The Scariest Monster in Sports History - Alexander Karelin 

I wonder if his character was a function of his supremacy that did not necessitate any of the things you mentioned.

Yeah like if we watch John Jones it is fingers in the eye right away, and he can really get in there. Deep. The only thing close is Sumo, it happens every other month and it is way cleaner, but there are no weight classes. At all. 200lb vs 400lb go!

Exact, true i noted the same, the character is vastly different of MANY OTHERS i remember... and i view now...

determination and a solid culture does that

@@TheWatchernatoryep, very true

Indeed! A real life Hercules!

No...

No roids back then lol

only if you could send all those drugs back in time too

​@@babybackbish😂

He knew he could kill that pro so he just clinched and threw him around 😂😂

Brute force + PhD in wrestling makes you almost a complete MMA fighter

A living ZANGIEF. No mma needed. Just SLAM.

at the at point in the world of MMA if you had elite wrestling that’s all you needed to be successful

That was not a legitimate MMA fight. It was with Akira Maeda in RINGS, two red flags that both make it obvious that it was a work

Karelin lost. But the other guy DEFINITELY did not win. Made me ill watching his coaches swarm him in love after Karelin lost.

A rule change made specifically for his matchup, vs a guy whose special ability was being fat enough to benefit from the rule change. Then after winning the rule change is reverted.

exactly.

@@fishpants3877 The fact that the rule was cancelled right after speaks volumes.

100%

Doping do wonders...

PEDs. About as legitimate as Lance Armstrong

GROAT. Greatest roids of all time

Bah... Bah... Bah... Nothing but damn lamb❗🐏

All them Greco wrestlers were on steroids, yall really need to shut the fuk up.

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yeah that was a shameless robbery, but hopefully everybody knowledgeable understands it and doesn't put to much significance into that "loss"

bro tf u on about if the rules are the same for both of them then the chances are the same for both of them is ur brain ok ??

@@RawrGhosty to begin with that was clearly a novel position to create, second as someone with broken bones in my hand over years and general damage, creating a situation where I would need to hold hands indefinitely like that would put me at a disadvantage because at some moment my hand would give up, not a matter of strength, stamina or willpower. Accumulated damage is a bitch against a much younger opponent. And having a point lost for such an arbitrary thing that was removed immediately after was nothing more than a fuck you.

@@user-sw7uv6hn8eThe US isn’t the only one that makes the rules for the Olympics cailleach.

I never knew vomiting can make someone break a rib.

Sneezing could break one too. It’s probably rare, but it could happen.@@kassiocabral1639

Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.

Dude ,you re a legend of your own...

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Easy on the capslock

@@popcorngenerator1925 POSHEL NA HOY!!

​@@harrychapin808little sensitive, aren't we

@@popcorngenerator1925 About as sensitive as I get when I remove your eyeball and chew on it while you watch- YUMMY 😋!! 👁‍🗨 Gotta sauté it 1st, of course!!

And, it was because of a rule change. Worse still, the rule is capricious and artificial. Mandating that one can release their hands while bear hugging the opponent runs counter to the sport itself. After this event, the rule was dropped.

Imagine if they had USADA back then

@@jimmicrackhead12 they did.....thats how some from those Olympics have gotten caught.

@@IronLife1386 in the 80s and 90s? Hell no

@@jimmicrackhead12 The match he was referencing to and that you replied to was about the 2000 olympics. I didn't say those earlier. Of course they had it in the 80s and 90s, most countries did. Russian had a science program dedicated to it, kinda like china does now. Figure out the loopholes to it in modern sports and they all do it. It's not really that big of a secret in modern sports.

I gasped when I watched him lift that 280 pound man while having 2 broken ribs.

@@sexyhedgehog7033 Right? I can barely lift my towel with a broken rib and this guy was lifting another massive beast.

you should google Deestacles, the 2nd Century Roman slave who won his freedom as a wrestler.

If this dude was younger imagine what hed do in mma?

@@ericholland-cr1nt you must have missed the Japanese wrestler who used low kicks on him? That dude had to have assistance to his corner and to his locker, you know what what'd he do in mma as a youngster.

Indeed! He is described to be humble, composed, kind and sweet in real life 😅

Spopovich

Yes

i couldnt even move when i broke mine

juice

@@insidiousmaximus genetics, don’t compare UFC and ONE championship to Olympians

What did you say IDIOT ? ​@@insidiousmaximus

@@Angelo-yr1enHe’s a Russian athlete in the peak of the blatant steroid abuse era of sports. He is an enhanced athlete, as were most of his opponents. Get over it.

He was someone I looked up to a few years ago, now I look down on him. I used to look up to him when he threw people off the carpet, but now he only throws people out of windows and balconies if Putin wants him to? Is he as corrupt as all other politicians in Russia? I can imagine that his favorite composer is Richard Wagner and are you sure that he reads the books, it's not like he burns books on a bonfire or reads them and then changes the books so that the Russian population won't read anything inappropriate ? I don't know if you are that intellectual or have a sense of humor if you are involved in sending off several 100,000 young men in their prime to die and even more to be injured for life in a completely pointless war, have you followed the propaganda spied from Russia, you are not intellectual, rather the opposite and an evil person who murders civilians!

Unfortunately, in his private life, he has criminal connections and works for a highly corrupt party.

@@Humanophage All governments are corrupted, that's capitalism for you. You are just brainwashed into this me. vs them mindset.

@@Humanophage say that without crying.

@@Humanophage no.

Ты не понимаешь его менталитет, в его виденье он не себя подвёл, а страну в которой он родился, он ставит людей превыше себя, поэтому он и такой Великий!

The strongest Athlete besides Wilt Chamberlain . The fact that he was able to still beat 250+ pound monsters with broken ribs(only rivaled by how old retired Wilt humilated young Magic Johnson ) shows that he was at least 30% stronger than the rest.

100%. I've played bike polo with broken ribs, and while I was still performing pretty well, I cannot imagine lifting any of my competitors in such condition.

Whilst i agree its debilitating broken ribs dont really hurt much for the the first few hours and gradually become excruciating over the following days.

Ребра он ломал 18 раз. За 13 лет. Заживает такая травма 6 месяцев. То есть он практически всегда испытывал эту боль. ​@@iamamoghalfmanhalfdog5325

Did you crack ribs or the cartlidge? The cartlidge is what will make you in pain unable to breathe.

not to mention those wrestlers are 130kg all muscle and arent built symmetrically like barbells too making it more difficult to lift

I was gonna say this same thing. Lifting 260lbs off the ground is one thing. Lifting a 260lb MAN off the ground, who doesn't want to be lifted... is something completely different.

@@joeaardvark9214 Not to mention, he could have had a rest for 6 months and come back stronger if he let his body heal after a punishing 13 years of toil. Looks like he never rested due to his loyalty to his Nation and fans.

not lifting, throwing them over xDD

I kicked his ass..

Did he take steroids?

@@docalexander2853 My dear brother in christ, every wrestler you have seen in this video was on steroids. But I appreciate your innocence

So... he is modern day Platto.

​@docalexander2853 steroids are prolly your excuse anytime you see someone muscular or great at a sport. Just your low self esteem and lack of confidence showing thru.

Take that with a grain of salt. In Russia, you can be a PHD without ever stepping foot in the university. Corruption is theough the roof in communist countries. All top level athletes had a special pass to do anything and were appreciated and included by the mafia. If he indeed studied for real, that's awesome. And being the determined guy he is, I'm sure he could have studied, but knowing what Russia is like, i'm not very sure it's 100% true

big deal..franz beckenbauer played with a broken collarbone

@@forzajuve4845 whats your problem man?

Of fucking course it was a big deal 😂 You talk as if fighting with 2 broken ribs is easy.

@@forzajuve4845 playing soccer with a broken collarbone lol, you dont need that for soccer comparatively to wrestling and ribs..

because chasing a ball is the same as actually fighting a man, get a grip loser@@forzajuve4845

wrestling is pretty cool in its own way. it's extremely difficult. striking is hard too, and you have to train and be in top shape and whatever, but this style of wrestling is absolutely exhausting. nearly every muscle in your body gets used.

yeah i just dont like the whole point idea should be submission@@SpaceMissile

@@dkdonkeykong4870 it's just two different rule-sets. side note: as a guy who's done BJJ and high-school wrestling, it's waaaay easier to find a choke-hold or arm-bar and make them tap than it is to pin their back to the mat. IMO

Agreed. Especially if the other guy is a good wrestler aswell. I dont train but i know its harder than it looks​@@SpaceMissile

He is remembered for losing to a fatass.

nah he lost 3 points to big man. he took em

​@@Derek4kYou are talking about Rulon Gardner and it was only one move so sombojoe is basically RIGHT😎🙂 I have a theory why you didn't mention Rulons name

buddy, if each time they size up and there are points to be won, then the person who didnt win missed out on getting one. so he lost on the option to aquire a point. he was not able to give that point to the other guy. basically he lost 3 points to BIG MAN.@@giffysstiffy8874giffytuck

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It's sad he lost to Gardner (USA). Reminds me of the old proverb, there's ALWAYS someome bigger badder out there.

......and without painkillers

I cannot imagine. 2 weeks ago I fractured my rib playing with my daughter and still in pain, barely can do anything, yet this guy managed not only to perform but to win. Wow!

It was not him who was locked in pain. This pain was locked with him.

That happens when you are literally made out of heaps of muscle.

Where is that quote from?

That's not Karelin's quote.

Thucydides 460 B.C. - 395 B.C.

I met a PhD holder who was a massive fool. Education does not make anyone wise.

@@user-qd4td7yb8e that is such a stupid take. just like saying not every murderer is evil, yes ofcourse not every single one is evil, but the chance that a murderer is evil is big just like the chance that a scholar is wise is bigger then a random dude.

130kg lean moves like a Panther

Yeah roids do wonders

This comment made my day. I can't stop laughing.

Not a fair comparison. Lots of fighters beat the crap out of Tyson, only one man beat Karelin, by a single point, and they had to change the rules for it to happen. If you compare with boxers it's more like Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robison, Joe Louis, etc.

@@isaacfernandes560 lol no, the correct comparison to Karelin in boxing would be Jack Johnson

@@riceeater79 Jack Johnson must have been your cellmate that was making sweet love to you every night... And now you want to share what a "vivid nightmare" is to you...

⁠@@isaacfernandes560Tyson in his prime was scary af. If Cus D’Amato had not died when Tyson was so young, he might have been the greatest ever.

I think steroids is a very real possibility.

@duke927 definetly likely had roids, but so did everyone else, still a freak of nature, a true beast

@duke927 I doubt steroids were the reason he was a 12 pound baby born to 5'5 inch parents. Dude was a genetic freak from the start

He was huge even as a teen

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ok I know you are probably young kids… but… do I really have to tell you? Everyone knew he was on massive juice… THAT’S WHY THEY CALLED HIM THE EXPERIMENT! Lol…. It wasn’t because he loved laboratory work. Sometimes I just don’t know lol.

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i laughed for a about a minute

Damn!!!!!

BILLY 😢

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it would be impossible if they could grab your legs. very odd style of wrestling

@@normalnick9693 its called greco-roman

Just crazy strength.i wonder how many of victims of his suplexes suffered spinal damage?scary

What makes it even crazier is the fact that he competed in the super heavyweight category. Lifting an resisting man that weighs over 130kg with ease is a ridiculous feat to pull off in every match.

@@alexandrkv was wondering about that. boxer here

He was the beast of all beasts I remember watching The rulon Jones started rooting for Jones and then ended up rooting for the Siberian

My Dad was a wrestler, they don't like losing. He tore his shoulder muscles because he lifted another guy over his head, from behind him, and slammed him down. He won the match, still has shoulder pain. Ehe... "Never go half speed".

You don't become one of the best in the world by being content with silver medals.

what? you would've been fine saying most accomplished wrestler. Most accomplished "combat sports" athlete? That's an insane statement. More accomplished than Henry Cejudo with an olympic gold medal and championships in 2 UFC divisions?? More accomplished than Alex Pereira with world championships in 2 kickboxing divisions and 2 UFC divisions? More accomplished than Fedor, undefeated for 10 years in heavyweight MMA and a Sambo world grandmaster? Nah bro

​@@gypsylips1950maybe not the most accomplished, but definitely the most dominant in combat sports

@@gypsylips1950the thing Karelin would’ve beaten them if he joined mma

@gypsylips1950 you are the a joke bro, you really just put on par, pereira who fought only like 3-4 time combined in both of those categories after his belt (and stil lost his first belt after a few months) , henry cejudo who only fought like 6 times after his first bealt ( and still lost at least one time). And fucking FEDOR who destroyed a lot of future world champion in ufc and hasn't lost a single time in 10 years in the best organisation at the time ?? Bro you clearly an mmx stop spouting bullshit, i would have understood if you said at least gsp, jone, silva or even mighty mouse but 2 of the 3 name you said to be better than karylin are fucking jokes compared to the monster karylin was.

​@@gypsylips1950lol, def more accomplished then these two. From all the combat athletes you pick Cejudo and Perreira. You must be out of your mind

Don’t forget steroid abuse

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Another orc cheater in the doping program

Insane to think that there are 3 losers that all comented the same thing about steroids like 3 bot's in a row , while probably sitting on a couch doing absolutely nothing worthy of their life , end up projecting their insecurities on one of the greatest wrestler of all time. Who cares at this point if he did juice or not , the man still put in the work and had determination and respect for what he cared about. A lot of athlete's nowadays do enhancing drugs and you guys just don't know it by now. Grow up.

Jesus dude, I cringed so hard reading this.

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steroids, steroids, steroids

@@AiVaultGuy cope, cope, cope

@@AiVaultGuy stay jealous jealous jealous

@@AiVaultGuybullshit from someone has no idea that even with steroids (even though he dis not) there is 0% chance of winning at that level. Trust me this guy is the wolf of wrestling street, he did beyond everyone else just in training. I know, i saw, i lived in his era, he inspired me. He was just a guy that figured out that mega hard work, pays out.

That combination made him extraordinary.

This man is every eugenicist's wet dream.

Did he had a PhD in Russian Literature by any chance?

Pretty much all champions are masterminds.

He was just unlucky that wrestling is not a more popular sport. Because in terms of dominance and athletic ability, he's up there with mj or Messi

and then the rule was removed after the games

@@nikoponce3810 Yes, they realize how stupid the rule was and that Gardner was unfairly gifted a win. Hopefully Karelin recognized that.

quit lying because he wasnt even close to winning and at no time did the rule play apart just in a struggle and over time he lose strength allowing for him to lose grip but even if he doesnt lose grip hes never even close to winning match so quit lying you sore loser all sad cause rulon won

you can't teach what Rulon Gardner can do, Karelin was no match for a prime Gardner.

@@eugenegreen2285 I'm no expert on wrestling, and I don't mean to disparage Gardner. But I watched it back when the match occurred. Despite Gardner being in his prime and Karelin past his, Karelin's strength and experience still looked the better of the two. Gardner only won based on a strange rule change. I say strange because in a sport that is so dynamic, forcing an opponent to keep their hands clasped is a very artificial requirement. The Olympic committee considered it strange enough that the rule was reversed after this event. That tells me Karelin definitely WAS a match for Gardner. Had that weird rule not been imposed, Karelin may well have won.

Оно не помещается на 19 дюймовый монитор!!))))

Well said.

280 proffessionally trained, resisting lbs

not to mention if that 280 is trying to shift its center mass mid lift. oof

dude was clearly on steroids btw

@@Cooltraxx77 like that explains anything. lol. schwarzenegger was on steroids. as well as many other people but no one was close to his form

@@Cooltraxx77 don’t compare him to Brock Lesnar boyo

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And a bunch of ussr steroids