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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Royalty on December 31, 2022, 12:52:22 PM
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Robby’s thoughts on the 2022 Mr Olympia are GOLD, and he inadvertently caused Nick Trigilli to make a fool of himself 😂
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This guy hates on anything that he isn't financially benefitting from. Shits on everybody else's interviews. Shits on everybody else's products, coaching, podcasts etc. If his teenage audience saw that G4P shit he was doing it would bring this fuckhead into a clearer light. Pretends to be Mr Perfect.
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This guy hates on anything that he isn't financially benefitting from. Shits on everybody else's interviews. Shits on everybody else's products, coaching, podcasts etc. If his teenage audience saw that G4P shit he was doing it would bring this fuckhead into a clearer light. Pretends to be Mr Perfect.
I remember when he was in the hospital and he asked every single one of his Instagram followers to donate to him. When they didn’t, he called them out. Lol. Sleazy thing to do.
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Years ago if you posted one of his pics on a board he would tell the Admin and threaten to sue.
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Years ago if you posted one of his pics on a board he would tell the Admin and threaten to sue.
Right , We weren't allowed to post his pictures on Ironage
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Years ago if you posted one of his pics on a board he would tell the Admin and threaten to sue.
lol…I would imagine he couldn’t sue shit and win because in the bodybuilding world he’s a public figure. He’s a great bodybuilder but a bit of a loon
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Robby would steal national treasure if he could
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lol…I would imagine he couldn’t sue shit and win because in the bodybuilding world he’s a public figure. He’s a great bodybuilder but a bit of a loon
When I met him at the original Gold's, Robby Robinson was very polite and truthful. I bet if someone asked him today he'd truthfully say that he doesn't remember meeting me at all, LOL!
Look, like most bodybuilders Robinson didn't prepare for the future. I have named this condition they find themselves in after the esteemed Charles Glass:
BGS or Broke GlAss Syndrome.
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The guy was a great bodybuilder one of the best looks ever
He almost made Lou ferrigno have a stroke when he beat him at the masters Olympia
That show was created so he could win an Olympia :) :)
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Robby’s thoughts on the 2022 Mr Olympia are GOLD, and he inadvertently caused Nick Trigilli to make a fool of himself 😂
Brandon Curry and Dexter Jackson use too many machines? Yet, both won the Olympia whereas Robby Robinson did not.
Nick Walker looked flat? Where'd he get that?
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Brandon Curry and Dexter Jackson use too many machines? Yet, both won the Olympia whereas Robby Robinson did not.
Nick Walker looked flat? Where'd he get that?
Robby won the Olympia albeit the Masters Mr Olympia. That whole machine diatribe makes no sense as well as Nick looking flat
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Robby won the Olympia albeit the Masters Mr Olympia. That whole machine diatribe makes no sense as well as Nick looking flat
Hunter Labrada was a 212er?
Robbie must have been smoking that herb before this interview
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Robbie know.
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Robby’s right here though, modern bodybuilding is a joke.
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I remember when he was in the hospital and he asked every single one of his Instagram followers to donate to him. When they didn’t, he called them out. Lol. Sleazy thing to do.
Didn't he ask for like $10K or something and his followers actually reached that? Then he moved the goal post and said oh every follower of mine can't even donate a $1 to me? Because he had 70k followers. It was definitely something along those lines. Fucking old broke loser
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Didn't he ask for like $10K or something and his followers actually reached that? Then he moved the goal post and said oh every follower of mine can't even donate a $1 to me? Because he had 70k followers. It was definitely something along those lines. Fucking old broke loser
What an absolute piece of shit. Has he ever had a job or actually paid for his gear in his life? . Fucking lazy stinking cunt
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What an absolute piece of shit. Has he ever had a job or actually paid for his gear in his life? . Fucking lazy stinking cunt
He stole from a lot of gym locker rooms.....the thieving prick.
He looked great though.
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What an absolute piece of shit. Has he ever had a job or actually paid for his gear in his life? . Fucking lazy stinking cunt
Pretty sure he stills looks decent to this day. He made looking good his priority instead of setting himself up for his later years. If I'm begging people for money at that age I'll just blow my head off. Like his fans owe him something wtf! You made your life choices guy
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Didn't he ask for like $10K or something and his followers actually reached that? Then he moved the goal post and said oh every follower of mine can't even donate a $1 to me? Because he had 70k followers. It was definitely something along those lines. Fucking old broke loser
Yes, this! He asked for 1 dollar from each one lol
I guess a little trick to bring up the money ha
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This guy hates on anything that he isn't financially benefitting from. Shits on everybody else's interviews. Shits on everybody else's products, coaching, podcasts etc. If his teenage audience saw that G4P shit he was doing it would bring this fuckhead into a clearer light. Pretends to be Mr Perfect.
Hi Nick Trolliogolgoigy...
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Hi Nick Trolliogolgoigy...
LOL. I suppose you could apply my comment to both Nick + Robby :) Both are as bad as each other.
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Pretty sure he stills looks decent to this day. He made looking good his priority instead of setting himself up for his later years. If I'm begging people for money at that age I'll just blow my head off. Like his fans owe him something wtf! You made your life choices guy
Still living like a teenager. Just lifting weights and living off others. Still looks good.
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I remember when he was in the hospital and he asked every single one of his Instagram followers to donate to him. When they didn’t, he called them out. Lol. Sleazy thing to do.
I would donate to his nurse to pull the plug
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FILT
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Played the racist card too
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I cannot say that I blame Robinson for being upset but that still doesn't excuse him for not having prepared for the future (now) decades ago. Mike Mentzer was even dumber and he was a white guy that made very good money for several years and somehow blew or snorted it all. BGS.
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I cannot say that I blame Robinson for being upset but that still doesn't excuse him for not having prepared for the future (now) decades ago. Mike Mentzer was even dumber and he was a white guy that made very good money for several years and somehow blew or snorted it all. BGS.
He doesn't deserve anything from anybody.
He's an old man now begging off gullible people.
Fact is he never had the intelligence to be a Business man like most others. He lived the bodybuilding beach bum Lifestyle till late in life when most with a brain moved away and got on with real life.
Fuck him.
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I cannot say that I blame Robinson for being upset but that still doesn't excuse him for not having prepared for the future (now) decades ago. Mike Mentzer was even dumber and he was a white guy that made very good money for several years and somehow blew or snorted it all. BGS.
Stupid comes in many forms. Mentzer was clearly weak to let one fucking night in 1980 dictate the rest of his life in bitterness.
Robinson's problem is that he's just not a very nice guy. It rubs off on people. If it's true about the gym locker thefts and creepy stealing behaviour: no doubt it got back to the judges back in the day as a niche industry like that everyone knew everyone especially back in those golden years. Who in their right mind would support someone that's a rumoured fucking thief by multiple sources? No wonder he tries the race card because it's always someone else's fault with these guys.
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He doesn't deserve anything from anybody.
He's an old man now begging off gullible people.
Fact is he never had the intelligence to be a Business man like most others. He lived the bodybuilding beach bum Lifestyle till late in life when most with a brain moved away and got on with real life.
Fuck him.
Yup. As I said, he failed to prepare for his future. I think he's mostly upset with himself but the current "woke zeitgeist" just makes it easier for him to say everything that happened to him and didn't happen for him is due to generic racism.
FTN.
Like my mother taught me, hindsight is 20/20 unless you've got your head up your ass. That kind of makes it hard to see anything but shit.
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I think Weider was simply a hard Business man & definitely not racist.
I'm sure he made some decisions that were not always in the interest of some bodybuilders but what would Robby do in his place?
Bodybuilding was seedy we all know that :D
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:D
He's spot on.
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I believe that Robby Robinson served in Vietnam. After coming out of the Vietnam war, many of the men were mentally effected. They had a negative vision, and some never fully overcame that outlook.
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I believe that Robby Robinson served in Vietnam. After coming out of the Vietnam war, many of the men were mentally effected. They had a negative vision, and some never fully overcame that outlook.
Maybe he's just a loser??
If he'd used Weider & others to his advantage he could've been living much more comfortable. Don't think it's anything to do with vietnam
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Maybe he's just a loser??
If he'd used Weider & others to his advantage he could've been living much more comfortable. Don't think it's anything to do with vietnam
He was stationed in the Dominican Republic for 2yrs and never saw action. Definitely nothing to do with Vietnam
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Maybe he's just a loser??
If he'd used Weider & others to his advantage he could've been living much more comfortable. Don't think it's anything to do with vietnam
He should have used the Weider Principles and used that mind-muscle connection like Arnold did. Visualise the pump in his mind. Turn fantasy into reality through projection of thought!
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I believe that Robby Robinson served in Vietnam. After coming out of the Vietnam war, many of the men were mentally effected. They had a negative vision, and some never fully overcame that outlook.
He never did.
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He never did. I doubt he was ever was in the service.
He was in Vietnam is a DAV as well
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People talk about Ferrigno being an asshole, but Robbie's worse. He's just funnier than Lou -
The Robbie Robberson / Robbery Robinson nickname from Gold's years ago.
The snitching on Arnold during his Governor run years ago -
https://www.democracynow.org/2003/9/15/second_black_bodybuilder_claims_schwarzenegger_repeatedly / .
The "I'll sue if you use my pictures" debacle.
The send a dollar or I'm leaving scam -
https://fitnessvolt.com/robby-robinson-legend/ .
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Robbie used to claim he was stabbed with a bayonet years ago in Vietnam. Claimed the VC were going around bayoneting the war dead, and they stabbed him in the thigh, and he had to play dead to avoid being killed.
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Robbie used to claim he was stabbed with a bayonet years ago in Vietnam. Claimed the VC were going around bayoneting the war dead, and they stabbed him in the thigh, and he had to play dead to avoid being killed.
Is there any truth to that?
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Is there any truth to that?
I don't know, it was a big selling point during the late 70's, 80's with him. That he was a quiet war hero veteran. No one pressed him on it, and it stopped being repeated after a while. I suppose if someone wanted to mess with him, they could ask the Gov for his DD214, but he's already 76, so I guess nobody cares if they even remember it at this point.
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Ok, I remembered I have a copy of his book in my files. The bayoneting story is bullshit. Here's some important bits where he speaks about his time in the Army. Short version, never in Nam, bamboozled his way out of it with non-combat stuff -
"After infantry and then advanced infantry training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and now a Specialist Fourth Class, I decided to go on to paratrooper school at Fort Benning, Georgia. I figured more training time would prepare me better and delay my deployment. We were told it would be to either Vietnam or the Dominican Republic."
"If my strong conviction not to go to Vietnam wasn’t enough, while I was away, antiwar sentiments were starting to brew and demonstrations around the country were in the news. I realized that we soldiers would be looked down upon because of the Vietnam War.
This had a huge effect on me. I knew I was on my way to Vietnam and that I might very possibly die there, yet I wouldn’t even get respect for dying for my country. My respect and grief for the guys who lost their lives strengthened my commitment to myself and my survival. I felt it was me against the world and you don’t entrust anyone with your life, so when the day to report back to the base come up, I didn’t show. I knew it would only give me a couple days.
Refusing to go back after my leave time, I lost a stripe, and half a month’s pay as well as being given battalion clean-up duty and KP for a month. I didn’t regret it. I liked having a little more say over my fate. Returning late caused me to miss my group’s deployment to Vietnam, and I was sent to The Dominican Republic for a six-month non-combat tour of duty."
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"Out on maneuvers, my job was a deuce mortar assistant gunner, setting elevations and dropping ammunition. Our only concern was an erratic round could fall short and take out your own men. I lost the hearing in my right ear as a result of my job. This didn’t get an early discharge for me, because when I was sent home from the Dominican, my time served was two-years and 20 days.
I had fulfilled by two-year draft requirement and couldn’t be sent to Vietnam. This left a bittersweet feeling in me. I felt lucky and relieved, but guilty that I’d slipped through while so many didn’t and lost their lives."
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Ok, I remembered I have a copy of his book in my files. The bayoneting story is bullshit. Here's some important bits where he speaks about his time in the Army. Short version, never in Nam, bamboozled his way out of it with non-combat stuff -
"After infantry and then advanced infantry training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and now a Specialist Fourth Class, I decided to go on to paratrooper school at Fort Benning, Georgia. I figured more training time would prepare me better and delay my deployment. We were told it would be to either Vietnam or the Dominican Republic."
"If my strong conviction not to go to Vietnam wasn’t enough, while I was away, antiwar sentiments were starting to brew and demonstrations around the country were in the news. I realized that we soldiers would be looked down upon because of the Vietnam War.
This had a huge effect on me. I knew I was on my way to Vietnam and that I might very possibly die there, yet I wouldn’t even get respect for dying for my country. My respect and grief for the guys who lost their lives strengthened my commitment to myself and my survival. I felt it was me against the world and you don’t entrust anyone with your life, so when the day to report back to the base come up, I didn’t show. I knew it would only give me a couple days.
Refusing to go back after my leave time, I lost a stripe, and half a month’s pay as well as being given battalion clean-up duty and KP for a month. I didn’t regret it. I liked having a little more say over my fate. Returning late caused me to miss my group’s deployment to Vietnam, and I was sent to The Dominican Republic for a six-month non-combat tour of duty."
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"Out on maneuvers, my job was a deuce mortar assistant gunner, setting elevations and dropping ammunition. Our only concern was an erratic round could fall short and take out your own men. I lost the hearing in my right ear as a result of my job. This didn’t get an early discharge for me, because when I was sent home from the Dominican, my time served was two-years and 20 days.
I had fulfilled by two-year draft requirement and couldn’t be sent to Vietnam. This left a bittersweet feeling in me. I felt lucky and relieved, but guilty that I’d slipped through while so many didn’t and lost their lives."
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That's fucked up if true making up being a DAV who was in country. Stolen valor :-\
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BB, thanks for the info. Interesting. Had no idea Robby had a book.
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BB, thanks for the info. Interesting. Had no idea Robby had a book.
Most of us had no idea he could write. ;D
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Ok, I remembered I have a copy of his book in my files. The bayoneting story is bullshit. Here's some important bits where he speaks about his time in the Army. Short version, never in Nam, bamboozled his way out of it with non-combat stuff -
"After infantry and then advanced infantry training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and now a Specialist Fourth Class, I decided to go on to paratrooper school at Fort Benning, Georgia. I figured more training time would prepare me better and delay my deployment. We were told it would be to either Vietnam or the Dominican Republic."
"If my strong conviction not to go to Vietnam wasn’t enough, while I was away, antiwar sentiments were starting to brew and demonstrations around the country were in the news. I realized that we soldiers would be looked down upon because of the Vietnam War.
This had a huge effect on me. I knew I was on my way to Vietnam and that I might very possibly die there, yet I wouldn’t even get respect for dying for my country. My respect and grief for the guys who lost their lives strengthened my commitment to myself and my survival. I felt it was me against the world and you don’t entrust anyone with your life, so when the day to report back to the base come up, I didn’t show. I knew it would only give me a couple days.
Refusing to go back after my leave time, I lost a stripe, and half a month’s pay as well as being given battalion clean-up duty and KP for a month. I didn’t regret it. I liked having a little more say over my fate. Returning late caused me to miss my group’s deployment to Vietnam, and I was sent to The Dominican Republic for a six-month non-combat tour of duty."
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"Out on maneuvers, my job was a deuce mortar assistant gunner, setting elevations and dropping ammunition. Our only concern was an erratic round could fall short and take out your own men. I lost the hearing in my right ear as a result of my job. This didn’t get an early discharge for me, because when I was sent home from the Dominican, my time served was two-years and 20 days.
I had fulfilled by two-year draft requirement and couldn’t be sent to Vietnam. This left a bittersweet feeling in me. I felt lucky and relieved, but guilty that I’d slipped through while so many didn’t and lost their lives."
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Bottom line is he was a coward.
If the Vietnam war was justified or not is irrelevant. He just wanted to save his own ass.
I find his excuses for not going are just pathetic especially mentioning the men who went to Vietnam & died.
So to recap..
A coward
A thief
A begger
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Looking at all the evidence I would bet that Joe & Ben Weider knew his history & character.
There you go...
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Most of us had no idea he could write. ;D
I'm sure a ghost writer was used. When I was a kid I thought all of those athletes that had books actually wrote them all by themselves. Then I would see them on TV interviews and they could barely make intelligible grunts. ;D
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Most of us had no idea he could write. ;D
LOOOOL.
Thanks for the post, BB. You sure know your stuff. I didn't know he had one out, either.
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Robby say's he wasn't really friends with Arnold but I used to see Robby, Arnold and a few others together at the beach in Venice all the time.
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LOOOOL.
Thanks for the post, BB. You sure know your stuff. I didn't know he had one out, either.
To be fair, I forgot about it for years. It's a surprisingly readable, but very self serving, and you can never be sure what's the truth and what isn't sometimes. For instance, Robbie claims his first stack was one small shot of Primo after he was called to Gold's Venice. Later it becomes one small shot of Primo, and a very modest amount of Deca.
I've heard Robbie had a lot of chances at good projects, but he's just too hard to deal with after a while.
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How does he support himself these days? Does he get a military pension? Not sure how that works in the US.
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How does he support himself these days? Does he get a military pension? Not sure how that works in the US.
If he only served a few years his pension would only be a pittance. Nothing that he could survive on.
Maybe residuals from his book deal? ;D
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I think he`s a personal trainer.
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Yeah, he personally trains. I've heard he was big with the Europeans that come over at one point. He also had a hot girlfriend that helped him out over the years, but I'm pretty sure that's over.
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Don't believe what Robby says.
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(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SwQAAOSw1LVgFY7I/s-l1600.jpg)
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LOL! Serling and Robby the Robot!
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Years ago if you posted one of his pics on a board he would tell the Admin and threaten to sue.
Lmfao!, my nikka
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How does he support himself these days? Does he get a military pension? Not sure how that works in the US.
Well he begs his fans for money so your guess is as good as mine
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(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SwQAAOSw1LVgFY7I/s-l1600.jpg)
Note the cig in Rod Serling's hand.
He smoked 3-4 packs a day. Died of heart attack at age 50.
Just say no, kids.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Rod_Serling_photo_portrait_1959.JPG/220px-Rod_Serling_photo_portrait_1959.JPG)
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Guy’s a sad, wonky-ass and thieving Chocolate Face turd.
At the time he won the Masters, NO ONE gave a single shit.
Now, with there being 63 divisions and categories, young fans MIGHT think that title means/meant something.
It doesn’t and didn’t.
Whatever his commentary is, agree or disagree, it’s of very little matter.
Robbie is a withering corpse who had several years during which he was kinda something in what was, at the time, an extremely sub-subculture.
He’s broke, greasy and irrelevant.
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I remember when Lou Ferrigno was very upset, because Robby beat him at the Master Olympia and he felt robbed
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(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6c/4b/65/6c4b65016c96a12f537b5e3c3ccdec1c.jpg)
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Kind of funny... I just watched John Hansen's interview of Rick Wayne on his bodybuilding legends show.
Anyway at a some point Rick says Robby was a moron. Not verbatim but implies it. Says Robby was fucked up and implies coke use. Also says some author incorrectly attributed shit Robby said about Arnold being a racist to Rick.
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Robby’s thoughts on the 2022 Mr Olympia are GOLD, and he inadvertently caused Nick Trigilli to make a fool of himself 😂
Whats with the dark sunglasses
Is he Blind now
As for that Annoying prat who keeps interrupting & saying useless crap
He's a Fooking Moron.
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Note the cig in Rod Serling's hand.
He smoked 3-4 packs a day. Died of heart attack at age 50.
Just say no, kids.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Rod_Serling_photo_portrait_1959.JPG/220px-Rod_Serling_photo_portrait_1959.JPG)
Very creative and talented guy. Too bad he destroyed his health as he may have created much more.
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Tried to sue Weider I believe for the bust thing?
http://robbyrobinson.blogspot.com/2013/07/BLACK-PRINCE-BOOK-FAMOUS-WEIDERS-BUST-TRUE-STORY-SYMBOL-BODYBUILDING-ICON-BEN-JOE-WEIDER-LEGENDS-ROBBY-ROBINSON-MEMOIRS.html
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Tried to sue Weider I believe for the bust thing?
http://robbyrobinson.blogspot.com/2013/07/BLACK-PRINCE-BOOK-FAMOUS-WEIDERS-BUST-TRUE-STORY-SYMBOL-BODYBUILDING-ICON-BEN-JOE-WEIDER-LEGENDS-ROBBY-ROBINSON-MEMOIRS.html
[THEY COULD NEVER USE MY IMAGE IN THE MAGAZINES. THAT REALLY PISSED AMERICAN MEDIA/ WEIDER PUBLICATIONS OFF!]
I'm sure Weider gave a fuck.
Robby is a bitter man
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This guy hates on anything that he isn't financially benefitting from. Shits on everybody else's interviews. Shits on everybody else's products, coaching, podcasts etc. If his teenage audience saw that G4P shit he was doing it would bring this fuckhead into a clearer light. Pretends to be Mr Perfect.
He is a piece of shit ....
However, he does have a nice deep manly voice ...should be doing voice overs for Netflix documentaries about Alpha males $$$$
WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH h
WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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The guy was a great bodybuilder one of the best looks ever
He almost made Lou ferrigno have a stroke when he beat him at the masters Olympia
That show was created so he could win an Olympia :) :)
Yes that was hilarious .... no wonder Lou became a pig farmer after
WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHHH BE YE KE
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Some more of the Robinson / Weider Bust story from parts of the book -
"The time had arrived. As Joe walked up on the stage, the hall’s lights started to dim and silence replaced the party chatter. “Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the new Weider bust to be used on all our products and advertisements throughout the world,” Joe proudly proclaimed.
When he lifted the veil I had the shock of my life. I looked at Ashley and saw her jaw drop to her chest. For a couple of seconds, neither one of us could breathe or speak. My head had been severed off the bust and replaced with a replica of Joe’s head.
We immediately got up and left. During the car ride home, I had never seen Ashley more upset. As I sat speechless, still in shock, there was a lot of name calling. In the past when we drove through the Sepulveda Pass, it seemed like we flew over the hill. Now the ride out of the Valley felt like a battle just to get over the hill.
I knew they had me in a position in which I could do nothing. Ashley disagreed, “We have to get a lawyer, like Dave Draper did after not being paid for the use of his image for all those years. If Dave hadn’t crumbled and accepted Weider’s settlement, the court would have awarded him almost a million dollars.” Nobody knew the details of Dave’s complaints, except that they had to do with not being compensated for the use of his image.
For a brief moment, it was hard to hear her. I just wanted to disappear into a world above all the madness and not have to deal with it. But I knew that wasn’t me. I couldn’t let this soulless man put a weakness in me. There was no way I would go along with his lie: that he was a nice guy who was helping bodybuilders and the sport. “Sure, I’ll talk to a lawyer, but there is no way I’ll back down for a few thousand, because that would be it. I’d be out of bodybuilding and work. Then what?”
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Didn't sue because the lawyer wanted $20,000 as a retainer.
From there he sorta considers Weider his moral enemy in the book. The Hitler to his Jesse Owens as he puts it. He takes Weider's money, but tells fans the supplements are bogus when the write to him. He gets in with the Euro set, who appreciate his physique more. He thinks Weider pushed Roy Callendar to get back at him.
He shits on Rick Wayne a little, about how he could trust him more as a black man, but he was still Weider's mouth piece, so not much more. He found Ben Weider weird.
Then the end comes when Robbie does an interview with Muscle Digest, a competing mag that hates Weider. Weider sees this and bans him for life. From there he heads off to Europe again for the loving arms of the Euros and NABBA. He also buys a monkey in Europe.
By '82, he's back in the IFBB, probably by the help of Wayne Demilia he surmises. Claims he was natural from 80-82, and started on a small cycle upon his return. Was absolutely shocked at the size of the Weider Guys upon his return, especially Fox and Bannout.
Lightly shits on the new guys, claiming they were over doing the drugs, still blames Weider, also blames Weider for not pushing Haney enough because he was black.
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Claims during almost all his pro career, the secret was just 200mg Deca, a B12 shot, and extra calcium a week, plus volume training, and some old school water dropping tips that helped him look the way he did.
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Brutal if true
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Years ago if you posted one of his pics on a board he would tell the Admin and threaten to sue.
How can someone sue for posting pictures available on the net?
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How can someone sue for posting pictures available on the net?
Np clue but her threatened to sue tons of websites including mine......I left the pics up...fuck him.
My thoughts were that they were public domain.
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LOL at Getbiggers attacking someone just because he has strong opinions! Good for Robby to speak out. By the way, back in the seventies Robby amazed everyone with his wide back and peaked biceps. How Zane beat him is a mystery. No wonder Robby is pissed off. Black guys have to be way better to win the Olympia. I mentioned that to Dexter and he agreed with me. We were with Jay Cutler before he won the Olympia. At my home in 1974 I asked Arnold what he thought about Sergio Oliva. "He's a pig." What about Robby Robinson? "He's a pig." What about Bill Grant? "He's a pig." I asked about a couple more well known black guys and got the same answer from Arnold..."All pigs." So I told Arnold he was racially prejudiced. "No, I just don't like any of doze guys!" Several people were there to witness Arnold's comments.
Truth is Joe Weider was a bull shitter. He exaggerated his important and didn't properly pay for bodybuilding champions who were featured in his magazines approving his products. Dave Draper got robbed. Clancy Ross died a pauper in a retirement home. Mike Mentzer was smarter than most and used the free advertising to promote himself and his products. Joe would give advertising space instead of money to most of the champions endorsing his products. Yes, Joe used Robby for sure. Robby has every right to be pissed off.
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LOL at Getbiggers attacking someone just because he has strong opinions! Good for Robby to speak out. By the way, back in the seventies Robby amazed everyone with his wide back and peaked biceps. How Zane beat him is a mystery. No wonder Robby is pissed off. Black guys have to be way better to win the Olympia. I mentioned that to Dexter and he agreed with me. We were with Jay Cutler before he won the Olympia. At my home in 1974 I asked Arnold what he thought about Sergio Oliva. "He's a pig." What about Robby Robinson? "He's a pig." What about Bill Grant? "He's a pig." I asked about a couple more well known black guys and got the same answer from Arnold..."All pigs." So I told Arnold he was racially prejudiced. "No, I just don't like any of doze guys!" Several people were there to witness Arnold's comments.
Truth is Joe Weider was a bull shitter. He exaggerated his important and didn't properly pay for bodybuilding champions who were featured in his magazines approving his products. Dave Draper got robbed. Clancy Ross died a pauper in a retirement home. Mike Mentzer was smarter than most and used the free advertising to promote himself and his products. Joe would give advertising space instead of money to most of the champions endorsing his products. Yes, Joe used Robby for sure. Robby has every right to be pissed off.
Fuck off retard.
Bill Grant was a friend of Arnold's & you're essentially calling Arnold a racist.
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Fuck off retard.
Bill Grant was a friend of Arnold's & you're essentially calling Arnold a racist.
Yep! That was 49 years ago. I distinctly remember mentioning Sergio and Robby. I also mentioned a few other black bodybuilders but can't be certain if Bill Grant was one of them.
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Most bodybuilders make money from schmoe-ho-ing. Bodybuilders are the laziest things on the planet.
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Vince B was is your opinion of 2:33?
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Yep! That was 49 years ago. I distinctly remember mentioning Sergio and Robby. I also mentioned a few other black bodybuilders but can't be certain if Bill Grant was one of them.
So, why did you say Arnold said that about Bill Grant if you're not sure?
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So, why did you say Arnold said that about Bill Grant if you're not sure?
^^^^THIS
Plus Vince hates Frank Zane with an unbridled passion.
Black guys got a far better shake in the IFBB than the AAU......Harold Poole,Oliva,Rock Stonewall,and Ken Covington should all have won a slew of big AAU contestds but the Nazi homo Hoffman was a racist not Weider,bur Weider did exploit guys bigtime......the cheap billionaire that he was.
The only reason Jim Morris and Chris Dickerson won a lot was--------------- fill in the blanks.
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Robinson was just a bodybuilder. Yes he was a great one but still, that isn't all that great outside of the area of consideration. As I said, he was polite to me when I met him but that doesn't mean I don't think he was foolish for not preparing for this stage of his life. It happens to a lot of us.
Bill Pettis is a prime example of living for the moment even if that moment is just plain useless.
BGS or Broke GlAss Syndrome.
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So, why did you say Arnold said that about Bill Grant if you're not sure?
I simply mentioned all the top black guys competing in the early seventies. Bill may have been one mentioned. Point is Arnold called all of them ‘pigs’. What would you call someone who said that?
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^^^^THIS
Plus Vince hates Frank Zane with an unbridled passion.
Black guys got a far better shake in the IFBB than the AAU......Harold Poole,Olica,Rock Stonewall,and Ken Covington should all have won a slew of big AAU contest but the Nazi homo Hoffman was a racist not Weider,bur Weider did exploit guys bigtime......the cheap billionaire that he was.
The only reason Jim Morris and Chris Dickerson won a lot was--------------- fill in the blanks.
I don’t like Zane. That is true. Bodybuilding to me is first about getting big arms, etc. Zane never matched Robby’s size.
Weider did whatever he had to do to make money. The AAU Mr America contest was a disgrace. Too many weak winners and blacks totally overlooked until 1970.
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I don’t like Zane. That is true. Bodybuilding to me is first about getting big arms, etc. Zane never matched Robby’s size.
Weider did whatever he had to do to make money. The AAU Mr America contest was a disgrace. Too many weak winners and blacks totally overlooked until 1970.
now we know where bhanks obsession with arms come from...our own vince b...
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now we know where bhanks obsession with arms come from...our own vince b...
Too bad vince b only taught him to supinate one arm
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LOL at Getbiggers attacking someone just because he has strong opinions! Good for Robby to speak out. By the way, back in the seventies Robby amazed everyone with his wide back and peaked biceps. How Zane beat him is a mystery. No wonder Robby is pissed off. Black guys have to be way better to win the Olympia. I mentioned that to Dexter and he agreed with me. We were with Jay Cutler before he won the Olympia. At my home in 1974 I asked Arnold what he thought about Sergio Oliva. "He's a pig." What about Robby Robinson? "He's a pig." What about Bill Grant? "He's a pig." I asked about a couple more well known black guys and got the same answer from Arnold..."All pigs." So I told Arnold he was racially prejudiced. "No, I just don't like any of doze guys!" Several people were there to witness Arnold's comments.
Truth is Joe Weider was a bull shitter. He exaggerated his important and didn't properly pay for bodybuilding champions who were featured in his magazines approving his products. Dave Draper got robbed. Clancy Ross died a pauper in a retirement home. Mike Mentzer was smarter than most and used the free advertising to promote himself and his products. Joe would give advertising space instead of money to most of the champions endorsing his products. Yes, Joe used Robby for sure. Robby has every right to be pissed off.
Vince, this story doesn't sound true at all.
Many people closer to Arnold than you have talked about how much he respected Sergio.
Bill Grant and Arnold are well known to be friends.
He may have called Robbie a pig. But so what You can be critical of a person regardless of their race. Just because a person that you don't like happens to be black doesn't mean your a racist.
By the sounds of it Robbie is a pretty toxic person. A narcissist who feels the world owes him something.
Ive read dozens and dozens of stories about Arnold, not mention all the interviews of his friends and documentaries etc...what you're saying doesn't sound like anything ever attributed to him before.
I'm not accusing you of lying. But maybe you're not remembering it correctly or its out of context. You just randomly asked him about 3 black guys and he laughed and called them all pigs? Or is there something else to the story?
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More from the book, on Arnold, and a few other things -
Robbie feels Arnold should've helped him earlier with Weider/IFBB. The Stan is Stan Morey, AAU big wig -
"Stan would go on to become one of the top promoters for the AAU in Florida and fight for me so I could compete and enter some of the AAU competitions that had turned me away. Stan pushed me to join the Weider bodybuilders in Los Angeles, California, not Joe Weider, as it was to be published in magazines for years.
Stan’s support enhanced my presence and notoriety. He would later make a call to Arnold about this incredible black bodybuilder who was destined for greater things. He called Arnold as a friend asking him to set up an appointment with Joe Weider. It never happened."
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More Arnold and Weider Stuff. The Dave mentioned is Dave Johns -
"When I asked the guys at Pearl’s gym if they agreed, I got a unanimous “no.” They told me straight out that Weider was a nice guy to only a few, and that he was really only supporting Arnold. Dave chose not to compete in the Weider’s IFBB and remained amateur, staying with the AAU federation.
He told me point blank that if I went, it would be like putting a noose around my neck, because Joe had never supported a black bodybuilder, not even Sergio. Their reasons kept me right where I was. But I still wanted the Mr. America title."
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Robbie meeting Arnold and crew -
"When I returned the next day, and Big Red acknowledged me with only a nod, I walked through the gym and approached Denny Gable. Denny was the most welcoming in the group. There was an honesty in his manner. I had seen Denny in the magazines and thought hewas the most photogenic bodybuilder of them all. His handsome face, that often graced the covers of Muscle Builder, resembled Clark Gable’s - so much that he was known within the group as Clark’s illegitimate son. He downplayed his good looks, which made him seem more humble and sincere.
Denny welcomed my company, and within a couple of minutes, asked if I wanted to train with him. This came as a shock, because he was training with Arnold. When Arnold didn’t object, I knew the reigning Mr. Olympia saw me as a good challenge."
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Robbie's buddy -
"As fate had it, in those first days of training, I met a man by the name of Mike Armstrong. Originally from Florida, he was an aspiring bodybuilder at Gold’s. He hadn’t quit his day job as a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified school system to chase his dreams. He welcomed me to stay in his apartment right on the Venice boardwalk, so that I could be near Gold’s.
His kindness went far beyond a roof over my head; if Mike ate steak, Robby ate steak. I was finding out that Florida guys always helped each other out. Mike made me feel like there were no color lines between us."
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Arnold being nice -
"I could actually feel people’s envy. I was part of a mob family and Arnold, sitting at the head of the table, with his loud and generous manner, was the Don. He would always be the one to pull out his gold card to pay for our orders of ground beef, eggs and toast."
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Meeting Weider for the first time, Weider tells him to go back to college, then offers -
"With this he said, “Well, I’m not going to be able to help you. But I can pay you $50 for photo shoots and $50 more to put your name on an article and if you want a job in my warehouse, I can set that up. Call Gene Mozee to meet for a photo shoot.”
The warehouse job is $200/wk, Robbie takes it. Claims the pay often bounced, and you were expected to schmoe on the side to make ends meet. You could go to gay mansion parties a couple of times a month if that was your thing.
Also claims Joe and Ben played good cop/bad cop during negotiations Joe was the nice guy, Ben the taskmaster.
Claims Joe sounded like the Penguin from the 1960s Batman show.
Joe gave him the "Black Prince" nickname while at the Mr World show.
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Robbie's real beef with Arnold starts when the bodybuilders start to try and Unionize and Arnold sided with Weider, and during Pumping Iron filming.
Unionizing, starts with Ben addressing the group -
“There will be no union,” hitting his clenched fist on the table. With that, Arnold stood up, walked to the front, kissed Joe and Ben on their cheeks and walked out of the room. All of our jaws dropped, because we thought we had Arnold’s support behind the union. We had all talked about it and agreed that if we came at them as a group, they would have no choice. Now it was clear whose side Arnold’s was on. I was amazed at what I was witnessing and thought the Weiders should have been ashamed of themselves."
Pumping Iron -
Originally they wanted the guys for free. Then supposedly it was supposedly $10,000 each for the main guys, plus an extra $100 per diem on shooting days -
"The next day at Gold’s, they appeared with contracts in hand, agreeing to pay us $10,000 each for our parts in the movie. I glanced over at Arnold standing off by himself with a calculating look, and felt something wasn’t right."
The inference here being Arnold was the one trying to get the other guys to do Pumping Iron for free because he was the go between for the film crew. They originally all did business at Arnold's apartment over drinks, and Robbie and Denny Gable walked out in protest.
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Which beings us to another sore point, Robbie blames Arnold and Weider from pushing his friend Denny out of bodybuilding -
"While Manny’s [Manny Perry] optimism for the future helped fuel my determination, Denny’s will was taking a beating. Because he had taken my side and walked out of Arnold’s apartment over the “Pumping Iron” contract issue, and because he was still my training partner and friend, his $400 a week contract was cut in half. His decision took him out of the inner circle and left him with a rocky future in bodybuilding, just like
mine.
Being black prepared me for this road, but Denny is white, with smalltown Iowa experience giving him little grit. It was an eye-opening experience for me to see what happens to a white man who goes against the grain and backs a black man. The whole situationsaddened me, and our friendship began to suffer. I could see he wasn’t putting the same fire into his workouts, and some days he would be a no-show. I thought the worst and turned out to be right. He got mixed up with drugs."
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Thinks Arnold has it out for him at the 1976 Mr International show and will fix it for Franco, Zane, or Callard -
"Going into the show, I knew I had to get solidly into a winning mindset, because Arnold was producing the International show, as well as the Olympia. It was clear that Arnold took care of his friends and since I was not a part of the “Arnold clique,” the odds were stacked against me."
Robbie winds up winning that show, Callard was 2nd.
He goes into 1977 thinking Arnold and Weider will fix the 77 Mr O.
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Robbie on Zane beating him in 77 -
"I was in even better shape this time around. Zane, with his beautifully symmetrical shape, was
shredded, but he lacked the fullness and thickness I had.
At the evening show, the crowd got behind me with cheers. Having seen the show previous year, I knew something else was being played out on this Olympia stage, and there was nothing I could do above and beyond the hard work I had put into my condition.
What I had prepared myself for came to pass. Zane was awarded his first Olympia Sandow, and I was runner-up. The only thing I said to myself was, next. Unlike Zane, who was under contact, I had to make a living."
He goes into 78, thinking they'll fix the 78 Mr O too, and, of course Zane wins -
"The ‘78 Olympia was almost a carbon copy of the previous year’s show, with Arnold at the helm, Frank Zane on the winner’s block, and me in second place. This year it came down to a point difference between us, with the last vote to be cast by the head judge, Bill Pearl.
In an unheard of move, Bill decided not to cast any vote. By not voting for the promoter’s friend, the guy under a Weider contract, he appeared to be taking a stand against Weider and Arnold’s power over the show."
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And from there it just goes on and on.....
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I still find it disturbing that there is no truth to the bayonet story.
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LOL at Getbiggers attacking someone just because he has strong opinions! Good for Robby to speak out. By the way, back in the seventies Robby amazed everyone with his wide back and peaked biceps. How Zane beat him is a mystery. No wonder Robby is pissed off. Black guys have to be way better to win the Olympia. I mentioned that to Dexter and he agreed with me. We were with Jay Cutler before he won the Olympia. At my home in 1974 I asked Arnold what he thought about Sergio Oliva. "He's a pig." What about Robby Robinson? "He's a pig." What about Bill Grant? "He's a pig." I asked about a couple more well known black guys and got the same answer from Arnold..."All pigs." So I told Arnold he was racially prejudiced. "No, I just don't like any of doze guys!" Several people were there to witness Arnold's comments.
Truth is Joe Weider was a bull shitter. He exaggerated his important and didn't properly pay for bodybuilding champions who were featured in his magazines approving his products. Dave Draper got robbed. Clancy Ross died a pauper in a retirement home. Mike Mentzer was smarter than most and used the free advertising to promote himself and his products. Joe would give advertising space instead of money to most of the champions endorsing his products. Yes, Joe used Robby for sure. Robby has every right to be pissed off.
Yet a lot more Olympia titles have went to darkies?
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Yet a lot more Olympia titles have went to darkies?
Danny Padilla got a perfect score in a show and still lost to Robby after three posedowns onstage.
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The contradictions are incredible.
1. All the shows are fixed.....except for the ones he wins.
2. Everybody is a racist....except when they're buying his meals.
3. Denny got mixed up in drugs......fails to admit his own drug use.
4. It's allways 'nobody ever helped me out' ...... but doesn’t ever talk about helping anyone out himself.
Rick Wayne actually said Arnold initially was a spokesman for the bodybuilders that wanted to unionize. Said he arranged a meeting with tge athletes and the Weiders. Arnold began talking about forming a union and everyone kept quiet. Fearing if they spoke up there'd be repercussions while Arnold was safe either way. But Arnold felt betrayed when no one spoke up-even though they asked for his help- looked like an asshole in front of the Weiders talking about a union and no one backs him. Arnold was embarrassed and walks out . Tells them don't bother asking for my help again.
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Vince, this story doesn't sound true at all.
Many people closer to Arnold than you have talked about how much he respected Sergio.
Bill Grant and Arnold are well known to be friends.
He may have called Robbie a pig. But so what You can be critical of a person regardless of their race. Just because a person that you don't like happens to be black doesn't mean your a racist.
By the sounds of it Robbie is a pretty toxic person. A narcissist who feels the world owes him something.
Ive read dozens and dozens of stories about Arnold, not mention all the interviews of his friends and documentaries etc...what you're saying doesn't sound like anything ever attributed to him before.
I'm not accusing you of lying. But maybe you're not remembering it correctly or its out of context. You just randomly asked him about 3 black guys and he laughed and called them all pigs? Or is there something else to the story?
Doesn't sound true? Are you the one who decides if facts from the past occurred or not? I have posted this story decades ago on Ironage and here on Getbig. I don't knowingly exaggerate what happened and I never distort the truth. That is called having integrity. My memory, at 80, is still very good. I have a hunch that someone was behind the corruption of the Ironage site so all those stories disappeared. The stories here on Getbig before 2005 conveniently disappeared as well. Anyone have any idea who might be behind this?
I have had several champion bodybuilders visit our home in Sydney. Arnold visited in 1974, Zane in 1978, and Sergio in 1982. Ray Mentzer lived with us in 1987. I asked Sergio about Arnold and he said Arnold was okay. No worries there. But way back in 1974 I was shocked to hear Arnold call Sergio a pig. WTF! Robert Nailon was there and so were several other bodybuilders from my gym. I asked Arnold what he thought about Sergio's physique. He told us that if he had Sergio's body he would have beaten himself. I suppose he felt that Sergio could have presented more cut up and perhaps pose better. When I heard Arnold call Sergio a pig I immediately questioned him about the other black bodybuilders. Every single one I mentioned got the same response. They were all pigs. Robby Robinson was mentioned. Probably Chris Dickerson and several other black bodybuilders all pigs. So I told Arnold he was racially prejudiced. Nope, he said, I just don't like any of doze guys! QED.
I asked Arnold about if contests were fixed in those days. He quipped that everyone who lost blamed the judges and those contests were fixed. Sergio and Franco were mentioned of course. So I asked about the time Zane beat him in Miami and Arnold insisted THAT contest was fixed! We talked about the movie business and I pointed out it was unlikely that he would duplicate what Steve Reeves did in the movies. Reeves was handsome and Arnold not at all. I told him I doubted he would ever be a movie star. He said he liked when people said that about him because it made him try harder. Well, a gym member who was a movie star and director said I was right about Arnold never being great actor but he was a good entertainer. I asked Arnold how he pronounced his last name. Schwarzen-egger he told us. Arnold never avoided answering any questions. I did most of the asking. Earlier at our gym before he posed I sat with him and asked him questions as a way to introduce him to the audience who came to see him and see a seminar. I paid Paul Graham $500 to have Arnold at our gym. I knew that Arnold drove a BMW and already owned a million dollar house in Malibu. We mostly got our information from bodybuilding magazines and I bought all that were available in Australia.
Arnold was sitting in our lounge and several of the guys were sitting around him. After answering those questions Arnold got up and went down the corridor. We assumed he was going to the bathroom. We had two bathrooms in that nice apartment on the 15th floor opposite the beach in Sydney. Arnold didn't return for some time so we sat there waiting. The parents of one of our babysitters came by and asked if I knew where their daughter was. I had no idea. After Arnold did a seminar and posed at our gym he went with Paul Graham and Robert Nailon to Tony's Gym to do the same thing there. Afterwards they came up to our apartment for a T-bone steak dinner. It was after dinner that we talked to Arnold. Well, on hearing the parents ask about their daughter Robert, The Brain, Nailon leaped up and went to look for Arnold. He returned a minute later and whispered to me that Arnold was having sex with the missing babysitter in one of the bedrooms. Robert had been to our place several times so knew the layout. He saw that one of the bedroom doors was locked so went through another and out onto the balcony that connected the three bedrooms. Arnold had forgotten to lock the balcony sliding glass door. Robert opened it and saw Arnold on top of the babysitter. What an asshole Arnold was. How could he be a guest at a party for him and behave like that? I told Roz and we both felt the babysitter's parents were there and were responsible for her. I talked to the babysitter as she emerged from the bedroom and asked what happened. She said that Arnold forced her. I asked why she didn't yell out. She said she didn't want to get anyone in trouble. Johnny Medlin was the first to see Arnold emerge from the bedroom. John had previously dated the babysitter. Someone told Arnold the parents were looking for their daughter and Arnold, Paul and Robert cleared out almost immediately.
A year later I challenged Robert Nailon to compete at the Mr Australia contest in Melbourne. I had to give myself something to motivate me. I posted a note in the Coogee Gym calling Nailon a paper tiger. So we both trained hard for that contest. A week before the Mr Australia Paul Graham brought Arnold out for the Mr NSW contest. Robert won that contest but he wasn't better than former winner from Orange. So when the results were announced I started booing. Lots of people booed. Hans Meyer was clearly superior. Robert's legs were not very developed at all. In those days we said he had no legs. Definitely no calves. Anyway, after the contest I was disgusted and we didn't stay to meet Arnold and talk with the judges after the show. Paul always put out food for the hungry bodybuilders. One of our gym members went to meet Arnold. Paul asked him if he booed Robert. Andrew Shigelski told them them I started the booing. Paul told Arnold they would get me in Melbourne.
In Melbourne they had a meeting of the judges and contestants. I requested that the Mr Australia adopt the rule that the title could be won only once by any person. Arnold spoke out against that motion with some stupid argument where he said it would be like asking Lou if he wanted Arnold to compete. The Olympia was totally different from the Mr America and Mr Australia. No other bodybuilder spoke out. I proposed that idea because Roger Walker had entered again and he was superior to everyone else who entered. As it turned out Roger easily won again. Nailon and myself were never compared. After the show Ian Perrott told me he should have supported me. He placed second. He said he would win the next year. I told him he might not be the best next year as there were a lot of good bodybuilders in Australia. He committed suicide the next year which is shame. I wondered if that would have happened if he had won. I ended up placing last in my class that night. Paul Graham gave me 25 out of 100 and Arnold placed me last as well. So they surely showed me. I disliked both of them after that. Neither should have had anything to do with contests after showing bias judging a contest. I wrote to the promoter, Frank Burwash, who replied that they fixed the contest so I couldn't place. Frank also had several trainee judges that day and they didn't agree with Arnold or Paul. I considered Arnold and Paul assholes from that day.
In 1980 Paul Graham got to promote the Mr Olympia contest in Australia. We got to sell tickets for Paul at $35 each. We sold 200 tickets which is $7000. Paul always presented a big trophy for the best support gym...the one who sold the most tickets. We usually won that trophy but after 1975 I never went up to receive it but sent my manager to collect it. In 1980 the whole bodybuilding community was there and the trophy was about 3 feet high. I would have gone up to get it. I yelled out about that trophy but Paul said there was no time. There was no way he was going to give me any publicity that night. By the way, we knew Arnold was entering at least 2 weeks out from the show because Paul needed to sell more tickets. I had to go to his house in Bondi to get more and more tickets. Knowing that Arnold was entering did help us sell more tickets. Paul had big bills to pay. He had to pay to bring out the competitors, judges and officials and put them up in hotels. We heard that he lost money on the show. Besides he had to pay prize money and the winner got $20,000 that night. Paul and Arnold were mates from when they lived together in LA in October 1968. I was in LA that month as well. In January 1969 Arnold and Dave Draper came to Honolulu to do a show for Mits Kowashima. I was there at the airport when they arrived. Arnold didn't remember my name but Dave Draper did. I used to sleep in my VW in LA and would train early and then have a shower. Dave always trained early in the morning. I then went to Australia for several weeks and met Robert Nailon. On our return to Honolulu we were given a clipping from the Honolulu newspaper that had a cartoon of a muscleman lifting a car. The caption read that Paul Graham Mr Australia was arrested by the FBI for sending stolen cars back to Australia. Arnold was in the hotel with Paul when arrested but Paul took the rap by himself and was sentenced to more than two years in a prison in California. Arnold mentioned his Australian mate in his autobiography, Total Recall. He wrote that he earned some money driving cars to the docks in LA that were heading for Australia. Somehow Arnold forgot to mention Paul's name. Paul was even a guest at Arnold's wedding at the Kennedy compound back east. Now how did Paul Graham manage to get entry back in the USA after serving time in jail there? Another mystery. A few years ago Arnold gave Paul a glowing tribute at an Arnold show in Melbourne. He told us how he owed Paul and how they were mates for a very long time.
Arnold came to our gym at West Ryde after the 1980 Mr Olympia contest to accompany Franco who presented a seminar on training. He was very interested in Bev Francis and they took her for a drive after the seminar. Arnold had to know how she built up her amazing physique. Bev posed at the Mr Olympia the night before and caused a sensation. The audience gave her a rousing applause and Arnold and Franco appeared behind the stage wondering who was getting all that applause.
By the way, Paul Graham never won the Mr Australia contest. He called himself Lord Paul, Mr Australia when wrestling. He won two body part awards in a Mr Southern Universe but when wrestling in Sydney the announcer stated that he had won two Mr Universe titles.
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Vince B, to your knowledge, did Arnold and Bev Francis “get it on” ??
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Vince B, to your knowledge, did Arnold and Bev Francis “get it on” ??
No. Not sure about George Butler in Melbourne in 1983!
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Vince Basile sound bitter and jealous of Arnold and now he’s making up lies about him.
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Vince Basile sound bitter and jealous of Arnold and now he’s making up lies about him.
SF you are a certified dick head. No doubt about that at all. Arnold is a multi-millionaire. Do you imagine that I would risk being sued by him if I posted lies. Not a chance. Arnold knows what he said and did. There are witnesses. I am one of the few people posting here under my real name. I am responsible for everything I post here. If I post that I consider Arnold an asshole that is my considered opinion.
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No. Not sure about George Butler in Melbourne in 1983!
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Vince,
Did Arnold and Bev get their hair cut at the same place?
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Aceto getting dwarfed here
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Bev is a man baby.
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SF you are a certified dick head. No doubt about that at all. Arnold is a multi-millionaire. Do you imagine that I would risk being sued by him if I posted lies. Not a chance. Arnold knows what he said and did. There are witnesses. I am one of the few people posting here under my real name. I am responsible for everything I post here. If I post that I consider Arnold an asshole that is my considered opinion.
vince should be added to the getbig dead pool
stick a fork in this phagget, hes done.....
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vince should be added to the getbig dead pool
stick a fork in this phagget, hes done.....
What's truly hilarious is Vince thinks he risking getting sued by Arnold for speaking out. Lol. Like Arnold gives a fuck about what Vince says on getbig.
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What's truly hilarious is Vince thinks he risking getting sued by Arnold for speaking out. Lol. Like Arnold gives a fuck about what Vince says on getbig.
Hey doc,it`s a well known fact that "The Austrian Oak" logs in and reads getbig every day for 6-7 hours..........MINIMUM!
He uses "Oaks" account to retain his anonymity. :D
You know damn well that Arnold probably never ever even heard of getbig Vince! LOL ;D
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What's truly hilarious is Vince thinks he risking getting sued by Arnold for speaking out. Lol. Like Arnold gives a fuck about what Vince says on getbig.
:D How could an American sue an Aussie over speech anyway? Which court would take that on?
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Bev is a man baby.
Remember watching a video where back in the day she was on an exercise bike talking to Bob Paris.
She was desperate to get his attention, don't think she knew he was a Homo 😄
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Remember watching a video where back in the day she was on an exercise bike talking to Bob Paris.
She was desperate to get his attention, don't think she knew he was a Homo 😄
I dont think she knew she was a woman....
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Remember watching a video where back in the day she was on an exercise bike talking to Bob Paris.
She was desperate to get his attention, don't think she knew he was a Homo 😄
Damn, sounds like Steve Weinberger was competing with Bob Paris for Bev Francis.... unbeknownst to Bob 😂
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Good stuff, Vince.
Arnold is a sociopath.
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The contradictions are incredible.
1. All the shows are fixed.....except for the ones he wins.
2. Everybody is a racist....except when they're buying his meals.
3. Denny got mixed up in drugs......fails to admit his own drug use.
4. It's allways 'nobody ever helped me out' ...... but doesn’t ever talk about helping anyone out himself.
Rick Wayne actually said Arnold initially was a spokesman for the bodybuilders that wanted to unionize. Said he arranged a meeting with tge athletes and the Weiders. Arnold began talking about forming a union and everyone kept quiet. Fearing if they spoke up there'd be repercussions while Arnold was safe either way. But Arnold felt betrayed when no one spoke up-even though they asked for his help- looked like an asshole in front of the Weiders talking about a union and no one backs him. Arnold was embarrassed and walks out . Tells them don't bother asking for my help again.
X2.
Sounds about right when it comes to the Arnold/Union situation. By this time - Arnold was a multi-millionaire property developer. He was his own man. Didn't need the money. I suppose he needed some backing from his friends in that sitdown rather than coming across as the 'instigator' behind it all. You don't go together and confront a situation as a group in a meeting like that and expect just one person to do all the work and expose without at least confirming that you're as passionate about the situation. Arnold probably felt like these cowards made it seem like it was all his doing and making him look out to be a schemer trying to concoct a plot against the Weiders. No wonder he thought, "fuck you all, then." Kissed the Weirders and walked out.
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SF you are a certified dick head. No doubt about that at all. Arnold is a multi-millionaire. Do you imagine that I would risk being sued by him if I posted lies. Not a chance. Arnold knows what he said and did. There are witnesses. I am one of the few people posting here under my real name. I am responsible for everything I post here. If I post that I consider Arnold an asshole that is my considered opinion.
And it is my opinion that you are bitter and jealous.
What’s your point?
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"Robby Robinson is a national treasure"
You sure you don't mean Robby Benson?
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Damn, sounds like Steve Weinberger was competing with Bob Paris for Bev Francis.... unbeknownst to Bob 😂
so basically 3 people with questionable tastes in the opposite sex..
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so basically 3 people with questionable tastes in the opposite sex..
Thats what you call a menage' a nahthanks im good :)
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Once a con artist always a con artist...
He posted this on IG recently. It's a verbatim rip off of what Arnold said in Pumping Iron.
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Once a con artist always a con artist...
He posted this on IG recently. It's a verbatim rip off of what Arnold said in Pumping Iron.
Clearly he’s been applying the Robinson Failure Principles during oblique crunches. Wider waist than Hankins here….
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Once a con artist always a con artist...
He posted this on IG recently. It's a verbatim rip off of what Arnold said in Pumping Iron.
The mindset of going to war at any given time
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Robbie know.
I Be Knowin
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzVkOTIxNzctODQ0NS00N2ZmLTkwOGYtZjk2ZjE4ZTE4YWQ3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTM3MDMyMDQ@._V1_.jpg)
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Robby was great in his uncredited role in Amistad
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Robby was great in his uncredited role in Amistad
Pretty great in his uncredited war injury too.
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Robby was great in his uncredited role in Amistad
Weider was too -
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=676242.0;attach=1340200;image).
Joe could auction a slave like nobody's business.
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Years ago if you posted one of his pics on a board he would tell the Admin and threaten to sue.
He tried that here once and sent me a message asking for immediate removal of his pics (used a random account only created to have his materials removed). I told him to go fuck himself.
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He tried that here once and sent me a message asking for immediate removal of his pics (used a random account only created to have his materials removed). I told him to go fuck himself.
"1"
Yeah,he was a real asshole about that.....fucking goofball,you would think that he would want to be immortalized in pics since he is a legend.
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Weider was too -
Joe could auction a slave like nobody's business.
I know it's bad form to quote oneself, but every time I see this pic, I'm reminded of when I posted this about the Weider Technique of Kurenchibōru aka 'clench ball' クレンチボール - hope you guys can indulge me with this one ;D
Looks like Joe skipped leg day.
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=668742.0;attach=1300246;image)
At that time, Joe was indeed concentrating on a new principle and had de-focussed leg training to accomplish this
Like the traditional Sumo Warriors had mastered in ancient times, Joe was working on being able to quickly and rapidly retract his testicles back up into his body cavity at will - purely by using the mind-muscle-scrotum connection (a technique known as Kurenchibōru aka 'clench ball' クレンチボール )
To fine-tune his approach, he was experimenting with different trigger stimuli - hence the gentle stroking of the lower* Robinson quadricep that you see in the picture
*an earlier incident involving Robinson's adductors and Joe gently brushing past Robby's crotch area had led to one of Weider's testicles shooting up into his body with such force that it lodged in place and had to be coaxed down by Ben using scented oils and gently whispered French poetry
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I know it's bad form to quote oneself, but every time I see this pic, I'm reminded of when I posted this about the Weider Technique of Kurenchibōru aka 'clench ball' クレンチボール - hope you guys can indulge me with this one ;D
All ball bag and not enough sausage
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I know it's bad form to quote oneself, but every time I see this pic, I'm reminded of when I posted this about the Weider Technique of Kurenchibōru aka 'clench ball' クレンチボール - hope you guys can indulge me with this one ;D
;D
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I know it's bad form to quote oneself, but every time I see this pic, I'm reminded of when I posted this about the Weider Technique of Kurenchibōru aka 'clench ball' クレンチボール - hope you guys can indulge me with this one ;D
Oh Jesus LOL ;D
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Once a con artist always a con artist...
He posted this on IG recently. It's a verbatim rip off of what Arnold said in Pumping Iron.
Guy’s 88 years old and still thinks it’s 1981.
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"Robby Robinson is a national treasure"
You sure you don't mean Robby Benson?
What’s up with the monkey dude in the middle?
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/615421934562555?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
Damn. Robby had these schmoes eating out of his hand