The Arnold Classic WPO Benchpress Championships!

[Seanzilla]

THE HEAVY METAL MADNESS STARTS AT 2PM ON SATURDAY!

Prize Money For Each Men's Division
1st Place - $2,500
2nd Place - $1,500
3rd Place - $750

Lightweight Division (165 Pounds and Under)
Markus Schick
Joe "The Bench Bustin Detective" Mazza
August "Mr. 500" Clark, Jr.
Brad Heck
Taylor Tom

Middleweights (166-220 Pounds)
Scott Albano
Chip Stewart
Vitaliy Ponomarenko
Scott Rabine
Brad Hein
Rene Imesch
Esa Vinni
Jim Kilts
Michael Wolfley
Laszlo Meszaros
Vitaliy Bobchenko

Heavyweight Division (242 Pounds and Over)
Ryan "BenchMonster" Kennelly
Shawn Lattimer
Chris Cooke
Clay Brandenburg
Mikko Hamalianen
Joe "The Mississippi Monster" Ladnier
Bill "Metal Militia" Crawford
Michael Hummel

Women
Kara "Benchpress Barbie" Bohigian
Tarja Rantanen

[GMCtrk]

why are the big boys like mendelson and rylchak not there?

[Darracq]

Its single ply only right.

[Seanzilla]

The WPO allows double ply poly and denim shirts in closed, partial closed and open back.

Mendelson failed to register a lift at an Arnold Classic qualifier and he's bombed at the last two Arnold Classics. That being said, as soon as he's fully recovered from his car accident I'm sure that he will be back and he was looking massive when I saw him last week in Los Angeles.

Gene Rychlak is not competing by his own choice.

[Darracq]

I was thinking Bench america. stupid me.

[ElPietro]

Will Lattimer be benching raw?

[emjlr3]

i wish they would all bench raw, that is just me though, i know the ply is all a part of it and what not, but i dont care, i get so much more impressed when i see a guy bench raw, like over the summe ra guy at my gym was donig like 435 pause reps for reps, i always though that was alot, but i had heard ppl weer doing 600 and so for reps, but that guy i saw was raw, and now i realize how impressive that really was

[ElPietro]

I believe Lattimer benches 700+ raw.

[sublime99]

Dude these guys stats are so ****ing sick, 700+ raw OMG