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There are currently no vegan or vegetarian top level power lifters or strong men.
World records can be pretty obscure apparently!
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I imagine it's potentially possible, though, and would be relatively easy if you were a vegetarian, as you could consume whey and eggs just like the meat eaters.
I personally know a world champion athlete in a combat sport who is a vegan, and has been for years, and he is in fantastic shape -- fast, fit, strong -- but he's definitely not big in the way a lifter would be (and it would extremely detrimental to him in his sport if he was).
I guess you mean this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGenwfzJJyA
I think this guy is relatively small so you can't really make any comparison, it's hard to find up to date stats but this website states 5'6" and 282lb https://www.vegetarianbodybuilding.com/vegan-badass-patrik-baboumiam/
Robert Oberst (in the Rogan video) is 6'7" and has competed at 400lb+.
What I do know is that I am a "quiet" vegan, who usually when eating in a group just get on with it until someone notices and then starts asking questions, and often get on the defensive when I give them an answer or just downright shit on the idea saying "nah I need me meat me" or somesuch.
I cycle to work with a Jamaican lad who loves his chicken n rice, there are some big climbs as it up in the hills and he is always asking how I do it without eating meat. he's a cool guy but its like I've just stepped out of a spaceship.
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Part of the reason these guys are huge (besides any potential drug use) is they eat 10,000+ calories a day. A lot of that comes from rice, pasta etc both of which would typically be vegan.
By contrast a fighter usually has to stay in a weight class, so being big isn't usually the goal.
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I think it is inevitable that there will be vegan champions in all sporting arenas at some point, but it's a numbers game, I would imagine as a percentage of all athletes around the world only a few percent would be vegan.
But as or if that number increases then the chances of competing at the same level massively increase as well.
No doubt vegan supplements will become better also, as the demand rises and more companies get on cashing in that growing market.
Googling for vegan protein powders, it looks like I'm wrong, in terms of what is on the market. There are low calorie vegan protein powders, _but_ none of them are complete proteins. But, you could get complete proteins by mixing up multiple sources of powders and similar products.