man title 3 times in a row. Bill started out as a great high school football player, receiving a scholarship to play at Wisconsin University as a full back. Bill soon came to realize that his love for lifting put everything else on the back burner. Bill went on to break several world records in the bench press, making him a world champion power lifter. Power lifting is a sport that consists of the bench press, squat and dead lift, unlike strongman these are all lifts you do in one motion. Once Bill became a renowned power lifter he was invited the World’s strongest man in 1980 which he ended up winning that year and 1981 and 1982 which made him the first man to ever win the World’s strongest man competition consecutive for 3 straight years. Bill kazmaier was known for his unbelievable strength and ambition to win, some say that there is none like the great Bill kazmaier; he won the 1981 Worlds Strongest man title even with a torn pectoral. Kazmaier was so dominating for those 3 years that he wasn’t invited back until 1988 where he came in 2nd to Jon Pall Sigmarsson. It is said that Bill could have won at least 5 titles if he wasn’t suspended from the competition for 5 years. Kazmaier is still known as the U.S.A’s greatest strength athlete and is said to be considered the single most studied human being in history.Kazmaier was an absolute beast of a man, he had this inner rage that none could match, he terrified people with just the look in his eyes but Bill Kazmaiers days of heavy lifting came to an end with torn pectorals so bad he has a permanent hole in his chest and quads so beat up that it hurts to walk. He still lives today as the announcer at the Met-Rx Worlds Strongest man, teaching other strength athletes about strongman and proper training. Students at the University of Auburn still study the strength he with held. Now is the year of 2010 and the weight in the World’s Strongest man are increased, the athletes are bigger and faster, and yet out of all the Strength athletes to have ever walked the planet they say that Bill Kazmaier would have been the only one who would have been battling it out with competitors such as 5x WSM winner Marius Pudzianowski and even the most widely known strongman Zydrunas Savickas. Bill Kazmaier will always be known as the greatest strength athlete of all time.

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