Agreed. I wanted to like Phil, but in the end, he said too much arrogant shit for me to give a damn.
The other guy? I saw a clip of him at one of those dumbass press conferences. He was foaming at the mouth about "working harder" than anyone else, or somesuch b.s. (Doz used to talk about that occasionally, but he didn't say it braggodociously; besides, when you look at how his contemporaries dieted and trained, he was right. Cormier trained pretty hard but partied. Flex was not an impressive trainer; neither was Dillet. Kevin worked hard when he wasn't taking off three months or more and drinking. Nasser? LOL. Only Shawn seemed to bust his ass.) Buendida or whatever WAS boasting, eyes darting around, looking straight down, looking like he had just tooted up. Fucking clown. Watching him reminded me of Joffrey in Game of Thrones: "I am THE KING!"
The IFBB thought they struck gold when he first landed on the scene and showed olympia potential and dare I say "marketability".
Then gradually his physique, attitude and popularity got worse year on year. They had a chance to address things in 2017 with Big Ramy but didn't have the balls.
I remember that conference with Jeremy talking tough at someone in the crowd. Hilarious.
