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Title: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: musclecenter on January 20, 2011, 02:55:19 AM
8 time Mr.Olympia Lee Haney on Japan's Body Building magazine cover(Mar 2011)
Lee Haney hasn't been on bb mag's cover since 1993(except Flex mag Nov, 2007 )
http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?a=Haney,+Lee (http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?a=Haney,+Lee)
Why do most US's bb mags not favour him on the cover?
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: Wiggs on January 20, 2011, 03:05:28 AM
"marketability" ::)
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: local hero on January 20, 2011, 03:06:37 AM
old news..... was never a fashionable bodybuilder even in 80's
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: musclecenter on January 20, 2011, 03:10:10 AM
He is a very humble guy for sure.
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: PORKY on January 20, 2011, 03:12:52 AM
old news..... was never a fashionable bodybuilder even in 80's
I think it's cos he was a Twinlab guy rather than a Weider guy most of the time.
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: musclecenter on January 20, 2011, 03:18:22 AM
I think it's cos he was a Twinlab guy rather than a Weider guy most of the time.
Hi,Terry
Do you have any plan to compete 2011 Hong Kong Bodybuilding Invitation Championship,June 25-26? 
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: PORKY on January 20, 2011, 05:34:13 AM
Hi,Terry
Do you have any plan to compete 2011 Hong Kong Bodybuilding Invitation Championship,June 25-26? 

Still unsure bro...i'm undergoing some physio treatment and body alignment program at the moment. My hip is a lil out of place and is causing imbalance to my entire structure causing joint pains around the left knee and lower back. Will it sanctioned by IFBB or ABBF/WBPF?

Cos i heard the WBPF worlds MAY BE in Malaysia in Nov 2011.
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: Schmoe Buster on January 20, 2011, 05:39:43 AM
Still unsure bro...i'm undergoing some physio treatment and body alignment program at the moment. My hip is a lil out of place and is causing imbalance to my entire structure causing joint pains around the left knee and lower back. Will it sanctioned by IFBB or ABBF/WBPF?

Cos i heard the WBPF worlds MAY BE in Malaysia in Nov 2011.

Its an IFBB contest, WBPF will ban you for 2 years if you take part ::)

Musclecenter already trying to fix the contest ::) no wonder bodybuilding is a joke sport ::)
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: musclecenter on January 20, 2011, 05:43:57 AM
Still unsure bro...i'm undergoing some physio treatment and body alignment program at the moment. My hip is a lil out of place and is causing imbalance to my entire structure causing joint pains around the left knee and lower back. Will it sanctioned by IFBB or ABBF/WBPF?

Cos i heard the WBPF worlds MAY BE in Malaysia in Nov 2011.
The Invitation Contest has money prize.
It organized by Hong Kong's new federation and sanctioned by IFBB.
http://www.hkfbf.com/contest.html (http://www.hkfbf.com/contest.html)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo07SgRWFE8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo07SgRWFE8)
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: G_Thang on January 20, 2011, 06:00:17 AM
no controversy, no bastard kids, no whore beat downs, no run-ins with the law, no drugs, no burning cars, no nothing = no coverage.   
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: JP_RC on January 20, 2011, 06:08:08 AM
Because its a constant reminder of how bodybuilding has changed for the worse.
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: musclecenter on January 20, 2011, 06:08:41 AM
Its an IFBB contest, WBPF will ban you for 2 years if you take part ::)

Musclecenter already trying to fix the contest ::) no wonder bodybuilding is a joke sport ::)
???
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: _bruce_ on January 20, 2011, 06:10:15 AM
Too nice, gap, good taper, boring.
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: David M on January 20, 2011, 06:26:24 AM
no controversy, no bastard kids, no whore beat downs, no run-ins with the law, no drugs, no burning cars, no nothing = no coverage.   

truth right there.

maybe if he did a stint in prison or threw haymakers at other competitors in hotel lobbies he'd be a bigger "name" in this "sport".
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: slaver on January 20, 2011, 09:54:33 AM
hes too white
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: MCWAY on January 20, 2011, 11:43:10 AM
I think it's cos he was a Twinlab guy rather than a Weider guy most of the time.

He didn't join Twinlab, until 1990.
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: Rhinestone Cowgirl on January 20, 2011, 12:01:41 PM
8 time Mr.Olympia Lee Haney on Japan's Body Building magazine cover(Mar 2011)
Lee Haney hasn't been on bb mag's cover since 1993(except Flex mag Nov, 2007 )
http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?a=Haney,+Lee (http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?a=Haney,+Lee)
Why do most US's bb mags not favour him on the cover?
To put it in America's most popular and newest politically correct term, it was because he was too "urban".
Title: Re: Why do most US's bb mags not favour Lee Haney on the cover?
Post by: Leatherneck on January 20, 2011, 12:27:03 PM
To put it in America's most popular and newest politically correct term, it was because he was too "urban".

I'm sure this played a part in it. A lot of people are more likely to buy a magazine with a cover model who looks like them facially. To a small extent that is probably why Arnold is still on so many covers. Some of it also may have had something to do with how openly religous he is as well.