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Title: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 02, 2009, 07:58:54 PM
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 02, 2009, 08:01:00 PM
Palumbo,Curtis Leffler and Prince!
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 02, 2009, 08:02:19 PM
                   Titus!!!!!!
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 02, 2009, 08:06:10 PM
Also saw Edgar Fletcher,Leo Ingram,Gerard Dente,John Cutri, Jason Arntz?
in there as well
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: bigguns23 on February 02, 2009, 08:10:51 PM
Man, what Fletcher could have been.
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Brutal_1 on February 02, 2009, 08:11:30 PM
Titus and Prince both look awesome...

I was always impressed by how thick and striated Ingram was as well, as an amateur  :-\

That lineup seriosly looks better than last year's Olympia lineup
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 02, 2009, 08:14:20 PM
Def a crazy lineup that year!!!
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: dustin on February 02, 2009, 08:16:36 PM
Only one problem. What's with the skinny waists? These homies ever hear of insulin and hormone abuse? I think not! >:(

But seriously... they look way better than today's pro's and they look just as big. What gives?
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 02, 2009, 08:22:44 PM
You wanna talk an "underrated bodybuilder".....what the hell was so wrong with Gerard Dente's physique?
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: IceCold on February 02, 2009, 09:43:26 PM
prince could have been the man.

reminds me a bit of mike francois.
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: 11venthhour on February 02, 2009, 09:47:46 PM
Titus and Prince both look awesome...

I was always impressed by how thick and striated Ingram was as well, as an amateur  :-\

That lineup seriosly looks better than last year's Olympia lineup

without a question better than the recent ironman
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Meso_z on February 03, 2009, 12:45:18 AM
they all looked awesome back then...
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: honest on February 03, 2009, 12:53:51 AM
Great show, Guys like Gerard dante, Beau matlock, edgar Fletcher would have made great pros in this day and age and back then they couldnt even get their card. The sports gone backwards in leaps and bounds i dont care what anyone says, besides Wolfe and Heath there have been no good physiques turning pro in the last decade.
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Meso_z on February 03, 2009, 02:30:59 AM
Prince looked fucking sick!!  :o
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: kyomu on February 03, 2009, 02:46:52 AM
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more impressive than Pros of now a day.
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: webcake on February 03, 2009, 02:50:24 AM
Back then, aesthetics was the muscle.

Nowadays.....bodybuildin g is the muscle.
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: honest on February 03, 2009, 03:05:10 AM
I was at that show and also training in Venice, where Titus was training, he weighed 219lbs for that show,a few days out he walked 10 yards away and told a few of the brothers he was 229 by the time he got to the back of the gym he was 235, funny thing was he was that smashed on the bain he didnt realise i was waiting paitently to weigh myself and saw his weight first hand, i wasnt stalking him but it always suprised me what bodybuilders always said they weighed against their actual weight. The show was at long Beach i recall, i watched it from the audience not bad seats about 10 rows back, thought the show was Princes hands down, he looked great all over but his hamstrings were something else.
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: kyomu on February 03, 2009, 03:15:19 AM
Back then, aesthetics was the muscle.

Nowadays.....bodybuildin g is the muscle.
No.
Back then, bodybuilding is the muscle.

Because, most of them are in great shape unlike now.
The muscle without cut = no muscle
The muscle with cut = real muscle
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: webcake on February 03, 2009, 03:16:46 AM
No.
Back then, bodybuilding is the muscle.

Because, most of them are in great shape unlike now.
The muscle without cut = no muscle
The muscle with cut = real muscle

Muscle is the muscle.....no doubt about it.

Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: kyomu on February 03, 2009, 03:23:06 AM
Muscle is the muscle.....no doubt about it.


;D
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: jaejonna on February 03, 2009, 06:42:28 AM
Edgar Fletcher looked crazy ..
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 03, 2009, 07:13:35 AM
I was at that show and also training in Venice, where Titus was training, he weighed 219lbs for that show,a few days out he walked 10 yards away and told a few of the brothers he was 229 by the time he got to the back of the gym he was 235, funny thing was he was that smashed on the bain he didnt realise i was waiting paitently to weigh myself and saw his weight first hand, i wasnt stalking him but it always suprised me what bodybuilders always said they weighed against their actual weight. The show was at long Beach i recall, i watched it from the audience not bad seats about 10 rows back, thought the show was Princes hands down, he looked great all over but his hamstrings were something else.
Always thought Prince looked better at this show (Titus = Torn pec,stomach distension...and looked "small" next to prince)
Craig did get in crazy shape for this show tho! (and it was "his time" after losing the year before to Phil Hernon)
great show/epic battles and a lot of "shoulda been" pros in the show!!!
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: njflex on February 03, 2009, 07:23:26 AM
Always thought Prince looked better at this show (Titus = Torn pec,stomach distension...and looked "small" next to prince)
Craig did get in crazy shape for this show tho! (and it was "his time" after losing the year before to Phil Hernon)
great show/epic battles and a lot of "shoulda been" pros in the show!!!
DENTE was a jerzy boy,huge,i remember seeing him in a club in early ninties covered up he was large.he has great buisness and family marble buissness is nothing to sneeze at either.he was robbed at least 2 times to being pro.great shape for big man.
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: local hero on February 03, 2009, 08:27:51 AM
prince actualy had a very good physique, awsome taper, a little light in the back, but all round very impressive.. i think titus had the star factor from the clips, he just looked and acted like the winner, and he did hit all his shots very well..


Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Meso_z on February 03, 2009, 08:39:21 AM
Prince was fucking thick!  damn. :o
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Topskin69 on February 03, 2009, 09:31:00 AM

"Just finished my training. Its Venice. Im going home and having a flank steak...life is good."
Craig Titus
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Relentless on February 03, 2009, 10:18:28 AM
Tom looked awesome!

Why do the guys today not look as good as these dudes?
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Immortal_Technique on February 03, 2009, 02:09:59 PM
BFT
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Meso_z on February 03, 2009, 02:25:20 PM
Another great clip.

Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: bigguns23 on February 03, 2009, 03:48:45 PM
why can't physiques go back to that??
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Topskin69 on February 03, 2009, 04:28:07 PM

BAsed on that 2nd clip, Palumbo stuffed about 2 quarts of oil in that right bicep.

M!
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: QuakerOats on February 03, 2009, 04:32:37 PM
Craig looked incredible that year.
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 03, 2009, 06:59:16 PM
Craig looked incredible that year.
  yea Craig's video was shot leading up to this contest (and to this day is my favorite Tape to watch when im getting ready for a show/on the treadmill)

condition was just plain...sick!
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 03, 2009, 07:10:05 PM
                Bodybuilding was great in the 90's!


                                                         



                                               ok............well maybe not the "fashion"
                                                                                                                     ;D
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: webcake on February 03, 2009, 07:11:45 PM
Are you kidding, Mike?!

I'd love to be able to wear that shit again.

Parachute pants, spandex, sweat shirts with arms cut out.....i wish i was a bb'er in the 80/90's..... :(
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 03, 2009, 07:12:49 PM
Are you kidding, Mike?!

I'd love to be able to wear that shit again.

Parachute pants, spandex, sweat shirts with arms cut out.....i wish i was a bb'er in the 80/90's..... :(

  lol!!........................ come to think of it

                                             it was FUN!!!!!                                              :P
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: webcake on February 03, 2009, 07:14:15 PM
  lol!!........................ come to think of it

                                             it was FUN!!!!!                                              :P

You are a lucky man, Mike.

I am young and never got to experience that great era...
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 03, 2009, 07:17:10 PM
You are a lucky man, Mike.

I am young and never got to experience that great era...

                           ;)             http://www.bestforminc.com/t-Michael.cfm
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 03, 2009, 07:25:09 PM
                       Hot Skins went out of business!!!!!!!!!!!!

                           http://www.bestforminc.com/hotskins.cfm

                                                                               :'(
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 03, 2009, 07:27:24 PM
I actually went to the "Hot Skins" Warehouse/main store in Venice (Trish owned it very nice lady!)
think i bought $200.00 worth of "Hot Skins"


                                                           lol
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: webcake on February 03, 2009, 07:27:47 PM
Ah yes.....spandex booty shorts and a sweat shirt.....what a combo... :o :'(
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 03, 2009, 07:31:39 PM
Ah yes.....spandex booty shorts and a sweat shirt.....what a combo... :o :'(

  your forgeting............... ....fanny pack,"puffy" white socks,Otomix sneakers
                     http://www.shoebuy.com/otomix-stingray-boot/1549/1549

Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 03, 2009, 07:36:10 PM
 ;D
             http://www.crazeewear.com/index.php

Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: TechnoViking on February 03, 2009, 07:42:41 PM
Not that we need more proof but this for sure shows how much insline wrecked pro bodybuilding...

And what is wrong with Titus's rear lat spread? Was it really that bad back then :-\
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Meso_z on February 04, 2009, 12:44:37 AM
Is that "Vince G"?

(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=261876.0;attach=302949;image)
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: njflex on February 04, 2009, 07:20:58 AM
NICE MARACAS MIKE,BUT THEY DID.NT MATCH YOUR OUTFIT.
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Noel Fuller on February 04, 2009, 07:36:28 AM
I did Dave Hughes diet for that show
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: QuakerOats on February 04, 2009, 07:38:07 AM
I did Dave Hughes diet for that show
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o ::)
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: CT_Muscle on February 04, 2009, 07:43:41 AM
why can't physiques go back to that??

Too many new drugs fucking everything up in the quest for guts I mean size  :'(
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 04, 2009, 08:00:03 AM
NICE MARACAS MIKE,BUT THEY DID.NT MATCH YOUR OUTFIT.

            Not sure that's a bad thing................... .........lol!
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 04, 2009, 08:04:42 AM
                    It was a good time/era to be a part of! 
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: chester_bbb on February 04, 2009, 08:15:51 AM
I actually went to the "Hot Skins" Warehouse/main store in Venice (Trish owned it very nice lady!)
think i bought $200.00 worth of "Hot Skins"


                                                           lol

 :o ;D
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: aleksandr1974 on February 04, 2009, 11:55:48 AM
Mike,can you post more of these pictures with young Matarazzo,please ?
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 04, 2009, 11:59:27 AM
Mike,can you post more of these pictures with young Matarazzo,please ?

                  sure!                  :)
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 04, 2009, 12:07:04 PM
I took these at my buddys gym (Mike had just won the "1991 USA'S" and turned pro)
i was working with his then-wife at a niteclub and he came in all the time and we struck up a friendship
(Mike would come in in a tank-top and literally draw a crowd just from the way he looked)
i remember one time he was standing outside the club waiting for Linda (wife) to come out,i went outside talked to him for a bit went back inside.........10-15 mins later i go out again,there is a crowd around him and even had a car or 2 stop that was driving by
it was nuts!
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 04, 2009, 12:17:57 PM
........................ ..
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: michael arvilla on February 04, 2009, 12:19:12 PM
........................
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: aleksandr1974 on February 04, 2009, 02:13:16 PM
thank you,Mike for great pictures.
post it more if you have.
i think its Matarazzo of 1991-1992 period.
i think at this period he had his arms at his all time biggest.
Mike,may be you know ,why later his arms became smaller ?
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: _bruce_ on February 04, 2009, 03:31:11 PM
jawdropping physiques
Title: Re: 1996 NPC USA Bodybuilding Muscle Heavyweight Prejudging -Titus and Prince!
Post by: Immortal_Technique on February 05, 2009, 03:19:04 AM
they all looked awesome back then...

Makes you regain faith that a massively muscled guy can actually look cool, and not like a dried out druggy. The fact that Leo Ingram didn't make it back then and has made it pro now looking less good is a bit of a testament to the state of affairs, but on a possitive note these guys all look amazing, so there is still hope.