I wonder if Joe or Ben Weider are aware of the situation Mike is facing nowadays....
For all of the magazines, shit supplements like mega mass 5,000,000, tickets for shows, etc that Mike helped to sell, what help the Weider enterprises land to Mike at his lowest in life? And Peter McGough had the nerve to ask at Flex magazine for the fans to help Mike financially for all of the good memories and inspirations he gave to the fans along the years as a pro. How much McGough donated himself for Mike's debts in hospital? How much the magazine he runs for Joe donated for Mike? How much Rafael Santonja, a crook beyond crooked, donated for Mike's sake? How much the CEO of Weider Supplements had donated for Mike, for all of those Metaform and Megamass ads that he was advertising for them for years - and surely helped to sell a lot of them. Mike was the main posterboy for those supplements, he and Gunther, only keep in mind that at the time Gunther was far form the top of his career, the oposit of Mike, who was all over the place in the bb industry.
The fitness industry treats their athletes like shit. Bodybuilding as an industry is a fucking disgrace, a shame. This sport should be kept amateur only, because it would force the guys to keep their day job as the main source of income.
My guess is that, whoever invented this sport as we know it, i.e., the competitions and the way a show is judged to reach a winner in the end, never intended bodybuilding to be a professional endeavour where their participants could make enough money to make a living of it. That's waht I think. It should be like it was at its inception: a way to evaluate who had the best physique amongst the ones who liked to sculpt and build their bodies, just that. Competitors worked the week of the show until friday, and went onstage on saturday night. Once the show was finished, he grabed his trophy, and as a prize he would won a year free membership at the gym he used to train, that's it.
When bodybuilding was this way people never heard about athletes dropping of sudden death like these days.
THE WEIDERS SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES!
