Accidentally becoming The World's Strongest Man

Mitchell Hooper has won eight major strongman events, broken multiple world records, and completed what many consider to be the greatest individual calendar year in the history of the sport.

But he only started participating in strongman events 2 years prior.

So how did a clinical exercise physiology student, with a broad interest in most sports become the strongest man in the world? This is his journey.

Written by Nathan Clark, illustrated by Marco Bevilacqua.

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[ryanbratley]

We're so fortunate that such a talented athlete is also such a nice guy

[RobertLukeWilkins]

It's a bit unfair to make it sound like he's unique in making deals, though (it's hardly a new thing for the top guys, who did it to avoid injury risk). Mostly, Mitch wins just by having no weaknesses and being so damn hard to beat as a result, never mind being the outright best strongman in the world at some events.

[TheKillaov]

It's bizarre how they emphasised him making deals with how dominant he's been in events

[MollymaukT]

The part about him making deals his kinda BS and not why he wins so much at all. He wins because he is damn good at everything and is always in the top 3 of events, and can when he just lifted the first stones in some competitions is was because he was gonna win 1st anyway, he has shown in a bunch of competitions that if needed he is a great stone-lifter

[Pletzmutz]

Great video. But it's not like is the first to focus on being well-rounded and tactical. Brian Shaw was the same for example and you could say similar things about Martins or Novikov and even Magnus ver Magnusson.

[WiisardNic]

I don't know why - but this headline reminds me of how Hamish Blake, an Australian radio host/TV personality, accidentally won the Heavyweight division of the New York State Bodybuilding Championships back in like 2014

[Pletzmutz]

He did do strength training for a bit longer than 2 years to be fair.

[danieldurling]

This is the year he will become the greatest of all time

[happiestman]

"He often makes deals witb competitors so he can rack up points at a conservative pace"

What does that mean?

[dinogoldie]

4:14 Making deals so that other people don't beat him? Isn't that match-fixing?

[RunningMan]

Interesting that he gave back an award for 'not completing a lift' given a couple of events he's taken part in at more recent strongman shows... thinking of the squat in the Shaw Classic and Mega dumbell press at WSM

[seanfullerton]

I seen the post name and didn’t see Mark Henry.

[oscarx-ray]

AAAH! AMERICAN! Jesus Christ, seriously, do something about that outro.

[DimBeam]

So playing the system to win. Agreeing to draw events seems kinda wrong and against the competitive nature of sport. Rule changes needed to stop this blatant cheating. Just amazed he not from USA.