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As you said Makhulu, in his prime, is known to be the biggest lion of the Sabi sands. I don't think he was ever weighted so we will never know, but 240 kg sounds like the maximum for me. 225-230kg should be my guess.

Here's the result of a study in the KNP:
"An extensive study by Butch Smuts in the adjoining Kruger National Park has given us accurate weights; he found that female lions average 125kg, and males 180kg. The largest male lion that he recorded weighed in at 240kg."

For the video, that's probably Freddy of the KNP coalition(2 males). They were called the Kruger males. They were know to be BIG males, and rangers even told that they were bigger than the Majingilane.

"The two enormous Kruger males display a Flehmen grimace."
http://blog.londolozi.com/2012/07/a-sigh...uth-pride/ 

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The most dominant of the coalition, Limper, disappeared around july 2012. He had fights with the two mapogos (Makhulu and PB) but it was probably the Majingilanes who killed him.
Freddy was pushed out of the Southern tribe at the start of 2013 by the Sand river males(3).

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