Three of the past champions: American Mark Henry, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson and Brian Shaw have been inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame.

It was specifically designed by Terry Todd at the request of Schwarzenegger[7] to select the actual strongest strongman based on straightforward tests of brute strength.

Competitors were also given the opportunity to attempt the Thomas Inch dumbbell outside of the competition and Henry took the win by lifting it up to chest height.

For the second year, the competition was called 'Arnold's Strongest Man' and Savickas secured his third title over Vasyl Virastyuk of Ukraine and Glenn Ross of Northern Ireland.

6 events were tested for the first time where Savickas won the Apollon's wheels and shared the medicine ball toss world record with Magnus Samuelsson.

Ross won the Hummer tire deadlift, and shared the dumbbell press win with Brian Siders and Hugo Girard.

In 2006, the competition took its default name 'Arnold Strongman Classic' and it was won by Savickas for the fourth time over Virastyuk and Mikhail Koklyaev of Russia.

Savickas raised the Apollon's wheels world record to 8 reps, won the super yoke, and shared the dumbbell win with Koklyaev and Pfister.

He equaled his Apollon's wheels world record from last year and also won the Hummer tire deadlift and super yoke.

Poundstone, having broken another dumbbell press world record and won the timber carry to win his second consecutive title over returned Savickas and Ortmayer.

Just days before the 2011 contest, Poundstone was forced to withdraw due to injury and Brian Shaw became the fourth man to win the title.

[12] He broke the Manhood stones world record, shared the Hummer tire deadlift win with Savickas and won the timber carry.

[13] He broke dumbbell press world record and won both timber carry and the newly introduced Austrian Oak.

[15] He won the Austrian Oak and established world records in the Hummer tire deadlift and the newly introduced bale tote.

Jerry Pritchett won the timber carry and there was a four-way tie for the win of the newly introduced Cyr dumbbell press between Savickas, Shaw, Burke and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson.

Shaw won his second title[16] winning the Hummer tire deadlift and a world record in the bale tote.

Žydrūnas Savickas won his eighth and final title[17] after equaling his own Austrian Oak world record.

Eddie Hall won the newly introduced Elephant bar deadlift while Lalas secured the overall third place.

Kieliszkowski broke Odd Haugen's Tombstone world record and Mikhail Shivlyakov secured the overall third place.

JF Caron established a new world record in the Double-T Squat while Luke Stoltman and Bobby Thompson shared the third place.

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson returned after a three-year hiatus and won the Elephant bar deadlift event.

[52] The contest is included as part of the 2012 Strongman Champions League season, and competitors earned points towards the annual SCL overall title.

The winner of the contest receives their pro card, and an invite to the next year's Arnold Strongman Classic event.