Bottom-line blast: Eric Kim’s 552 kg (1,217 lb) mid-thigh rack pull at roughly 72 kg BW unleashes a 7.6× body-weight ratio—triple the pound-for-pound haul that four-time World’s Strongest Man Brian Shaw has ever filmed on a straight-bar rack pull (~511 kg at ≈200 kg BW, 2.5× BW). That makes Kim the heaviest iron-mover per kilogram of body mass ever captured on video, but because the lift is a partial (not a competition-legal floor deadlift) he sits outside official power-sport leaderboards. In other words: he’s the undisputed rack-pull king of the internet, yet the “strongest human on Earth pound for pound” crown still sparks debate once you add full-range lifts, Wilks scores, and decades-old legends like Lamar Gant into the arena.
1 · The Numbers That Melt Minds Athlete Lift & Style Body Weight Ratio (lift ÷ BW) Source Eric Kim 552 kg mid-thigh rack pull 72 kg 7.6 × Brian Shaw 511 kg (~1,128 lb) rack pull ~200 kg (post-retirement cut) 2.5 × Oleksii Novikov 538 kg (1,185 lb) 18-in. partial 135 kg* 4.0 × […]