Thanks TA, I tried, but it looks like these guys here are not going to turn over their decision. Its become a popularity contest.  But at least there will always be an asterix next to whateva's name in the Mr. Getbig Hall of Fame, or should it be Shame.

I wondered if anyone would catch that, I think I got it right.  I wouldn't steal his shirt, I don't think I could get my arms into his size "m" t-shirt.

when you download his website, you see it's a template.  yes, the great computer operator uses a website generator website.

brutal 21 inch legs.

While they did break the rules, it was minor and allowing them to compete was for the betterment of the contest and getbig.
But duping the judges into thinking your an amateur was un-sportsman like conduct anyway you slice it.

I can also remember the responses whateva's pictures prompted on the boards that week. He was asked by a lot of very surprised and impressed posters if he ever competed before, what contests and if he ever planned on being a pro. He had opportunities to come clean but didn't. Why? because the judges would have been less impressed with him and more impressed with the work TA, alexxx and the rest put into their physiques. They put their hearts into it. They weren't experienced pros stepping off the circut to scam a few prizes from an amateur competition.

Imagine doing what he did to win a few prizes. These pros must really desperate. Give them a salary for godsake.

One way to settle this is to ask the judges if they believed at the time of the judging that all the contestants were amatures. Also ask the sponsors if they believed at the time they offered the prizes that the prizes would go to an amateur not a pro. If the answer is Yes, he should be out.

I know a lot of you guys agree with me but don't want to see TA the winner because he is a pompous ass. He may be, but realize this, we complain incessantly about unfairness in IFBB competitions and the hypocrisy of the bodybuilding industry as a whole. Now here we are doing the exact same thing. Turning a blind eye, letting someone steal from the cookie jar. Giving an early Christmas gift.

I am particularly dismayed at 240 who stands on the soapbox all the time against bodybuilding infractions but now in his own contest he is unusually quiet.

f**k off!

are you going to enter the mr getbig 2007 and show TA the real deal? or just talk about it?

Lets face it, TA, you're arms aren't big enough for your chest, you're calfs don't match your thighs (which is really sad) and you only have one pose and in that you look like a spider.

Every single variable and miniscule exception cannot be written into the formal rules of a contest. That is why there is a judge and this case it was Mindspin and 240. These guys were supposed to interpret the rules with the best interest of the competitors involved. In TA's case they determined giving him a few more hours since he worked a full time job was OK. Sounds fair to me. But allowing Whateva to keep his title when he clearly disguised himself to appear as an amatuer in effort to impress the judges (and make a fool out of everyone involved) was not in the best interest of all the competitors.  The way 240 complains about the IFBB one would think he would be fair in his own contest. Oh well it is halloween. Trick or treat... You guys have been fooled.

While your comments are humrous, they are at the expense of another human being.........so, seeing that most of you guys have been ridiculed your entire lives, I suggest you listen to this age old wisdom.  It bears great relevance to all who read this board.
   "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at him."

Looks good here

Already posted 3 different deadlift weights with 500 plus.  Scroll back.

go ahead old timer, who's stopping you?

Jon Brower Minnoch (1941 - 1983) of Bainbridge Island, WA; 6 ft 1 in, estimated as weighing "probably more than" 1400 lbs in 1979, at which point it took 13 people just to roll him over in bed. Minnoch, like many of the heaviest people, suffered from massive edema: his weight was augmented by at least 900 lbs of fluid at its peak. The former taxi driver had always been unusually heavy, reaching 400 lbs in 1963, 700 lbs in 1966, and 975 lbs in 1976, but he claimed to have been in no way handicapped by his size until a 500-calorie diet sapped his muscle strength and left him at the brink of death. Subsequent hospitalization brought him down to 476 lbs in 1981, mostly through the loss of 12 to 14 pounds of fluid per week. He was readmitted later that year after regaining 200 lbs in seven days. Although physicians at University Hospital in Seattle persisted in treating him with a 1,200-calorie diet, he weighed about 800 lbs at the time of his death. Other details of his physical condition were withheld from the press. Minnoch was the father of two children by his 110-lb wife, Jeannette.
enf of discussion The man filled in the more space than who ever it be.
Jon at 700 lbs

Nope.  I never once emailed or tried to contact Dante for training.  I already tried his methods in 2003.