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Title: Samir Bannout
Post by: Drij on July 31, 2006, 12:21:29 PM
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Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: njflex on July 31, 2006, 07:57:47 PM
"THE LION FROM LEBANON"
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: bmacsys on August 18, 2006, 07:23:38 AM
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Could have been an alltime great.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: bicepsforyou on August 22, 2006, 07:13:33 AM
Damm he's ripped
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Jr. Yates on September 01, 2006, 01:44:48 PM
what do you mean could have been? He was a MR. O!
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Weightpit on September 01, 2006, 01:52:36 PM
He got lucky that year......he was destroyed in every Olympia he entered after that. ::)
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Jr. Yates on September 01, 2006, 01:55:54 PM
He got lucky that year......he was destroyed in every Olympia he entered after that. ::)
True.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Sculpter on September 04, 2006, 09:09:23 AM
Samir was the 1st Mr O that brought a christmas tree lower back to the O stage.It was because of that he was never able to reclaim the O title imo.After he brought that to the O stage the judges used future lower back condition of him as the defining factor of whether he was in shape or not.Sadly he was never able to duplicate the christmas tree lower back that won him his only Mr O title.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: legbreaker on September 04, 2006, 09:31:24 AM
True.

How do you get lucky by being the best.  He was his best and clearly deserved the title...no luck involved there.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Jr. Yates on September 04, 2006, 10:22:07 AM
How do you get lucky by being the best.  He was his best and clearly deserved the title...no luck involved there.
I was agreeing with how he did get beaten the following years.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Bodies on September 04, 2006, 04:24:45 PM
I would say the year he won the Mr. O he had what most people would consider a perfect body.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Jr. Yates on September 04, 2006, 05:30:08 PM
I would say the year he won the Mr. O he had what most people would consider a perfect body.
what do you mean??
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: GoneAway on September 05, 2006, 06:59:42 AM
I would say the year he won the Mr. O he had what most people would consider a perfect body.

Pics!
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: YoungBlood on November 25, 2006, 03:21:01 PM
Samir was the 1st Mr O that brought a christmas tree lower back to the O stage.

Really???


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Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Figo on November 26, 2006, 01:09:16 AM
Bannout had no looseness in the lower lats, spinal erectors area.

Cant compare the early 70's to 1983.

Diuretics and pharmaceutical knowledge and abuse grew in leaps and bounds in that decade.

Just like you cant compare  Bannout to Gaspari or Gaspari to Munzer.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: BEAST 8692 on November 26, 2006, 03:39:45 AM
Really???


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yep, arnold definitely has a xmas tree there. that has to be about as shredded as arnold got.

apparently samir was carrying a black brief case around with him at the time he won the o. there's been a lot of conjecture about exactly what was in that brief case that may have affected his condition ie diuretics and such. samir says it was just some raisins and stuff.

one thing's for sure, he never brought that condition to any subsequent olympias and i've always wondered why?
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: pumpster on November 26, 2006, 09:12:09 AM
apparently samir was carrying a black brief case around with him at the time he won the o. there's been a lot of conjecture about exactly what was in that brief case that may have affected his condition ie diuretics and such. samir says it was just some raisins and stuff.

one thing's for sure, he never brought that condition to any subsequent olympias and i've always wondered why?

Something tells me "beastiality" knows this from following him around. :-\
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: BEAST 8692 on November 26, 2006, 09:56:14 AM
Something tells me "beastiality" knows this from following him around. :-\

run along now little troll. this section is for grownups only.

off you go back to the ronnie adoration thread with your jar of vaseline. quick, a new picture of ronnie might be posted with his briefs up his ass. we know you love those ones.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Hurricane Beef ! on November 26, 2006, 03:57:33 PM
yep, arnold definitely has a xmas tree there. that has to be about as shredded as arnold got.

apparently samir was carrying a black brief case around with him at the time he won the o. there's been a lot of conjecture about exactly what was in that brief case that may have affected his condition ie diuretics and such. samir says it was just some raisins and stuff.

one thing's for sure, he never brought that condition to any subsequent olympias and i've always wondered why?

I recall reading that at the 80 Olympia Samir screwed up his diuretic protocol and began to pass unreal amounts of water. Mike Mentzer was approached and took some Potassium to Samir and it was said saved him.

The Beef
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: BEAST 8692 on November 27, 2006, 08:13:41 AM
I recall reading that at the 80 Olympia Samir screwed up his diuretic protocol and began to pass unreal amounts of water. Mike Mentzer was approached and took some Potassium to Samir and it was said saved him.

The Beef


hadn't heard that one. maybe, after being spooked like this, samir just wasn't prepared to go take those measures again and thus the reason he never attained that condition again.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Hurricane Beef ! on November 27, 2006, 08:50:05 AM
I read it in an old M&F, have a look back atthe 80 Olympia issues and post it. It was a good read.

The Beef
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Sergio Rules 77 on November 27, 2006, 10:15:24 PM
Could have been an alltime great.

As far as I'm concerned if you win an O, you deserve to be called an all time great. Unless your surname is Cutler ;D

SERGIO!!!!!
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: americanbulldog on December 03, 2006, 11:38:40 PM
I would say the year he won the Mr. O he had what most people would consider a perfect body.

82-83 Samir looked phenomenal.  When I finally met him, though, his personality did not reflect the man I thought he was.  He was hooching all the women at Gold's Gym Honolulu, and treated people poorly.  The front desk manager nicknamed him Slimer Bannout.  Nourdine was hella cool, though.  Great physique. 
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Sergio Rules 77 on December 05, 2006, 02:12:21 PM
When I finally met him, though, his personality did not reflect the man I thought he was.  He was hooching all the women at Gold's Gym Honolulu, and treated people poorly.  The front desk manager nicknamed him Slimer Bannout.  Nourdine was hella cool, though.

That doesn't surprise me. When I watched him pose I thought that he seemed like a really nice guy. Then I got the Superstars of Muscle video that focuses on the lead up to the 1990 Olympia and I noticed a few things in the vid that made me think he was a little bit arrogant. Like his now ex-wife talking about how she cooks all his food and makes sure it's prepared exactly how he likes it. She comes across like he sought of demands it of her. Just my opinion though.

SERGIO!!!!!
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Figo on December 06, 2006, 05:46:49 AM
Was the shit in 83, but thereafter looked like shit, but still thought of himself as the shit.

Whenever anyone said anything critical regarding him, the automatic retort was:
"Who is he, what does he know, what has he done, I'm Samir Bannout, I'm Mr Olympia, he's nothing"... arrogant? No, just deluded and living in 1983.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Iceman1981 on December 09, 2006, 10:54:33 AM
Really???


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Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: BEAST 8692 on December 09, 2006, 11:02:37 AM
i'd give back development and condition to samir there
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: YoungBlood on December 21, 2006, 04:04:05 PM
I wasn't trying to compare who was better. It was said Samir had the first Christmas tree ever...the photo of Arnold I posted was taken years before Samir jumped onstage with that Christmas tree. So, he wasn't the first...that's all I was attempting to prove.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: BEAST 8692 on December 22, 2006, 03:38:50 AM
I wasn't trying to compare who was better. It was said Samir had the first Christmas tree ever...the photo of Arnold I posted was taken years before Samir jumped onstage with that Christmas tree. So, he wasn't the first...that's all I was attempting to prove.

yeah, no worries YoungBlood. just comparing them is all.

you made a good point re pic of arnold with the xmas tree.
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: kimo on July 23, 2012, 11:31:48 AM
samir in 1983 showed an amazing well balanced body . arnold too much chest and biceps weak thighs . sergio . smooth many times . lee haney weak arms and calves and so on . yates was a bit blocky . zane flat chest too small .. only bannout in 1983 was without flaws like padilla in 1981 ..
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: ritch on July 23, 2012, 11:44:06 AM
he won by default that year, weak ass line up...
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: wild willie on July 23, 2012, 02:55:14 PM
I would say the year he won the Mr. O he had what most people would consider a perfect body.
X2
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: wild willie on July 23, 2012, 03:02:52 PM
That doesn't surprise me. When I watched him pose I thought that he seemed like a really nice guy. Then I got the Superstars of Muscle video that focuses on the lead up to the 1990 Olympia and I noticed a few things in the vid that made me think he was a little bit arrogant. Like his now ex-wife talking about how she cooks all his food and makes sure it's prepared exactly how he likes it. She comes across like he sought of demands it of her. Just my opinion though.

SERGIO!!!!!
  ;)
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: kimo on July 31, 2012, 01:10:04 PM
if bannout is arrogant the oak is what a model of humility . twicw as arrogant as bannout . to think of oneself as the king and everybody else bit players is more arnold song .
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: Donny on August 02, 2012, 06:26:48 AM
if bannout is arrogant the oak is what a model of humility . twicw as arrogant as bannout . to think of oneself as the king and everybody else bit players is more arnold song .
100%
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: kimo on August 07, 2012, 06:41:45 AM
at least in 1980 he was like that. i always fet sad that samir didnt duplicate his great 1983 shape .
Title: Re: Samir Bannout
Post by: yates fan on September 22, 2012, 08:56:17 AM
wasnt samir and lee labrada related?