OK, I agree that hardly anyone will be readily remembered (unless someone's doing research or reading up on iron history) in the powerlifting/bodybuilding world. Schwarzenegger.......... Weider...........Hoffman .................Sandow. .............and you get the idea. I guess that the point I was trying to dramatically make is that jumping forth into the void that is eternity with a battle howl rather than the wheeze of a never was is glorious in a sense and that's basically what Kennelly's doing. It's tough for someone to grasp just how 24/7 Kennelly's power benching lifestyle is. The only example that comes to mind right now (I'm tired) is the immigrant who literally works two 40 hour jobs per week to send $ home to whomever and/or to save up for their move home. That person clocks in 10-12 hour shifts every single day their alive. Take those hours, add in the 8 hours of sleep you need to recover and you're looking at (minus travel time) about 3 hours a day to eat, clean up and then do whatever if there's time left. It's that life consuming at his level (I think that only Mendelson's there right now in the shirt benching game and I'm not even sure about that because I haven't been around Mendy in his day to day life.) Or a legit top contender in the UFC who has three 1-2 hour training sessions every day plus tries to at least work a part time job or teach marital arts classes during off hours. To be at the very top of an individual sport is crazee intense (now I'm thinking about that Ronnie Coleman DVD I watched and his round the clock eating and training and that's a good comparison too I guess only there isn't anywhere near the money in it for Kennelly as there is for Coleman so subtract the fancy cars, tailored clothes and brand new house.)
And Mendelson beat James Henderson. F drug tests. I've personally seen Kennelly drug tested by a very legitimate lab and he passed and that was in the last 2 years. If you can't beat a drug test then you came to the contest loaded to the gills. James Henderson is #2 on the all time biggest benchers list and Scot Mendelson is now #1. If Kennelly wants his place in history to last as long as their's then he needs to bench 700+ too without a bench shirt or else he's in the ranks (whether he should be or not) with all the shirt benchers who bench 800+ and that's quite a few with the ridiculous trampoline shirts they're allowing.
