What Will The Death Of Uncle Joe Bring?

[suckmymuscle]

  Let's face it: the guy is in his late eighties. With luck, he might live another decade, but that's pushing it. Since Joe created the Olympia and for decades subsidized several amateur and pro contests that couldn't make any money, saying that he's the father of bodybuilding is not an exageration at all. Sure, now MuscleTech owns the Mr.Olympia and pretty much all of bodybuilding - how these corporate thieves bought bodybuilding is beyond me -, but MuscleTech, unlike Uncle Joe, is all about profits and it will abandon bodybuilding as soon as they realize the real money is in fitness - just look at EAS. MuscleTech won't be putting money into bodybuilding if it's not bringing in the dough, unlike Joe who would bank the losses that pro bodybuilding had with his own money because he geuinely loves bodybuilding. MuscleTech will abandon bodybuilding in the near future and, with Joe's death, the sport will be orphaned.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

[DK II]

Natural BB is the future!

Drug free, no laws breaking and supplements are expensive shit.

In natural BB, adding some special creatine or synthetic amino acids MAY really make a difference, so advertising is easier.

[powerpack]

I also wondered that.
His brother and nephew is still very involved in the IFBB as far as I know
But Joe after selling of most of his magazines has not really being doing much so....

[DK II]

the G4P business will boom

No, after Joe is gone, g4p will have no future.

[The Wizard]

Won't change much. The Weiders have lost control to Team Manion already. Rumour has it that Arnold is keen to take over from the Weiders and bring bodybuilding back to the way it was but I reckon he'll get lost in National issue.

[emn1964]

one less bodybuilder diddler

[Tapeworm]

Won't change much. The Weiders have lost control to Team Manion already. Rumour has it that Arnold is keen to take over from the Weiders and bring bodybuilding back to the way it was but I reckon he'll get lost in National issue.

You're dreaming man.  He only keeps the ASC because pulling out would make more waves than staying in.  He won't make any moves to further associate himself with what the general public perceives as a steroid fueled gay sex extravaganza.

[powerpack]

I see a lot of Joe haters but he really did make the sport more main stream for a while.
I loved his mags in the 1990s
I still have WEIDER plates in my home gym
He knew how to promote people, even Arnie was one of his projects.
And once apon a time there was only WEIDER supplements to take.

He really was one of the great promoters of some thing we all love to do..... Pick up weights and build muscle!

[SOMEPARTS]

Can't argue that he's the father of modern bodybuilding, both good and bad.

Looking pretty frail - highly doubt he will make it another decade.

[Meso_z]

  Let's face it: the guy is in his late eighties. With luck, he might live another decade, but that's pushing it. Since Joe created the Olympia and for decades subsidized several amateur and pro contests that couldn't make any money, saying that he's the father of bodybuilding is not an exageration at all. Sure, now MuscleTech owns the Mr.Olympia and pretty much all of bodybuilding - how these corporate thieves bought bodybuilding is beyond me -, but MuscleTech, unlike Uncle Joe, is all about profits and it will abandon bodybuilding as soon as they realize the real money is in fitness - just look at EAS. MuscleTech won't be putting money into bodybuilding if it's not bringing in the dough, unlike Joe who would bank the losses that pro bodybuilding had with his own money because he geuinely loves bodybuilding. MuscleTech will abandon bodybuilding in the near future and, with Joe's death, the sport will be orphaned.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

Time for a change dont you think?   

[suckmymuscle]

Time for a change dont you think?   

  What if this "change" means the death of bodybuilding because no one, unlike Uncle Joe, wants to put money into something that gives no financial return?

SUCKMYMUSCLE

[njflex]

I see a lot of Joe haters but he really did make the sport more main stream for a while.
I loved his mags in the 1990s
I still have WEIDER plates in my home gym
He knew how to promote people, even Arnie was one of his projects.
And once apon a time there was only WEIDER supplements to take.

He really was one of the great promoters of some thing we all love to do..... Pick up weights and build muscle!

last part of the quote was admirable,but it kind of lost control with the whole drug thing good or bad.

[James Phoenix]

It might mean the death of competitive bodybuilding, but bodybuilding will live and continue to thrive.

There are too many guys that want to look muscular for it to go away.

Since the time of Charles Atlas, that's how it's been.

If muscle tech takes over, maybe they'll take it in a new direction?

Being a profit driven company, this might mean a marketing campaign aimed at those simply looking to put on some t-shirt muscles.
 

[The Coach]

I predict uncontrolled rampant corruption as opposed to controlled corruption!

[JohnnyVegas]

You're dreaming man.  He only keeps the ASC because pulling out would make more waves than staying in.  He won't make any moves to further associate himself with what the general public perceives as a steroid fueled gay sex extravaganza.

The ASC and Expo is a fucking GOLD MINE.


"Pulling out" would be like throwing money down the drain.

[Tapeworm]

Probably true Johnny, but I still think that:

He won't make any moves to further associate himself with what the general public perceives as a steroid fueled gay sex extravaganza.

[Hypertrophy]

When Joe Weider passes, bodybuilding will remain as it currently is, a niche entertainment spectacle. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Dreadlord]

When Joe Weider passes, bodybuilding will remain as it currently is, a niche entertainment spectacle. Nothing more, nothing less.

Quoted for truth