Brian put a shot 75' and beat women sprinters in his glory years and he was always a phenominal athlete.

Brian Oldfield had the only clean lift out of any of them. Ferrigno never should have been awarded his lifts there was no lockout and he staggered all over the place.

As a guy who grew up with a bad stutter and today at age 60 it exists but generally only with words that begin with vowels, I fully appreciate Lou and his speech and the amazing job he has done. He was great as the neighbor on the King of Queens and funny and kept himself in great shape.

Oldfield wasn't the strongest shot putter and used to make fun of all the other guys with thier 800lb squats and 500lb bench presses, saying, "the shot only weighs 16lbs" then he'd go and throw one about 80 feet and say "throwing is alot more than how much you can bench press" and everyone would be speechless...

Don't know how many people remember it, but after Oldfield won with this weight, he went back to do an "exhibition" lift for the crowd with 350, and proceeded to do 5 reps with it!

RIP Brain. Hope to see him in Heaven 😊 what an Athlete!!!!!

Brian is a top athlete , he could clean a bodybuilder's clock.

When I was a kid Brian Oldfield idolized me! No wait...

None of Ferrigno's lifts should have passed.

This is from the 1976 Superstars competition. This is not from a world's strongest man competition, like some people think below.

Love you Louie, you know that? You and Miss Carla are classy people!

I talked with Oldfield three times, in 1976, 1988, and 2017. In each instance he was a character, exhibiting a wry sense of humor. In 1988 I saw him put the shot just 59 feet, his throwing career near its end. He gave me his autograph in indelible Sharpie ink on a discus, which was also signed by famed Olympic throwers Mac Wilkins and Wolfgang Schmidt. When I asked him in our last conversation if he had used steroids, he laughed and said "of course" and went on to another subject. Quite a man. As for Ferrigno, I saw him guest pose at the 1983 USPF Senior National Powerlifting Championships in Austin, Texas, where he gave the crowd a memorable exhibition.

Bodybuilder vs. real athlete; real athlete wins.

Franco Columbo was one of few body builders that was a power lifter as well. It is just a different discipline and takes practice and technique.

Lou didn't complete a single lift here. Just threw up a partial rep and didn't lock out.

Cool video clips. I wish they had these old classic World's Strongest Man competitions on DVD.

Lou lifted for looks.. so he lifted for higher reps with lower weights.. to all of a sudden be thrown into a power lifting competition was asking a bit much.

wow super rare footage very nice.

That sounds impressive; please show us a KZfaq video of it

hey man if you have more VIDS of this same competition that you could post, ID REALLY APPRECIATE IT! thanks... Oldfied is a fucking SUPERSTAR!!! lol

lou es uno de mis idolos!!!

If you were ever around Oldfield, you new you were around one of the craziest bastards that ever lived. He was one gigantic fast twitch muscle.

Lou Frrigno had problems with his stability

@URAGR8M8 how much you bench?

Looks like there were no safety precautions here at all. Very dangerous.

lou is the best...

The clean and press has far more technique then bench pressing. Bench pressing is more about strength for that very reason and it uses completely different muscles so there is no point in saying one is better than the other - one shows how strong some muscles are and the other shows how strong other muscles are. Only people who call the bench overated are people who can't bench big.

Zero reps were completed by ferrigno

Lou looks kinda skinny muscled here!

@combatesdeboxeo But there are people with large muscles who are strong.

WAY TO BIG LOUIE!

of course he did. Have you even seen the guy nowadays?

Big Lou Ferrigno.

He isnt a strongman you know, not used to that sort of thing. The fact he nearly won proves something.

Oldfield is huge-if lou is 6`5" then Oldfield must be 6`7" at least-and look how small lou is

Does Lou make the final lift: 5m01s

Lou sounds like Mike Tyson.

Lou's lift and lockout were good, he just lost his footing.

Lou looked slimmer here. I don't think he was more than 250.

Lou had bad technique, however, he handled the weight with relative ease. I'm not so sure Brian was stronger, rather it seems to me, he was more experience at that particular type of lift. If he was stronger, why was big Lou at the #1 spot in the overall competition?

Oops that was me ... accidently posted under a friends user that hadn't logged out. Without steroids too. Either way monkeyboy, I mean biker, how much can you lift?

Big Louie wasn't so big for this competition. He dropped 50 lbs to just 235 for this competition. Had he been Oldfield's weight like he normally is, he could have easily pressed the weight up. Louie competed in bodybuilding contests between 275 - 280 in those days (300+ in the '90's) absolutely cut. So, at 275 Louie was at his weakest due to dropping so much mass to get in contest shape ... now imagine him at 235! Remember, Louie beat Columbu and Cole in the 1977 WSM car lift at 278 lbs!

who cares! oldfield is the man!

That's the main difference between a Power Lifter and a Body Builder which is technique as well as proper form, and Lou could actually compete with some of the strongest athletes and Power Lifters around specially if he did it the right way...!!!

Docsavage20: LOL. I tend to agree. I do think I would've given Louie the 260, but I'm shocked a man his size wouldn't be stronger. Lou was an absolute monster in his heyday; he was so wide and thick from front to back, even top bodybuilders say he was like standing next to a refrigerator. Oddly enough, some sources, probably ghost-written Weider rags, claimed Louie could bench 550. Unless he had a time machine and took one of those triple-ply shirts with him back to the 70s, no way :-)

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by the ways in 1976 just before the hulk lou ferrigno was not in real good shap you can see he was not in is best shap

This was a superstars challenge, not a true Olympic style lifting competition of the days best lifters. Remember, 500 lbs on a bench lift was barley broken in the 80s! (and they had plenty of vitamin S back then!)

It was obvious Ferrigno hadn't trained for that style of lifting. Even big Lou couldn't do it on muscle alone. Oldfield had muscle and technique. I was shocked to see the condition Brian Oldfield is in now. Don't know what happened to him, he's in a wheelchair and it's hard for him to talk, sounds like he's got emphysema. A shadow of the guy you see in this video.

This judging is no good. Lou did not make 290, did not lock it out

Who gives a fuck if this isn't safe this was old school power lifting something I wish I lived in and the bodybuilding today's power lifters and bodybuilding lifters are trash

lou was too slim for tghat contest at 265 pounds he was stronger

oldfield didnt take juice

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ferrigno forgot to take his Steriods in,thats why hes so weak