Eric Spoto

Eric Spoto is an American arm-wrestler and powerlifter who specializes in the bench press, born on 22 October 1976 and raised on Long Island, New York, before his family moved to Las Vegas. He became known in the powerlifting scene through videos of himself pressing over 600 pounds for repetitions while training in Sacramento, California. On 19 May 2013 at the Southern Powerlifting Federation California State Powerlifting Meet he bench pressed 722 pounds raw, wearing only a singlet, belt and wrist wraps, passing the previous raw mark of 715 pounds set by Scot Mendelson in 2005. His record was later broken by Kirill Sarychev in 2015 and then by Julius Maddox in 2020.