What are you talking about? I did not

Great Respect for that athlete. I'm Greek and I vote for Naim. R. I. P. 🇬🇷

@@leonidas3127 :) man you made me laugh :)))))))

Leonidis Valerios was the one you talking about and was his biggest competitor

They were also friends.

Valerios Leonidas at 64 almost defeated Naim, and Leonidas was five inches taller---less muscle per inch of height. Leonidas impresses me MORE!

Exactly. Honestly quite disgusting how they changed it with Soviet athletes and then Naim... The record's category that is 6kg heavier still has lower records than Naim.

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Absolutely. In relation to body weight he is more than twice stronger than the second one.

No he is not. It's not impressive when you are the size of a teenage girl, lifting very mediocre weights.

The pocket Hercules ?

@@janoycresnova9156 Go and lift triple your own bodyweight if you can, dumbass, making stupid comments on KZfaq is not like lifting on the field.

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More like one in a Trillion. Not to mention youngest ever to hold the world record for adult males, not to mention 1984 Friendship games Gold which Soviet bloke boycoutted. And what they lifted made 1984 Los Angeles like training.

One in a billion is quite an understatement...more like one in 500 billion or trillion.

If Lasha ever hits 500 he'll surpass Naim in Sinclair.

@@kblkbl he hit 495 in training 😳 he’s close!

no, there are several others. The most striking one is Yurik Vardanyan who won with 400kg at 82kg - he would have won also the 90 and 100kg - that's mind blowing.

Did you not watch the video?

Thank you for sharing that is inhuman.

@@ikipemiko That is why Yurik is the GOAT, his 1980 world records would have won him 3 Gold medals in 3 different weight divisions 82Kg, 90Kg and 100Kg. It has never been achieved since.

VERY TRUE 💪

I’m turkish naim’s biggest fan

And if he hadn't shot for a world-record out the gate in Sydney, he could have had another one. It's reasonable to speculate about him getting five Olympic gold medals.

Yes I understand the sensitivity of the issue. He is DEFINITELY GREEK and is a phenomenal representative of his country and a very cool guy to work with 💪

@@GarageStrength he is albanian he declare declared himself greek becouse of documents that time ..

@@labinotberisha310 not even close dude.He was born in voreia hpeiros which is a greek place located in Albania.People from there are greeks who stayed without their will there.You can study little bit more to learn sone things

@@prionimaniac3352 he is Albanian we all know that

@@labinotberisha310 ok whatever you say

Yuri Zaharevich - 41 World Records in 80s. In 110 her results 210 250.

Most of those records were by adding a half kilo at a time, and the "press" was discontinued due to sloppy performances. Pisarenko had far fewer "records" but exceeded Alexeev in both lifts.

@@charlessavoie2367 Yes, that's true. But to continually break records if even by a half kilo is a remarkable feat of consistency. Pisarenko, if he'd had a longer career might have set records even beyond Lasha's capabilities. I saw Pisarenko compete. He was very powerful.

A lot of people 😂

Their careers aren't over so you can't judge them yet

@@bonerici yes you can. Lasha has the highest total in weightlifting that makes him the goat in his class. The fact that he's surpassed everyone thats lifted before him and is still competing confirms that.

@@iswearallthetime Imagine how much Lasha would be able to press if the press hadn't been abolished

Lasha already popped for drugs when he wasn't that good yet, and Lu on drugs too so they'll never make the list like Ilya

Shamelessly Greek

THE CHAMP 👑

3x body weight plus 10kg

@@ieod-ri2zp everyone else used/use steroids, till today, if nobody ever used steroids and everyone competed clean, Naim would still be number one, and every current champion would still be a champion

Exactly!

But great as Alexeev was, most of those WR were only .5 kilo gains. Arguably the the best super considering his length of dominance

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Leave it to petty politicians to ruin what athletes trained for years to accomplish. Jimmy Carter did it in 1980 after the Russian excursion into Afghanistan. Then, in 1984, the Soviets and the Warsaw Pact did it to "get even" with the American boycott.

Lasha's bodyweight multiplied by 3 or up. Until then, one can only dream to reach the G.O.A.T.

@@bonesh0ckerz I see what you`re saying. But it is more complicated than that. Please check how Sinclair Coefficient is calculated in weight-lifting, then you will understand what I`m saying

@@ERIC-oq9or I think Naim is a bit ahead but I am Turkish so I can't be that much objective but still Lasha was a ROCK too

A TRUE LEGEND!

I believe he was the greatest talent the sport has ever seen. To be that dominant to be comparable to lifters of the drug assisted era with drastically shorter training history in a far inferior system to the Soviet and Bulgarian systems of the 80’s must mean he had the most talent of all time.

Don't kid yourself. I don't know if Tommy took performance enhancing drugs during his reign, but they were around, including dianabol. Later on, drug use became more widespread and sophisticated.

LEGEND

thx forr mentioning leonidis , hes weightlifting's Pippen

You are right. İt is interesting those top 3 born in same region. We can say natürel of this lands might helps this great athlethes.

Yeah. I'm glad he's not on lists yet because he's not even close to being done. When he hits the mythical 500kg thats when we can safely say he is GOAT

weightlifting has been banned from the olympics

@@IamJacksColon4 I know there are talks about that, but as far as I know not decided yet. It it happens, that will be criminal. They are adding sports like surfing and skateboard, but banning weightlifting? That's bullshit, but I understand that it might happen, because they almost banned classic wrestling a sport that was even part of the actual ancient Greek Olympics.

@@mishagelenava2962 they are adding events that would give USA gold and take away gold from China thats the point.

I don’t see him surpassing Niam but will be a close second

Didn't make the cut. It's funny you mention Ilya. We may have to address that in the future 😉

Only girl size guys made the cut. OP has something against heavy weights.

Great list 💪 Hope this video was fun for everyone

That's awesome! He's a legend, more people need to know about this beast 💪

Living in america doesnt make him american he is 100% japanese genetecly.

Thanks for watching!

Not as accomplished and its a pound for pound sport

Definitely could make the cut in the future, just hasn't been on top long enough in our eyes.

yeah, he's probably already pretty much cemented himself as the greatest super of all time but he just hasn't competed enough to guarantee that.

Lasha cannot be on this list because he is way above it already. No human in the history of the sport was able to achieve his monstrous total of 484kg. As an example, the snatch over 215kg was lifted 11 times in history, 9 out of those by Lasha. If it wasn't for pandemic he already would have racked up another Olympic gold, the World and Euro.

@@GarageStrength he'll be on top for decades even after he retires

In my humble opinion Lasha is a talented lifter. He's done things nobody else has ever achieved in the superheavyweight class. On the other hand, it's a bit early to declare him the greatest of all time, don't you think? Putting him over names like Alexeev, Taranenko, Kurlovich, Pisarenko, Krastev, Welker, Chemerkin, Botev, Marchokov and so on... What's the point of that? Lasha had no serious competition to face since the Rio Olympics. As for that list, in my humble opinion its value is questionable at best. It is that way because many talented lifters are missing. Where are the Soviet and Bulgarian lifters of the 1970s? The lifters of the 1960s? Not a single Bulgarian lifter of the 1980s. Except for Naim of course. Do not neglect the Soviet and Bulgarian weightlifting teams of the 1980s. Back then there was real competition in the different weight classes. The only unbeatable man was the late Naim Suleimanoglu. Speaking of interesting weightlifting in the superheavyweight class, have in mind the following. 1987 World Championships. 1996 Olympics. 1999 World championships. 2000 Olympics. 2008 Olympics. Making such a list is a waste of time because all the lifters of the past and the present have grown in quite different conditions. The rules have even changed. List of banned substances. Of this particular list one thing is for certain. Halil Mutlu and Naim Suleimanoglu are, two legends of the sport, have become what they are today thanks to the Bulgarian specialists and mostly Ivan Abadzhiev and Enver Turkileri (Tolumov).

Thanks for the idea! That's a really good suggestion 💪

just to appreciate Naim vs Lasha, Lasha is 183 kg powerful man, but his clean and jerk record is 267 kg, less than 1.5 times body weight, to achieve what Naim has achieved he has to lift 550 kg clean and jerk, his total is under 500kg, the man said: pound for pound, how much weight each KG of muscle could carry

Only in retrospect. This video was made before Lasha's 225kg snatch, 492kg total.

Whats ur list

That's awesome! True legend!

He was half Greek

His mother is Greek. So i really dont get how he was not more well known.

@@azor8435 that’s not true my friend

@@sakispdsw not true

@@basketballgsl211 Why is it not true? A simple google search says so. Why should i trust you instead of wikipedia?

You could brush the thighs but not bounce the bar off them as some lifters did later on. Also, back in the day, judging wasn't as strict when it came to the snatch and clean and jerk. Today, a millimeter or two of "press out" and the lift is turned down.

Very good point 👆

Naim born to be a super weightlifter. like short legs messi from football.

We are both champs brother

Soviets and Bulgarians actually.

İts more like Turks,greaks and georgians

Not Tommy Kono

@@GarageStrength who shouldn't have even been on the list in the first place

He clearly says in the video he is of Greek descent, which is exactly what you are saying.

Or in albania Pirro Dhima, he was born with this name 😀

@@ermalrama7244 he is Greek 100%

@@Filaretiioannis for you greek people all the world is greece, keep dreaming

@@ermalrama7244 not all world.But sure all civilized world.Inside your wet "illyrian" dreams you are something.But it's just dream.

they were turkish natives, and Bulgaria couldnt appreciate them so they fled to their home country where they were paid proper attention and became stars, if only more athletes fled Bulgaria at that time,,, maybe we missed on few more legends

Longevity is more difficult than one hit wonders, especially in a drug affected sport. 3 consecutive gold in Olympics and one bronze are unmatched

We definitely will address that in the future 💪

Naim was a lifting machine. To the manner born, as they say. I recall Issac Berger's world record of 336 pounds in the clean and jerk in the same weight class (60k). Berger did that in Tokyo in 1964, and it stood for a number of years. Drug use was prevalent then, though not what it became later on. By the way, Miyake did the same weight at those Olympics but Berger did it first and therefore was credited with the world record.

Lasha's coming close, if he fully recovers from his 2022 hamstring injury.

1 second later he clearly said he was of Greek descent.

Definitely Hercules

I dont see how