Larry Wheels is the most willing and most consistently humbled strength sports crossover personality in combat sports — a 300-pound IFBB Pro powerlifter who keeps testing himself against elite combat athletes and keeps finding out exactly where the line is.
The Trinidad-born strength icon who has bench pressed 675 pounds, totalled over 2,000 pounds in powerlifting competition, and earned his IFBB Pro Classic Physique card at the 2025 Musclecontest Ireland has spent years documenting what happens when raw strength meets combat sports technique — and the answer is almost always the same. Power Slap super heavyweight champion Layne Viernes knocked him clean off his feet with a single strike in a challenge Wheels posted himself, admitting beforehand it was 100% certain he was getting knocked out. He got schooled by arm wrestling world champion Michael Todd. He was present at Rampage Jackson's February 2026 house party when DeenTheGreat was put down by retired MMA fighter Tiki Ghosn — a night that reminded everyone in the building that combat sports experience and raw physical strength are two completely different things. Larry Wheels is one of the strongest human beings alive. The sport of mixed martial arts does not care.
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