BJJ News — powerlifting

You already know how this ends. You knew the second you read the headline, because if you've trained jiu-jitsu for more than six months, you've lived a version of this.

When a 260-pound man with a 900-pound squat walks into an MMA gym and announces he'll be fine because he's strong, you already know how this goes. The rest of us learned this in week two of white belt, from a quiet purple belt who weighed 170 pounds and never seemed to rush.

Larry Wheels can bench press 600 pounds. He's 260 pounds and has spent his career doing things with a barbell that most people don't believe are possible.

I got bitched out." That's Larry Wheels, walking out of Xtreme Couture MMA in Las Vegas after getting submitted by professional fighters who weigh 100 to 125 pounds less than him. He said it into his own camera.