Powerful Muscular Man - Om Yun-Chol, North Korean weightlifter

Om Yun-Chol (born 18 November 1991 in North Hamgyong) is a weightlifter representing North Korea. He is 152 cm / 5'0" and weighs 56 kg /123 lbs. He won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the men's 56 kg event. He became only the fifth man to ever lift three times his own body weight.

Powerful Muscular Man - Halil Mutlu, Turkish weightlifter

Halil Mutlu (born on July 14, 1973 in Postnik, Bulgaria) is a professional Turkish weightlifter with several World and Olympic championships. Mutlu is one of the four weightlifters achieving three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games. His weightlifting career includes five World championships, nine European championships and more than 20 world records at 52 kg (115 lb), 54 kg (119 lb) and 56 kg (123 lb) combined.

In 1994, he won both the European and world championships, titles that would soon become commonplace for him. He made his first Olympic appearance in 1992 in the 52 kg category and finished fifth. In 1996, in the 54 kg category, the reigning world champion and world record holder, Mutlu broke the world record in the snatch and went on to win the gold medal by 7.5 kg. At the 1999 World Championships he beat silver medal winner Adrian Jigău by around 20 kg and set a new world record. He remained undefeated until the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where he was even more dominant than he had been in Atlanta. This time he set world records in both the snatch and the clean and jerk and won by 17.5 kg in the 56 kg category.

Powerful Muscular Man - Daniel Geale, Australian boxer

Daniel Geale (born 26 February 1981 in Launceston, Tasmania) is a middleweight boxer and current IBF middleweight champion from Australia, who won the gold medal in the men's welterweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Geale turned pro in 2004, knocking out Danny Bellert in the third round. He then went on to build a record of 17 bouts for 17 wins with 12 KO's. On 14 December, Geale fought for the IBO Middleweight Championship of the world against another undefeated Australian, Daniel Dawson, who was 29-0-0 with 20 KO's coming into the fight. Geale outclassed Dawson over 12 rounds to win the IBO Middlewight title with the judges scoring the bout 120-110, 120-110 and 119-109.

In June 2008, Geale defended his IBO Middleweight Championship with another 12 round unanimous decision over Geard Ajetovic. In December 2008, Geale faced Daniel McKinnon in a non title bout. Geale was down in the 8th, McKinnon was down in the 4th, 6th & twice in the 8th, Geale won a unanimous decision with judges scoring the bout 100-87, 100-87, 100-88.

 

Powerful Muscular Man - Julio César Chávez, Mexican professional boxer

Julio César Chávez Carrasco (born February 16, 1986 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico) is an undefeated Mexican professional boxer and the current WBC Middleweight Champion. He's the son of retired boxing champion Julio César Chávez and older brother of welterweight Omar Chávez.

Julio was born in the city of Culiacán. He was born when his father held the WBC World Championship at super featherweight. His face became known to boxing fans when his father would take him and his brother Omar into the ring as children, before each of Chávez Sr.'s fights. As a teenager, Chávez Jr. endured some difficult moments, including a publicized relationship between his father and actress Salma Hayek and the consequential divorce of his parents. Chávez Jr. lived in relative obscurity until he announced that he would follow in the footsteps of his father and become a boxer.

 

Powerful Muscular Man - Gennadiy Golovkin, Kazakhstan boxer

Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin (born April 8, 1982) is an undefeated boxer from Kazakhstan who competes in the Middleweight (75 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He is the current WBA (Regular) and IBO middleweight champion. He is of Russian ethnicity.

Powerful Muscular Man - Felix Sturm, German boxer

Felix Sturm (born 31 January 1979 as Adnan Ćatić) is a German boxer and current WBA middleweight Super champion of Bosnian descent.

On 27 January 2001, Sturm made his debut as a professional boxer facing Antonio Ribeiro from Angola. Six months earlier he had qualified for the Olympic Games in Sydney, but lost his fight to future middleweight champ Jermain Taylor.

After 16 successful matches, Sturm won the WBO Inter-Continental middleweight title on 10 May 2003. On 13 September 2003, he replaced the injured Bert Schenk in a WBO title bout against Argentinian Hectór Javier Velazco and won the match. Sturm defended the title against Rubén Varón Fernández from Spain.

On 5 June 2004 in Las Vegas, Sturm faced Oscar De la Hoya in a defense of his WBO middleweight championship. All three judges scored the fight 115-113 for de la Hoya, while Harold Lederman scored the fight 115-113 for Sturm. Compubox counted Sturm as landing 234 of 541 punches, while counting De La Hoya as landing 188 of 792. Sturm protested the decision with the Nevada Athletic Commission to no avail.

Powerful Muscular Man - Brian Magee, Ireland boxer

Brian Magee (born June 9, 1975 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland) is reigning European super middleweight boxing champion, who as an amateur competed for Ireland in the middleweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics. As a professional he has captured the European, IBO and British super middleweight titles.

Magee won a bronze medal for Northern Ireland at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and silver medal for Ireland at the 1998 European Championships in Minsk, Belarus.

Following the Commonwealth Games Magee then turned professional in March 1999 and fought Dean Ashton at the Bowler's Arena, Manchester in England on the undercard of a bill that included Damaen Kelly, Michael Brodie and Clinton Woods. Magee won his opener knocking out the Stoke man inside two rounds.

 

Powerful Muscular Man - Károly Balzsay, Hungarian boxer

Károly Balzsay (born July 23, 1979 in Kecskemét) is a Hungarian boxer and the current WBA (Regular) super middleweight champion. He is also a former WBO super middleweight champion. He is nicknamed Karesz.

He made his professional debut on September 11, 2004 in the Kisstadion of Budapest against Milojko Pivljanin of Serbia and Montenegro.

In January, 2009 he won the WBO super middleweight title from Denis Inkin and became the third Hungarian World Champion of Universum Box-Promotion after István Kovács and Zsolt Erdei.

In August 2009 he lost the title on his second defense against Robert Stieglitz by an 11th round TKO.

 

Powerful Muscular Man - Andre Ward, American professional boxer

Andre Ward (born February 23, 1984) is an American professional boxer and the current WBA (Super), WBC and The Ring Super Middleweight Champion.

Currently, Ward is rated among the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world. He is rated #6, #6 and #5 by Yahoo! Sports, Sports Illustrated and The Ring respectively. Ward was a Gold Medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Ward was named Ring Magazine fighter of the year in 2011.

Andre was born to Frank Ward, an American of Irish descent, and Madeline Arvie Taylor, an African American. His father inspired him by regaling him with stories of hard fought battles and triumphant victories. Given the choice to fight or pursue other sports, the young Andre chose boxing and has poured his mind, body and soul into the sport & became a world champion.

Ward grew up in the East Bay in the Fairview neighborhood of Hayward, in California, where he attended Fairview Elementary, Bret Harte Junior High School and Hayward High School. At Hayward High he starred as a running back and safety on the football team. When he turned 17 he became a close friend to boxer Andre Dirrell.