And didn't even need 5x WSM Marius Pudzianowski, 4xWSM Magnus Ver Magnusson or 4x wsm and legend Jon Pall Sigmarsson. That all said, you're making some inroads into pulling the N.A side up. ... though now got not only Tom, but Hafthor back and possibly back to top or near top form next year. Hope you're as excited to compete as we all are to watch. Hope your Christmas was great and have a fantastic New Year, Mitch.
So being a rugby player my same argument applies to strength sports. Americans are focused on team sports that do require strength, but more so agility and speed. I'm not saying Europeans don't have these sports, but the focus is not the same as it is in the U.S. Growing up if someone was seen in a gym they would be asked what sport they were training for. Very few gyms would you find someone claiming to be a competing powerlifter, it was always one of the big 3; football, baseball, or basketball. So they may be stronger, but if the U.S. had the same focused the potential is overwhelming
Europe and its not even close: Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Magnus Ver Magnusson, Hafthor Bjornsson, Zydrunas Savickas, Geoff Capes, Eddie Hall and Mariusz Pudzianowski. America only got Bill Kazmaier, Brian Shaw and Mitchel Hooper so far.
You missed out on the USA side 2 time winner Bruce Wilhelm and Don Reinhoudt . You missed a few for Europe too , in the likes of Jamie Reeve’s , Gary Taylor , Magnus Samuelsson , Ted van de Parre , Janne Virtnanen, Tom Stoltman and Svend Karlson
@@MrAnamchara Yes, but decided to only include strongmen who have at least won 2 wsm, so there is a clear distinction between the so called one hit wonders and all time greats, not trying to be rude or anything.
@@McfcMancs Because he also broke the 500 kg deadlift world record in 2016. Besides coming 3rd with some broken fingers in 2016 wsm. Eddie is one of the statically strongest strongmen in the few years he was in his prime 2016-2017, besides also achieved so much with his acting career being in the expendables 4 and some tv shows.
It s simple...white US americans are mostly a mix of Germans, english people, irish p., italians and Poland/Czech s. But with the mindset of a huge, new, free continet without the restrictions of royalities.
What about Ray Williams and Jesus Olivera? Why would you choose wrong with wraps when the most heavily contested area of powerlifting is just raw powerlifting without wraps? Or what about Agata Sitko? Or John Hack, Ed Coan?
Honestly wasn’t surprised, my entire youth no one cared how much I could squat, it was all about bench and even curl. It’s starting to change but you used to see this filter into powerlifting where Americans often had strong benches comparatively.
Júlíus Maddox benches what the avg strongman deadlifts. I also wanna throw out Bud Jeffries as a wildcard for America. Somehow a 1000 lbs squat, starting from the bottom sounds like it belongs in the same category as pulling 1100 off the ground.
As an American I can say Europe is stronger and, most likely, always will be: they have better diets and value strength more than we do. Us Americans value looks and glamour more, especially when it comes to exercise. It’s no wonder why Julius Maddox and Brian Shaw are more popular in other countries than America, where they should be talked about with the same respect as LeBron James and Tom Brady.
@ he’s popular here in the strength scene, but not outside of that. Surprisingly, I’m met more people who actually know who Eddie Hall is in the States than Brian Shaw.
@krntucky yeah, if it was down to purely strength, Eddie's probably stronger than most people, but Eddie peaked 16-17 and left. He wasn't dominating for years like pudz, Big z, and Shaw. This is just my opinion anyway (everyone has one), and I don't expect everyone to agree. If Hooper carries on the way he is going, he'll definitely be in the talks
I honestly think that American Football is the reason strength sports aren't bigger at least specifically in the US. If there wasn't a sport that paid big strong men so well, I'd imagine more Americans would look at strong man as a viable option. The problem is after these big guys get out of college, they either go into the NFL, or they start their career as a gym coach somewhere and never even consider taking up strong man. I'm completely talking out of my ass here, but that would be my guess as to why strong man isn't more prominent in the US.
I agree with those who are pointing out that in America most people who combine incredible strength with athleticism go into the NFL where they can make more money. I'm not saying anyone from the NFL could just step into strong man, because they've trained in a different direction, but if the NFL hadn't been an option for them they could have developed themselves that way.
As a American(born and raised in jersey) I'd say that Europeans and what not have always had a one up on US, you just proved that EUROPEANS collectively quite a bit more strength/credibility then US AMERICANS But at the Sametime I'd say there are probably alot more PEOPLE IN THE UK/EUROPE THAT ARE WAY STRONGER THEN THE PEOPLE YOU JUST NAMED THEY JUST HAVENT MADE THEMSELVES KNOWN YET
I think that saying that people in poverty don't focus on strength is a miss, they might not be on the strongmen top all time or the Olympics. But boxing, MMA, running and a couple other sports are dominated by low-income athletes in high income countries and some like running low income countries.
He's talking about the access to gyms with weights, equipment, sponsors, healthcare and gear. Boxing, MMA, Running and popular sports are centered around speed and agility more than pure strength. I live in Mexico where there are many strong guys but in their pueblos, there are no gyms at all. That's why you rarely see many Africans or Latinos in Strongman and powerlifting. There are a few, like Iron Bibby and Jesus Olivares, but VERY FEW. Where they live, it's easier and more popular to get one soccer ball and a group of friends to play than all you need to lift weights properly.
Cool. My 1-second reaction was to put Europe top of the list, but i was ready for some biased reasoning. We got some of that with powerlifting (strength with silly rules) and bicep strict curls (which is a silly specific measure), but overall the right measures were used. If we want to give America an out, it would be that in a modern technological world, extreme strength just doesn't really matter, and as we still see, rarely pays the bills. Why focus on extreme strength when you can dedicate that time to 100 different exercised/professions and pad your wallet better. This is why so many poor nations have a super history for football (soccer), etc. - it is there go-to- way to get out of the slums. All that said, I'm still happy for Europe to take the win. Going further, I think we need to give Britain an extra nod here for being such a tiny little island, with oversized impact. :)
Not sure about N.A in general, but for the US I can't help but speculating in that the food might play in to this equation. The quality of food you get on average in the US, is s**t compared to what we get in the EU.
I’m a full blooded, yeehaw, “‘Murica!”American, and unfortunately, there’s simply nothing to defend here. Europe is definitely stronger. Now, we’ve historically dominated them in basketball, and we’d certainly dominate them in REAL football.
European for sure, im from Tennessee USA and im pretty strong for a mountain man but Europeans are way more hard working, im a dying breed here in the US, people here in the states are mostly physically lazy, hard working but lack physicality, but i will say if yall come to the Appalachian Mountains and try to do farming and construction work i just may out perform a few Europeans
If I would have to pick, I would say America and Canada is the strongest country in the world and number three would be British and I’m gonna say number four is my country. Australia is number four strongest I reckon but I think the strongest out of all of them would be Canada and America.
@@owy3215In what way? Even with out a suit Eddie still has him beat on deadlift by 55 kg. on bench he’s does 6 reps at 265 kg witch is only 7 kg under Jesus’s max bench and he’s never done squat for max but 15 reps at 320 kg should translate to a minimum 1000 pound squat.
The real world’s strongest man is playing football because that’s where the money is at. And if football was as prevalent in Europe as it is in North America, Eddie and have Thor would’ve played football as well. The money is just too good to do anything else. I believe America isn’t weaker. I just believe the strong ones are playing football for millions of dollars a year.
The reason Europe wins this so easily is because the strongest people in America are in the NFL. Why make thousands powerlifting when you can make millions as an NFL lineman.
Well the strongest continent without a doubt is Africa. But they just don't have the infrastructures... However the genetics and the potential is off the chart...
Pretty obvious issue with how this is compared. With ipf and the Olympics Europe has dozens of countries that can put up athletes and North America has basically two lol.
Powerlifting is completely dominated by Americans. Has the best tested and untested dots, highest test and untested total both in wraps and raw. And currently strongman is being completely dominated by a Canadian. Weightlifting not so much but it’s also just not popular here.
If it's not Europe even with Mariusz, Big Z, the Stoltman Brothers, Novikov, Eddie Hall, Hafhtor and Matheusz (if that's how u write it) then Idk wtf is going on 😂
odd that you selected historical figures Kaz and Big Z....but then left out all the american weight class winners from weighlfting and powerlifting from the 60s, 70s and 80s, when american lifters dominated in most of the weight classes...so it would be easy depepnding on what decade you chose to easily come up with lists of north americans dominating europe, but if you only went with strongman, europe would get most wins....
o.O How do you kick someone out of a competition for worlds strongest man, for being to strong. That blew my mind. Sorry guy your to strong to be considered the strongest in the world. >.>
But if I would’ve picked one country from Europe that I think is the strongest out of all the European I would say Ukraine because look at the Ukraine athlete because they have amazing Feats of strength
For me, a lot of it comes down to culture. USA and Canada definitely have a decent strongman culture, but it's small in comparison to Europe; especially Eastern Europe and the Scandinavian territories.
While historically in Weightlifting, Europe dominated particularly the USSR. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Weightlifting's center changed to being dominated by Asia. Particularly East Asian Countries like China and North Korea. Also note while the USSR was a European country parts of the country where comprised of nations that today are part of Asia like Kazakhstan. Recently China overtook the USSR as the most decorated country in Weightlifting history. It's women's team is particularly dominate. Out of all female Weightlifting World Championship medalists China holds more than 3 times the amount of medals than the second highest Taiwan (218 to 60). As for North America they (really the USA and Doug Hepburn) used to be competitive until the 1960's but recently have started to make a comeback.
@SomeSeriousWeight True, however, USSR/Russia isn't an entirely European country, as a vast amount of their territory lies in Asia ,they are a transcontinental country. Some of their athletes could have come from the Asian portion of USSR/Russia. so they can't claim to be an entirely European country, which disqualifies them from being the most decorated weightlifting team in Europe.
@@daviddeppa122 in theory it could be, but that's not the case; most URSS gold medalists were from Russia or Belarus. Only a few notables would've been considered Asian today (Rakhmanov, Khrapaty). Historically, it's URSS first, China second, and then a huge gap.
When comparing Olympic and IPF medals it’s hard to compare Europe and North America because Europe has many more large countries and more opportunities at medals. North America also has the NFL which draws many of the genetic freaks away from strength sports.
The NFL goes two ways. You could say they draw people away, but I'd say they draw people into strength sports by promoting getting strong and starting weightlifting early, whereas in Europe there is no such pop-culture draw for young people to start moving weight.
@@maslakarkhus8673 That's very true. The NFL and football in general hugely bumps up the total number of people pursuing strength training, but it undeniably retains many/most of the best that would otherwise be at the elite level of strength sports. I'm not European so I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that some/many European countries promote strength and strength sports to a much higher level than in the US and North America. Maybe not to the degree of NFL or NBA but comparable to minor league baseball or other armature sports
My thoughts immediately went from contest wins and genetics to probably the most important factor: financial incentives. Most of the American genetic freaks who would excel in strongman, powerlifting, weightlifting, etc, compete for positions in the NFL and to a lesser extent the NBA, NHL, because that’s where the money is. You can see this same incentive structure in play with Women’s sports, they appear to be flocking to Crossfit because that’s where the money is (prizes + sponsorships) and witness, the women are world class compared to their male counterparts in Crossfit and other women’s sports. The Americans recruit their best gladiators into team sports and vote with their money to keep them there. Compare that to Europe whose money-maker popular sport does not reward the strength-maximizing build. Lastly I’d say Europe’s looser relationship with PED’s is a factor.
@ I just looked at the numbers for Rugby in Europe and in aggregate the sport brings in roughly $1B/y, compare that to $13B/y for the NFL (same for the NBA, $6B/y for the NHL). So, an order of magnitude less purchasing power. While Rugby has more of a strength focus than fútbol, I still wouldn’t compare the general rugby build to the specialized build of offensive/defensive linemen in the NFL, 300 pound giants who move an average of 10ft per play, haha Growing up super tall in America I know the culture firsthand, people see me in the grocery store and ask if I played basketball before asking my name 🤷♂️
Absolutely not, Strongman is like 10 times less popular in Europe you can check strongman viewership... Very few people watch strongman in Europe compare to North America.
Not as many opportunities for big and strong athletes in Europe. The biggest and strongest North Americans are playing football. If most of the huge and athletic football players did strength sports, the numbers would look very different.
... Interesting video. Larger focus other sports in NA, particularly football (US) and hockey (Canada). Football is probably the bigger draw of purely strong people so it likely dilutes the NA strongman pool more. If money was similar in strongman and football, then NA would probably be more even (or ahead).
Kinda interesting that most of the big achievements of the Europeans come from Eastern Europe, where 95% of people are genetically European. I'd be interested in a comparison of Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and North America not according to overall population, but according to population of people of European origin.
Please do a video on Jouko Ahola, the lightest strongman winner ever, and did it two times, 1997 and 1999.
He won the first world's strongest man I ever watched in 99
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And he was the best part of Kingdom of Heaven.
Also I’d like to add that atleast in 1997 he was infact the lightest competitor in the competition period, still managed to win.
Yes, Jouko was very impressive and was a Monster Deadlifter.
Mitchell Hooper and the 51st State of USA will bring balance to the force.
Bwahaha 🤣
Bruh ahahahahahhaa
And didn't even need 5x WSM Marius Pudzianowski, 4xWSM Magnus Ver Magnusson or 4x wsm and legend Jon Pall Sigmarsson.
That all said, you're making some inroads into pulling the N.A side up. ... though now got not only Tom, but Hafthor back and possibly back to top or near top form next year. Hope you're as excited to compete as we all are to watch.
Hope your Christmas was great and have a fantastic New Year, Mitch.
The 3 strongest men to have ever lived: Hafthor, Zydrunas and Eddie are from Europe.
Europe wins.
I consider mitch in that conversation now.
Eddie was great, but putting him on any list above Shaw is silly
Jesus Oliveres should have been America’s wild card
You may have missed the most dominant juggernaut strongman has ever seen for north america...
So being a rugby player my same argument applies to strength sports. Americans are focused on team sports that do require strength, but more so agility and speed. I'm not saying Europeans don't have these sports, but the focus is not the same as it is in the U.S. Growing up if someone was seen in a gym they would be asked what sport they were training for. Very few gyms would you find someone claiming to be a competing powerlifter, it was always one of the big 3; football, baseball, or basketball. So they may be stronger, but if the U.S. had the same focused the potential is overwhelming
I don't think this would change anything, but why did you include Lasha for Europe when he's from Georgia? Isn't that in Asia?
Georgia is eligible to join the EU, many people consider it European
Wildcard for america should be mark henry
Europe and its not even close: Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Magnus Ver Magnusson, Hafthor Bjornsson, Zydrunas Savickas, Geoff Capes, Eddie Hall and Mariusz Pudzianowski. America only got Bill Kazmaier, Brian Shaw and Mitchel Hooper so far.
You missed out on the USA side 2 time winner Bruce Wilhelm and Don Reinhoudt .
You missed a few for Europe too , in the likes of Jamie Reeve’s , Gary Taylor , Magnus Samuelsson , Ted van de Parre , Janne Virtnanen, Tom Stoltman and Svend Karlson
@@MrAnamchara Yes, but decided to only include strongmen who have at least won 2 wsm, so there is a clear distinction between the so called one hit wonders and all time greats, not trying to be rude or anything.
@@thomasrosendahl2783So why did you include Eddie Hall? Eddie has only won it once.
@@thomasrosendahl2783 ok then you missed out mentioning Bruce and Tom as they both have won two and Tom 3
@@McfcMancs Because he also broke the 500 kg deadlift world record in 2016. Besides coming 3rd with some broken fingers in 2016 wsm. Eddie is one of the statically strongest strongmen in the few years he was in his prime 2016-2017, besides also achieved so much with his acting career being in the expendables 4 and some tv shows.
You forgot the Greatest Powerlifter of all Time ~ Ed Coan
the fact that Petr Petráš (1160kg total) is not full time powerlifter because you don't earn enough money in powerlifting in my country
Nearly no powerlifter is a full time powerlifter, though. It doesn't make money anywhere in the world.
Would be interesting to research the differences between euro and usa. Is it lifestyle. Is it culture. Is it genetics. Interesting stuff
It s simple...white US americans are mostly a mix of Germans, english people, irish p., italians and Poland/Czech s. But with the mindset of a huge, new, free continet without the restrictions of royalities.
Wondering how you would have done in a strength wars battle against Faceless ?
Whoa, this was epic! Do more like this!
What about Ray Williams and Jesus Olivera? Why would you choose wrong with wraps when the most heavily contested area of powerlifting is just raw powerlifting without wraps?
Or what about Agata Sitko? Or John Hack, Ed Coan?
It is right now, but raw+wraps was the most competitive area until pretty recently (2019ish).
@jaivl1106 that's 15 years ago. There's probably people starting to compete who have never been alive during the time that that was the most popular
Honestly wasn’t surprised, my entire youth no one cared how much I could squat, it was all about bench and even curl. It’s starting to change but you used to see this filter into powerlifting where Americans often had strong benches comparatively.
Makes sense to me. Our best big guy athletes don’t go into attended sports like they tend to do more so in Europe.
Should equate the DOTS for the lifts as well
For powerlifting, you should have chosen Jesus* Olivares, who has the best total, and was drug tested. NA definitely wins powerlifting.
"tested"
Jesus*
@@chururururu9287 Thanks! Idk how I mistyped that xD
@alxonpc9388 Testing isn't perfect but even if he was blasting everything under the sun (which I don't actually think he is), it's still impressive.
@@archmaesterofpullups Jesus is in his 20s and has heart problems from gear.
Hafthor, Eddie, BigZ all are from Europe. It's not even close.
Ikr He Is Just Doing For Views And Money
I knew it'd be Europe. Wasnt at all shocked to see i wasnt wrong.
Yoo Mich I bought your peak deadlifting pdf I’m excited to start training for a new pr
I’m currently 75kg and have been able to pull 270kg i really want to pull 300 kg
@@I.S.C. good luck sir! how long have you been lifting?
@@I.S.C. holy fuckk, conventional?
Great video Mitch! Cant wait for your battles against Thor and Tom in 2025, its gonna be lit!
Júlíus Maddox benches what the avg strongman deadlifts. I also wanna throw out Bud Jeffries as a wildcard for America. Somehow a 1000 lbs squat, starting from the bottom sounds like it belongs in the same category as pulling 1100 off the ground.
As an American I can say Europe is stronger and, most likely, always will be: they have better diets and value strength more than we do. Us Americans value looks and glamour more, especially when it comes to exercise. It’s no wonder why Julius Maddox and Brian Shaw are more popular in other countries than America, where they should be talked about with the same respect as LeBron James and Tom Brady.
Isn't Shaw a full blown celebrity in the US?
@ he’s popular here in the strength scene, but not outside of that. Surprisingly, I’m met more people who actually know who Eddie Hall is in the States than Brian Shaw.
Strongest mt Rushmore
Big Z, Shaw, Kaz, Pudzianowski
Hafthor, hooper, Brian, big z (Hafthor has to be on there)
@krntucky as good as hooper is, he ain't on the mount Rushmore yet. Pudzianowski is the only man to win 5 times
@ fair, although I would say titles are not reflective on strength, and eddie would win against pudzian any day.
Hafthor is the strongest ever, he has to be there.
@krntucky yeah, if it was down to purely strength, Eddie's probably stronger than most people, but Eddie peaked 16-17 and left. He wasn't dominating for years like pudz, Big z, and Shaw. This is just my opinion anyway (everyone has one), and I don't expect everyone to agree. If Hooper carries on the way he is going, he'll definitely be in the talks
I honestly think that American Football is the reason strength sports aren't bigger at least specifically in the US. If there wasn't a sport that paid big strong men so well, I'd imagine more Americans would look at strong man as a viable option. The problem is after these big guys get out of college, they either go into the NFL, or they start their career as a gym coach somewhere and never even consider taking up strong man. I'm completely talking out of my ass here, but that would be my guess as to why strong man isn't more prominent in the US.
I agree with those who are pointing out that in America most people who combine incredible strength with athleticism go into the NFL where they can make more money. I'm not saying anyone from the NFL could just step into strong man, because they've trained in a different direction, but if the NFL hadn't been an option for them they could have developed themselves that way.
Mitchell You gonna wish you got me sooner.
We have a saying in America... curls get the girls! Go curls!
Girls love their accessories, and Smith machines 😂
how is kyriakos kapakoulak not the europe wildcard...
As a American(born and raised in jersey) I'd say that Europeans and what not have always had a one up on US, you just proved that EUROPEANS collectively quite a bit more strength/credibility then US AMERICANS
But at the Sametime I'd say there are probably alot more PEOPLE IN THE UK/EUROPE THAT ARE WAY STRONGER THEN THE PEOPLE YOU JUST NAMED THEY JUST HAVENT MADE THEMSELVES KNOWN YET
only certain parts of europe are actually strong, france and spain for example brings us down
What are your thoughts on "bitelo" the Brazilian strongman prodigy?
Querendo hypar nosso menino ne😂 isso ai
Já pude ver o bitelo pessoalmente, ele é realmente um mamute, tem uma estrutura absurda pro Strong
@@gui20266 tem que ser né kkkkk
Until he have competed in one of the 4 major Strongmen competitions, i would venture to guess he is not on such a high level?
@@thomasrosendahl2783 no, not at all, he's just got started but already have some pretty cool feats of strength
The fact that you have to compare 44 countries to the USA says something 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
I think that saying that people in poverty don't focus on strength is a miss, they might not be on the strongmen top all time or the Olympics. But boxing, MMA, running and a couple other sports are dominated by low-income athletes in high income countries and some like running low income countries.
He's talking about the access to gyms with weights, equipment, sponsors, healthcare and gear. Boxing, MMA, Running and popular sports are centered around speed and agility more than pure strength. I live in Mexico where there are many strong guys but in their pueblos, there are no gyms at all. That's why you rarely see many Africans or Latinos in Strongman and powerlifting. There are a few, like Iron Bibby and Jesus Olivares, but VERY FEW. Where they live, it's easier and more popular to get one soccer ball and a group of friends to play than all you need to lift weights properly.
I’m embarrassed the North American’s only dominance is freaking bicep curls
Cool. My 1-second reaction was to put Europe top of the list, but i was ready for some biased reasoning. We got some of that with powerlifting (strength with silly rules) and bicep strict curls (which is a silly specific measure), but overall the right measures were used. If we want to give America an out, it would be that in a modern technological world, extreme strength just doesn't really matter, and as we still see, rarely pays the bills. Why focus on extreme strength when you can dedicate that time to 100 different exercised/professions and pad your wallet better. This is why so many poor nations have a super history for football (soccer), etc. - it is there go-to- way to get out of the slums. All that said, I'm still happy for Europe to take the win. Going further, I think we need to give Britain an extra nod here for being such a tiny little island, with oversized impact. :)
Not sure about N.A in general, but for the US I can't help but speculating in that the food might play in to this equation. The quality of food you get on average in the US, is s**t compared to what we get in the EU.
How big are arms vs legs back butt exc bench almost 800 is more exciting than dl 1102
I’m a full blooded, yeehaw, “‘Murica!”American, and unfortunately, there’s simply nothing to defend here. Europe is definitely stronger. Now, we’ve historically dominated them in basketball, and we’d certainly dominate them in REAL football.
Y'all MFS Are Just a 2nd Europe 😂💪🏻😏
Is real football the one you play with your feet or the one where you use your hands?
Hugo Girard and JF Caron and Mitchell from Canada
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Jesus Olivares.
Europe has more gyms per person than North America but Brazil has more per person than both.
European for sure, im from Tennessee USA and im pretty strong for a mountain man but Europeans are way more hard working, im a dying breed here in the US, people here in the states are mostly physically lazy, hard working but lack physicality, but i will say if yall come to the Appalachian Mountains and try to do farming and construction work i just may out perform a few Europeans
prime cyplenkov strict curl would beat the remaining ones alone.
If I would have to pick, I would say America and Canada is the strongest country in the world and number three would be British and I’m gonna say number four is my country. Australia is number four strongest I reckon but I think the strongest out of all of them would be Canada and America.
Kovacs would have been a better choice vs Eddie than Julius
Probably Asia and Africa.
Eddie is the strongest static lifter ever.
Nah jesus Olivera out totals him in static by a lot
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@@owy3215In what way? Even with out a suit Eddie still has him beat on deadlift by 55 kg. on bench he’s does 6 reps at 265 kg witch is only 7 kg under Jesus’s max bench and he’s never done squat for max but 15 reps at 320 kg should translate to a minimum 1000 pound squat.
@@owy3215hilarious. great joke.
you skipped the russians Hooper 😥
You’re wrong because of my feelings
The real world’s strongest man is playing football because that’s where the money is at. And if football was as prevalent in Europe as it is in North America, Eddie and have Thor would’ve played football as well. The money is just too good to do anything else. I believe America isn’t weaker. I just believe the strong ones are playing football for millions of dollars a year.
Or they have another serious job, a wife that tells them no, etc 😂
@ fax
Uhm I'm European but just from the impact and the strength feat he did Brian for me would top zydrunas
The reason Europe wins this so easily is because the strongest people in America are in the NFL. Why make thousands powerlifting when you can make millions as an NFL lineman.
Very true! Offensive Lineman would tear up the strongman competitions if there was no American Football.
Well the strongest continent without a doubt is Africa. But they just don't have the infrastructures... However the genetics and the potential is off the chart...
Pretty obvious issue with how this is compared. With ipf and the Olympics Europe has dozens of countries that can put up athletes and North America has basically two lol.
Powerlifting is completely dominated by Americans. Has the best tested and untested dots, highest test and untested total both in wraps and raw. And currently strongman is being completely dominated by a Canadian. Weightlifting not so much but it’s also just not popular here.
I’ll also add that the heaviest powerlifting squat, bench, and deadlift have come from an American
Europe is unquestionably impressive. On the other hand, they don't have a Kaz or a Jace Loves Strength.
Advantage? North America
Eoropee-ons
Antarctica for the win!
I'm guessing Balkans
If it's not Europe even with Mariusz, Big Z, the Stoltman Brothers, Novikov, Eddie Hall, Hafhtor and Matheusz (if that's how u write it) then Idk wtf is going on 😂
odd that you selected historical figures Kaz and Big Z....but then left out all the american weight class winners from weighlfting and powerlifting from the 60s, 70s and 80s, when american lifters dominated in most of the weight classes...so it would be easy depepnding on what decade you chose to easily come up with lists of north americans dominating europe, but if you only went with strongman, europe would get most wins....
o.O How do you kick someone out of a competition for worlds strongest man, for being to strong. That blew my mind. Sorry guy your to strong to be considered the strongest in the world. >.>
But if I would’ve picked one country from Europe that I think is the strongest out of all the European I would say Ukraine because look at the Ukraine athlete because they have amazing Feats of strength
For me, a lot of it comes down to culture. USA and Canada definitely have a decent strongman culture, but it's small in comparison to Europe; especially Eastern Europe and the Scandinavian territories.
Wasn't aware the usa was a continent 😉
Most of those Americans are European anyway
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While historically in Weightlifting, Europe dominated particularly the USSR. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Weightlifting's center changed to being dominated by Asia. Particularly East Asian Countries like China and North Korea.
Also note while the USSR was a European country parts of the country where comprised of nations that today are part of Asia like Kazakhstan.
Recently China overtook the USSR as the most decorated country in Weightlifting history. It's women's team is particularly dominate. Out of all female Weightlifting World Championship medalists China holds more than 3 times the amount of medals than the second highest Taiwan (218 to 60).
As for North America they (really the USA and Doug Hepburn) used to be competitive until the 1960's but recently have started to make a comeback.
China really only dominate the lower weight classes.
Europe still dominates overall.
Lots of strong people in the U.S. go on to focus on other sports rather than just strength competitions, in my opinion.
I bet Bulgaria has more Olympic medals than the whole rest of Europe combined in weightlifting...
@@daviddeppa122 no the USSR did but Bulgarian is one of the most decorated teams
@SomeSeriousWeight True, however, USSR/Russia isn't an entirely European country, as a vast amount of their territory lies in Asia ,they are a transcontinental country. Some of their athletes could have come from the Asian portion of USSR/Russia. so they can't claim to be an entirely European country, which disqualifies them from being the most decorated weightlifting team in Europe.
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@@sage6336 not in europe
@@daviddeppa122 in theory it could be, but that's not the case; most URSS gold medalists were from Russia or Belarus. Only a few notables would've been considered Asian today (Rakhmanov, Khrapaty). Historically, it's URSS first, China second, and then a huge gap.
You should have chosen yourself as one of the strongmen to make it more even
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@ honestly I think that he could be pretty close to Thor in a comparison but Thor would still win
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When comparing Olympic and IPF medals it’s hard to compare Europe and North America because Europe has many more large countries and more opportunities at medals.
North America also has the NFL which draws many of the genetic freaks away from strength sports.
The NFL goes two ways. You could say they draw people away, but I'd say they draw people into strength sports by promoting getting strong and starting weightlifting early, whereas in Europe there is no such pop-culture draw for young people to start moving weight.
Europe have rugby, judo, wrestling, etc... Also draws strong people.
@@maslakarkhus8673 That's very true. The NFL and football in general hugely bumps up the total number of people pursuing strength training, but it undeniably retains many/most of the best that would otherwise be at the elite level of strength sports.
I'm not European so I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that some/many European countries promote strength and strength sports to a much higher level than in the US and North America. Maybe not to the degree of NFL or NBA but comparable to minor league baseball or other armature sports
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Mitch would be a better choice over Kaz for a matchup vs Thor
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My thoughts immediately went from contest wins and genetics to probably the most important factor: financial incentives. Most of the American genetic freaks who would excel in strongman, powerlifting, weightlifting, etc, compete for positions in the NFL and to a lesser extent the NBA, NHL, because that’s where the money is. You can see this same incentive structure in play with Women’s sports, they appear to be flocking to Crossfit because that’s where the money is (prizes + sponsorships) and witness, the women are world class compared to their male counterparts in Crossfit and other women’s sports. The Americans recruit their best gladiators into team sports and vote with their money to keep them there. Compare that to Europe whose money-maker popular sport does not reward the strength-maximizing build. Lastly I’d say Europe’s looser relationship with PED’s is a factor.
Agree with this 100%, way more options and opportunities in U.S. in other sports. Focusing on strength only will probably send you to the poor house.
We could say the same for Europe, wrestling, Rugby, Judo, etc...
@ I just looked at the numbers for Rugby in Europe and in aggregate the sport brings in roughly $1B/y, compare that to $13B/y for the NFL (same for the NBA, $6B/y for the NHL). So, an order of magnitude less purchasing power. While Rugby has more of a strength focus than fútbol, I still wouldn’t compare the general rugby build to the specialized build of offensive/defensive linemen in the NFL, 300 pound giants who move an average of 10ft per play, haha
Growing up super tall in America I know the culture firsthand, people see me in the grocery store and ask if I played basketball before asking my name 🤷♂️
Lots of North Amercans focus on other sports like Wrestling, Football and others. I think strongman is more popular in Europe.
Absolutely not, Strongman is like 10 times less popular in Europe you can check strongman viewership... Very few people watch strongman in Europe compare to North America.
And rugby, wrestling etc in Europe.
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I say do one for countries not continents itll have more competition between them
Not as many opportunities for big and strong athletes in Europe. The biggest and strongest North Americans are playing football. If most of the huge and athletic football players did strength sports, the numbers would look very different.
Iceland the USA or Britain
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Canada, you guys got some oil over there? Keep making these videos and we'll need to go spread some freedom there too 😂😂😂
We can free ourselves, thanks very much. Trudeau is a dead manikin walking.
Until now Europe dominates, but North America will catch up with how things are going right now.
Vikings and Samoans. That's it. That's all. Those people are genetically the strongest. What is written on their passport is irrelevant
Are Samoans seriously as strong as us vikings?
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... Interesting video. Larger focus other sports in NA, particularly football (US) and hockey (Canada). Football is probably the bigger draw of purely strong people so it likely dilutes the NA strongman pool more. If money was similar in strongman and football, then NA would probably be more even (or ahead).
Kinda interesting that most of the big achievements of the Europeans come from Eastern Europe, where 95% of people are genetically European. I'd be interested in a comparison of Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and North America not according to overall population, but according to population of people of European origin.
most of the achivements come from USSR from when they competed in every little thing against the USA
nice comparison of america to like 40 other countries and showing just how much we dominate
Specific person on person yea maybe, but the average person, N.A. easily
talking about fatter or stronger?
No love for Jesus Olivares?
I quit caring about strength in Europe around 250 years ago 😉