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Part One: Vince McMahon, History's Greatest Monster

Behind the Bastards

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Hackenschmitt and the Bench Press

Hackenschmitt is one of the first really shredded guys to ever be photographed. He's also credited as the inventor of the bench press and the hack squat, at least according to a website called Barbend that repeatedly tried to sell me creatine. According to these two websites, did you did you buy enough creatine to invent the bench bench press? Not not yet. But I'm hoping I bought enough creatine to determine which website is more credible. This is how we measure all things from now on. Like whatever gives my bench up more in like a three week period, that's the website I'll choose to believe.

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