if you lost money - your hotel reservations, your plane ticket, etc. You have one man to blame.
This man is taking credit for calling sponsors and helping to scare them into backing out of the shows. He has repeatedly claimed in the past to be doing favors for IFBB and NPC.
Vince Goodrum is an enemy of bodybuilding, in my opinion. He is an enemy of bodybuilders trying to make a living. If you lost money on plane tickets or hotel room, it's because this guy called sponsors and spooked them. He bragged about it. He personally disrupted your financials. Many of you haven't heard about this from getbig board - but this message will be posted on every bodybuilder, supplement, and message board for the next 14 days.
Thanks for hurting our money, Vince Goodrum. I plan on informing everyone about you.
You ignorant boob, I'm not responsible for the complete failure of the B&A show. The main thing I did was to let NPC athletes know that it was never sanctioned by the NPC and that competing for prize money may have invalidated your status as an NPC amateur athlete.
There were too many claims going around that an NPC athlete would not have gotten in any trouble which was highly incorrect. The NPC and IFBB had already repeated the same warning to all athletes.
I called up the sponsors to see if they were actually aware of the same thing as well as the office of Gov Schwartznegger and sure enough they didn't know.
What really did in Ben's show was 3 things.
1. Holding it on the same weekend and area as the NPC USA which pissed off everyone and then advertising the event on Getbig where Ron Avidan is a personal friend of Jon Lindsay
2. Lying about the status of the show knowing that he was having issues with getting everything secured.
3. Messing with me via PM which caused me to brutally shoot down his plane into the sea.
Your team didn't even have to listen to me, you could have used some common sense and looked all the facts about the event beforehand and you would have saved 100K. It wasn't just me who advised people not to do this show.
Even Ben's not saying I was the cause of the cancellation. He's already stated that he cancelled his show due to receiving death threats and I never threatened to kill him.
If you want to blame someone, then talk to Ben.