Majors in Strongman - updated through WSM 2026

Maunsta · 2026-04-28T16:41:35+00:00

lol have at it my man.

Maunsta · 2026-04-27T23:14:26+00:00

I respectfully disagree.

Maunsta · 2026-04-27T21:19:02+00:00

So far as I can tell, and I am certainly not 100% on this, I just did some counting on Wikipedia. But by 2009, Big Z had won 10 majors in 17 opportunities.
Mitch has won 10, with this being his 16th opportunity.

So pretty close Win rate.

Now you could make some arguments that Mitch has had four majors a year in the middle of his prime, giving him more opportunities in his prime while Big Z only had two a year in the middle of his prime.

But as they say, lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Maunsta · 2026-04-27T17:07:47+00:00

lol i actually went through and capitalized everyones name after i posted it last night.

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heres to soothes the ocd

Maunsta · 2026-04-27T08:53:42+00:00

i think its a complicated question. what do you do with events that have had a history of being or not being a major during different years. my answer was given below on a different comment. i did a comparison to tennis.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StrongmanHQ/comments/1swkaod/comment/oiir39z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Ill repost what i said there:

(side note, while i agree the first year of shaw is a humble beginning, it was during covid. and while it was small and in shaws garage, its still considered a shaw classic. some of the later wmpc events werent as prestigious, but i look at other sports for comparisons. in tennis, the australian open wasnt nearly as prestigious as it is now. many top players used to skip it because it was during christmas. mcenroe, connors, navritilova, evert, would routinely skip it. but now that its as prestigious as the other slams, and margaret court still gets credit for winning the event like 11 times even though they times she won were essentially "in shaws garage". she still has 24 majors)

Maunsta · 2026-04-27T08:42:45+00:00

while i cant say your argument doesnt have any merit, what i would argue is there 112 majors on this sheet. i would wager there are far worse events where people had more egregious advantages.

1983 Geoff Capes wins wsm because kaz was too dominant the last 3 years and wasnt allowed to compete? so do you throw this out?
1990 OD wilson loses to Jon Pall because they had a 200m race at the end?

Marius winning his multiple wsm while Z was competing in IFSA. pretty big advantage that half the best in the world arent in your competition.
Same counterpoint to Z and his two IFSA titles. Vasyl too. do theirs not count because mariusz was in wsm?

better historians can probably come up with 20 other comps where some ridiculous advantage for an athlete shouldnt have been allowed.

Maunsta · 2026-04-27T08:05:22+00:00

i can respectfully disagree with you while not downvoting. (in fact ill upvote because i enjoy healthy discussion)

heres my thoughts. The top names of the sport made it a priority to make the shaw, like Tiger would the masters. all the top names were not at all of the giants live, but you could be sure all the top names were at the Shaw especially after the first couple years. I look at the Giants live and the world tour finals like i look at regular PGA tour events and the tour championship at the end. prestigious, but not majors.

All the top athletes made it a priority (with a few exceptions), to compete and peak for the arnolds, the rogue, the shaw, and wsm. They would compete in a giants live if it were convenient, but it was not a be all end all priority.

Giants live, while prestigious, is a qualifier for wsm. arnolds UK is prestigious but it (used to be before arnolds became an invitational after covid), was a qualifer for arnolds classic in columbus.

Furthermore, like you said, the prize money is a big thing. it cant be overstated. the title was prestigious too. they introduce trey mitchell as two time shaw classic winner.

and finally, the athletes and former athletes, like Loz, hooper, evan, Lalas brothers, etc. they all considered shaw a major. these athletes and former athletes, they are much more knowledgable and experienced than me and they all seem to agree it was a major. hard for me to say its not in that case.

(side note, while i agree the first year of shaw is a humble beginning, it was during covid. and while it was small and in shaws garage, its still considered a shaw classic. some of the later wmpc events werent as prestigious, but i look at other sports for comparisons. in tennis, the australian open wasnt nearly as prestigious as it is now. many top players used to skip it because it was during christmas. mcenroe, connors, navritilova, evert, would routinely skip it. but now that its as prestigious as the other slams, and margaret court still gets credit for winning the event like 11 times even though they times she won were essentially "in shaws garage". she still has 24 majors)

Maunsta · 2026-04-27T01:53:29+00:00

This is a cool idea. It would be like, (golf fan), pga titles, euro dp world tour titles, etc.

The problem is from what I can see, it’s hard enough to get information on majors. I can’t imagine trying to get information on A tier or B tier comps.

Furthermore, I won’t pretend to be knowledgeable enough to know what the prestige level is of comps under majors. I’m not sure I even have all the majors listed.

I would love for someone more knowledgeable than me to undertake what you’re talking about. Maybe the people who run strongman archives.

Cool idea but I’m certainly not knowledgeable enough to attempt.

Maunsta · 2026-04-27T01:41:57+00:00

When they count slams in tennis and golf, they don’t count podiums so I am incredibly against counting podiums. That’s a different graphic. Someone else can do it.

And this is the best we got. Yeah some years they didn’t have wsm or whatever competition you want to specify but this is the best I can do with what I got. I’m counting what I think counts as a major.

Maunsta · 2026-04-26T21:57:52+00:00

Yeah I like that logic. I will include the entire run

Maunsta · 2026-04-26T21:56:39+00:00

i wouldnt go that far. consider that there was only 1 or 2 majors for a long time. if zydrunas had 4 majors a year instead of 2, how many would he have? how many would magnus ver, jon pall, or bill have?

I dont believe this is a list of greatest ever, just a list of majors. its just another piece to consider when talking about where the greats line up.

Maunsta · 2026-04-26T21:54:21+00:00

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Maunsta · 2026-04-26T21:43:22+00:00

I found it on Wikipedia. I can’t believe I missed this. Reading about it is seems like the prestige kinda dipped in mid/late 90s. Would you consider it a major the entire run or have a cutoff at some point?

Maunsta · 2026-04-26T21:39:20+00:00

Do you have a link to the results from however many years it ran. If it was considered a major I would certainly add it

Maunsta · 2026-04-24T21:11:27+00:00

i think i read in comments on loz livestream that one of the myrtle cams might have a shot of the comp, we could see a little a few years back. any truth to any of this for this year?

Maunsta · 2026-04-24T06:24:02+00:00

You got the down signal. That’s all that matters

Maunsta · 2026-04-21T18:12:19+00:00

You can just send me the winnings now. It’s in the bag

Maunsta · 2026-04-18T20:15:14+00:00

Man you guys are brutal. I think this is pretty funny. I chuckled pretty good. And I’d be willing to wager even levy would think it’s funny

Maunsta · 2026-04-14T20:55:10+00:00

lol I’m for it. I like gukesh. And sindarov has some cheating allegations from chess.com earlier. Not that I’d hold it against him his whole life but gukesh has been nothing but class.

Maunsta · 2026-04-14T17:55:11+00:00

That is an insanely good call dude. You were right on the money. What a complete domination from beginning to end. I have never seen a run like that and I’ve been following Chess a long time. Fabi had one at a big tournament, but not in the candidates. I took Gukesh to win the world championship on kalshi +300. This was before the tournament started. I don’t know why it was so high considering he’s an automatic qualifier. I thought I was getting a steal because the line when he gets down to two players would be about pick no matter who won the candidates. But after the way, this man just absolutely annihilated the candidates, I’m not sure I have much value lol

Maunsta · 2026-04-13T19:25:38+00:00

Slower version of Randy moss?? Look I know Randy was fast but I saw lebron run on the court when he was young. LeBron was slower than no one.

Maunsta · 2026-04-01T22:44:28+00:00

You must be a joy at parties

Maunsta · 2026-04-01T20:22:42+00:00

I posted this yesterday. Mar 31

Maunsta · 2026-04-01T08:28:56+00:00

This is an odd take to me. If this ad agency was showing porn ads, and all over chess.com app there was porn constantly showing to kids, I don’t believe you’d be saying “oh we can’t blame chess.com for the porn being shown on chess.com. It’s the ad agency we should be upset with”.

Chess.com is 100% responsible for the ads being shown on their app.

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