Good points Rocket.
I always quite liked Son Baty. I saw him as someone who wasn't like most bodybuilders, ie..thick as pigshit and smack talking. I saw him as a well educated, intelligent guy who had a legitimate case for claiming he'd won the 97 Mr O (a case, not that he was a dead cert to win it)...but who had, unfortunately for him, gone too far with the oil and screwed up his physique.
Half of the unpleasant stuff I say about him is tongue in cheek to wind up TeamNasser because it's too easy and they used to deliberately fuck up threads with multiple pictures of the ageing muscleman. The constant exposure and deliberate semi-trolling of the team started to piss me off , especially as they would just deny any shortcomings on his part and impede any real discussion of the subject. So all it became was a repetitive rehash of the same pictures and high-fiving each other.
Also, for a guy who prides himself on his advanced education - hey, we've got a bodybuilder who hasactually been to Uni - his interviews are pretty lowbrow and trashy : 'I screwed her, she liked my penis ' ' I never got paid for drugs' 'I didn't pay him for drugs' 'pumpkinheads' etc.. It's hardly inspiring to listen to pros bicker about drug deals gone bad and generally bitch like catfighting schoolgirls... Then again, probably my mistake for expecting that Nasser would be any different from the norm and buck the trend of pro bodybuilders being some of the most pathetic and uninspiring individuals alive today.