This is an interesting thread.
I cannot belieeeeeeeve that so many grown men can be so girlishly devoted to a fuckin' bodybuilder they never met (be it Battyboy or Arnold Chickenburger) and who surely would not give a fuck for them if they ever did meet.
It's like listening to schoolgirls comparing Justin Timberlake to David Cassidy.
For the sake of objective argument though, Arnold had a far prettier physique that Nasser, but then Arnold had a better shape than most people. His muscles just seemed to flow together well, a good all-round package, as distinct from a physique that looks like a collection of separate parts.
Nasser's sheer bulk is striking in an animal way, but his huge joints make him look like a wall, a Marvel-Comics freakshow.
Now... Someone said that Arnold had a physique and was cool with it. Not always.
In his Munich days, perhaps after a beer or ten, he would tear off his shirt in a restaurant, flex his muscles. In London and elsewhere in England, during the year between the '66 and '67 NABBA Amateur Unis, he used to flex his arms and declare them the largest arms in the world (predating use of the same phrase by Hulk Hogan LOL!) They may well have been, until Lou Ferrigno came of age and crashed the size party. But it's a tad-bit puerile to go around boasting about it, don'tcha think?
Does the above sound like being 'cool with it'? I think not.
That was of course his youth. He went through a relatively cool phase in the mid-to-late Seventies, the floppy collar-length hair, the tight shirts, jeans and cowboy boots. And the first half of the Eighties, with his spiked hair and tongue-in-cheek muscle movies. Also significant was his maintaining about 210lbs hard-ish, so that he looked relatively normal in clothes, getting regular movie roles as opposed to always being a BBer.
(Briefly returning to Nasser, that's the difference between a modern-day monster BBer and say a retired Arnold or Dave Draper. If you're 6' plus and weigh 200-240, you can get away with wearing suits. If you're a Nasser, a Markus Ruhl or a Ron Coleman, sub-6' and weighing over 300, wearing a suit makes you look like a clown, no matter how well tailored that suit may be)
Back to Arnold, and for the past twenty years or so, he's been anything but cool. Tinting his hair for a start. Men tinting out grey is a big pet puke-out of mine, and the older a man gets, the more pathetic it looks. I think there's something far more dignified and distinguished about a natural, steely-grey look. It matches the ageing skin of the face.
Then there's the vanity surgery. You can have too much of a good thing. That first facelift is a greasy pole. Like Mariusz Pudzianowski... LOL!
And lastly, Arnold's mincing his words over his past steroid use. Some of the horseshit he expects the world to swallow. Like the heart-valve thing was due to a 'congenital defect'. Yeah right, and I'm Miss Piggy.
Best of all was his statement that he'd used steroids only to maintain muscle while cutting for a contest. The implication being that he built his 235lbs on chicken alone.
Wouldn't it be more dignified to remind the press and the world that his gear use is none of their business?
Unbelieveable. Definitely not cool.
TNBT
