Narrator:
On this episode, the four strongest men
in the world are in England, home of the Beatles,
Queen Elizabeth, and a mischievous 18th century
strongman named Thomas Topham. - Yeah! - They'll attempt three of his
most famous crowd-pleasing feats. - It's frickin' hard. - Including his legendary
shoulder-lift of barrels weighing
over half a ton. [ boom ] - Gotta be honest, guys. I'm seeing stars after that. - Can our strongmen live up to
Topham's jolly good strength? - Uhh. - Or will they simply be gutted? [ cheers ] [ yelling ] - Let's go, B. - [ grunting ] - It's our death song. Narrator: The legendary feats
of strong men have been celebrated
throughout time. But just how true are these
facts? - The world's strongest man! - After years of competing
as rivals, the four strongest men
in the world are teaming up to find out. - Keep going! Keep going! Come on! - They'll take on epic feats
of strength... - Yes! - [ grunting ] - ...in a quest to prove who
really is... - "The Strongest Man In
History." [ music ] - Uhh. I gotta say this might be one
of the only times I've been in the UK
and actually had to squint because the sun was out. - It's nice, huh?
- Yeah, it is. [ horn honks ] [ laughter ] - Subtle.
Very subtle. - I'm from a town called
Stoke-on-Trent in England, and for once, the guys are
actually coming from America
to where I am. Oh, hey. - Hello. - Fun for this week is to show
them a fantastic time, take them to places they've
never been before, show them lots of culture,
and introduce these guys to a legendary British strongman
called Thomas Topham. How was the journey, though?
All right? - It was horrible. Okay. - This airplane has two exit
doors in the front, and two window exits
over the wings. In the event of an emergency... - How many flights? - Four flights, two trains,
and a bus. - Now you know how I feel every
time I come over to the U.S., so it's Even Steven. - That's a cute license plate
that you have. - Do you have one that says
world's strongest man, or no? - No.
Not just one. Two, three, four. - Yeah.
- Four. - I think the most
impressive thing was that he could count to four.
[ laughter ] - Winning the world's strongest
man is a big deal, so I don't blame him at all. I've had, like, personalized
license plates in the past as well. My last one said "three-time
world's strongest man," so I had to get rid of that when
I won my fourth. - Be glad I didn't pick you up
in the Mustang, guys. - Oh. - Come on, guys.
It's not that small. - It's a good thing I've been
stretching. - Sorry, sorry, excuse me,
sorry. [ laughter ]
- Yeah, yeah, we're good. - I'll start you off Churchill
style cigars, eh? - Which one's got the
firecracker in it? [ laughter ]
- Exactly. - What's the plan for this week? - All the legends that we've
done so far, Thomas Topham is my favorite.
He's British. He owned a pub called
the Red Lion in London. And as part of like the act to
get business there, he'd do these feats of strength. He lifted up 1,336 pounds of
barrels full of beer or whiskey. - I think it's pretty cool that
he used his feats of strength to advertise for his business. One of the probably original
guys doing it. "Come watch me lift this stuff
and drink a beer." - Thomas Topham is like the
first modern strongman. He would perform feats of
strength in front of audiences decades before anybody else did
that sort of thing. Narrator: Thomas Topham lived
in the 1700s. He was 5 foot 10,
and 196 pounds. The son of a carpenter, he often
combined craftsmanship with a basic knowledge of
physics for his astounding feats of
strength, creating large-scale spectacles
for London crowds. - You know what made him so
great to me? He was an absolute prankster.
He was a proper English bastard. [ laughter ] Anything that you shouldn't be
doing, he did. If you wanted to upset someone,
he did it. Something you shouldn't say,
he said it. He inspired me to be the person
I am today. This guy upset so many people. He's basically the 1700s
version of me. - Out of all the strongmen in
history, Thomas Topham, who was a British troublemaker,
is your favorite. - Does that not just sound like
me in modern day? - Everybody's gotta have
a role model. - Yeah. - That's not the only
legendary strongman we're going to be
doing tasks on. - Well, who we gonna do?
- Eddie Hall. This week we're not
just taking on an honorary strongman of
history, we're also taking on me. I want to test you guys for
challenges of stuff that I'm good at,
and see if you can enter the honorary Hall of Fame. - Honorary.
- Honorary Hall. - And what are the challenges? - It's just a series of
challenges about me. It's about your aptitude, about
the way you present yourselves. - So you're serious. At the end of this there's going
to be a prize. - Mm-hmm.
The best prize known to man. - Why do I feel like we're going
to do some weird stuff for that? - Yeah.
[ laughter ] - I'm pretty sure this is just
one big long punchline he's waiting to drop on us. But if we're going to be
competitive, I want to win. - Okay, it's on. - All right.
- Good luck, guys. - All right, guys. The first Thomas Topham
challenge, and my favorite: picked up a watchtower with a
policeman in it. walked it .3 of a mile and threw it over a wall
into a cemetery. Not only was this guy strong
and an entertainer, he was a prankster. So, for our first challenge, we're going to take on Thomas
Topham's most famous prank. Narrator:
- Starting in the 13th century, watchmen patrolled the streets
of London to keep crime at bay. According to legend,
Thomas Topham spotted a watchmen dozing off in his sentry box. He picked up the entire booth and carried it
a third of a mile before throwing it over the wall
of a cemetery. Can our strongmen pull off this
superhuman prank? Let's find out. [ music ] - I'm from Stoke-on-Trent, so
wherever I go, people follow. When they heard that we were
doing the challenges, they all turned up. My friends, my family,
complete strangers. Even if I didn't want them to
turn up, they would. We've had these built. We've got policemen in them. They're about 280 pounds. - You're saying these are
280 pounds, and we're going to carry them
.3 miles. - Yeah. - As strongmen, we kind of do what's called explosive
training. We explode and then we
recuperate. For us to take something
and carry it .3 miles, that's something none of us
is used to. None of us has ever done. - .3 of a mile is down to the
bottom of that road. Take a left through the archway. Right down at the bottom,
you'll see a canal. Turn left just before the canal, and there's a row of
fences there that we're going to
throw them over. And that will be the graveyard. - And how big was Thomas Topham? - 5'10".
- Figures about 180 pounds. - 5'10", 180. - I don't care if it's a
policeman, a watchman, or Batman. There's no way he picked that
up, carried it .3 miles and then dumped it over a grave. - Maybe it started out he
carried it 10 or 20 feet. And then it was 100 feet.
And then all of a sudden, it's like, oh, he carried,
well, .3 of a mile. Now this a little bit hard to
believe that he went that far with this watchtower, without
waking up the watchman. - Let's get the average man and
see what he can do with it. Average man!
- Good idea. - We like to have an average man
there of average size and average weight to give scale
to what it is that we're doing. - I'm 5'8", 150, 155 pounds. - Not much smaller than
Thomas Topham. He was two inches taller,
another 20, 30 pounds. - Do you think you can
pick this up? - Uh, pick it up?
- Walk it down the street? - It's probably gonna fall
towards me, then. Oh, my goodness.
[ grunting ] [ laughter ] - I can't pick it up.
- Okay. - No way.
Can't pick it up. - Well, thanks, Ian.
You've been great. - That didn't really help me
much in figuring how
I'm going to do it. - Right. Everyone in front of
the towers, facing forward. All right, Lord Mayor,
whenever you're ready. - Now that we're on his
home turf, I guess Eddie gets to have home
court advantage. But I really seriously want to
beat him at this. - Ready. Steady. [ horn blares ] [ music ] - My strategy was just to grab
it and go as fast as I could. - I'm going to try to tilt it
forward, grab a hold of the top, and have it on my back as I go. - Come on, Eddie. - When I picked this thing up,
I've got it on my back. First thing that hurt
was my arms. Holding this thing in place was absolutely excruciatingly
painful. - Couldn't really carry it
the way I wanted to, so I started to drag it. And I just felt if I kept
dragging it good and steady, the other guys are
going to wear out, and I'll just keep moving
right on by. [ grunting ] - [ grunting ] - Brian took off like a bat out
of hell. But he ran out of gas. And no matter what the prize is,
I want to beat Brian. - I didn't want to
sprint with it, because I didn't want to
fall on my face. So I just took my time.
Nice steady steps. And the plan was just to
go slow and steady. The tortoise always
wins the race. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] [ P.A. announcement,
indistinct ] [ cheers and applause ] - 500 pounds! - English strongman Thomas
Topham carried a watchtower 3/10 of a mile and then threw it
over a fence. We got to reenact that feat of
strength that he did. - Come on, Eddie! - I was trying to hurry up,
because if you lose to Eddie, you hear about it forever. - Oh, geez. - My lungs were on fire, but I wanted to make sure I was
successful with it. [ grunting ] - Oh, geez. [ grunting ] [ cheers and applause ] - I felt there was a lot of
pressure on myself to win this event. But in Stoke-on-Trent, where I
was born and bred, and all my fans and family
were there, I had to win it. - My lower back was shot. I look up, and here's Eddie. He just finished his. So I can't win the challenge, but still that meathead
mentality in me. I just don't want to give up,
ever. - [ bleep ]. - Brian was like Godzilla
rampaging through Tokyo. It was hilarious. [ laughter ] - In the end, I was happy
I just finished. - What's happened to yours? - It was nothing but anger at
the finish line that got me the get it across. I'd move. I would move. It felt pretty good to throw
that thing, honestly. [ laughter ] - Come on, B. - It's fair to say that
my watchman would have definitely woken up. - Finish it!
- Let's get it! - Finish it, B! - But by throwing him forward and having him land
on the bricks, I would have effectively put him
back to sleep. [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] - That was quite funny. I think Brian lost his temper
with his tower. Absolutely smashed the policeman
to smithereens. But fair play, he got it done. - My stomach's cramping,
my back's wrecked. All I know is the only one
that's still asleep is the one that Brian killed. [ laughter ] - Watching you walk around
that corner with a body under your arms,
and a shed in the other, it's probably one of the most
memorable things I'll ever remember to my grave. That is Hall worthy.
Well done, guys. - I think we gotta give it up.
The winner, Eddie, The Beast [ cheers and applause ] - I'm hungry.
Let's get something to eat. [ music ] - So guys, this is Castle
Oatcakes. This is my favorite place
to eat. You recognize the guy
on the wall? [ groaning, laughter ] I've been going to Castle
Oatcakes my entire life. And then I started going to
World's Strongest Man. These guys just decided to name
an oatcake after me. The Beast. - So tell us what an oatcake is. - An oatcake is basically
a pancake but made out of oatmeal. Well, they do an Eddie Hall
special, which is two bacon, two sausage, double portion of
cheese and tomatoes. Roll it up like a pancake
and just eat away. Now we've got the orders in. Why don't we just sit outside,
they'll bring it out to us? - How you doing, gentlemen?
You all right? - Here we go, and ready to go.
- All right. - Oh, my God.
- Hope you enjoy. - Thanks, man. Thank you.
- No problem. - All right, guys,
here's the deal. This is The Beast oatcake. Okay, the first one to finish
this is the winner. So, are you ready? - Yeah.
- Okay. On your mark, get set, go. - I really want to beat Brian in
this eating challenge. I don't like losing,
and Brian, of course, is probably the biggest guy and he's used to eating the most
amount of food. So to beat him, it's fun to kind
of like needle at him, you know, the whole rest of the day,
poking at him that you beat him in an eating
challenge. - All right, brother.
This sausage is so good. - Very good. - Brian's just eating it like
a burrito. Looks like Brian's picking up
an octopus. All his legs falling out
the bottom. - Brian was shoving it down
his throat. It was impressive. Mmm. - How you doing, there, B? - I'm not doing good, man.
[ laughter ] I'm so stuffed already. Oh, my God. - Mmm. - Oh, that was a real gag. I was gagging. I couldn't be in that space
anymore, because I felt my saliva start
to get warm, like right before you throw up. No, don't shove it anymore.
Don't put--Oh! Oh, no! all:
Oh! - For the oatcakes, I was
excited at first. But then it's got like six
freaking sausages in there, four and a half pounds of
cheese. All I can see is just my stomach
killing me for days. - Oh, my gosh. - Honestly, I still feel a
little gaggy about it right now. - I'm done. - I'm really disappointed with
you, Obie. You're usually the guy that eats
everything. - I don't know if I'm going to
finish. - Come on, Nick.
You're not far off, mate. - I think you got this, Nick. - Bro, you're not going
to beat me. - Get it, Nick. - I'm feeling like I'm going
to barf. - Yeah, puke away. - I'm fairly good at eating
challenges, but by the end of that thing,
I felt so sick. I had to quit. - I seriously can't believe
you're actually going to eat it. - Oh, my God. - Brian, I consider that done. Well done, buddy.
- Thanks, guys. - Round of applause for Brian. He won the challenge. - I feel like I'm going to puke. - You kind of look like you're
going to puke. - Oh, I might.
Wow. - All this reaction. [ retching ] - Oh! - Yes! - Oh! - I can't watch.
I can't watch. - Come on, Nick.
Great job, buddy. Great job. - Oh, thanks, Eddie.
- Spectacular. - Who wants dessert?
[ belches ] [ music ] - Here it is, guys. So, guys, welcome to
the Green Coat Boy. This is my mate's pub. Thomas Topham was famous for
doing acts in pubs. He owned a pub. Today we're going to replicate one of Thomas Topham's
feats of strength. Narrator: Thomas Topham owned
several pubs around London, and kept his customers
entertained with strongman parlor tricks. One of his famous
feats was that he could roll up a seven-pound
pewter plate as if it were a piece of paper. But are pewter plates any match
for the strongmen of today? Can their hands of steel take on
a stronger metal? Let's find out. - So these are the pizza plates
from the 1700s. Have a feel of that. - That's got a bit of weight to
it, doesn't it? - So, Nick, when you were a kid, what was it like to eat off of
plates like that? - Yeah, I'm not quite that old. - So what is pewter?
- I don't know. - So pewter is a mix of metals. I think it's tin and lead. - Tin and lead.
- Tin and lead. Thanks, Obie. - So they were eating off of a
plate made out of lead? - Yeah. I mean, nowadays,
we know that's wrong, and we know you can get lead
poisoning from doing that, but they didn't know any better
back then. - Wow. - So Thomas Topham was most
famous for rolling these up like a pancake,
and nobody else could do it. - Huh. - We want you to replicate what
Thomas Topham did. Go on, Nick. Thomas Topham would do this
as a bar trick, you know, for his patrons. End of the day,
he owned the pub. He was a businessman, and he'd do stuff like this to
bring people in, and buy more beer. - You can hear it crunching.
- Oh. - All right, okay. - I kind of knew that
the pizza plates were going to be really easy
to roll up. So, I want to up the ante
a little bit, and this is part of the
Thomas Topham challenge. I brought something for you guys
to roll up a bit more modern-day,
a bit thicker, a bit stronger. You ready for this? Frying pans. - Oh.
[laughter] - Now I'm famous for rolling up
frying pans. I did it on a breakfast show
here in the UK a while back, and it went viral. So, I think we should make a
little competition out of this. Who can roll it up
the thinnest. - Of course, Eddie's going to
make us do a strength challenge
that he can win. If I can beat Eddie Hall
at his own game of rolling up a frying pan, I'll seriously leave England
feeling like a king. - Give me some space, guys. Come on.
Back it up. All right, you ready?
It's not a race. It's about who can get it
the tightest, remember that. Okay? Right.
Off you go. [ music ] - So the main trick to
rolling a frying pan is if you be fast with it, it's going to bend faster
and easier. - It's gonna be tough to get
this rolled up like those pewter plates. - Once you get to the silver
part, it's frickin' hard. - Kind of made a mistake
because I tried to roll both sides of the pan,
and then roll the pan up. And I mean, it was
my first pan, so... You make mistakes, you learn.
Won't happen again. [ all grunting ] - Geez. [ all grunting ] - Jesus.
- Uhh! - Well, that's about it for me. - You done?
- Yeah. - Yeah, you done?
- Yeah, it's... - All right.
So I pick to make this fair. We're going to measure around
the middle of the pan, around the circumference
of the middle. Not the end, not the start. That makes it fair for
everybody, okay? Shall we start with Oberst's,
for a laugh? Right, Oberst, not a bad effort,
buddy. 15 and a half inches. - My first time.
- That's not bad. - I'm in the middle.
You happy with that? - Yeah. - All right, 10...
just a speck over 10 and a half. Let's say 10.6 inches. - Okay. Yeah.
- Yeah? Brian Shaw. All right, 10.2 inches.
- Okay. - Right.
So Brian got 10.2. So in order for me to win this,
I've got to beat 10.2 inches. Okay, you ready? Okay. My measureme My measurem. - Whoa!
- Oh! - 9.4. Ha ha! Oh, yeah! So I'm afraid the winner
is myself. That's a shocker. [ laughter ] - You got a good drink there. - Tastes like victory. - Being as competitive
as I am, I really wanted to beat Eddie
at that. Just to kind of rub it in his
face a little bit. So I was disappointed
that I didn't get mine rolled up tighter. - Well, obviously, guys, what
I've proved here today is to do these feats of strength
you've got to be British. - Mm.
- Mm. - I'd rather not do them, then. [ laughter ] - To Thomas Topham. - To Thomas Topham.
- To Thomas. - Cheers. [ music ] - This is probably the fastest
way to travel in the UK. I'm from Stoke-on-Trent. Thomas Topham was actually
from London. So I decided to take these guys
down to London to do these feats of strength
where Thomas Topham would have actually
done these things. - Grab a table or be stuck in
horrible seats. - That's comfy.
- There we are. - Really good.
- It's gonna be a good ride. - Yeah.
- Get cozy. - I've never been on trains
before this trip. I'm quickly realizing they suck. - I can play footsies with Brian
the whole way. [ bleep, bleep ]! - Watch, if we lock our arms,
it'll be better. - [ laughs ] That's good,
actually. I like that. - Much more room. - Can you put your foot back
there? - No.
- Just a little bit? - No. - Really comfortable. [ laughter ] [ music ] - So, guys, welcome to London. - So, is this the London Bridge? - No, I think actual
London Bridge was packed up and sent to
Arizona. - Hey, that's Westminster Abbey
over there. - The minister of abbey
lives over there? - Yeah, he's a minister of
abbeys. - Sounds like a pretty important
position. - Yeah, it definitely is. Big Ben's right there.
Do you not recognize it? It's kind of under construction
right now. I'm sorry. - I've always wanted to meet
Big Ben face to face. Like, "Hey, Big Ben.
I'm Big Rob." - So, London people. - Yeah, sure. - Thank you.
- Thank you. - Strongman is an absolutely
bigger sport in England than it is in
the United States. As a result, Eddie here is pretty much one of the most
famous people in England. [ indistinct chatter ] And the great thing is
a lot of people here know who all of us are. So it's a lot of fun
walking around. - Oh, yeah, we gotta get a photo
in this phone booth right here. - Little bit. - I'll go here.
- Okay. - All right, then.
- Get in there. [ laughter ] [ music ] - When Eddie wanted us
to come to England, I told him it was under one
condition. We had to go to Abbey Road. Abbey Road! I'm so excited to be here. I've wanted to do this
since I was a kid. - All right, guys, this is
the famous Abbey Road where the Beatles crossed the
road and posed for a picture. Do you remember the famous cover
on the album? - Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah. So that's what we're here
for today. We're going to do it
Strongman style. And that's why we brought
the kegs here. - There's four of us, just like
there were four Beatles. And we're our own weird
kind of supergroup. - You ready? Let's go. - Yeah!
- Nailed it. - Yes!
- Good job. - Hey, guys,
thanks for coming up. Appreciate it. - So, Thomas Topham,
back in 1741, we had this built, and he lifted
1,336 pounds in these barrels. - Wow. - This is actually built
off a sketch. Somebody was here.
There was no cameras back then. Somebody actually
sketched this, drew it whilst he was
doing the lift. - Wow, it's almost identical.
- It's pretty close. - Yeah, that is crazy. - Today we're going to do
Thomas Topham's most famous feat of strength. Narrator: Thomas Topham used
his feats of strength to promote his tavern. He drew huge crowds to witness
his spectacles. And that meant selling
a lot more beer. On the 28th of May, 1741, he used his shoulders to lift
three giant barrels of water weighing a total of
1,336 pounds. Can our strongmen shoulder
this load? Let's find out. - Thomas Topham was probably the greatest British strongman
of history. Had a huge crowd, and it was in
front of the Apple Tree Inn pub
that he owned. Obviously that's
shut down now. So we got the tallest pub
in London. Thomas Topham decided to set up
this feat of strength in front of a huge crowd to get
more punters into his pub. - I can only imagine how much
attention he would have gotten doing something like this
back in the day. Because look at the attention
we're getting. - Yeah. - Having the band around
your neck, it's so dangerous with
a bad back. So we had it built into a bar, just so you can keep your back
straight, and at the end of the day,
I don't want to break my back. - The closest thing that
we have in Strongmen to this barrel lift
is a super yoke. The load is across
your shoulders, and you feel it through
your entire body. It's much harder to lift
a weight off the ground when the load is going through
your core. - We're here to beat Thomas
Topham's feat of strength here. - So it's going to be a
challenge for all of us, man, I think, honestly. - The barrels actually
have to be empty because they're antiques. But what we are doing is adding
extra weight to the bottom, which is the way that we're
going to get over 1,336 pounds. - We got all the weights here. And we'll just keep adding these
on until we get to 1,336 pounds. We're going to work our way up
to 1,336 pounds to match Thomas Topham's
weight. And then we've got to
beat the legend. - Any of you guys scared of
heights? - I mean, Brian's already that
tall anyway. [ laughter ]
- He's going step on. [ laughter ] [ music ] - The articles of
Thomas Topham's feat of strength clearly state that he lifted
this up several inches. So I mean, what's several
inches? - You know what
several inches is. [ laughter ] - You set yourself up. - That was a stupid question
to you. [ cheers and applause ] - Come on, Nick. [ music ] - Lifting several inches doesn't
look like that much. But every millimeter is like
lifting a whole building. [ cheers and applause ] - Let's go, B. - I've carried extremely heavy
super yokes in the past, so I don't think there's
any way these guys are going to touch me on this. - Nice! [ cheers and applause ] - Easy.
- Yeah. - Let's go, Obie.
- Come on. [ cheers and applause ] - I think it's time to break
a record. What do you say? - Let's do it.
- Let's do it. [ cheers and applause ] - Old guy's up. - All right, guys.
So we're at 1,345. This officially breaks
Thomas Topham's record. - Let's go. [ cheers and applause ] - With no sign, without even
thinking about it, your spine can literally snap,
you can tear a ligament, tear a tendon,
you could rip a rib off. These are the kind of weights
where people get really hurt. [ music ] - Get up, Ed! [ shouts of encouragement ] [ cheers and applause ] - Yeah! - Whoo! - Nice!
Well done! - Gotta be honest, guys.
I'm seeing stars after that. But I'm bowing out of that.
My back... [ applause ] The yoke lift is not my
strength. I beat the Thomas Topham
legend, so I left it there and let those
guys carry on. [ music ] - [ shouts ] In moments like that,
everything just stops. And it's just basically
between you and the iron gods at that
point. It's the most religious
experience you can have. [ music ] [ cheers and applause ] - Yeah! That's how it's done! It was hard,
but it was doable. It meant a lot to me to break
this record, but I was done. That was awesome, man.
That was awesome. - Go down it. [ cheers and applause ] - You cheered louder for the
beer than the lift. [ laughter ] I get it. [ music ] - After Eddie and Robert had
dropped out, I wanted to keep going because I felt really
comfortable with this lift, and I knew it was very strong,
and I actually wasn't sure Nick was going to be able to
physically lift more weight. - Think you could do
quite a bit more? - I think I got a little
in the tank. - You want to up the ante? - Why don't we go like 1,500?
How about that? [ cheers and applause ] - Okay. - You know what
I want to do is, I want to figure out a way to
strap a couple barrels on the sides,
is what I'd like to do. - Uh-huh.
- Make it even bigger. - Even bigger.
- Uh-huh. - Nick, how you feeling? - What do you guys think? [ cheers and applause ] I'm in. [ music ] - I think me and Opus realized
that we were never going to beat Brian at
this sort of event. But I think Nick has got a very
competitive streak in him. He doesn't like losing things. - Let's go, Brian! [ crowd yelling ] [ cheers and applause ] - Yes! - Guys, why don't we just
go 1,700. - Ooh! - I know he's the biggest, and I know he's probably
the greatest, but I still don't want
to lose to him, and I would still go till
I can't go to try to beat him. - Make it 1,670.
- All right. [ crowd yelling ] [ thud ] - Yeah! - I'm proper impressed
with that. - That hurt. - That is quite incredible. - Nick had the idea that
he could win. And Brian decided he wasn't
going to back down. When two strongmen decide
to go head-to-head, one of them's going
to get hurt. - So we could go 1,808.
What's that sound like? [ cheers and applause ] Let's load 'em up. [ music ] - You guys ready? [ cheers and applause ] - Come on, B! [ cheers and applause ] [ thud ] - Yeah! There was absolutely no way that
I was going to lose this event. - What do you want to do?
- 2,000. - 2,000, it's gotta be. - 2,000. - When you have over 2,000
pounds on your back, all it takes is one tiny little
mishap, and you're done. You can spend the rest of your
life in a wheelchair. - Nick, you gonna do that
or what? - Come on, Nick.
- Come on. - What's the deal? - All right, let's do it. [ cheers and applause ] - At that point,
I think I started going into shock a little bit. And I was really kind of shaky,
and I was extremely emotional. - Come on, give him some help.
Let's go, give him some help. [ cheers and applause ] - I just felt like an atom bomb
that was about to explode. [ music ] [ cheers and applause ] - Get up there, man. - I can feel my hands.
I can feel everything. - And your feet?
- Come on up straight. Come on. - [ groans ] [ bleep ]. - You hurting?
- My upper back went. - Yeah.
Heard some cracks? - I got to the top, and I heard
a bunch of cracks and pops and...I was done. [ cheers and applause ] - I was worried very,
very badly, but I was willing to do whatever
it took to win that event. - You firing up?
- I'm out. - So that means all you have to
do is add anything, get it, and you win. - So what's the lowest chunk?
27? - 27 pounds.
- Let's do it. - Let's add 27 pounds, guys. - After all these lifts, even adding a small jump
is a lot. - Let's go, B. [ cheers and applause ] - Let's go, Brian! - Brian! Brian! Brian!
- Yeah! Yes! - [ chanting ]
Brian! Brian! Brian! [ music ] [ cheers and applause ] [ boom ] - Yeah! [ music ] Yeah! - Ladies and gents, your winner! Brian Shaw! - Yeah! This challenge was much more
difficult than bending frying pans or carrying a stupid
watchtower. So it's fair to say after my
performance on the barrels that I've not only won the week,
but I have conquered England. - Even though Brian won, my heart goes out to Nick Best
more than anybody right now. Seriously, well done, Nick. [ cheers and applause ] Come on, buddy.
Come on, mate. - It wasn't about beating
the weight or the number that's
there. It was about pushing myself
further than I ever had before. But to be the best, you have to
be able to beat the best. And Brian's the best. - Now I'm done. [ laughter ] - So, guys, I've had an
absolutely amazing week. And I think this has been my
favorite legendary strongman by far. Thomas Topham. There's one more thing we've got
to settle as well. Have you all forgotten about the
honorary Hall of Fame? - Oh, right.
Here comes the punchline, huh? - It's very special for me
that these guys made the effort and came
all the way here. So I wanted to design something
really special, something that showcases
the Beast, and something they can
take home and know they'll be a part of the
honorary Hall family. So it's been really tough for me
to pick a winner, but I think... it's got to be Nick. Mainly because he put his heart
and soul on the line today. He pushed Brian
to the absolute limit. He was willing to
break his back. That's Hall-ism right there. What Brian did on that
barrel lift was an amazing feat of strength. But I've never seen another
competitor literally go to the point where they break
themselves, pass out. I mean, that's what I'm sort of
renowned for. So to see Nick do that,
that, my friends, is what it means to be an
honorary Hall. So this prize is actually
something that I designed. Nick, do you want to do
the honors? - Oh, no way. Oh, that is cool. - That is the representation
of the Beast. My logo is the Beast, the gorilla with the big
silver back. That's basically me holding up
the stone. - Thanks, Eddie. - Are you crying? You're actually crying? - No. - Are you sure? I can see tears. - It was awesome getting
the trophy for being an honorary Hall. That's a moment I will probably
never forget. - I really appreciate you
bringing us down here, educating us on Thomas Topham.
I learned a lot. I've really grown to respect
this man. - To Thomas Topham.
- To Thomas Topham. [ glasses clink ]
