There’s nothing tiny or meek about Tiny Meeker.

He stands 5 feet, 9 inches tall; weighs about 320 pounds. A tape around his triceps would read 24 inches; around his forearms, nearly 20 inches.

Meeker, whose given name is Paul, started powerlifting while a student at Humble High School. He got his nickname while working as a bouncer at a club alongside another guy also called Paul, who was much taller. They started calling him Tiny so that both of them wouldn’t respond when their name was called.

 

• The Greatest Bench Presser of All Time.
• Elected to the WABDL Hall of Fame in 2012.
• 20-time drug-free bench press world champion.
• The highest drug-tested bench press in history at 1047 lbs.
• World records: 800 lbs. x 4 lifts, 700 lbs. x 8 lifts, and 600 lbs. x 14 lifts.
• Heaviest man to ever bench-press more than THREE TIMES his own body weight.