Ray Orlando Williams

Ray Orlando Williams, born on 15 September 1986, is an American powerlifter who previously held the world record for the heaviest raw squat at 490 kilograms. He is a five-time IPF classic world powerlifting champion, a six-time USA Powerlifting national champion and a two-time Powerlifting America national champion. He first broke the raw squat world record, with only a belt and knee sleeves, in 2016 when he squatted 438 kilograms at the IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships in Killeen, Texas, a lift regarded as breaking Paul Anderson's raw squat record of 421.4 kilograms from 1965. Four months later he became the first man to squat 1,000 pounds with only knee sleeves, at the 2016 USAPL Raw Nationals.