Ray Williams, 1,000 lbs Raw Squat

Watched it on the tape of the livestream (excellent video quality). They had Ray Williams sign the bar at the end of the meet and I think are planning to put that in the Hall of Fame of some sort. According to the announcers (one of whom was Bryce Lewis), the amazing thing was that his 1005 squat was the deepest of the three (he actually got one red on his first squat).

Ray Williams is the first ever to squat 1000 with just a belt, to a depth no one can dispute. The main announcer said it was the most amazing lift he’d ever seen, besting bench press specialist (googled it, crazy) James Hendeson doing a 700 bench in a tee shirt back when that was more than guys in bench shirts were putting up.

Williams benched 500+ and then deadlifted 800+ (I think the deadlift was also some kind of record as well).

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