Mike weighed 250 his senior year of high school as a football player, and his powerlifing numbers have very slowly gained steam over the course of 10-15 years. The guy is clean...You can tell by his bench, his lower body looks like a damn horse, clearly genetics, and his upper body is average...Not to mention, sure androgens don't really blow you up in size, but they sure as hell give a very distinct look, vascular, grainy, strange skin texture, weird different little types of acne, etc...
The list of guys I believe are legit drug free is very short, most are IPF and genetic aliens...
Yeah I agree with you about Mike. He doesn't "look" like he is on. He hasn't got any bloat going on, redness, out of breath etc. He is still young too and what is most impressive about him IMO is his consistency.
Eric Lilliebridge is a phenomenal lifter too but as has been mentioned he, along with much of the current crop of top lifters, are juiced to the gills. And without trying to sound too preachy here, Tuchscherer lifts in the IPF, which is the gold standard for powerlifting in my opinion. All meets are drug tested, no knee wraps, monolifts etc and the strictest judging parameters are used. Check out the two videos below to see what I mean:
Lilliebridge squatting at a UPA meet with a monolift, knee wraps and borderline/questionable depth. Lift was passed:
Tuchscherer squatting raw at an IPF meet a few years ago. This squat was failed (3 red lights!) for not reaching depth:
