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Title: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: CREALMADRID on April 11, 2013, 09:44:33 AM
Listened to palumbo radio show and him and aceto said that gary strydom had 3 year contract with WBF each year was worth 350 000$
thats a serious money for back then!
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: 240 is Back on April 11, 2013, 09:51:50 AM
Ballin.
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: Archer77 on April 11, 2013, 09:56:54 AM
The WBF and the Affliction mma promotion both failed because they thought they could spend their way to success.  I still remember the bodybuilders being shown on wwf programming.
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: CREALMADRID on April 11, 2013, 09:57:49 AM
today it would be like 600k calculated by inflation!
thats humongous amount of money back then,today the biggest contracts are what-100k a year,kai have a flex contract and receives 7k a month you do the math its 84k a year,ok he has other contracts but alone one contract back then for 350k is really huge
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: Archer77 on April 11, 2013, 10:00:31 AM
today it would be like 600k calculated by inflation!
thats humongous amount of money back then,today the biggest contracts are what-100k a year,kai have a flex contract and receives 7k a month you do the math its 84k a year,ok he has other contracts but alone one contract back then for 350k is really huge

Does that include the supplement line endorsement?  I thought he was a spokesman for Vince's line of supps.
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: ob205 on April 11, 2013, 10:34:55 AM
You mean this dogcrap.  ICOPRO.  McMahon, nothing better to do with his money than challenge old JOE, got spanked and didn't learn happened again with XFL.

Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: DroppingPlates on April 11, 2013, 10:44:18 AM
CM is a man, living in the past...
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: ribonucleic on April 11, 2013, 10:44:40 AM
McMahon, nothing better to do with his money than challenge old JOE, got spanked and didn't learn happened again with XFL.

A man's got to know his limitations.
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: polychronopolous on April 11, 2013, 11:36:17 AM
You mean this dogcrap.  ICOPRO.  McMahon, nothing better to do with his money than challenge old JOE, got spanked and didn't learn happened again with XFL.



True but Vince has said before he is not afraid to lose as long as he wins in the long run and he certainly has done that.
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: arce1988 on April 11, 2013, 11:40:49 AM
  That is a lot of money    good post
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: bigmc on April 11, 2013, 12:59:56 PM
where cam i buy icopro

must work strydom says so
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: Archer77 on April 11, 2013, 01:06:53 PM
where cam i buy icopro

must work strydom says so

In the same aisle as Hot Stuff and cybergenics
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on April 11, 2013, 01:08:12 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: The True Adonis on April 11, 2013, 01:14:20 PM
http://www.kayfabenews.com/three-million-gallons-of-unsold-icopro-buried-behind-titan-tower/

August 5, 2012 |
Three million gallons of unsold ICOPRO buried behind Titan Tower


WWE's Stamford headquarters, commonly known as Titan Tower, is the site of a mass buriel of ICOPRO.
A geographic survey of Connecticut has revealed the existence of a landfill behind World Wrestling Entertainment’s Stamford headquarters filled with roughly 3 million gallons of unsold bodybuilding supplement ICOPRO.


The ICOPRO dump has been rumored for decades, but was widely presumed to be an urban legend, much like the alleged landfill of the commercially disastrous Atari E.T. video game.

But thanks to satellite imaging and soil samples, the massive repository for ICOPRO has been confirmed.

The ICOPRO (Integrated Conditioning Program) supplements enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the early 1990s, heavily promoted through Vince McMahon’s ill-fated World Bodybuilding Federation.

Despite the product’s slogan (“You’ve Gotta Want It!”), practically nobody actually wanted it, and the manufacturer was left with tons of unsold powders and pills, which were then dumped into a deep pit behind WWE headquarters — known colloquially as Titan Tower — and covered with topsoil.

Rumors of the landfill have been circulating ever since trees and shrubs on the property grew to massive proportions in a fraction of the usual time.
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: MCWAY on April 11, 2013, 02:48:08 PM
You mean this dogcrap.  ICOPRO.  McMahon, nothing better to do with his money than challenge old JOE, got spanked and didn't learn happened again with XFL.



He got spanked by the federal government, not old Joe. Had the IFBB been put under the scrutiny that the WWF (and by proxy, the WBF) had to undergo......OH THE HUMANITY!!
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: MCWAY on April 11, 2013, 02:51:50 PM
Listened to palumbo radio show and him and aceto said that gary strydom had 3 year contract with WBF each year was worth 350 000$
thats a serious money for back then!

Not to mention the $100,000 he got for each WBF championship he won.


Here's his winning routine in 1991.



And in 1992 (the sound's ahead of the video).

Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: gracie bjj on April 11, 2013, 02:52:56 PM
i remember jersey bodybuilder johnnie morant was getting paid some big money also when he signed with WBF back then
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: oldtimer1 on April 11, 2013, 03:08:11 PM
He also had a very successful clothing line that he owned. He was known for having money.
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on April 11, 2013, 04:24:15 PM
Anyone have any details on why Strydom almost took a header(suicide)off the top of a building?
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: Archer77 on April 11, 2013, 04:25:52 PM
Anyone have any details on why Strydom almost took a header(suicide)off the top of a building?

Hair piece blew off while he was flexing on the roof and he was chasing after the it.
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: CREALMADRID on April 11, 2013, 10:06:41 PM
Anyone have any details on why Strydom almost took a header(suicide)off the top of a building?
"i lost all respect for him when his wife found out he was prostituting himself out for gear. he was so distraught he contemplated or attempted suicide. beefy heavyweight knows the story. he posted it on get big a while back.. just shows you how fucked up some people are. "

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=263337.5;imode
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on April 11, 2013, 10:59:26 PM
Hair piece blew off while he was flexing on the roof and he was chasing after the it.

lolz
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: DroppingPlates on April 12, 2013, 05:10:49 AM
He also had a very successful clothing line that he owned. He was known for having money.

Crazy Wear, still for sale on Amazon, great for a "back to the eighties" party ;)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a1TOLCaGL.jpg)
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: The_Punisher on April 12, 2013, 05:22:14 AM
Who was he doing, I meant what was he doing to make this salary?
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: gracie bjj on April 12, 2013, 07:11:52 AM
Crazy Wear, still for sale on Amazon, great for a "back to the eighties" party ;)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a1TOLCaGL.jpg)

i used to rock that lock in the late 80,s n early 90,s :) i liked my T-MICHEAL N GORILLA WEAR back then
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: CREALMADRID on April 12, 2013, 07:23:18 AM
He also had a very successful clothing line that he owned. He was known for having money.
yeah palumbo also said that he had a clothing line and probably didt even touched his contract money from WBF so he saved 1 million cash in the bank!
even now in the interview on FIBO 2013 he said he lives in thailand and have his own driver,his own cooking chef-he was smart with money!
but i was wondering who bought his clothes hahahah he wasnt a world celebrity as i know
Title: Re: Gary Strydom had a 350k salary in WBF in 1991
Post by: Rudee on April 12, 2013, 09:34:33 AM
I remember reading an article in Muscle Mag when Gary came on the scene in the 90's and he said that his chest grew far better from heavy flys than from bench presses.   I was always a bench press guy, I was strong on bench, but my pecs were not as thick as I was hoping for.  I was curious to see how my chest would respond by making heavy flys my main mass builder.   I discovered that I was the same way, when I focused on heavy flys as my main mass builder, my chest improved significantly.  And to this day, many years later, heavy flys are still my main mass builder.   I have large triceps, and they just seem to take over when I do bench press, so isolating my chest with heavy flys was the key to my chest mass over the years.  Got to thank Gary for that tip.   Some people are 'pressers' and get huge chests with bench press.  And some people are 'squeezers' and get huge chest with flys.  I'm definitely as squeezer.   (no homo)