[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]zraw wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
This is a top six back? Hell, I hope my back is about that size now.[/quote]
Well damn you should compete, turn pro, and make big money doing what you love[/quote]
Dude, go away. Why do that when I make money doing what i do now? And get this, there is no “average five year popularity” issue as there is in bodybuilding. The average guy you see on stage won’t be talked about 5 years from now.
Remember Don Long?
Vince Taylor?
Barry Demey?
Francis Benfatto?
Momo Benaziza?
(and these names came from memory not a google search)
No?
Go figure.
You sound like a child at this point with little to offer.[/quote]
Well than you have
Kevin Levrone
Dorian Yates
Flex Wheeler
Shawn Ray
Lee Haney
And many other pros who haven’t competed in over 5 years still being big names today. I can’t count how many times I here those above mentioned names and other even dudes from the 60s and 70s.
And onto Rockel, fact is he looked better than Vic on the day of the show, Vic was not dry, did not possess the same seperation and ultimately looked a good week or 2 out and thus a better Rockel deservingly got a better placement. [/quote]
Shawn ray is only talked about when he pisses someone else off. Dorian Yates, Flex and Kevin have kept themselves in the public because of endorsements or their own attempts at self marketing (Flex’s supplement line caused a stir when he claimed he was natural, Kevin got reinserted into our heads when he did that video series of him getting back into shape for a movie, and Dorian still does some commentary at shows and is still seen at parties along with his supplement line and personal training.
No one is talking about Lee Haney (which is a shame) and this was a guy who truly has the best spiritual and character influence of anyone else…ever.
Most of the ones you mentioned also just finished competing fairly recently especially since most of us who actually follow the sport started following it when those guys were on stage.
What about the other guys?
You gave five names and the truth is, if it weren’t for the websites that make their voices known, they would be gone out of the public eye as well. The INTERNET is why you still hear of them.
What about Nasser?
What about Cormier, Mike Mattarazzo, Ernie Taylor, Jean Pierre Fux, Pavol Jablonicky, Aaron Baker, Gunter Schlierkamp, Johnny Moya or Mike Francois?
Need me to go on?
Pointing out five guys who are only known now mostly through the MD website does not erase the HUNDREDS who were talked about who are now nowhere to be found aside from rare appearances.[/quote]
I am not on here as much as some other places but almost everyday there is a new post about some past pro. I here names of the guys from the the 90s often. But besides Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, how many basketball fans are talking about pros from the 80s-90s, not many, it’s all relevant Lebron and Kobe, people don’t talk about the past unless they are making comparisons. It’s the same in every sport, which is just life, people tend to talk about things that are relevant to them.