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Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« on: October 05, 2019, 04:28:16 AM »
The first show I ever attended was the 1985 IFBB Night of Champions that Albert Beckles won. Went to nearly every show you could think of for near 20 years and then stopped after Yates reign. Anyway....biggest...rude st assholes that I ever met....and considering I was a young aspiring bodybuilder who was competing as a teen when I met these assholes. But here are my 3.

BIGGEST ASSHOLES

Sergio Oliva
Lee Haney (shock to many...I am certain)
Franco Columbo


The 3 nicest guys I ever met....

Reg Park
Vince Taylor
John Hnatyschak

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2019, 04:31:00 AM »
As the old bodybuilding saying goes, an asshole list isn’t complete without Rich Gaspari

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2019, 04:35:46 AM »
As the old bodybuilding saying goes, an asshole list isn’t complete without Rich Gaspari

I have a soft spot in my heart for Gaspari. I was a teen competitor and entered the First Rich Gaspari Classic show in New Jersey. Not sure if Rich still holds it. But...the night before the show....Gaspari calls my house...my father pics up phone...and tells me that Rich Gaspari is on the phone. I pick up in disbelief. And Gaspari wishes me luck for the following days show and goes on to say that he is calling all the teen competitors and wishing them the same. Class act thatday for Rich. Cant hate the guy. It meant a lot to me those days.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2019, 05:57:54 AM »
The first show I ever attended was the 1985 IFBB Night of Champions that Albert Beckles won. Went to nearly every show you could think of for near 20 years and then stopped after Yates reign. Anyway....biggest...rude st assholes that I ever met....and considering I was a young aspiring bodybuilder who was competing as a teen when I met these assholes. But here are my 3.

BIGGEST ASSHOLES

Sergio Oliva
Lee Haney (shock to many...I am certain)
Franco Columbo


The 3 nicest guys I ever met....
Reg Park
Vince Taylor
John Hnatyschak

what were your experiences with sergio and franco . . . ?

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2019, 10:24:29 AM »
Tell us more - keep spilling the beef!
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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2019, 10:26:13 AM »
I have a soft spot in my heart for Gaspari. I was a teen competitor and entered the First Rich Gaspari Classic show in New Jersey. Not sure if Rich still holds it. But...the night before the show....Gaspari calls my house...my father pics up phone...and tells me that Rich Gaspari is on the phone. I pick up in disbelief. And Gaspari wishes me luck for the following days show and goes on to say that he is calling all the teen competitors and wishing them the same. Class act thatday for Rich. Cant hate the guy. It meant a lot to me those days.

That was very classy. Good for him.

Very surprised at Haney though. He always seemed a gentleman.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2019, 01:11:00 PM »
You owe Lou $20.

Che is not a blonde woman.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2019, 01:16:25 PM »
I trained in the same gym with John Hnatyschak back in the day.  He was a cop in an urban area then left the profession to be a pro bodybuilder. He came to his senses and left bodybuilding and I heard he went back to being a cop but this time in sleepy affluent town. I remember thinking that the weights he used were very moderate.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2019, 01:18:42 PM »
I trained in the same gym with John Hnatyschak back in the day.  He was a cop in an urban area then left the profession to be a pro bodybuilder. He came to his senses and left bodybuilding and I heard he went back to being a cop but this time in sleepy affluent town. I remember thinking that the weights he used were very moderate.

I remember a magazine article back in the day when he alledgedly said "hey, this is chemical warfare but I dont care, I have my own rocket fuel"

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2019, 01:19:01 PM »
Is no one going to mention Chris Dickerson? Or Bob Paris?

Those holes have to be gigantic!

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2019, 01:22:03 PM »
Is no one going to mention Chris Dickerson? Or Bob Paris?

Those holes have to be gigantic!
Ha, ha, ha.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2019, 01:24:40 PM »
Is no one going to mention Chris Dickerson? Or Bob Paris?

Those holes have to be gigantic!

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2019, 01:30:34 PM »

Didn't someone say he shoved a baseball bat up his ass on film?

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2019, 01:38:59 PM »
Nicest guys I`ve met:
Bill Grant
Vince Taylor
Dave Palumbo
Bob Chic
George Farrah
Danny Padilla
Mike Katz
Jeff Poulin
JeffKing
Ed Jubinville
Chris Aceto
Leon Brown
Guenther Schlierkamp
King Kamali (believe it or not)
Ed Jubinville
Shawn Ray (believe it or not)
Dave Marinelli
Franco Santoriello
Dwayne Broadway

The list goes on and on.

Biggest assholes:
Lou Ferrigno
Kevin Levrone
Paul Dillet
Sandy Ranalli (complete bitch)

That`s all I got.

Met a helluva lot of great people in the sport.........far more good than bad.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2019, 01:41:29 PM »
Nicest guys I`ve met:
Bill Grant
Vince Taylor
Dave Palumbo
Bob Chic
George Farrah
Danny Padilla
Mike Katz
Jeff Poulin
JeffKing
Ed Jubinville
Chris Aceto
Leon Brown
Guenther Schlierkamp
King Kamali (believe it or not)
Ed Jubinville
Shawn Ray (believe it or not)
Dave Marinelli
Franco Santoriello
Dwayne Broadway

The list goes on and on.

Biggest assholes:
Lou Ferrigno
Kevin Levrone
Paul Dillet
Sandy Ranalli (complete bitch)

That`s all I got.

Met a helluva lot of great people in the sport.........far more good than bad.
Tell us more about Sandy.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2019, 02:11:21 PM »
In Lou's case - "biggest asshole" is a perfect fit in more than one way.

Wes, could you give a bit more info on Levrone and Dilet?
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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2019, 02:34:04 PM »
Calling BS on Haney.
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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2019, 02:46:10 PM »
Tell us more about Sandy.
HA HA .........this is a good one.

First of all please excuse my typing,I spit coffee on my keyboard laughing at some nut on here and now I have to go back to seperate run on sentences.

This Sandy story gets a bit long winded so bear with me.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #21 on: October 05, 2019, 03:07:54 PM »
The other stories which aren`t as bad really will come after this one if anybody gives a flying fuck.

OK,I did the 2000 NPC Masters Nationals and placed 4th. out of 5 guys in my class.

Not great,but I did my best as I always do when prepping.

Gary Udit runs the contest which is held in Pittsburgh every year.................... .great guy,great fucking contest.

My thoughts were to go back in far better shape in 2001 the following year.

Some of you may know or have heard of Dave Mastorakis IFBB competitor of the 70`s and 80`s and Christ even competed as a kid in the America contest that Dave Draper won.

They simply call him Dave Mass and you could not meet a better quality person.
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He`s from my hometown and I got to know him as an adult even though as a shy kid we both rained at he local YMCA.........not many gyms back then.

I idolized this guy (NO HOMO) het rained with the Mentzer brothers (another good story) but was too scared and shy to even say hello to him as a kid.
 
OK back to the present,Daves wife happened to be a flight attentdant with some airline and he tells me he can get my plane tickets a lot cheape rbecause of this fact.

Well this was great news to me as I wasn`t anywhere near X-Factoresque condition financially LOL  ;D

Dave checked out my build and told me I was at 4 % bodyfat.............for me,I looked fucking great

I knowI suck,but it was the bestI had ever looked up until that time.


Neve rhad a sponsor for the million contests I did but even the guy that owned my gym was so impressed by how I looked he paid my entry fee and bought my discounted plane tickets.

 I weighed 154 pounds and everyone said I looked diced and thought I weighed 175 so I was psyched to place well in this huge contnest.

End of Part1 because this seperating sentences shit is killing me and I type with one finger because I`m an old matherfacker!

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #22 on: October 05, 2019, 03:21:40 PM »
the biggest POS in all of bodybuilding history is Lou Ferrigno hands down.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #23 on: October 05, 2019, 03:38:57 PM »
Part 2:
OK,I got all my shit together and left for the airport in Hartford CT.

Dave Mass told me that because the tickets were discounted that here may be a chance that I would have to do a lot of waiting but I didn`t give a fuck as long as I competed..........I was very confident.

This is where the story gets fucked up............I`m only going to Pittsburgh but I had to layover in Atlanta Ga...................... ......still no biggie but after being there for 11 fucking hours I tol\d some cop that if I wasn`t on the next plane to call for backup because we`d be fighting (god damn Halotestin does it to me every time)  LOL  ;D

I finally get to Pittsburgh but its late at night and I was depressed to say the very least because I missed the fucking weigh-in.....................cardinal sin in the NPC and the IFBB.

I`m freaking out but I figured I see Gary Udit in the AM,explain my situaation and see if he could help me out.

I get to his room,he tells me to meet him in some banquet hall (contest was at the Sheraton in Pitt.) we both get there and Gary tells me after I tell him my situation was unavoidable and truly out of my hands that I was a good guy and  since I did the show the previous year ,he would weigh me in anyway.................. ..I was 154 on the nose and dry as a fucking bone.

OK,now Sandy Ranalli who was the head judge seeks me out............mind you,we had never met before.

I explained the situation to her and these are her exact words..........no pararhrasing:

"Well if you and fucking Gary are gonna make up your own set of fucked up assholish rules who the fuck am I to tell you that you can`t compete.

I`m just the head fucking judge,my opinion doesn`t fucking matter so go on and just fucking compete.

This broad swore worse than I do!  :)

Now all the while I was my usual polite self despite the fucking Halotestin and almost pleaded with her to let me compete................. ...felt like a peon begging for  food.

Keep in mind,I trained my nuts off dieted for 20 weeks,ate about 800 cans of dry tuna did cardio in my fucking sleep...........you know the drill.

I can honestly say I try to be a decent person unless someone mistakes my kindness for weakness but I wanted to choke this fucking broad............I kept my cool throughout and was calm and very respectful.............. ....kissed her ass actually................ ............everything she said was ina screaming fit of a tone.............the wholel obby stared at me like I had 3heads.

Part 3 day of contest next............also the day Sandy fucked me  without kissing me first.

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Re: Biggest assholes I have met in bodybuilding....
« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2019, 03:56:53 PM »
Guess which GB's hates (& why)  Zane,Oliva,Arnold & P.Graham  ;D