Here is the Rumor I heard...More or less...
In New York a couple years back, he ran his mouth and couldn't back it up...Some dude was in the gym and did 12 reps with 405 on the flat bench like it was nothing...Rumor has it that King kept telling "his buddies" that it was OK but nothing close to "his league"...King would throw as many 45's on the smith and have countless spotters help him move the weight a couple inches...When the guy found out about King's comments. The guy was waiting for Kings chest day to come up and sure as shit King started warming up chest(the guy even had a buddy ask King what he was training that day)...He went over to king and the had words and the guy said lets see what you got...But only on a real machine...After King warmed up to 225 on the smith machine flat bench, King said your lucky I just did chest yesterday, blah blah blah or some shit like that...When asked about warming up chest, King stated something like " I always like to stretch the muscle I trained the day before"...Well needless to say, King disappeared from the gym the next day and wasn't seen for weeks if not months later...By then, he stopped doing flats on the smith and complained of an injury altogether...Who knows how true this story is...But it makes alot of sense about the way King used to train and the fact that he is throwing out retarded numbers like these...