^^ for sure.
speaking of crazy strong..RIP to one of the original World's Strongest Men, Joe Rollino - it took getting hit by a truck at age 104 to finally put this beast down..
Coney Island strongman, 104, dies after being struck by van
COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
NEW YORK – A famed strongman who once lifted 3,200 pounds at Coney Island during its heyday and was still bending quarters with his fingers at age 104 died Monday after he was hit by a minivan.
Joe Rollino was struck as he crossed Bay Ridge Parkway in Brooklyn and suffered a broken pelvis, head trauma and broken ribs. He died a few hours later at an area hospital. Police said the driver was going the speed limit and had not been drinking. No criminality is suspected, but the driver was issued a summons for a defective horn.
During his storied life, Rollino hobnobbed with Harry Houdini, watched Jack Dempsey knock out Jess Willard and was friendly with Mario Lanza. He even had a bit part in “On the Waterfront.”
Rollino would’ve been 105 on March 19 and was the model of health, according to friends. A vegetarian for life, he didn’t drink or smoke, his friends said, and he exercised every day. He was a lifetime boxer and was part of the Oldetime Barbell and Strongmen, an organization of men who can still rip book binders at the seam.
A decorated World War II veteran, Rollino got his start as a strongman in the 1920s during the high point of the Coney Island carnival, and he billed himself as the “Strongest Man in the World.”
He later made a living as a traveling boxer under the name Kid Dundee and fought in armories in cities around the country where boxing was forbidden.
Rollino said in 2008 that he was just simply born strong.
“Fighters would hit me in the jaw and I’d just look at them. You couldn’t knock me out,” he told writer Robert Mladinich in an interview for the boxing Web site The Sweet Science.
Ten-time Golden Glove winner Peter Spanakos met Rollino in the 1950s.
“He’s a hero’s hero. We should celebrate him,” Spanakos said. “A true patriot, an athlete’s athlete.”
