hey lurker my cousin trained at some gym in georgia with a few wcw guys int he early 90's he said nikita koloff was the strongest one, out of the bunch.
and that rick flair was basically the same person in real life as he portrayed on the camera
There was also Coffee's Gym a couple miles from Main Event. Which was a dirty ass no nonsense hard core gym where every woman in the there benched over 275 and the men were massive and ripped primitives communicating in grunts and head twitches. Half the equipment in there was held together with duct tape. You would feel like you needed a tetnus shot after a good work out. Loved that place. Nikita had his photo on the wall there, never saw him in person but did see Animal, Rick Rude, Raven, Sid Vicious and Rick Steiner were regulars there. Animal and Rude usually arrived in the same car together, sometimes trained together but mostly did their own thing.
Zybysko was shocking to see move 405 for 10-12 full reps so easily. I mean, you would have never thought it possible from looking at him. Dude wasn't even at failure on the last reps either. He could have gotten a few more each time. Just racked the weight, stood up and would put his hands on his waist and do these waist twists from left to right, then interlock his fingers and stretch his arms up over his head, palms up at the ceiling and hold it for about thirty seconds then jump back and do another set. He did over a dozen sets of flat bench like this. Wasn't even breathing hard after the last one. Just took his weight off and left. Not even sweating.
In addition to Zybysko, Goldber, Even Kargis (sp?), DDP, and a couple of luchadores trained at the Main Event on Buford (which Ty Felder "Ropeman" later bought and renamed after himself)
Lee Haney's Gym downtown had Abdullah the Butcher (believe it or not) and Iron Shiek (who sweated buckets nonstop leaving pools of sweat everywhere and had the WORST form ever witness in a gym. Trust me.... it was the stuff of legends), and occasionally Ron Simmons and Norma Smiley.
Powerhouse Gym in Alpharetta had Glacier, Robbie Rage (big ass dope head), Kenny Kaos, Perry Saturn (strong ass dude too would rep standing dumbell shoulder presses with the 100 set of dumbbells for his rep) and Hogan every now and then.
Main Event on in Marietta had Sting, Luger, Bagwell (total ass hat), Savage, Arn, Jericho, Malenko, Nash, Beefcake, and a lot of the almost-mid-carders and career jobbers like Johnny Swinger, Sick Boy, Lodi, etc...
