Is Melvin Anthony Finished. No longer a top 6 Olympian?

[m8]

Kai might be a fag, but he's still a better poser than Melvin

Marvelous does the same damn routine every show, whereas Kai always brings something fresh and unique

Greene's conditioning is also in a different galaxy than Melvin's

Kai is so much better than Melvin it's not even funny.

[Parker]

melvin said it in a video and in his column in MD...  how do you know he wasnt biggger before? cuz i would believe the man himself before anyone

He's constant;y gotten bigger, but smoother, except in 2006, but he's developed a small gut. His trademark taper is gone. Also his back detail has washed out. When he won his pro card in 1999, he was ripped and dry to the bone. After that he has constantly gained weight and gone downhill. Dex had said that Mel should stop trying to play the size gain get smaller, he's doing what Flex had done, both Flex and Mel have the same type of physique, but Mel has better taper due to being shorter.

I do want to see Mel improve, and get a top two finish. I'm been thinking he was new version of Flex Wheeler...

[SAMSON123]

melvin said it in a video and in his column in MD...  how do you know he wasnt biggger before? cuz i would believe the man himself before anyone

Becasue I have been following the BB contests for sometime now and Melvin has NEVER been as big as he is now despite what he says. I noticed his size increase about two maybe three years ago and then I said to myself he is playing the size game now...especially since at that time Ronnie was still competing and many other BB where trying to get as BIG as he such as Gustavo, Batista etc. All of a sudden Melvin is 280 in the off season...WHAT!!!??? 280!!!! YES and the most noticable change were his LEGS...they were HUGE. In his MD video he was dieting down and working out 10 days before the Olympia and mentioned that he was 250 at that point...250 pounds at 5 feet 7 inches!!!! Melvin has NEVER been that big  http://mdtv.musculardevelopment.com/content/view/1133/204/

So far as you believing what the pros say in columns and in person...do you also believe that they are ALL NATURAL and don't use drugs as they claim in articles and in person??...lol...UR FUNNY!!!

[Alex23]

Well, the way that Weider is doing business lately is that if MD has you, Weider wants you, and if you don't produce come contest time, Weider will drop you. They dropped excellent spokesmen Mark Dugdale and Troy Alves -- two of the most honest and well-spoken reps in the business. Melvin was with MD and Weider swiped him away. So now the pressure is on Melvin. If he doesn't make the top 6 or 8, they will probably drop him.

Lately, the publishing contract business has become more of a personal battle between Robin Chang at Weider and Steve Blechman at MD than anything else. Very little thought is going into signing athletes who make excellent reps. Why else would Weider drop a guy like Dugdale and sign Gustavo? Drop a handsome, personable, aesthetic and hard-working Dugdale for a marble-mouthed, bad-attitude, insulin-ridden Badell? Makes no sense to most people. Gustavo's done anyway. No more 3rds. No more 4ths. Lucky to be top 8 this year.

Spoken like a champ. There's been been too many good guys getting the axe lately 

Troy Alves represents what bodybuilding professionalism should be. Hope he lands well; the guy has been more overlooked in the last 2 years than the trade deficit.
 

[CQ]

Well, the way that Weider is doing business lately is that if MD has you, Weider wants you, and if you don't produce come contest time, Weider will drop you. They dropped excellent spokesmen Mark Dugdale and Troy Alves -- two of the most honest and well-spoken reps in the business. Melvin was with MD and Weider swiped him away. So now the pressure is on Melvin. If he doesn't make the top 6 or 8, they will probably drop him.

Lately, the publishing contract business has become more of a personal battle between Robin Chang at Weider and Steve Blechman at MD than anything else. Very little thought is going into signing athletes who make excellent reps. Why else would Weider drop a guy like Dugdale and sign Gustavo? Drop a handsome, personable, aesthetic and hard-working Dugdale for a marble-mouthed, bad-attitude, insulin-ridden Badell? Makes no sense to most people. Gustavo's done anyway. No more 3rds. No more 4ths. Lucky to be top 8 this year.

I agree Dugdale is highly marketable, and am hypothezing here, but could that be for the appeal Gustavo brings for the international market where he is far more well known? Even my nation, where Weider stuff is sold everywhere, quite frankly only the truly hardcore know who Dugdale is, while Gustavo is very well known in the bb community. Gustavo is immensly popular in South America as you can imagine.

As I am sure you know many of the big mags sell in numerous nations, even have seperate specific versions for nations - featuring local top amateurs etc.

And on topic, I think Melvin has a fantastic structure and great lines, so no I would never count him out.

[Alex23]

I agree Dugdale is highly marketable, and am hypothezing here, but could that be for the appeal Gustavo brings for the international market where he is far more well known? Even my nation, where Weider stuff is sold everywhere, quite frankly only the truly hardcore know who Dugdale is, while Gustavo is very well known in the bb community. Gustavo is immensly popular in South America as you can imagine.

As I am sure you know many of the big mags sell in numerous nations, even have seperate specific versions for nations - featuring local top amateurs etc.

And on topic, I think Melvin has a fantastic structure and great lines, so no I would never count him out.

Good point but he still has a bad attitude.

[Meso_z]

That cover.....what a wanker... looks like a pole is stuck in his ass.

[Ex Coelis]

That cover.....what a wanker... looks like a pole is stuck in his ass.

that bit is unfortunate

his physique, however, is incredible