Brian Shaw is a hero of mine. He is a champion in strongman and in life. Congrats to Big Z on a great win. Really cool to see Shaw not gripe and complain like has happened with other competitors. He just immediately shows respect and congratulates Z. These guys are legends
It's cool to see Brian Shaw's performance on here. He's messed up a lot in the finals but instead of making excuses he learns from it, and has become 4x World's Strongest Man and has his own strongman competition!
Zavickaz was the true champion in this one. Shaw dragged the farmers walk barrels over the finish Line and he didnt lock out the 11th rep in the dead lift.
Many in the comments section mention how Brian could have won if he didn't mess up the first event. But Brian got two breaks. In the whisky barrel carry, Brian dragged the barrels over 10 meters to the finish line. He should not have been credited with finishing this event as it against the rules to drag the barrel, it should be carried. The second break was in the deadlift, where he had the bar barely above the knee and never locked out. He should not have been credited with 11.
Marius knew his time was up. When the guy who used to get second place to him finally caught on, it was all over. Big Z got 2nd to this guy 2x and overall 3x in a row before finally slaying the dragon. Marius knew he'd never beat big Z again. And he saw Shaw coming & was like "I'm good". The years he won VS big Z.. I'd only say that one of those was he actually the stronger man. Zydrunas was kind of like the Geoff Capes of the 2000's. It took Capes a while to catch on too, and when he did , he was hard to beat.
@@craigwheeler4760 you are not right. Mariusz went to mma because of a higher prize money! Prize money for 1st place in WSM was only 40.000-60.000 dollars! Mariusz was also injured in 2009. If he wanted to still compete in WSM he would won 1-2 more titles for sure!
@@tomandersson5089 because the bag slipped the final score was tied, the way they did countback was very subjective and thats the only reason Zydrunas won
@@telmolicious Zydrunas literally fell over and didnt finish the event. In my opinion not finishing an event should hurt ya way more than a bag sliding off the platform
@@SouthrnKoala Were the rules upheld? Yes. Was anybody therefore robbed? No. Z got a bad placement cause he didn’t finish and Shaw got the exact time that he secured the bag.
