IN ONE DAY .... AND OUT THE NEXT!!! (Just like a Chinese laundry.)

[stuntmovie]

Some bodybuilders who show lots of potential to make a big name for themselves within the bodybuilding word ...  suddenly disappear and are never heard of or from again.

Who are these potential 'superstars' and what's the reason for their diappearence?

I'm more involved in how things work and not the smaller parts that make the wheels turn, so I can only name a couple and I'm almost sure that you GetBggers are the WHIZ-KIDS who might make thisinteresting and contribute as your little hearts desire ...

Starting off with TONY BREZNIK ....

TONY was a superstar hockey player in Austria (or within some vicinity near Austria) who one day decided to give bodybuilding a try.

Somehow before anyone eve heard of anyone named BREZNIK, his phoyo appeared in one of those long forgotten bodybuilding magazines.

Apparently that photo drew a lot of interest simply due to the fact that he had a mess of a head of hair which someone referred to as a SEAGULL-HAIRCUT.

But over the net few months .... that seagull haircut lead to a photoshoot in LosAngeles  for IronMan magazine.

And since TONY had good muscles equivalent to his head of hair .... that photo session, thanks to John Balik and Mike Neveaux, got him the IronMan cover a few months later.

And that's the end of the Tony story ... simply because he disappeared soon theeafter .... although according to IronMan fans and contributors ... he did appear the following Sept with a new haircut and a bigger bod at the Olympia in Vegas as a spectator.

And then .. Kaput ... in a cloud of smoke!

Any updates?

(A great individual BTW!)

So I'll take a stab at getting this started.

[Vince B]

http://www.tony-breznik.com/

[beakdoctor]

Never heard of him. He's not even that old. Still in his 30's. Just checked and he's active on social media. By the looks of it he's still in great shape too.

[Hypertrophy]

Stunt- you really need to learn how to use a search engine...

https://www.instagram.com/big_t_level_/

[Mr Anabolic]

Only the very top guys make any money at it.  The lifestyle is expensive, all that food and drugs cost a lot of money.  Besides the financial issues, you have age, injuries and health problems to deal with.  Bodybuilding is a very poor career choice, even if you are a genetic superior.

[falco]

Life happens. Pro bodybuilding is imprisionment. There is more in life than eating, sleeping, training, injecting, repeat another day, and another and another.

[stuntmovie]

THANKS, VINCE! Thanks, Hyper!

[dan18]

Up until now I didn’t stop my bodybuilding career, quite the contrary, I made my passion a business. But bodybuilding isn’t the only thing I focus on. I become a big and hardworking businessman by now and I am trying to get higher and higher every day. Since June you can see me on TV as Drei’s current advertising character, an Austrian mobil provider. But that’s not enough: also investing in real estate became an important business for me, which I have started to concentrate on since 2016

from his web site business and money better than reaching for a plastic trophy and a few bucks that wont even cover your gear amount

[stuntmovie]

Next up in the FLASH IN THE PAN episode is MIKE DRAGMA.

I'll let one of you GetBiggers do the searching, but if I recall right Mike won the USA Championships or damn close to it ... and the bodybuilding world thought that he was on to greatness within the IFBB ... but he disappeared from the world of lifting heavy things  faster than when he entered.

Due to a number of mind farts, I'm having difficulties recalling other bodybuilders who have pulled the David Copperfield disappearing act and why the hell they did it.

You smarter GetBiggers might be able to resolve tis delema!

Gotta search that word now! (DelemnNa?)

[stuntmovie]

DAN, Interesting input. Have you been a BB competitor? And what's the name of your TV show?

[stuntmovie]

I could not find Tony's seagull haircut shot ... so this will have to do ....

Close enough though!

Vince/Hyper, Have not had a chance to read the links you posted yet, but will do. Thanks again.

[stuntmovie]

Here's MIKE.

(NOTE: Pls post bodybulding photos only. No further word required.)

[dan18]

DAN, Interesting input. Have you been a BB competitor? And what's the name of your TV show?

That was from tonys web site and yes I did compete in the 90s AAU and sorry to say no TV shows

[funk51]

  here's 4 for you. 1. injuries, 2. choked to death on a hot dog, 3. plane crash. 4. quit after nabba mr u instead of joining the ifbb like most aau competitors.

[Humble Narcissist]

Matt Mendenhall from injuries?  I thought he just never dialed it in at contest time.

[stuntmovie]

FUNK, Thanks! I either did not know or else had forgotten about three of the four you mentioned above, but I knew Matt well back in the days when he was at his peak but I have long forgotten his contest history.

I plan to do some searching and find out how to contact him and see what he's been up to.

Looks familiar  but who is it that choked to death and who is it that died in a plane crash? I do recognise them both but had never heard of their demise.

As per Haislop (spelling?) .. you have to recall that the IFBB wasn't as popular as it is today ... and also that Joe wanted to keep the IFBB pros to a minimum ... the reasons to which I have forgotten, so Jim most likely thought that he was making the right decision.

What's he up to these days?

[stuntmovie]

DAN, Where was that AAU conest held and who won it that year.

I had forgotten that the AAU was still promoting bodybuilding events back then and thought that the NPC had taken over entirely.

How did you place and thanks for the info, DAN!