Evan Singleton - Road To The Invitational

“I want the average, casual viewer to think of Strongman and picture me.” After missing the 2022 Rogue Invitational due to injury, Evan “T-Rex” Singleton has come back on a mission in 2023. Starting with a career-best 5th place finish at the World’s Strongest Man earlier this year, the Lancaster, PA native comes into Austin as a serious dark horse contender against an elite field that includes Mitchell Hooper, the Stoltman brothers, Mateusz Kieliszkowski, and defending champ Oleksii Novikov. “My mindset during my prep is that I’m going into this competition to win,” Singleton says. As a former pro-wrestler, he has all the attitude and competitive drive to back up that statement, but he also has the craft and attention to detail of a seasoned Strongman. As he showed us, his training ahead of the ‘23 Invitational has included an obsessive, meticulous focus on each event that awaits him at Dell Diamond; even the ones that are impossible to fully re-create in a gym (i.e. the Rogue-A-Coaster and Tow