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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Karl Kox on January 12, 2006, 07:20:44 AM
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What pros do you guys think should not have a card ?
I say Greg Kovacs
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I agree w/Kovacs. I also think Jocelyn Pelletier & Heiko shouldn't have their pro cards either.
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Add Kenny Jones to that list also.
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What about Fransworth ( think thats how ya spell it )
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What hoes should not be hoes
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Usually amatuers will enter a national qualifier and compete against the best of the best there and then whoever wins that class will compete in a National contest to get that pro card. Whoever wins that days in that respective class or the overall will win a pro card...
What I am trying to say is that person or persons may have been the best that day against their peers and deserving to win that pro card.
To say that these men dont deserve their pro cards is a slap on the face to them that worked their butts off. The way they came in shape on that day of the contest made them earn their pro cards....they may not have had the prettiest physiques but they were among the best of the best that day....
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Palumbo
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Polumbo is not a pro....yet....
I dont think they will ever give him his pro card because of his genetic structure...his physique isnt pleasing to the eye..its not aethetical
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well said. How someone turns out as a pro and the time the deserved to turn pro are not alway the same. kudos to anyone who completes the vicious journey to a procard and gets it. it is a path that leaves broken dreams and bodies in its ditches. haterade is an unique drink. once said to me about hating, watch what you wish on someone else as it could come to pass on yourself. i wish the best to all competitors, because as BB'rs (regardless of levels, genetics, gear or not) we all give everything financially, physiqually, emotionally to attempt to make our physique just a little bit better. I believe to endure the diet and training and get your ass on a stage to be critiqued or judged by others is something within itself. More importantly people who just talk shit about people are usually the guys that juice and yell in the gym and walk around swoll talking big shit and never get on a stage themselves. why? they are so insecure to expose their flaws and physiques and face critcisms from their peers especially since they talk shit about everyone else, even those who normally wouldnt talk junk would devour them. just my two cents. everyone sees things differently. "If you must critique; you must compete."
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Usually amatuers will enter a national qualifier and compete against the best of the best there and then whoever wins that class will compete in a National contest to get that pro card. Whoever wins that days in that respective class or the overall will win a pro card...
What I am trying to say is that person or persons may have been the best that day against their peers and deserving to win that pro card.
To say that these men dont deserve their pro cards is a slap on the face to them that worked their butts off. The way they came in shape on that day of the contest made them earn their pro cards....they may not have had the prettiest physiques but they were among the best of the best that day....
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Thanks for the FYI bro
I cant believe PaDumbo is not a pro...omg
Polumbo is not a pro....yet....
I dont think they will ever give him his pro card because of his genetic structure...his physique isnt pleasing to the eye..its not aethetical
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Palumbo has the mass and conditioning...he is a FREAK in every sense of the word but his physique isnt pretty at all. I am not trying to take anything away from Palumbo but he has structural flaws such as a big torso and his chest isnt really all that great.
But he is making due to what he was born with for his own genetic potential.
What he should do is enter some pro qualifier that is not well known ...perhaps in another country against guys he knows he will dominate because of his sheer mass...I believe Bruce Patterson (Canadian pro) did an amatuer contest where he competed against guys that he literally dwarfed who did not look at all like pro material. It was like boys competing against a grown man when he competed at this show and got his pro card...it was no contest... I think this is what Dave Palumbo needs to do to get his pro card....enter a pro qulaifying show in a different country where he is competing against mediocre physiques......that way....people will say, there is no way he should not have won that contest where he made others look like little boys .......that would be like a Hummer competing against a jeep..the Hummer will win in a class all its own...
Aside from Chick who got his pro card after years and years of competing...I think Dave palumbo is one of the athletes who competed all these years who has always failed to receive his pro card...he never gave up and competes year after year for this dream....that in itself is commendable but also time and money consuming....
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Palumbo has the mass and conditioning...he is a FREAK in every sense of the word but his physique isnt pretty at all. I am not trying to take anything away from Palumbo but he has structural flaws such as a big torso and his chest isnt really all that great.
But he is making due to what he was born with for his own genetic potential.
What he should do is enter some pro qualifier that is not well known ...perhaps in another country against guys he knows he will dominate because of his sheer mass...I believe Bruce Patterson (Canadian pro) did an amatuer contest where he competed against guys that he literally dwarfed who did not look at all like pro material. It was like boys againast a man when he competed at this show and got his pro card. I think this is what Dave Palumbo needs to do to get his pro card....
Aside from Chick who got his pro card after years and years of competing...I think Dave palumbo is one of the athletes who competed all these years who has always failed to receive his pro card...he never gave up and competes year after year for this dream....that in itself is commendable but also time and money consuming....
ya I agree
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i hear Will Harris only got his card because of the amount of time he had been an amateur, apparently he was nowhere near winning his card when he got it. Anyone confirm this?
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I don't know he looks huge in the off season but come contest time he looks skinny
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George Farah and Kenny Jones
Farah placed 12th at the Olympia ::) WTF are u talking about???
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What about Fransworth ( think thats how ya spell it )
Farnsworth is the real deal. He put in his time, worked his way up, married a hot Australian woman, and then earned his pro card.
When you look at his contest-ready physique, the man is *definitely* a professional bodybuilder.
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someone give poor plumbo a card..
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I think a "pro" should have to requalify. Nothing too stringent, just place in the Top 15 of any sanctioned show within 3 years to retain your pro standing.
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Farah got a gift at the O
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Add Kenny Jones to that list also.
Lil' Sculpter,
How do we get Kenny Jones out of the mix?
I don't know how he got in, but how the hell do we get him out? >:(
DIV
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someone give poor plumbo a card..
I wonder if now that he is out of the can will he compete agian and try to get his card
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someone give poor plumbo a card..
It's either that or have his ultimate death on your hands. Dave will literally kill himself in order to get that elusive pro card.
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Lil' Sculpter,
How do we get Kenny Jones out of the mix?
I don't know how he got in, but how the hell do we get him out? >:(
DIV
You just need someone like Kenny to keep bodybuilding REAL :D!
Lisa
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Matt Devall
if we knew he was punking out only after 1 show!!!!!
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Charles Stingray Arde
After prostituting himself "in the name of his dear mom" with all his jack-off videos with gay-oriented MuscleHunks and then getting away with it all with a Pro Card and now pretending to be now straight, so angelic and "clean" without a trace!
Boy! What a hypocrite if you ask me! :-X
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Charles Stingray Arde
After prostituting himself "in the name of his dear mom" with all his jack-off videos with gay-oriented MuscleHunks and then getting away with it all with a Pro Card and now pretending to be now straight, so angelic and "clean" without a trace!
Boy! What a hypocrite if you ask me! :-X
you sound like a bitter spurned ex-lover.
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you sound like a bitter spurned ex-lover.
Yeah sure! He shouldn't have cum out with that kind of video in the first place if he couldn't live up to the expectations and requests of his audience! ;D
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Charles Stingray Arde
After prostituting himself "in the name of his dear mom" with all his jack-off videos with gay-oriented MuscleHunks and then getting away with it all with a Pro Card and now pretending to be now straight, so angelic and "clean" without a trace!
Boy! What a hypocrite if you ask me! :-X
Did not know he did that, thats kinda gay to me
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kamali should not be a pro! Who's with me on this?!
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Lil' Sculpter,
How do we get Kenny Jones out of the mix?
I don't know how he got in, but how the hell do we get him out? >:(
DIV
He got in by winning the bantamweight class at the Nationals in 1996, the same year that Jay Cutler turned pro as heavweight champion.
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Palumbo has the mass and conditioning...he is a FREAK in every sense of the word but his physique isnt pretty at all. I am not trying to take anything away from Palumbo but he has structural flaws such as a big torso and his chest isnt really all that great.
But he is making due to what he was born with for his own genetic potential.
What he should do is enter some pro qualifier that is not well known ...perhaps in another country against guys he knows he will dominate because of his sheer mass...I believe Bruce Patterson (Canadian pro) did an amatuer contest where he competed against guys that he literally dwarfed who did not look at all like pro material. It was like boys competing against a grown man when he competed at this show and got his pro card...it was no contest... I think this is what Dave Palumbo needs to do to get his pro card....enter a pro qulaifying show in a different country where he is competing against mediocre physiques......that way....people will say, there is no way he should not have won that contest where he made others look like little boys .......that would be like a Hummer competing against a jeep..the Hummer will win in a class all its own...
Aside from Chick who got his pro card after years and years of competing...I think Dave palumbo is one of the athletes who competed all these years who has always failed to receive his pro card...he never gave up and competes year after year for this dream....that in itself is commendable but also time and money consuming....
Bruce Patterson won the Canada Cup back in 1994. That show was supposed to be similar to the Jr. Nationals and initially WAS NOT a pro qualifier. With all the press that Patterson got from MuscleMag, talking about his resemblance to a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, the CBBF decided to give Patterson a pro card, based on that win. In a token attempt of fairness, the CBBF gave the previous year's Canada Cup winner, Ray Williams, a pro card as well.
If anyone shouldn't be in the pro ranks, it's those Canadians who got pro cards without even winning their weight class at the Canadian Nationals (i.e. Scott Milne, Mike Asideu, Christine Roth, etc.). Milne placed 2nd three times in the superheavyweight: once to Eric DiLauro (one of Mr. Olympia's training partners, who doesn't have pro status, I don't think) and twice to Mike Platz (who won the class in 2001 but had to win the overall in 2002 to get his card).
The CBBF gives out two pro cards in the Men's ranks of the Canadian Nationals. One goes to the overall champion, and the other goes to whoever they think deserves one. At least twice, it has gone to the runner up in the superheavyweight class, instead of one of the other weight-class winners.