Author Topic: Best Bodybuilder Of All Time Not To Win The Sandow ? (Read 6705 times)

Pollux · « **Reply #25 on:** January 19, 2007, 06:20:33 AM »

Flex Wheeler -- all the way.

smaul · « **Reply #26 on:** January 19, 2007, 06:23:25 AM »

Lee Priest

GoneAway · « **Reply #27 on:** January 19, 2007, 06:25:10 AM »

Gotta go with Flex, and Nasser in either '95 or '96 Olympia (the one where he just about beat Dorian on back).

Grape Ape · « **Reply #28 on:** January 19, 2007, 06:27:09 AM »

I was at the '96 Olympia. Nasser looked great from the front, but got destroyed from the back. There may be pics from various angles where it looks close, but, in person, it didin't seem that way at all.

MikeThaMachine · « **Reply #29 on:** January 19, 2007, 06:31:08 AM »

Best bodybuilders to not win but had the best chance to are Shawn "money bags" Ray and The Black Prince Robby Robinson

MikeThaMachine · « **Reply #30 on:** January 19, 2007, 06:35:25 AM »

Quote from: LoveTheSport on January 19, 2007, 06:25:10 AM

Gotta go with Flex, and Nasser in either '95 or '96 Olympia (the one where he just about beat Dorian on back).

No one ever has been even close to taking him on back, some pics here and there may give you a slight illusion of it being somewhat close but in reality no one is at his level in terms of back.

natural al · « **Reply #31 on:** January 19, 2007, 06:39:37 AM »

Robby Robinson, Danny Padilla (1981), Labrada (88, 89), Ray (90), Christian (90), Wheeler, Levrone...throw Rich Gaspari in there as well.,...

GoneAway · « **Reply #32 on:** January 19, 2007, 07:04:06 AM »

Quote from: Grape Ape on January 19, 2007, 06:27:09 AM

I was at the '96 Olympia. Nasser looked great from the front, but got destroyed from the back. There may be pics from various angles where it looks close, but, in person, it didin't seem that way at all.

I forgot that he was DQed. Well, I've seen a few pics from '96 and he was ripped as hell and beat Yates on various front poses, but I agree, he didn't look as good as Yates from the back, although IMO it was close.

I think he might of looked better, front and back, in '95. I believe the back double bi shot I saw was from the '95 O, and he was on par with Yates there.

Option D · « **Reply #33 on:** January 19, 2007, 07:10:38 AM »

I gotta go with the black prince. He was head and shoulders (and biceps) above the rest. With levrone and flex it was way closer.

alexxx · « **Reply #34 on:** January 19, 2007, 07:11:35 AM »

1- Flex Wheeler
2- Kevin Levrone
3- Serge Nubret
4- Robby Robinson
5- Shawn Ray

The official list people!

slaveboy1980 · « **Reply #35 on:** January 19, 2007, 07:14:05 AM »

Quote from: MRMD2003 on January 18, 2007, 07:14:54 PM

any one have any pics of levrone from the 97 european grand prix

levrone is certainly up there, with wheeler and a few other guys

slaveboy1980 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 19, 2007, 07:16:13 AM »

Quote from: alexxx on January 19, 2007, 07:11:35 AM

1- Flex Wheeler
2- Kevin Levrone
3- Serge Nubret
4- Robby Robinson
5- Shawn Ray

The official list people!

good list but not sure about ranking..not saying your ranking is wrong..just saying that i would add nasser 97, padilla 81..hmm who more

slaveboy1980 · « **Reply #37 on:** January 19, 2007, 07:18:48 AM »

Quote from: Methyl Mike on January 18, 2007, 08:53:58 PM

Shoulders and arms are photoshopped. Def levrone or ray, wheeler never had the work ethic to represent the sport as our #1.

yeah never liked his (flex) personality..altho it shouldnt matter as its a physiqe competition...also flex went overboard with eiseclene and synthol..so did levrone with the eiseclene a couple of years in the late 90s.

alexxx · « **Reply #38 on:** January 19, 2007, 07:23:43 AM »

Quote from: slaveboy1980 on January 19, 2007, 07:16:13 AM

good list but not sure about ranking..not saying your ranking is wrong..just saying that i would add nasser 97, padilla 81..hmm who more

Yes Padilla also should have won it.

Thin Lizzy · « **Reply #39 on:** January 19, 2007, 07:31:12 AM »

Quote from: alexxx on January 19, 2007, 07:23:43 AM

Yes Padilla also should have won it.

Padilla was the victim of the biggest robbery, the year Franco won. There's a pic around of them onstage together that year. It's not even close.

That said, I'll say Mentzer.

buffbodz · « **Reply #40 on:** January 19, 2007, 08:32:53 AM »

So many should have won......Mike Metzner, Flex, Naz 98', Kevin, Lebrada, Padilla. The list could go on and on.

corinth · « **Reply #41 on:** January 19, 2007, 08:37:29 AM »

I'd give my vote to Flex. Amazing physique.

rockyfortune · « **Reply #42 on:** January 19, 2007, 08:59:00 AM »

Danny · « **Reply #43 on:** January 19, 2007, 09:09:40 AM »

Quote from: rockyfortune on January 19, 2007, 08:59:00 AM

HIM!

Don't worry he's still young and I'm sure his time will come soon...

leaky_frog · « **Reply #44 on:** January 19, 2007, 09:11:36 AM »

Quote from: Captain Equipoise on January 18, 2007, 09:02:02 PM

Labrada... phenomenal symmetry and balance.. if only he had been taller.

Amen.

Jr. Yates · « **Reply #45 on:** January 19, 2007, 01:17:00 PM »

Wheeler forsure. he should have at least 1.

body88 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 19, 2007, 02:31:18 PM »

NarcissisticDeity · « **Reply #47 on:** January 19, 2007, 04:30:55 PM »

Quote from: Dredlock Rasta on January 18, 2007, 07:16:18 PM

Is that pic real?

The pic is very real and it is NOT photoshopped thats Flex when he was tearing through the Pro_ranks in his Rookie year 1993 4 Pro Shows and a 2nd in the Olympia this pic is from the 1993 Ironman

NarcissisticDeity · « **Reply #48 on:** January 19, 2007, 04:35:35 PM »

Quote from: LoveTheSport on January 19, 2007, 07:04:06 AM

I forgot that he was DQed. Well, I've seen a few pics from '96 and he was ripped as hell and beat Yates on various front poses, but I agree, he didn't look as good as Yates from the back, although IMO it was close.

I think he might of looked better, front and back, in '95. I believe the back double bi shot I saw was from the '95 O, and he was on par with Yates there.

Nasser's back was NEVER on par with Dorians , in fact no ones was , these are back shots from the 1995 Mr Olympia

davidpaul · « **Reply #49 on:** January 19, 2007, 04:38:10 PM »

Mighty Mike Quinn in 1987.

King "the royal pain" kamali in 2001.

Author Topic: Best Bodybuilder Of All Time Not To Win The Sandow ? (Read 6705 times)

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