Back then Williams was one of the smallest kids in the neighborhood. Stanley Tookie Williams III was one of the original founders and leaders of the Crips gang in Los Angeles, California. of pure muscle. Weightlifting made him Hulk-like. In 1979, Williams was convicted for the murder of four people during two robberies, and was sentenced to death. A lot. The highly p

It was rumored that he was doing back-arms (triceps extensions) with 315 and that he could easily rep out well over 500 pounds on the bench press. At his peak he had purported 22inch arms and able to do 560 lb bench presses for reps and 375 lb behind the neck presses for reps and 130lb dumbell curls. Total Animal and Iron Warrior!!! Williams became the de facto leader and the prominent crime boss in South Central in the 1970s. A few days later with all sixteen guards circled around the bench press inside the gym Monson once again with 315-pounds on the bench press took a spot from Pete and began completing rep after rep. One afternoon in the mid-1970s, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a keen bodybuilder and the co-founder of the Crips gang, was walking along the broadwalk at … He was said to dwarf his lifting partner, the notorious Stanley “Tookie” Williams. When it was all said-and-done Monson had completed four sets of 315-pounds for 50 reps. Stanley Tookie Willams stood 5'10 and weighed 290-300 lbs. It was stated that Stanley Williams could benchpress 605 lbs. In 1971, Williams and Raymond Washington formed an alliance establishing the Crips as the first major African-American street gang in South Central Los Angeles.

After about a year, he was bench-pressing 600 pounds and eating for two people. At 19, Williams began weight lifting. Tookie Williams ''I was monstrous,'' he says. But he knew that in a place like South Central, the more threatening you looked, the less threatened you felt.