Friday, January 15, 2010
Primo CarneraHeavyweight champ Primo Carnera was a "strong man" as well as a strongman. Here's The Preem doing a 'Muscle Out' of a pretty good size kid. I'd say that's a hundred pounds at least. Strong shoulders obviously come in pretty handy in the ring.
Labels: Italian Strongman, Muscle Out, Oldtime Boxers, Primo Carnera, Shoulder Strength
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Luigi Monticelli ObizziLuigi Monticelli Obizzi, an Italian Marquis, led a very active childhood involved in gymnastics, swimming, fencing and rowing, but did not take up weightlifting until 20 years old.
He found that he was quite adept at it, so much so that in 1890, Obizzi founded the Milan Athletic Club and was instrumental in spreading weightlifting and physical training throughout Europe. At the Italian Weightlifting Championship, he finished 3rd, in 1897 and 2nd in 1901 and 1902.
Working closely with Professor Desbonnet, Obizzi, helped establish the first Weightlifting Championiship of France in 1901 (which he also helped judge.) It was under Obizzi's suggestion that weightlifting contests adopted weight classes, a feature that continues to this day.
Obizzi weighed only 160 pounds but was quite strong, one of his best lifts was a military press of 200 pounds -- and he also had an excellent mustache.
Labels: Italian Strongman, Luigi Monticelli Obizzi, Professor Desbonnet
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tullio CamillottiTullio Camillotti was an early Italian, weightlifter, strongman and wrestler who won Italy's first Olympic medal in weightlifting. At the 1906 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, Camillotti took home the Silver medal in the "One-Hand Lifting" contest. (Heinrich Schneidereit won Bronze while Josef Grafl won Gold.)
Labels: 1906 Olympics, Heinrich Schneidereit, Italian Strongman, Josef Grafl, One hand Snatch, Tullio Camillotti
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Felice NapoliOne of the earliest of the Oldtime Strongmen, Felice Napoli of Italy was performing incredible feats of strength in Wallshlager's Circus in the 1850's. Napoli dressed as the mythical Hercules as he performed and certainly lived up to it: Napoli's act consisted of his having a cannon shot off while held on his shoulders, bending iron bars, lifting heavy weights while hanging upside down from a trapeze, The Tomb of Hercules, and performing feats while hanging on a vertically suspended rope, a type of feat known as "The Spanish Web'. Plus, he had an excellent goatee.
Labels: Bar Bending, Cannon, Circus Strongman, Felice Napoli, Hercules, Italian Strongman, Oldtime Strongman, The Spanish Web, The Tomb of Hercules
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Primo CarneraYou may know that "The Preem" Primo Carnera was the Heavyweight boxing Champion of the world from 1933-1934 but you probably didn't know that he was also a performing strongman as well. He achieved a one-hand snatch of 220 pounds and could clean and jerk over 300 -- pretty good for someone who was 6'6".
Labels: Boxing, Clean and Jerk, Globe Barbell, Italian Strongman, Oldtime Boxers, One hand Snatch, Primo Carnera, Strongman
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Monday, May 26, 2008
The Incredible Arm of Clevio MassimoIt was said that Clevio Massimo's family was descended from great Roman athletes of antiquity. That certainly isn't too difficult to believe, Tony was one of the most musclular men who ever lived and excelled at a number of feats.
He could support a piano and player in the Tomb of Hercules position, bend spikes and tear phonebooks.
He was also a great Hand Balancer and wrestler.
Clevio only weighed 190 pounds but you would never think it looking at his pictures.
Labels: Arm Development, Bend Spikes, Big Arms, Clevio Massimo, Hand Balancing, Italian Strongman, Phonebook Tearing, Tomb of Hercules
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