The problem is you can't judge how much someone is helping. Therefore no powerlifter will ever care about any lift where the spotter is touching it at all. It is just the way it is and has always been that way. No offense to Leroy at all as he is a legitimate very strong bench presser. Just as the bodybuilding world doesn't give a damn about you look posing at the gym or two weeks out. What matters is how you look on competition day standing on stage. Even Leroy knows this as he told me personally that trains sometimes quite a bit over his max as he believes it makes him stronger when it comes to meet day.
9 clean reps all locked out and smooth with 5 plates on incline with a dummy touching the bar with 2 fingers. Enough said.
The 655 was an assisted lockout, although with the way the spotter had his wrists on the bar, I doubt he was "curling" or more like "front delt raising" more than 50lbs. Put a bar on your wrists like that and see how good a 45lb bar feels digging into your tendon/vein...Just saying I'm rating that at no more than 50lbs..
If 500x10 is the way he "warms up" I assume he had numerous heavy sets leading up to that 650, making him fatigued.
605x4 the spotter is clearly not doing shit because...he doesn't need to. Clearly explosive as fuck.
I have seen in person here at Supertraining Gym, Spoto, Efferding, Larson, Lilly, Derek Kendall, Lilliebridges, Chad Smith, Scot Mendelson, and MANY more behemoths...Leroy is stronger than all but a couple.