@@AsadAli-jc5tg really? Well i hope all is well. After seeing him when i was younger doing strong man, wrestling and movies to find that he is a decent dude on top of all that is cool.
@SAKE WRLD Believer 39/27 why do you Yap your mouth if you don't know ? Magee has a strong background in boxing and held a black belt in karate ... fucking douchebag 🤷🤣🖕
You'd never guess this guy deadlifted the second most amount of weight off the surface of the planet and was one of the strongest guys pound for pound ever. Glad to see he still doing good...except for the assault thing.
Vancouver Olympic Gym in the early 80's - witnessing Tom and others train - unique period in time. Good to see him lean, fit and cognitive. perhaps incorrectly, I recall he was a gymnast in his youth, his backflips at 250+ on Kits Beach a spectacle to behold.
I really like Tom. I saw him with The Boz in Stone Cold, great fight scene. I saw him much younger, as a world caliber powerlifter and strongman. I saw some comments and looked into how he was beat up by 5 or 6 guys as part of a neighborhood watch program - he was 58 years old at the time. What a bunch of 20 year old cowards. But I don’t think 5 guys would ever get away with that when Tom was in his prime. He was and is truly impressive.
It is sad that they lose their muscle totally (same with Lex Luger). Tom MaGee was a world class strongman and bodybuilder. But here he looks less muscular than I am, and I am just a normal guy. If you told me in 1990 that I would someday have a better physique than Tom Magee, I would not have believed it.
Juice or no juice when we get up to the top of our potential and we quit the bodybuilding we go right back to where we started. Chubby and fat go back to fat, skinny go back to skinny. Amazing to see what he looks like now though. Tom was awesome! Bret Hart once said Tom was better built than Ultimate Warrior. I agree there. Hope you are well Tom.
@@DGS_1992 just depends on your natural frame ...if you are built like a football player or shot putter you might get fat but a lot of muscle and size will still be there ..i stopped training for 20 years and even when i went fat or slim(for me) i still had a v taper and very broad shoulders ...magee who had a phenomenal physique has literally vanished into a stick
@@alcoyot You need to eat a truckload of food to maintain that mass. Not everyone is going to keep that up. That's why lots of wrestlers get fat as hell when they retire or slow down. They work out less and eat the same.
One of my favorite movies of all time... Very underrated and am a lifelong WWE fan but I never knew the pitfighter "IS THAT ALL U GOT" guy was a WWE wrestler...
One of strongest guys of all time, just a beast. I guess Tom doesn’t do major weight lifting any more but in his day was one of the best strong men and bodybuilders.
@@andrewlane8142 He used to look a lot like Omega when he was younger. Watch this movie scene he shot in the early 90's, he looks exactly like Omega: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sXlXs5f1Bu4.html
Agreed. I think he a lot of ability and potential. Not a lot of charisma, maybe a manager early on could have helped him. It was just too much too soon.
former wsm competitor and runner up to big Kaz in '82 then gets jumped by 5 pieces of human trash over a parking spot not long ago and almost killed.. great to see him healthy, true legend
@@Realest636 the apartment below his had a few characters who were involved in crimes. Tom was giving them trouble. Tom explained it to me a bit ago and I'm not sure how much of it he remembers. He had gotten home from doing stuff on his bicycle. 2 guys approached Tom and 1 said how he had lost his wallet and reached for Tom's genitals. Tom swatted the guys hand away. Almost instantly a car pulled up (it was just getting dark, the cars headlights were on and 4 doors opened and 4 guys got out. Tom had been training boxing earlier that day and had his mouth guard in his back pants pocket. He knew it was on and he put his mouth guard in and his hands up. He didn't remember a whole lot after that. He was almost 60 and he got jumped by 6 guys. I think that a few of them were arrested. I don't know if they found any of the other 4 guys or how long they were locked up for.
Well, you can see that Mr. Magee is a polite fellow, it is obvious to deduce what really happened in the incident where a group of cowards nearly killed him!
He has a good attitude about his wrestling career. He gave it a good shot, but not everyone is going to become a big star. It seems to me that the expectations they had for him were pretty unfairly high though. He was still very, very green, and yet they thought he was going to be this amazing talent. Most wrestlers need to work for at least a few years before they even start to get really good. They gave up on him pretty damn abruptly. With a little more training under the right wrestlers, he could have perhaps still been a big star.
Reminds me of the breakdown of Lex Luger. Props for working their asses off to look that way, cause steroids don't work without you putting in a ton of work. But damn, the breakdown is huge. Not worth the risk to me, but I never had a chance to be a world famous athlete either.
@@-BigMike- steroids do work without you putting in work, studies have proven that, they work a lot better when you put work in but steroids work regardless.
Tom Magee never made it to the heights of the Harts, Hogans, and Flairs... but then again the dude sounds completely intelligent and mentally healthy and isn't dropping sound bytes where he's dropping the N word, being sued by his 7th wife, or feuding with his family members publicly. So maybe he survived wrestling just fine.
I'm Dutch and saw Tom Magee in a TV-program in 1984. While he was squatting his nose started to bleed. To me that was heroism! I just had started to train in a gym and went into powerlifting for many years to come.
Would Vince date a mop on TV, walk around naked with only a fanny pack on, get "raped" by Heidenreich and put himself in the rafters with a shoddy harness to be lowered down? I don't think so. Yeah that statement is true sometimes for Vince and he definitely put his body through hell. But he definitely made a lot of people do stuff he wouldn't ever do.
I recently watched the documentary on that match on the Network. Warrior may have more or less failed as champ when he beat Hogan but Vince didn't lose his shirt with him. I truly believe he would have lost his shirt with this guy as champ. He was athletic and he had a good body but there was nothing else about him that was special. And I'm sure he's a nice guy but he just wasn't cut out for wrestling.
GREAT to see tom doing well after a bunch of scumbags jumped him and nearly killed him. He had one of the best looks in the 80s like a Greek god and strong as an ox 👍
He was a legit power lifter back then and had impressive gymnastic ability. I don't think he was a big roid user or a long-term user if ever. You only gain size from 80s roids, not real strength or ability.
Too nice of a guy to be in the business. Glad to see he is doing well. Fine example of WWE not knowing what they had and being able to let him grow organically. Some things never change...
Sounds like he was a sensitive, thoughtful person but also demonstrates, imo, a fundamental lack of humility or awareness of what was going on, that stopped him from making a serious start to the business. Just my take
