Just a freaking animal.... so powerful the reverse lift is not something performed very often.... but he did it so easy to 130kg wrestlers who didn't want to be thrown....
1.96 meter tall 130 kg pure muscle Strong like a Bear No emotions 887-1 record 3 Times Olympic Gold 9 times world champion 30 competitions won 29 of them and in his last he was 2. place only because a rule change that he didn’t know This guy is genetically the greatest human which ever do combat in the modern age... I mean this guy was always the best in his sport over 15 years pure domination and leave the sport with a Olympic silver medal at the age of 33 When his pride wouldn’t been damaged he would have way more wins and medals But imagine your are 33 and destroyed every record and be the best ever in this sport Much respect from Germany for this behemoth the best wrestler ever and also the best Combat fighter🇩🇪🤝🇷🇺
@@Keranu the best wrestler from Germany that now retired was Frank stäbler he was a bronce medalist in olympia and was 3 time World Champion and 2 time european Champion , and he won the bronze medal at olympia after he got covid and the doctors told him that he would never recover and be able to wrestle again
@@jlcclIt is always difficult to determine the best wrestler based on his successes. But the most successful German wrestler is Maik Bullmann. Olympic champion, multiple world champion and the only German to be inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame. Bullmann might have enjoyed further success if his weight class up to 90 kilograms had not been abolished after 1996.
@@princeekeson12 He raped Rulon wich gave him his last lost, so yup.. he beat them. And he lost because of a stupid rule.. that's why Rulon got the win.
He had an mma fight once or twice I believe. I watched one fight where he would grab his opponent and toss him around like a rag doll the whole fight. He did not throw a single punch and was just toying with the other guy throwing him around the ring. He obviously dominated the whole fight but you could tell he did not want to really hurt the other guy. It was obvious he could have chocked him or broken the guys neck in seconds, but he just showed different throws on that guy. Amazing athlete.
I trained 20 years to try and achieve as ths MAN did,... I mostly felt good after my matches. Except for the possibility of what this guy could do to me... Beast mode long before it was a catch frase...💖
Nobody ever was that consistent... Jordan,Messi,Ali,Tyson, Fedor, GSP, Brady Everyone had a bad day and don’t show their Full Potential This man nearly 900 fights and showed his class in everyone of them this consistency is the greatest we ever saw
@@nick9573 all of them also all time legends that’s true but Usain bolt compete in 3 Olympias Karelin in 4 Also I remember that Bolt have this bad days like losing the national championship Aggainst an other Jamaican but he definitely is up there by the greatest ever This baseball guy idk never watch the sport and also he played in a very early era so don’t know how great he was really Moses 2 Golds at Olympia and 2 at WC Is much worser resume Phelphs is really a beast he has like 30 gold medals in Olympia and the same at World Cup and also over many years he was the greatest swimmer So I give you this one bolt tied and the others are worser
Yep, Karelin was extremely powerful. His opponents trained very hard too, pro level wrestling is not for the weak. But no one will break his win/loss record I think.
Imagine being a 260lb+ Olympic level athlete. And then getting flipped around like a pancake by this monster. Guy may as well be a real life Baki character. (and yes I know he was 'Alexander Gallen' in Baki)
That guy is a fucking beast, he got viking blood. Another cool thing is that it was the swedish vikings who founded Russia, The first ruler of the Kievan Rus' was Rurik( old norse Helgi) which ruled the Kievan Rus' and its successor states, including the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Tsardom of Russia, until the 17th century.
A bear of a man and one of the greatest sportsmen of all time. But Karelin had another side. He appreciated classical music and literature. His enigmatic sense of humor delighted everyone who met him.
I saw a clip of Randy Couture successfully executing a reverse lift. Very impressive for the heavyweight class, but to see Karelin reverse lift super heavyweights with ease and more power, it's extraordinary. Superordinary.
It's too bad they were in 2 different sports ... but a match between Bruce Baumgartner and Alekandr Karelin would have been absolutely epic. They were contemporaries too.
Question from a non-wrestling person: what are the technical names of Karelin's two big moves -- 1) the move where he rolls the guy completely over like a crocodile with its prey, and 2) the over-the-hip suplex he does?
He is pretty dismissive of MMA, though. He said it's just set of rules (or lack of thereof) of fighting. He doesn't take it seriously and don't consider it 'true' sport. Pretty controversial FWIW
@mikeC. Heard an interview of the American Greco coach talking about Rulons first match pre Olympic with Karelin. He got reversed lift slammed on his neck and they thought his back was broken
Guys anyone on here can explain to me would he have been a great mixed martial artist due to his great grappling skills, I’m wondering if he applied basic Jiu Jitsu and basic kick boxing how great he would’ve been
Yeah I noticed that too. Maybe it's a functional lift to help recreate part of his reverse lift. Or it works like an alternating reverse curl without dumbbells.
MFT69 he was 5.5 kg at birth, and 180cm/80kg 13 y/o without much prior training. So, his parents started to shot him up with steroids when his mom was still pregnant?
Just a freaking animal.... so powerful the reverse lift is not something performed very often.... but he did it so easy to 130kg wrestlers who didn't want to be thrown....
snowhiterover Please don’t call super athlete freaking animal .
Could they not grab his leg to prevent being thrown?
@@enkibumbu no, that's freestyle wrestling. He is Greco Roman
@@softan Dear Champion Your opinion is your opinion.
1.96 meter tall
130 kg pure muscle
Strong like a Bear
No emotions
887-1 record
3 Times Olympic Gold
9 times world champion
30 competitions won 29 of them and in his last he was 2. place only because a rule change that he didn’t know
This guy is genetically the greatest human which ever do combat in the modern age...
I mean this guy was always the best in his sport over 15 years pure domination and leave the sport with a Olympic silver medal at the age of 33
When his pride wouldn’t been damaged he would have way more wins and medals
But imagine your are 33 and destroyed every record and be the best ever in this sport
Much respect from Germany for this behemoth the best wrestler ever and also the best Combat fighter🇩🇪🤝🇷🇺
Who is the best German wrestler? And what's wrestling like in Germany?
@@Keranu the best wrestler from Germany that now retired was Frank stäbler he was a bronce medalist in olympia and was 3 time World Champion and 2 time european Champion , and he won the bronze medal at olympia after he got covid and the doctors told him that he would never recover and be able to wrestle again
@@jlcclIt is always difficult to determine the best wrestler based on his successes. But the most successful German wrestler is Maik Bullmann. Olympic champion, multiple world champion and the only German to be inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame. Bullmann might have enjoyed further success if his weight class up to 90 kilograms had not been abolished after 1996.
Career Record
887 wins -1 loss...incredible!
Thx Girls&Guys
I wonder if he beat the guys who beat him.
@@princeekeson12 He raped Rulon wich gave him his last lost, so yup.. he beat them. And he lost because of a stupid rule.. that's why Rulon got the win.
Sigurðsson I thought Gardner beat him last
888 win 1loose
He picked up large powerful men who were world class wrestlers and threw them around like they were small children. He was so dominant.
Respect from greece to this legend and idol of many kids
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Hellas !!!!!!
He had an mma fight once or twice I believe. I watched one fight where he would grab his opponent and toss him around like a rag doll the whole fight. He did not throw a single punch and was just toying with the other guy throwing him around the ring. He obviously dominated the whole fight but you could tell he did not want to really hurt the other guy. It was obvious he could have chocked him or broken the guys neck in seconds, but he just showed different throws on that guy. Amazing athlete.
Well that fight, was kind of pro wrestling like bout, but I am sure something similar would happen in real mma fight too.
I would have rather been knocked out cold than being trown for 30 min straight
It wasn’t mma. Punching was not allowed.
lmao it was against some dude named Maeda, his corner is screaming at Karelin to be careful not to hurt his opponent too much.
The best wrestler ever!
Moo
I trained 20 years to try and achieve as ths MAN did,... I mostly felt good after my matches. Except for the possibility of what this guy could do to me... Beast mode long before it was a catch frase...💖
He's what I consider scary strong.
Being able to lift and slam huge resisting men over and over. A monster. 💪
Respect from Iran, a true legend!
Michael Jordan was incredible. But lots of guys had success against him. No one scored points against Karelian in his prime. No one.
Not to mention that wrestling requires more dedication than any sport with a ball
Nobody ever was that consistent...
Jordan,Messi,Ali,Tyson, Fedor, GSP, Brady
Everyone had a bad day and don’t show their Full Potential
This man nearly 900 fights and showed his class in everyone of them this consistency is the greatest we ever saw
@@Starcode_RealPixel how do you measure that?
@@germanischerkrieger6018 Michael Phelps? Edwin Moses? Babe Ruth? Usain Bolt?
@@nick9573 all of them also all time legends that’s true but
Usain bolt compete in 3 Olympias
Karelin in 4
Also I remember that Bolt have this bad days like losing the national championship Aggainst an other Jamaican but he definitely is up there by the greatest ever
This baseball guy idk never watch the sport and also he played in a very early era so don’t know how great he was really
Moses 2 Golds at Olympia and 2 at WC
Is much worser resume
Phelphs is really a beast he has like 30 gold medals in Olympia and the same at World Cup and also over many years he was the greatest swimmer
So I give you this one bolt tied and the others are worser
Pure Russian powerhouse....respect sir GOAT
Yep, Karelin was extremely powerful. His opponents trained very hard too, pro level wrestling is not for the weak. But no one will break his win/loss record I think.
What a beast! That's what it must have looked like to see Milo of Croton wrestle!
The real Goldberg. That gutwrench suplex tho. 😯
That is pure motivation right there
Imagine being a 260lb+ Olympic level athlete. And then getting flipped around like a pancake by this monster. Guy may as well be a real life Baki character.
(and yes I know he was 'Alexander Gallen' in Baki)
That guy is a fucking beast, he got viking blood. Another cool thing is that it was the swedish vikings who founded Russia, The first ruler of the Kievan Rus' was Rurik( old norse Helgi) which ruled the Kievan Rus' and its successor states, including the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Tsardom of Russia, until the 17th century.
2:48 nothing dude could do to stop that grip reset lmao SAVAGE
It's important
How many people can you dump on their head?
Karelin: “Da”.....
Just keep expecting him to stand up and throw his opponents arm or foot to the crowd as a souvenir
Hes so big but still moves like a feather.
A bear of a man and one of the greatest sportsmen of all time. But Karelin had another side. He appreciated classical music and literature. His enigmatic sense of humor delighted everyone who met him.
When he runs in the forrest, the bears run away!
Goldberg theme suits him well
Does anyone know the title of this song?
@@kelvinjohnson3824 Invasion
All hail The King!
There will never be another Alexandr Karelin.
2:58 That slam holy shit
This guy's the real life Zangief from Street fighter.
He’s Zangief and drago if they fused together
@@nickpapagiorgio9872 yeah and ad in some Conan the barbarian infact I believe Conans 1 loss was against Karelan
4:48 The harshest look in the world.
Najjači ikad!
Najjači je Marijan Matijević!
hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijan_Matijevi%C4%87
ALEKSANDAR KARELIN JE NAJJAČI IKADA
CAR
Throwing 290 pound men around like ragdolls. Imagine him at his prime in the UFC?
I think it’s safe to say... beast.
Imagine you're a big , strong, tough dude. The Alpha male in your area.
And you get picked up off the ground and thrown like a rag doll.
Incredible.
4:13 poor guy died twice in 17 seconds
Those are super-heavyweights that he’s ragdolling, like a lion with a toy. Never forget that.
I saw a clip of Randy Couture successfully executing a reverse lift. Very impressive for the heavyweight class, but to see Karelin reverse lift super heavyweights with ease and more power, it's extraordinary. Superordinary.
Легенда!!!!
Best Karelin tribute
Thank you!
Сан Саныч - гордость нации. Не только легендарный борец, но и интеллектуал, честный и порядочный человек.
Here's a legend among American wrestling fans too. Many rooted for Karelin over our own athletes.
Now I know where the saying ''Man Handled'' came from.
"I MUST BREAK YOU." SMASH!!!
Beast
The real life wrestling version on Ivan Drago
Would make a epic movie
🤔
That's nice of him to give his opponents a free airplane ride before slamming them into the mats
So strong super human 👍
Big man
Para mi Karelin es el mejor deportista de combate de todos los tiempos.
The Monster!!!🙀🙀🤫
I don't know what your emojis mean? But he is ! I love how he proved how important the weight room 💪 was for grappling success.
Greetings from Chile...brutal....
It's too bad they were in 2 different sports ... but a match between
Bruce Baumgartner and Alekandr Karelin would have been absolutely epic.
They were contemporaries too.
GALACTUS.
Very strong man good luck in your life
An absolute beast, stupid kinds of power.
I love the way said that lol!
This guy could have been a King in the old days. He walked with no defect like any normal sized person but he was tall and Big!
Cojone este hombre es el Guerrero Supremo que ha dado la Humanidad, Mis respetos para el.
Question from a non-wrestling person: what are the technical names of Karelin's two big moves -- 1) the move where he rolls the guy completely over like a crocodile with its prey, and 2) the over-the-hip suplex he does?
The first one is gutwrench and the second is reverse body lift also know as Karelin lift.
@@GrapplerKingdom Has anyone else done the lift on a regular basis?
Sorry, I don't follow wrestling close enough to answer this question, but I've seen this move performed by other international wrestlers.
@@sebastianlecourt1366 it is regular, but usually it's done but much, much lighter wrestlers
The real legend
Man who believed himself
Stone......
I believe each one of his opponents were 250lbs or more.
Força pura!💪👌
Rolling and flipping large men like a dung beetle 😮 👏 👏 👏 👏 🏆
Wish could have seen him do some mma, probably one of the best athletes ever. He had to of had some knock out power too
He is pretty dismissive of MMA, though. He said it's just set of rules (or lack of thereof) of fighting. He doesn't take it seriously and don't consider it 'true' sport. Pretty controversial FWIW
@@georgiyyamov5827 Well he was a greco-roman champion, that's about as strict as rules get in combat sports
He would kill them... once they get tired swinging he would grab them and kill them...
This guy was athletic enough to do anything I’d suspect
He would definitely take a belt in ufc.
He is not human, kingkong in human skin.
Joe rogan experience #281 brought me here. goddamn this dude is strong af!
O cara é foda conheci ele numa referência em baki como adreanov zargon grande homem
very good wersling
Im starting wrestling tomorrow, and I will try this on someone 😂
I am also quite strong
Just how those guys neck and head stay in one place after those throws???
Wrestlers Neck is strong 💪💪💪
Beast!!
Karam gaber plays with the same manner and he is aggressive wrestler i hope you make a video about him .
Wonder if he ever broke opponents neck? I know some of them are still dealing with the effects of wrestling him.
889 matches, can happend a lot in 889
@mikeC. Heard an interview of the American Greco coach talking about Rulons first match pre Olympic with Karelin. He got reversed lift slammed on his neck and they thought his back was broken
Respect ✊🏻
He liked poetry.
Зверь легенда
everytime he picks them up UURRRRRAAAHH
Guys anyone on here can explain to me would he have been a great mixed martial artist due to his great grappling skills, I’m wondering if he applied basic Jiu Jitsu and basic kick boxing how great he would’ve been
I would die to see a match Karelin VS Riner
Dude same
Worth his weight in gold.
1:33
Goldberg!?
0:34 👍👌💪
ATG!!!! he had no peer.
Lots of respect from india
What’s the music during beginning of the video?
Timsah avını yakalar av kaçmak ister rakipleri harbiden çırpınıyor
The Experiment ⚗️👩🔬👨🔬
The Russian Bear 🐻
Alexander the Great ⚔️⚔️
Name of the first song?
I can barely get my kids into the bath 🛀🛀 never mind how strong he must have been to do that 💪💪💪💪💪
Does that throw he does give him an instant win?
No, but most of the times these throws gave him 5 points, which is the most you can get in one instance.
Name of the first song? The link in the description doesn’t work
The Hyperborean Menace by Per Kiilstofte
ruclips.net/video/Wgo8I3JdlpU/видео.html
He look like a baki hanma character monster
The music you used sounds like it belongs in a 2D side scrolling game. Like you ripped this track off of castlevania or something.
Mixed grip bicep curls?
Ikr that seems so strange but it must've have worked cuz my god was he a monster
GENERAL WIPE i might try it cause I wanna be strong like this dude
Looks like a very strict 70kg, too.
Yeah I noticed that too. Maybe it's a functional lift to help recreate part of his reverse lift. Or it works like an alternating reverse curl without dumbbells.
I love when videos start and and continue being extremely boring for way longer than needed
he have a mutant genes.
Yes, or it could be Russian vodka that gives him this strength :D
Grappler Kingdom haha you have a awesome
comment skill
MFT69 he was 5.5 kg at birth, and 180cm/80kg 13 y/o without much prior training. So, his parents started to shot him up with steroids when his mom was still pregnant?
Georgiy Yamov true, steroids do not make chamoions, especially these legendary. He is a freak of nature
Who beat this guy?
Rulon Gardner, tough it was controversial win.
juggernaut
Khal drogo seems terrified
🧬
Гигант
Это дядя Саша.
O Experimento
Russian bear.