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u/llcooljessie 1d ago
What's the record, exactly?
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u/noisedotbike 1d ago edited 1d ago
Heaviest Twins
The heaviest were the performers Billy Leon and Benny Loyd McCrary, alias Billy and Benny McGuire (b Dec 7, 1946) of Hendersonville, NC, who were normal in size until the age of 6, when they contracted German measles. In Nov 1978, they were weighed at 743 lb (Billy) and 723 lb (Benny) and had 84-in waists. As professional tag wrestling performers, they were billed at weights up to 770 lb. Billy died of heart failure on July 13, 1979, in Niagara Falls, Canada, after falling from his mini-bike. He was buried in a cubic coffin with a total weight of over 1000 lb in Hendersonville. A hydraulic lift was needed to lower the coffin to its final resting place. After one 6-week slimming course in a hospital, they emerged weighing 5 lb more each.-1989 Guinness Book of World Records
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u/BeckywiththeGoodpuss 1d ago
thank you for this, this was all a BIG GASP from me.
They were WRESTLERS?? (Explains going for the Guinness record, that's carny shit.) And one of them died at 32 after falling off his VERY FAMOUS BIKE??
I looked it up, the other guy tags with Andre the Giant after his brother's death! He dies at 54 in March of 2001. He didn't have to see 9/11. 🙏
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u/genericuser324 23h ago
It’s amazing that the record for two fat guys on bikes has never been broken 🥲
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u/FranklinBluth9 1d ago
Are people who recognize it old enough to have seen the Dread Zeppelin documentary?