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Top 10 Fascinating Facts about Mariusz Pudzianowski

Mariusz Zbigniew Pudzianowski was born on 7 February 1977. He is also known as “Pudzian” and “Dominator”. He is a Polish entrepreneur, former strongman competitor, and current mixed martial artist.

With a record 70% international winning percentage in his strongman career, he is considered by many to be the greatest strength athlete of all time. During his career as a strongman, Pudzianowski won five World’s Strongest Man titles, the most in history.

He also won two runner-up titles in 2006 and 2009. In 2009, Pudzianowski debuted as a mixed martial artist. He is currently ranked third in the KSW Heavyweight rankings. In the article are the top 10 fascinating facts about Mariusz Pudzianowski.

1. He got imprisoned for assault charges

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In 2000 and 2001, Pudzianowski spent 19 months in 艁owicz prison for assault. In an interview, he said he wanted to stop a “local mafia boss”, and he got accused of assault and stealing his golden chain.

Pudzianowski was incarcerated in prison in 艁owicz. Several years later he arranged a resocialization meeting for the prisoners at the same penal institution.

2. Pudzianowski entered his first Strongman competition in 1999

On 1 May 1999, Pudzianowski entered his first Strongman competition, held in P艂ock, Poland. He achieved his first major success at the international level at the 2000 World’s Strongest Man contest where he finished fourth in his first WSM competition. Due to his prison sentence, he did not return for the 2001 competition.

3. Did Pudzianowski return to the 2002 World’s Strongest Man contest?

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Because of the alleged assault case, Pudzianowski was barred from returning to the 2001 World’s Strongest Mant Contest. However, Pudzianowski returned to the 2002 World’s Strongest Man and won his first title.

He retained his title at the 2003 World’s Strongest Man with an event to spare, winning by the largest margin ever achieved in the competition; across the seven disciplines in the final, he scored a remarkable four first-place finishes, two-second place finishes, and one-third place finish.

This resulted in the points margin between first and second (18) being greater than the margin between second and ninth (20). British strongman Laurence Shahlaei has since called this performance the most dominant victory ever seen at a World’s Strongest Man event.

4. Pudzianowski got disqualified in the 2004 World Strongest Man contest

He initially finished third in the 2004 World’s Strongest Man but was later disqualified for breaching the governing body’s Strongman Health Policy.

He was forced to return his prize money, stripped of the International Federation of Strength Athletes points from the event, and received a one-year ban from competition.

Pudzianowski did not dispute his banned substance violation and waived his right to have his stool sample verified.

5. Despite a serious calf injury he managed to win the competition five times

During the 2007 competition, Pudzianowski said that his target was to become the only person to win the event five times, and he returned to the 2008 World’s Strongest Man the following year to try and achieve his goal.

However, he had a serious calf injury, which he suffered in the Polish Strongman Championship Cup of 2008 and further exacerbated during the WSM qualifying rounds. The injury threatened his chance of even reaching the final.

Pudzianowski still managed to win his heat and qualify for the final. Trailing leader Derek Poundstone with two events to go, Pudzianowski managed to win the Plane Pull despite his injured calf to cut the deficit to just 1 point going into the final event.

Matched up against Poundstone in the Atlas Stones in a ‘winner-take-all’ scenario, Pudzianowski managed to beat his American rival by the narrowest of margins to become the first and still only man to win five World’s Strongest Man titles.

6. Pudzianowski quit the World’s Strogest Man in 2008

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Pudzianowski competed in the 2009 World’s Strongest Man competition the following year which took place in Malta. To be exclusive, he was trying to win a remarkable sixth title in 8 years. He eventually placed second after 沤ydr奴nas Savickas returned to the competition to win the title for the first time.

Following the competition, Pudzianowski said in an interview that he would not continue participating in strongman events, because of his career in Mixed Martial Arts, which required different training to strongman.

7. Pudzianowski debuted as a mixed martial arts fighter in 2009

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Pudzianowski debuted as a mixed martial arts fighter on 11 December 2009, during the KSW 12 event in Warsaw, Poland. He, fortunately, won against Marcin Najman. Pudzianowski started throwing low kicks soon after the fight began.

After several hits, Najman fell to the mat and Pudzianowski started delivering punches with a tactic known as ground-and-pound. Najman was forced to tap the mat, indicating he wanted to end the fight, which lasted for only 43 seconds. Pudzianowski collected 200,000 z艂oty for the fight.

8. He beat Yusuke Kawaguchi!

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The fight lasted two full rounds, with Pudzianowski winning by the judges’ decision. The fight was described as a “sloppy brawl”. It was noted that Pudzianowski had control over most of the fight, but was “neutralized” by Kawaguchi, and that, by the second round, he was looking “to be out of energy and breathing heavily”.

9. Apart from his known personality, Pudzianowski is also a celebrity

Pudzianowski is an entrepreneur, former strongman competitor, and current mixed martial artist. However, He is also a celebrity. In 2008, Pudzianowski took part in the 7th season of Dancing with the Stars in his native Poland.

He advanced to the final episode but ultimately finished second, losing to actress Magdalena Walach. Pudzianowski was a contestant in the 1st season of the singing reality show Just the Two of Us in Poland. He was coupled with former Ich Troje singer Anna Wi艣niewska.

10. Pudzianowski is liberal with his diet

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He is often seen eating chocolate, ice cream, or burgers. On one of the World Strongman events shown on TV and an interview for MTV, when asked about his diet he said, “I eat everything. I do not follow any particular diet. I eat anything I want, anytime I want”.

He added, “My energy comes from my diet. Breakfast is 10 eggs and two to three pounds of bacon. Between meals, I eat lots of candy. In the morning, it will be several 3 Musketeers and/or Snickers bars; I need them for energy. Lunch, at 1 or 2 PM, is a double meal of a Polish pork chop, sauerkraut, and potatoes… At 3 or 4 AM, I wake up and have more chocolate, then go back to sleep until morning.”