Complete question and answer from the interview
[ Q ] You yourself have been accused of synthol use. What do you have to say about these allegations?
First of all I have to mention the pro judge Art Bedway from the state of PA. He is the guy who brought the talk, the huge talk up of Nasser's synthol shoulders.
After the 2001 Olympia he approached me at the Mr. Olympia banquet while I was with my former wife. I did not ask him. But he felt it was the right moment then to tell me that I came in 15th place because "I had stuck something" in my shoulders. I did not know what he was referring to.
He was loud, angry, verbally abusive, insulting and drunk. He could not have gotten drunk so quickly after the show so he must have been drinking while he was judging bodybuilding's most prestigious show.
In 1994 again my former wife and I witnessed how he wanted to kick out some black guys from the Olympia auditorium in Atlanta Georgia because he was thinking that these specific guys, who had seats very close to the contest stage, had no tickets. He just, again, assumed that they had no entrance tickets, because they were black people. He made racial slurs and did not even know at that time that these guys were Lee Haney's friends.
Just another ignorant statement of his: once he said that Brian Buchanan, a former bodybuilding pro should be put under a squat rack to "get some legs." Some people will never have big legs regardless how many sets of squats they do.
Dear alcoholic Art Bedway, you are of Lebanese descent and you are not better than anyone else so do not play all American boy - why do you think that you are in the position of putting black people down and accusing me of the use of "synthol" in my delts, especially if you do not know it?
You assuming racist and alcoholic moron - get off the judging panel and get into rehab. You are the instigator and the person who brought me in connection with the use of synthol. It would be like me saying, "Yeah - Tom Platz has his big legs because of synthol use." Or "Ruhl has a huge chest because of synthol use."
Art Bedway is one person who should be made to pay a fine for his irresponsible dumb talk. Listen up - I had scar tissue in my delts... you expert in nothing.
To my knowledge, 95 percent of all athletes in pro bodybuilding have been or are using synthol in one way or another. Regular gym members here in San Diego, California asked me in 1995 about the correct application of synthol so it has been a part of bodybuilding for at least 10 years now.
Another pro judge like Asher Frigg from Israel should be removed from the judging panel as well. He is not qualified at all and he is a complete disaster. And another one, Petar Uricek from the Czech Republic should resign as well. He once told me that he judged according to his next seated U.S. colleages on the left and on the right side of him.
He did not want to fight with them because of me, and prize money of 50,000.000 U.S dollars for second place would be good enough for Nasser instead of the $100,000.000 U.S. dollars and the Arnold Classic title for the winner.
I have even met pro judges who mixed competitors up with each other. I am not joking. And I could go way further here, for example regarding the female judges who have sex with the male pro judges. Or the female pro judges who have slept and who are sleeping with the male pros.
