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Title: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BB on August 19, 2023, 01:27:23 PM
Just some early things from Muscle Media that might be of interest (or not) -

Early very cocky Mike O'Hearn feature from early 1995 -

(https://i.postimg.cc/RZv7xJPr/5-Muscle-Media-ohearn-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/sxFW6MBN/5-Muscle-Media-ohearn-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/NjP5CKSk/5-Muscle-Media-ohearn-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/Hx0WmnZK/5-Muscle-Media-ohearn-page-0004.jpg).

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Early Shot at Mentzer when it went sour between them -

(https://i.postimg.cc/kG8pzRT6/4-Muscle-Media-May-1996-page-0001.jpg).
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: Rambone on August 19, 2023, 01:32:14 PM
Just some early things from Muscle Media that might be of interest (or not) -

Early very cocky Mike O'Hearn feature from early 1995 -

(https://i.postimg.cc/RZv7xJPr/5-Muscle-Media-ohearn-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/sxFW6MBN/5-Muscle-Media-ohearn-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/NjP5CKSk/5-Muscle-Media-ohearn-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/Hx0WmnZK/5-Muscle-Media-ohearn-page-0004.jpg).

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Early Shot at Mentzer when it went sour between them -

(https://i.postimg.cc/kG8pzRT6/4-Muscle-Media-May-1996-page-0001.jpg).

Good stuff. Who were their writers?
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: Taffin on August 19, 2023, 01:40:14 PM
Proof that it's possible to type while having a c0ck in your mouth
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BB on August 19, 2023, 01:46:07 PM
May 97, Robby Robinson tries to sneak into a novice contest -

(https://i.postimg.cc/2S5xBBnQ/4-Muscle-Media-May-1997-page-0001.jpg).

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Covers That Sell, Those That Don't -

(https://i.postimg.cc/t41xjdhM/4-Muscle-Media-May-1997-m-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/8ktJfX4Y/4-Muscle-Media-May-1997-m-page-0002.jpg).

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Booster Brief Coverage from 1997 -

(https://i.postimg.cc/QtVL4tL1/2-Muscle-Media-Feb-1997-page-0001.jpg).

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Random early Duchaine Photo, simply because there aren't a lot out there -

(https://i.postimg.cc/zXkrG4kL/3-muscle-media-page-0001.jpg).

Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: Rambone on August 19, 2023, 01:48:33 PM
European wet-look hahaha
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BB on August 19, 2023, 01:50:31 PM
Good stuff. Who were their writers?

It's old MM2k - Mike's story was Laura Dayton, wife of Mike "Chi" Dayton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUU3Rqmajp0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUU3Rqmajp0)). The Mentzer bit was Phillips or TC Luoma.
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BB on August 19, 2023, 01:57:15 PM
Shannon Sharpe, Feb 1997 -

(https://i.postimg.cc/Cx3VK821/2-Muscle-Media-Feb-1997-s-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/jjtZvdwc/2-Muscle-Media-Feb-1997-s-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/13ZkhSVn/2-Muscle-Media-Feb-1997-s-page-0005.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/x8z4hp03/2-Muscle-Media-Feb-1997-s-page-0006.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/vTsr80rz/2-Muscle-Media-Feb-1997-s-page-0008.jpg).

Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: youandme on August 19, 2023, 02:12:46 PM
Loved that magazine.
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BB on August 19, 2023, 02:18:03 PM
Anabolic Roundtable Part 1, this was a major article for the magazine -

(https://i.postimg.cc/zfDWQLJd/7-Muscle-Media-September-1996-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/50TCjn8G/7-Muscle-Media-September-1996-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/zDHh4Yr1/7-Muscle-Media-September-1996-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/W18q02M0/7-Muscle-Media-September-1996-page-0004.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/9MR43ZsB/7-Muscle-Media-September-1996-page-0005.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/ZYN9VP8b/7-Muscle-Media-September-1996-page-0006.jpg).

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Part 2 -

(https://i.postimg.cc/Cx2Y3X0W/8-Muscle-Media-October-1996-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/HnTC0C07/8-Muscle-Media-October-1996-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/FFxvr7mb/8-Muscle-Media-October-1996-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/T3KvJ0bQ/8-Muscle-Media-October-1996-page-0004.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/R0frj0XH/8-Muscle-Media-October-1996-page-0005.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/5NkZyzrz/8-Muscle-Media-October-1996-page-0006.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/BbnVQZcN/8-Muscle-Media-October-1996-page-0007.jpg).

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Duchaine and Mentzer, friendship never started -

(https://i.postimg.cc/d3gjPJWh/2-muscle-media-page-0001.jpg).

Bill Phillips and Mentzer, friendship ended (Mar 97) -

(https://i.postimg.cc/nzPvBHf3/3-Muscle-Media-March-1997-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/7Y7WHRSF/3-Muscle-Media-March-1997-page-0002.jpg).



Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BB on August 19, 2023, 02:25:22 PM
Just a picture I enjoy -

(https://i.postimg.cc/rs9RgcB6/1-Muscle-Media-Spring-1992-page-0001.jpg).
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: bigbychoices on August 20, 2023, 06:01:18 AM
    Was a great magazine. Up until they went "all natural".  I have all them up to then. i threw the all natural ones away. Infact I bought them only for a short time after they switched because i was hoping they would go back to their old format.  I remember in one Mike Methhead said after seeing that picture of him fat etc he has gotten back into shape and would be available for exhibitions again etc.  LMAO.  He never got back in shape. 
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: IroNat on August 20, 2023, 02:43:01 PM
Bodybuilders lie.
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BBSSchlemiel on August 20, 2023, 05:41:50 PM
Ain’t it funny how the martial artist and fucknut Mike O’Hearn pipes down when faced with someone who knows how to fight?

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Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: JackTheRipper on August 29, 2023, 06:13:58 AM
Mike is the King baby !

Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: Gym Rat on August 29, 2023, 06:52:55 AM
Mike is the King baby !


Well, he lifts weights at least...
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: SOMEPARTS on August 29, 2023, 01:09:43 PM
Turned out the be the most expensive magazine subscription ever.

Buying HMB just about bankrupted me...early 20s. 

IIRC there was an article with Mauro DiPasquale where he was on a Yamaha V-Max with a leather jacket. Would love to find that pic, haha.
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BB on August 29, 2023, 04:12:13 PM
Gaspari, The 1992 Olympia, and Rumors surrounding it -

(https://i.postimg.cc/rscNZz8Z/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-1-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/sxN1Q00P/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-1-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/rpMymkwX/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-1-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/hvkcqF5Y/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-1-page-0004.jpg).

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Momo's Death, MM2k weighs in -

(https://i.postimg.cc/G2NH95fF/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-2-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/gjgmtS9w/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-2-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/1R8SyHZK/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-2-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/t4C2HBKq/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-2-page-0004.jpg).

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The age old discussion -

(https://i.postimg.cc/T2sRbscS/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-3-page-0001.jpg).

Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: Rambone on August 29, 2023, 04:40:51 PM
Gaspari, The 1992 Olympia, and Rumors surrounding it -

(https://i.postimg.cc/rscNZz8Z/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-1-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/sxN1Q00P/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-1-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/rpMymkwX/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-1-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/hvkcqF5Y/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-1-page-0004.jpg).

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Momo's Death, MM2k weighs in -

(https://i.postimg.cc/G2NH95fF/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-2-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/gjgmtS9w/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-2-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/1R8SyHZK/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-2-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/t4C2HBKq/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-2-page-0004.jpg).

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The age old discussion -

(https://i.postimg.cc/T2sRbscS/1-Muscle-Media-Feb-Mar-1993-3-page-0001.jpg).

Imagine if they had a YouTube channel? Click bait city!
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BB on August 29, 2023, 04:48:33 PM
Imagine if they had a YouTube channel? Click bait city!

Ha! It was better than the rest, but these early years have some awful stuff too. Way closer to common mag with some drug talk thrown in. The worse is that Scott Connelly was in with them, so lots of articles have plugs for using 2-6 Met-Rx packets a day, etc....
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: ProudVirgin69 on August 29, 2023, 05:00:43 PM
TC Luoma being the author makes lots of sense, he was churning out the same kind of schlock for T-Nation in the early 2000s.  Of course, as a teenager i read that stuff daily and believed every word

Super cool to see this stuff from almost thirty years ago, thanks for sharing BB  8)
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: Humble Narcissist on August 31, 2023, 01:27:09 AM
Bought a subscription a few months before the 1st issue. Couldn't wait for the mag to arrive. It was so cutting edge at the time.
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: Gym Rat on August 31, 2023, 02:04:05 AM
Bought a subscription a few months before the 1st issue. Couldn't wait for the mag to arrive. It was so cutting edge at the time.

It really was a fun mag. Then of course it went more into Fitness/mainstream and lost its edge...
But for a while, it was excellent... Then some decent hardcore newsletters took over, I used to get Dante's, etc... (Hardcore Muscle).

But I think he only put out a dozen of those..
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: Van_Bilderass on August 31, 2023, 02:15:39 AM
I seem to remember that Momo's girlfriend mentioned in the article was 15 or 16 years old. Most today would consider that pedophilia. It's not strictly speaning but most agree that it's inappropriate and immoral.

The Duchaine interviews: they said "some bodybuilders use 1000mg of steroids a week,  some do 2000mg!" Today standard is like 1500mg of just the testosterone base for a national competitor, 3-4 grams total for the big guys.

Momo died due to diuretics, and probably more precisely because the doctor assumed he was hypokalemic and gave him potassium. This was and is Milos' opinion and he was there too. He should have been given insulin instead. But what's impressive is that not that many bodybuilders have died from them since then, and we know how stupid bodybuilders can be. So they learned to use them without dying.

Dan warns against "speed." But according to his friends Dan was on Nubain and 100mg of Valium a day when he went to jail cold turkeying. If you've used benzos you know 100mg is a ton and withdrawal can be deadly. Dan had a stroke in prison. Romano said Dan once told him to hold out his arm while Dan shot him up with Nubain, without telling him what it was. Crazy guy but very entertaining imo.

I think the magazine was a cynical vehicle to make money from the start. But most felt betrayed when they switched gears. I did too lol.
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: BB on August 31, 2023, 05:24:09 PM
David Dearth 1993 -

(https://i.postimg.cc/B6YRjyhs/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/W33Hc8sy/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/bNk85yCt/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/ZK8tcfnP/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-page-0004.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/G2FJNsyf/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-page-0005.jpg).

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Misko's Animal Training (Rare to see him not serious) -

(https://i.postimg.cc/RZbB6Wq2/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-1-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/8zY2kx0S/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-1-page-0002.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/tCCw3X0b/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-1-page-0003.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/htNYRTX4/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-1-page-0004.jpg).


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Rating The Anti-Estrogens 1993 style -

(https://i.postimg.cc/Kv2vx3gN/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-2-page-0001.jpg).

(https://i.postimg.cc/pL02f0cG/3-Muscle-Media-June-July-1993-2-page-0002.jpg).

Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: US MUSL on August 31, 2023, 11:24:09 PM
I still have most of the MM2K mags.
Title: Re: Random Stuff From MM2k -
Post by: Humble Narcissist on September 01, 2023, 01:19:32 AM
I still have most of the MM2K mags.
You could probably make some good money selling them on Ebay.