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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2019, 02:37:15 PM »
1.Steve Reeves
2. John Grimek
3. Leroy Colbert
4. Jim Haislop
5. Bill Pearl (pre steroids when he won the AAU America)

Reeves was built his whole life from 15 year old on. Even during World War II in the jungles they nick named him the Shape. It was only till his health failed him toward the end that his physique showed age.

John Grimek would have won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics in weight lifting if he hadn't competed in a the heavy weight division the past year. The rules in effect at the time was you can never compete in a lower weight class if you competed in a heavier class previously.  Here he was weighing about 188 competing against some guys weighing 50lbs plus. He put the no more than one win in the AAU Mr. America contest after he won two years in a row. He would have won the gold as a light heavy in the Olympics if it wasn't for the weight rule.

Leroy Colbert had the most potential of them all. He took his motorcycle out and crashed. He nearly died. Had his foot hanging by a thread.  His bodybuilding career was over.

Jim Haislop won the prestigious AAU Mr. America in 1968. I think he worked physically demanding work as a line man. He never had the Weider or Hoffman publicity. He just kept to himself in Florida but anyone in the know saw how incredible he was. He had movie star looks like Reeves but never capitalized it. I think he had a couple of commercials.

Bill Pearl needs no introduction. In his early years competing he was clean. I believe he won the Mr. America contest weighing around 200lbs at 5'10 or so.

Solid list from the Silver Era

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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #26 on: June 12, 2019, 02:54:31 PM »

Haha we had a lad in high school with an enormous head shaped like exactly that, to make matters worse his surname was reid which rhymes with how we pronounce head locally (heid/heed) haha the amount of stick he got was immense

Lol!! @ the local terms. Lol @ "stick". Haven't heard that for a while.

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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #27 on: June 12, 2019, 05:40:54 PM »
Hahaha that head and face is absolutely fucking disgusting looking, shittiest pecs ever especially his right one they are about 1/8th the size of his head not sure if thats an illusion because of the massive head


I've never seen another BB'ing Warrior recreate what Bass had achieved....Clarence invented Gasparism


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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #28 on: June 13, 2019, 03:25:52 PM »
Yates, Coleman, Arnold, Sergio and Wheeler.  Honorable mentions:  Ray, Haney, Levrone, Robby, Padilla and maybe Dexter?

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« Reply #29 on: June 13, 2019, 03:43:21 PM »
Bob Kennedy of MUSCLEMAG said that he saw Steve Reeves shirtless in 1989, and was surprised to see him with sagging skin on his chest. That was little over a decade before be died - but everyone ages.
               reeves at 43 years old last movie a long ride from hell
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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #30 on: June 13, 2019, 04:20:00 PM »
craig titus

bertil fox

sally mcneil

gordon kimbrough

david beiber


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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #31 on: June 14, 2019, 05:51:28 PM »

I've never seen another BB'ing Warrior recreate what Bass had achieved....Clarence invented Gasparism



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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #32 on: June 14, 2019, 07:46:48 PM »
1- Clarence Bass
2- Raye 'Zap' Hollitt
3- Tony Little
4- Anyone who used Hot Stuff
5- Nicole Bass after the Adam's apple removal surgery

 :D Interesting. I like it.
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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #33 on: June 14, 2019, 07:50:33 PM »
craig titus

bertil fox

sally mcneil

gordon kimbrough

david beiber



EXCELLENT!  I've partied with TWO of those killers. I need a new manager.
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« Reply #34 on: June 14, 2019, 08:02:17 PM »
sally mcneil

"The first time Ray did anadrol, all his hair fell out"

"If I had taken all of the drugs we wasted our money on for Ray, I would be Ms Olympia by now"

"He was trying to talk without a jaw"

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« Reply #35 on: June 14, 2019, 11:16:13 PM »
craig titus

bertil fox

sally mcneil

gordon kimbrough

david beiber



Gordon & David ?
I don’t recall those names & who they killed.

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« Reply #36 on: June 14, 2019, 11:46:48 PM »
Gordon & David ?
I don’t recall those names & who they killed.

Gorden killed his gf with a knife in a jealous rage in their (or her) apartment in Cali....if i remember, she was cheating, or breaking up or something. He looked like a tall/slimmer shaun ray.  maybe mid-90's. he might have choked her out w/ a phone cord too, not sure if my brain is making that part up, been so long ago. the muscle magazines of the day buried the story pretty quick.

i am unaware who the david guy is/was

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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #37 on: June 15, 2019, 12:16:48 AM »
1. Iris Kyle
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger
3. Ronnie Coleman
4. Lenda Murray
5. Flex Lewis

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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #38 on: June 15, 2019, 02:23:39 AM »
Gorden killed his gf with a knife in a jealous rage in their (or her) apartment in Cali....if i remember, she was cheating, or breaking up or something. He looked like a tall/slimmer shaun ray.  maybe mid-90's. he might have choked her out w/ a phone cord too, not sure if my brain is making that part up, been so long ago. the muscle magazines of the day buried the story pretty quick.

i am unaware who the david guy is/was

Thanks for the info.
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Re: Top Five Greatest Bodybuilders Of All Time...GO!
« Reply #39 on: June 15, 2019, 07:20:19 AM »
What is the metric for bodybuilding greatness?

Most Olympias? Or personal preference?

Honestly the most impressive builds ever on a bodybuilding stage have to be

Coleman
Sergio
Yates
Arnold
Padilla
Diller
Wheeler
Strydom
Haney
Ferigno

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« Reply #40 on: June 15, 2019, 07:39:06 AM »