How come some powerlifting rules make no sense?

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

If short lifters can use blocks under their feet in competition, why can’t tall lifters use a taller bench? That’s just one example, but when you take a closer look there are definitely some things that don’t make sense.

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0:00.0	And we're in. You know you're in the digital era.
0:09.0	And we're in.
0:10.0	You know you're in the digital era. We're just talking about the Ryan Garcia fight, but it was a I don't know if you follow him at all or any of the box. But he's probably probably the most followed boxer right now, right?
0:27.1	I don't want to have my facts way off.
0:30.6	What's Tyson Fury have?
0:31.8	But he's got a lot of followers, social media
0:33.2	wise. Tyson Fury got six mil. All right, Tyson Fury is way more, actually, I lied.
0:36.9	I think Ryan's got like one mil. But he's pretty tapped in, so he like hangs out,. Oh no he's got 11 mill now. Oh I wonder if it had to just pop off though because this fight was everyone's same fight of the year
0:49.6	Anyways he knows all the streamers and he hangs out with Bradley Martin and so he's kind of tapped into that where a lot of the other boxers.
0:57.3	Although they're really good at promokes, I feel like that is half the battle and even in the U you guys are trying to find like a gimmick, right?
1:03.4	Like you could be the best fighter and still make very minimum wage unless you're
1:07.8	Connor McGregor or you're like, you guys sell tickets, right?
1:10.9	Yeah. And so he went and don't quote me you know
1:15.0	don't give me on defamation here Ryan buddy but he went on like a crazy
1:20.0	literal crazy like pre-game thing freaking out talking about all this stuff some conspiratorial stuff to get clicks and clips I think
1:28.4	But he was also like saying I think first he said he's never gonna not to drink the whole camp he's kind of known as like an LA partier and then he was caught drinking every single day and then there was
1:41.1	it does make sports more fun because there's so much extracurricular going on.
1:47.1	Every pound overweight he was, he owed the other fighter like 500 k
1:54.0	oh jeez uh yeah he weighed in like a pound and a half or three pounds heavy
2:00.2	and I was like damn that's a lot of money like these guys make a lot of money the top boxers but, that's a lot of money. Like these guys make a lot of money, they're top boxers.
2:04.0	But that's still a lot of money.
2:05.3	Yeah, like, like,
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