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Ryan Kennelly Hits Biggest BP Ever

Ryan Kennelly, 308, bench pressed 1,075 pounds on Saturday at the Pride Strength Wars in Kennewick, Washington. That moves his own all-time 308 class record up from 985 pounds and is the biggest bench press ever, regardless of weight class. Kennelly held the prior record, benching 1,074 pounds while weighing 332 pounds. Kennelly opened with a successful attempt of 1,010 pounds, then hit 1,055 pounds on his second, before the record-setting bench press.

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THIS IS NUTS!!! WHERE WILL HE STOP???? HE JUST BLEW AWAY ALL OF THE COMPETITION. No one is even close at this point, I can't wait to see the video. I hope it's as clean as his 1074 at SHW.

Fear the Turtle.

So...Ryan drops nearly 50lbs. bodyweight and goes on to break his absolute world record?! Damn, that's impressive! Nice work, Ryan!

FU**ING INCREDIBLE! HE IS THE MAN

His final lift was the best of all 4 attempts...Ryan is a machine. Great guy, and a great lifter.

James

unbelievable, cant wait for the video

Nobody believed me when I said he was out of everyone's league. People were saying "It'll be a good race between Ryan, Scot, and Tiny", and the first thing I said was "No it won't, Ryan will win and nobody will even come close to him", and now everyone knows I was right. Inzer you created an animal, and now he's turned against you and your "world class" gear. But this brings up the real question. If Ryan hit 1075 at 308, is it possible for others to maybe vrawl up the ladder and catch up with him?

The Stealth shirt must kick ass!

Its unreal to think this was done using a shirt made out of the curtains from his bedroom,lol.

THIS GUY IS AMAZING

hard to argue that Ryan is not the shit. WOW! that's the bomb...

Putt Houston.... now with more Bom Chicka Wahwahhhhhh

you guys actually believe that shit about the stealth shirt? truly sad...

ryan proves it once again, he is the man, no one is in his league right now. i can't wait to see the video, and then on to 1100. its amazing to think that just 6 years ago the all time record was 800. how times have changed.

zane geeting wrote:
you guys actually believe that shit about the stealth shirt? truly sad...

And you need to get a technician to come in and fix your sarcasm radar.

Joking aside, that is an unbelievable lift! Great job Ryan and congratulations!

lol

zane geeting wrote:
you guys actually believe that shit about the stealth shirt? truly sad...

ryan proves it once again, he is the man, no one is in his league right now. i can't wait to see the video, and then on to 1100. its amazing to think that just 6 years ago the all time record was 800. how times have changed.


Shirts have changed. The end.

wow Ryan is not from this planet

He's from Jupiter, have'nt you noticed the black finger nails at time's, he's actually got clear polish on now to cover the black. Congratulations on the biggest lift of all, you said you where going to go over the 1074 mark and you did.the Judge's said not only did you do it but you smoked it. The video's should start appearing very soon, there where plenty of camcorders rolling I'm told. I hope his closest competitors piss him off some more,it will just give him that much more drive.I hear he was just spotted walking on water..

Congrats Ryan..keep pushing the bar higher! I'm not sure why I train anymore lol

BEST BENCHER EVER!PERIOD!

I knew it would just take him a few design alterations to get his Kennelly Stealth Shirt dialed in.

Ryan's been working closely with MHP so he's been able to diet down and retain his strength thanks to their products, a smart diet and adding in an intelligent level of cardio for a 308 power bencher. You can read about that program by going to

http://www.houseofpain3.com/wlsnews/

and then scrolling down to Kennelly's latest interview.

They're gonna have to either wait for the next generation of shirts to come out or until someone dusts off the fake bodybuilding photo shoot plates before his used-to-be competition can catch up to that shirt bench record.

Anonymous wrote:
Nobody believed me when I said he was out of everyone's league. People were saying "It'll be a good race between Ryan, Scot, and Tiny", and the first thing I said was "No it won't, Ryan will win and nobody will even come close to him", and now everyone knows I was right. Inzer you created an animal, and now he's turned against you and your "world class" gear. But this brings up the real question. If Ryan hit 1075 at 308, is it possible for others to maybe vrawl up the ladder and catch up with him?

is pride even a fed? he lost 50 pounds and did the same weight.

he still wears an inzer shirt. without inzer he couldnt have done these lifts.

Sean Katterle wrote:
I knew it would just take him a few design alterations to get his Kennelly Stealth Shirt dialed in.

Ryan's been working closely with MHP so he's been able to diet down and retain his strength thanks to their products, a smart diet and adding in an intelligent level of cardio for a 308 power bencher. You can read about that program by going to

http://www.houseofpain3.com/wlsnews/

and then scrolling down to Kennelly's latest interview.

They're gonna have to either wait for the next generation of shirts to come out or until someone dusts off the fake bodybuilding photo shoot plates before his used-to-be competition can catch up to that shirt bench record.

your serious, sean?

Yes I'm serious.

Kennelly wore his new stealth shirt.

Kennelly had a great training cycle and he worked with MHP for his supplements, he dieted down sensibly and he added cardio to his program (read the interview on House of Pain's BLOG.)

His records won't get broken until an even newer shirt comes out that adds even more pounds to what a person can bench on their own or until someone uses fake plates.

I.E. Mendelson's still running the FitExpo benching. He'll do anything he can to get the record by any means neccessary (he even tried to claim that his bench on the Discovery Channel was a new record.) That expo's held in L.A. where they use fake plates in photo shoots every day. That doesn't mean that that will happen but people should be suspicious.

There may be some 300 pound high school lifter out there who's training and who'll break the shirt bench record with whatever they're wearing in 2012 for bench shirts but as far as Mendy, Rychlak and Paul Meeker............it's out of their legit range IMO.

Katterle, you are such a liar. Stealth shirt, we are all sure it's an Inzer Super Duper Phenom just like the last time. Maybe Ryan has blackened the letters better this time. I'm sure Ryan's bench is legit. However, you bringing up Mendy at his own meet. That's not much different than Pride in Ryan's backyard. Don't throw stones.

Anonymous wrote:
You bringing up Mendy at his own meet. That's not much different than Pride in Ryan's backyard.

Anyone who knows Ryan Kennelly and Wesley Kampen know that they've had some serious personal drama between them in the recent past. I'm not going to post the details on the internet because personal business is personal.

But you can be sure that Kampen (the head judge) was ultra strict with Kennelly and his benches. Ryan's one of the last people he'd give a gift to.

Now if this was a meet put on by his friends and/or training partners then that would be different...........but it wasn't.

I'm sure a video or two will surface soon and people will see that it's a good shirt bench.

Stealth Shirt Wins Again!

Nuff said.

Congrats to Ryan 1075 @ 308 in any shirt is amazing.

Through passion,I gain strength.

1075 is still 1075 regardless of what shirt/ wrist wraps/ jock strap the lifter is wearing.... I can't wait to see video, this is pretty freaking cool....

Nobody, not one single person believes this stealth shirt nonesense.

And you trying to drop MHP's name every two seconds is pretty weak as well.

Congrats to Ryan, but you comming in like his publiscist and trying to convince us of this stealth shirt crap is only putting a smudge on his accomplishments

Post with your real name you lying, flying monkey. LOL

ryan you rock again and again!! Good job bro wish i was there for it. however im glad i got see you in kennewick with your new shirt.. pretty tight man, congrats to you and your dominance once again..

for skeptics why wouldnt BenchMonster be able to come up with his own shirt? he has only been destroying the bench shirt scene for gee i don't know maybe 10 years now... and it is no secret if you live in the tri-cities area that he has been working on his new shirt.. hopefully BenchMonster is smart and reaps in some dough for his new high tech shirt..

somebody post a pic of the stealth shirt.i am sure someone at the meet took a few pics of him in the shirt. lets take a look at it.

right? give me one shred of evidence that this shirt exists, then i'll believe it

last time you could clearly see it was a SDP with a half-assed job of blacking the letters out

Pride isn't recognized by anyone as a legit fed is it?

there is a stealth shirt, it is in the early stages of testing, its still needs the bugs work out of it, look for it on you-tube in the near future.

Aleksandar wrote:
BEST BENCHER EVER!PERIOD!

That's not a period. It's an exclamation point. Why would you type an exclamation point and then write "period"?

zane geeting wrote:
right? give me one shred of evidence that this shirt exists, then i'll believe it

last time you could clearly see it was a SDP with a half-assed job of blacking the letters out

No, last time you could clearly see that there weren't any logos on the shirt.

Stealth Shirt Rules The Day.

Now it's time for you to stop obsessing over the brand of shirt. Shouldn't the lifter be more important than the brand of sports clothing he wore? Where's your priorities? Accept the existence of the Kennelly Stealth Shirt and get on with your life and your own lifting (powerlifting is supposed to be fun.)

Here's a quote from Kennelly on the nutrition plan he used to diet down successfully.

"Ryan Kennelly - The first change I made was adding cardio back into my routine. Every day I spend 30-60 minutes on the treadmill, at a fast walking pace of 3.5 miles per hour and with the track at a 6% uphill grade. As for my food, I cut out fast food, candy, ice cream, frozen ready-to-eat meals and pretty much all snack foods. I increased my consumption of skinless chicken breasts, buffalo, fish and egg whites so my daily protein content went up but my main sources of protein were low fat and low carb. For
supplements, I maintained what I was taking before but I added MHP's DREN (1 capsule per day) and BOSS's low carb The Shake RTD Cans were my drink of choice every time I was away from my kitchen blender where I mix up my usual MHP's Probolic based shakes. A lot of my daily carbs have been coming from oatmeal, brown rice, yams and whole wheat bagels. I try and take in a quality source of protein every two hours throughout the whole day (which is basically eating/drinking 7 protein rich meals per day.)" - Quoted from House of Pain's BLOG

seanzilla, you are such a joke.

kennelly is the fucking man without a doubt but don't sit here and patronize people with bullshit claims of a fairytale shirt. you could clearly see the blacked out logos on the shirt when he broke the 308 record last time

Any word yet on the video...I want to see this thing already!!...anybody?????

What's Ryan's email? I want to ask him a couple of questions about MHP products and I want his honest opinion. Thanks in advance, and congrats BenchMonster.

~Dave Webb

zane geeting wrote:
seanzilla, you are such a joke.
kennelly is the fucking man without a doubt but don't sit here and patronize people with bullshit claims of a fairytale shirt. you could clearly see the blacked out logos on the shirt when he broke the 308 record last time

I'm the joke?

Nobody and I mean NOBODY but a gear mfg. or distributor gives a crap about what brand of shirt an athlete wore when an athlete breaks a record.

You can attend any NFL Super Bowl party and people aren't like "Yeah! The guy with the ADIDAS shoes on scored the TD !"

Go on to a baseball forum and see if someone's fighting over the brand of baseball the guy hit when he broke a homerun record.

See if the hockey fans are obsessing over the brand of skates a guy wore.

See if they're super focused on the type of shoe laces a runner used to lace his shoes.

Sheesh, so Ryan made his own shirt. Big deal. Get over it Flying Monkey. You've done your job as an forum attack goof and you'll get your freebie in the mail so relax and just get over it.

Lighten the heck up and just focus on the lifter and on the lifting.

Hey Sean, didn't you and Ryan have issues at one point? The answer is yes so don't try and deny it. So the fact that Ryan once had a problem with Wes is not exactly the best way to make your point. We are all sure Ryan's bench was great.

No, I didn't have serious issues with Kennelly.

And most friends disagree from time to time but any disagreements I ever had with Ryan is NOTHING compared to what went on between Kennelly and Kampen. If you don't know what I'm talking about then don't worry about it as it's none of your business. Go read a gossip magazine to get your gossip fix, LOL.

From what he told me, we couldn't publically admit to being friends for awhile because Inzer said he'd pull his sponsorship if he even spoke to me. (This verbal threat was allegedly made when I started promoting pro meets that didn't allow bench shirts or powerlifting suits to be used.)

I kept in regular phone conversation with Ryan the whole time and I told him to go ahead and act like we didn't talk anymore because I'm not petty and it was what was best for his shirt benching career at the time.

why doesn't get the raw record and remove all doubt?

Sean Katterle wrote:

Nobody and I mean NOBODY but a gear mfg. or distributor gives a crap about what brand of shirt an athlete wore when an athlete breaks a record.

You can attend any NFL Super Bowl party and people aren't like "Yeah! The guy with the ADIDAS shoes on scored the TD !"

Go on to a baseball forum and see if someone's fighting over the brand of baseball the guy hit when he broke a homerun record.

Star NFL players have quite lucrative shoe contracts, so some consumers must care about what shoe their favorite player wears. The same is even more true with basketball, where some players make more from their shoe contracts than they do playing the game. As far as baseball, every single baseball is from the same manufacturer. However, the bat manufacturer will vary, the batting gloves will vary, both of which have marketing deals with the players. So your comparison is way off, as it's true that fans of some sports, including powerlifting, do care what equipment their favorite player/lifter wears.

Who's got a "lucrative" powerlifting gear sponsorship deal in powerlifting? LOL

Give it up. I agree that people pay attention to what people wear on the platform.

But only the flying monkeys care MORE about the brand of gear than about the lifters and the lifting.

Like I said, no one watches the Super Bowl and cries out "Yeah! The Adidas shoe wearing guy scored!" except for Adidas and their distributors and retailers.

I'm advising the flying monkeys to calm down and work on controlling their obsession with the biggest number lifts being done via their flying monkey apparel.

Kennelly used his Kennelly Stealth Shirt to break his own shirt bench record.

Be happy for Kennelly. He's worked hard to get that lift in.

Relax on your freaking out over his not using Brand A on the platform anymore. Relaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax.

I just posted the 1075 lift on YOU TUBE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMKiBdhnYlA

holy crap, yall are like girls, good lift kennelly

Anonymous wrote:
Its unreal to think this was done using a shirt made out of the curtains from his bedroom,lol.

THIS GUY IS AMAZING

Why is it "unreal"? The shirt Ryan says he is making is made from polyster. There is no doubt in my mind that Inzer's first shirts also were used for other purposes, like curtains. He ordered material from a textile manufacture, just like Kennelly says he did, tested it, and tweaked material to add support and rebound as necessary. It is not outlandish to think another motivated person could go through the same process and build an great bench shirt.

Brian Mc

Anonymous wrote:
holy crap, yall are like girls, good lift kennelly

^seconded

monstrous lift Ryan

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Its unreal to think this was done using a shirt made out of the curtains from his bedroom,lol.

THIS GUY IS AMAZING

Why is it "unreal"? The shirt Ryan says he is making is made from polyster. There is no doubt in my mind that Inzer's first shirts also were used for other purposes, like curtains. He ordered material from a textile manufacture, just like Kennelly says he did, tested it, and tweaked material to add support and rebound as necessary. It is not outlandish to think another motivated person could go through the same process and build an great bench shirt.

Brian Mc

congrats to ryan and all, but if you know the shirt well enough, take a look at the arms on the shirt for the yellow triangles that are semi blacked out. did you figure it out yet?

First I want to congratulate Ryan on the new WR. I can't wait for 1100.

Sean Katterle wrote:
Who's got a "lucrative" powerlifting gear sponsorship deal in powerlifting? LOL

Give it up. I agree that people pay attention to what people wear on the platform.

But only the flying monkeys care MORE about the brand of gear than about the lifters and the lifting.

Like I said, no one watches the Super Bowl and cries out "Yeah! The Adidas shoe wearing guy scored!" except for Adidas and their distributors and retailers.

I'm advising the flying monkeys to calm down and work on controlling their obsession with the biggest number lifts being done via their flying monkey apparel.

Kennelly used his Kennelly Stealth Shirt to break his own shirt bench record.

Be happy for Kennelly. He's worked hard to get that lift in.

Relax on your freaking out over his not using Brand A on the platform anymore. Relaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax.

No one cares that Inzer doesn't sponsor him any more. People are giving YOU hell because the stealth shirt doesn't exist. Everyone knows it is a SDP. All the negativity comes from us getting pissed about you being a jock sniffing loser who brags about a shirt with blacked out Inzer logos and tries to sell MHP products any way you can.

Jon Rock wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Its unreal to think this was done using a shirt made out of the curtains from his bedroom,lol.

THIS GUY IS AMAZING

Why is it "unreal"? The shirt Ryan says he is making is made from polyster. There is no doubt in my mind that Inzer's first shirts also were used for other purposes, like curtains. He ordered material from a textile manufacture, just like Kennelly says he did, tested it, and tweaked material to add support and rebound as necessary. It is not outlandish to think another motivated person could go through the same process and build an great bench shirt.

Brian Mc

congrats to ryan and all, but if you know the shirt well enough, take a look at the arms on the shirt for the yellow triangles that are semi blacked out. did you figure it out yet?


lol good eye man.

Here's the video

http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/9591

No triangles and no logos.

Sean Katterle wrote:
Here's the video

http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/9591

No triangles and no logos.


you can see the semi blacked out triangles on the sleeves right in that same videos.

Sean Katterle wrote:

His records won't get broken until an even newer shirt comes out that adds even more pounds to what a person can bench on their own or until someone uses fake plates.

Like those 100lbs plates that Kennelly has been using for all his +1000lbs record lifts?

Wow; very strong and solid. Nice lift.

Like those 100lbs plates that Kennelly has been using for all his +1000lbs record lifts?[/quote]

why would you insult the man by saying he used fake plates? come on man, don't be like that and disrespect benchmonster and his hard work.. don't be a hater!

Kennelly is a MONSTER!!!

Anonymous wrote:
Sean Katterle wrote:

His records won't get broken until an even newer shirt comes out that adds even more pounds to what a person can bench on their own or until someone uses fake plates.

Like those 100lbs plates that Kennelly has been using for all his +1000lbs record lifts?

Kennelly's benched 1,000+ in Washington AND in Iowa and I believe in the Ukraine and ?.

Any more washed up theories you'd like to share?

as much as you all hate on Seanzilla,, he does whip your asses on occasion. HAHAHAHA

Im kinda starting to like him.

the flying monkey wrote:
Sean Katterle wrote:
Here's the video

http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/9591

No triangles and no logos.


you can see the semi blacked out triangles on the sleeves right in that same videos.

As far as I know the phenom has a triangle in the front middle and plain "Inzer Advanced Designs" on the sleeves, just like on Paul Ratsch's shirt. I've only seen them at meets. Whatever shirt he happened to be wearing a person could still go through the same steps that John Inzer went through to build a shirt. Seems like Titan, RDC, Metal, and Karen Klein might have already done the same thing. Maybe they built rockets for a living too before quiting that to make bench shirts.

Brian Mc

Sean Katterle wrote:
zane geeting wrote:
seanzilla, you are such a joke.
kennelly is the fucking man without a doubt but don't sit here and patronize people with bullshit claims of a fairytale shirt. you could clearly see the blacked out logos on the shirt when he broke the 308 record last time

I'm the joke?

Nobody and I mean NOBODY but a gear mfg. or distributor gives a crap about what brand of shirt an athlete wore when an athlete breaks a record.

You can attend any NFL Super Bowl party and people aren't like "Yeah! The guy with the ADIDAS shoes on scored the TD !"

Go on to a baseball forum and see if someone's fighting over the brand of baseball the guy hit when he broke a homerun record.

See if the hockey fans are obsessing over the brand of skates a guy wore.

See if they're super focused on the type of shoe laces a runner used to lace his shoes.

Sheesh, so Ryan made his own shirt. Big deal. Get over it Flying Monkey. You've done your job as an forum attack goof and you'll get your freebie in the mail so relax and just get over it.

Lighten the heck up and just focus on the lifter and on the lifting.

it has nothing to do with what shirt he was wearing. its about you being an assclown and making shit up. i bench in the same shirt ryan wears, and its not called "the stealth" its a fucking super phenom. get over it

Anonymous wrote:
as much as you all hate on Seanzilla,, he does whip your asses on occasion. HAHAHAHA

Im kinda starting to like him.

how did he whip our asses. he got owned. everyone can see that the douche was lying. the shirt is clearly a super phenom. watch the video.

Anonymous wrote:
the flying monkey wrote:
Sean Katterle wrote:
Here's the video

http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/9591

No triangles and no logos.


you can see the semi blacked out triangles on the sleeves right in that same videos.

As far as I know the phenom has a triangle in the front middle and plain "Inzer Advanced Designs" on the sleeves, just like on Paul Ratsch's shirt. I've only seen them at meets. Whatever shirt he happened to be wearing a person could still go through the same steps that John Inzer went through to build a shirt. Seems like Titan, RDC, Metal, and Karen Klein might have already done the same thing. Maybe they built rockets for a living too before quiting that to make bench shirts.

Brian Mc

well then you don't know. the super phenom is not a regular phenom. it says phenom and has the triangles on the sleeves as well as the inzer advance designs logos. you can see the half-assed job at blacking the logos out in the video.

again, i think kennelly is the best bencher alive. i think this bench was a clean ass, bad motherfucker. and i also believe he's gonna break the all time raw record soon also. but that doesn't change the fact that he needs to dis-associate himself from seanzilla the pretender. there is no reason to lie about what shirt it is. all you do is make everyone involved look silly.

If you don't believe Kennelly then you don't believe him Zane.

But you don't have to get all upset over the subject.

It's your right to choose to believe that the Kennelly Super Phenom doesn't exist.

But you're coming across as having more than a touch of the OCD and you need to calm down.

It's not like you make bench shirts for a living or anything, right? ;)

Sean Katterle wrote:

It's your right to choose to believe that [b]the Kennelly Super Phenom [/b]doesn't exist.

lmao no i think you've finally made post we can all agree on. ryan's super phenom most definitely exists. helps to proof read if you don't want to let he cat out of the bag sean, but it's okay this whole story was as transparent as the half assed black out job on those little yellow triangles. your confirming the obvious doesn't really change anything.

I'm not sure that you follow me.

Let me put it in plainer English.

It's your choice to believe that any person can't simply take a retail item to a professional tailor.

It's your choice to believe that there aren't pattern makers in any large town or city that can pattern a bench shirt (it's a simple garmet compared to most formal wear.)

It's your choice to believe that a textiles merchant can't match the super phenom's fabric quickly and easily.

It's your choice to believe that someone couldn't take said highly marked up and over priced shirt and get five more of them made for the total price that they paid for the first one.

It's your choice to believe that people are paying $300 some dollars for something they can easily have made for a fraction of that price.

Or, as my comment was written above, it's your choice to believe that the Kennelly Super Phenom doesn't exist. The Super Phenom that came from Kennelly and that's never seen the state of Texas.

It's your choice to believe that Kennelly could turn your design over to your competitor.

It's kind of like Round Sleeve Karma isn't it?

Good night. Get some sleep.

(clearly overstating the obvious...)

"This lift moves Kennelly further up in the number one position in our rankings..."

:')

God Bless.
dopar66

zane geeting wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
as much as you all hate on Seanzilla,, he does whip your asses on occasion. HAHAHAHA

Im kinda starting to like him.

how did he whip our asses. he got owned. everyone can see that the douche was lying. the shirt is clearly a super phenom. watch the video.

he did not get owned..

However, the true PWNAGE continues everytine you little tarts continue to jibba jkabba about this shirt crap.

Sean gets you all riled up like a bunch of 1st graders off their ritalin..

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

anonymous... nuff said

Sean Katterle wrote:
Or, as my comment was written above, it's your choice to believe that the Kennelly Super Phenom doesn't exist. The Super Phenom that came from Kennelly and that's never seen the state of Texas.

Hmmmm, let's see here. First it's called the Kennelly "Steath" Shirt, now it's called the Kennelly Super Phenom? Interesting that it now has the same name as the Inzer shirt that he supposed is not wearing. Pure bullshit as usual from you "Zilla"