This is consistent with the accounts about which I've read from years gone by.
If my memory is correct, back in the day the NPC Nationals was the last pro qualifying show of the year in the United States. So for all the other heavyweights, it's either wait until 1992 or hope Levrone doesn't take the spot at the Universe (which he didn't) and try your luck there.
That is why I asked earlier why would so many bodybuilders in the heavyweight class pass up an opportunity to get a coveted pro card at the Universe, if the drug test were so easy to beat.
A reportedly drug-free Ronnie Coleman at 5'11", 216 lbs, would indeed morph into a ro-beast monster after using anabolics.
Something similar would apply to Kai Greene, whom Chris Aceto stated put on 40 pounds in one year, once he started using steroids, after years of competing in the natural federations.
Greene himself stated (in a "Generation Iron" clip) that it was seductive to see how far he could push himself using anabolics, once he'd already reached the proverbial mountain top in natural bodybuilding. Greene won the WNBF Mr. Universe in 1995, which would lead to the aforementioned article on him in "All-Natural Muscular Development".
If we were to allow for the drug test at the Universe being legit, the reports of Ronnie only doing testosterone as an amateur would allow for easily beating the drug tests of the time. Simply taper off some weeks before. I do not believe Ronnie had not done any steroids as an amateur and people I consider trustworthy have said Ronnie has admitted to having used testosterone.
. OTOH I know it to be fact that corruption has happened in the IFBB so we can't be sure the tests are always legit. I also know that Ronnie having used some steroids early on doesn't mean he he doesn't have alien genetics. He does, everyone knows it. He became Mr O training like an asshole. Very good injury resistance and very good drug tolerance which is genetic. Him tolerating a boring routine, enjoying eating boring food and enjoying pounding his body year in and year out is also genetic. Personality and psychological profile is as important as physical genetics.
I believe all this is a logical conclusion based on everything I know
Same with Kai Greene, him gaining a ton as a pro doesn't mean he was completely natural as an amateur. Bodybuilders know that even if someone is resistant to the idea of using drugs and would like to continue claiming natural it's very hard to resist doing some drugs as a contest is approaching, even if it's just some Winstrol tablets or whatever. And if that someone is also someone who whores himself out to homos...
MCWAY, if you spend time around competitors you start to see patterns. As far as competitors lying, take Lee Priest for example, someone who appears honest and open generally. Lee said he did a shot of Deca a week at 19 and gained 20lbs.
Don't you find it just a little suspicious that Lee failed a drug test at 17 at the IFBB worlds, the contest you believe had legit drug tests?! The same freaking drug he claimed to have done his first cycle with?! First he says they fucked him over with a fake drug test and then he goes and does his first cycle with that very same drug
If someone here is a competitor and/or has been around competiros for a long time tell me I'm wrong in my assessment.
