Here's what I don't get...why don't Blechman, Kennedy, Balik, and Everson join forces? They're all independent mags. Theoretically, they're each others competition, but if they came together in an informal cartel/trust agreement and threw their weight behind PDI or NABBA or a creation of their own, they could reinvent bodybuilding, making sure the athletes and themselves benefitted.
People forget...The IFBB has Flex and M&F. That's it. If the other mags stopped covering IFBB shows and started focusing say on NABBA, the prize money at the NABBA shows would go up, more athletes would flock to NABBA, and the shows would get better.
The IFBB is proving--from denying press passes to MD to stationing officials outside the NOC--that it will not tolerate competition. Too bad, because competition benefits the athletes and the fans, the very people this sport is supposed to be all about.