MD Shakeup - Palumbo and Romano gone!!!

[Balloon]

I totally agree.  I'm willing to bet there were some secret meetings between Shawn and Steve with Shawn proposing some changes that would bring in more money...
That Ray is a sneaky fuck.  GH15 needs to speak on this but he's gone now

Likely,
Shawn is a shrewd business man.

Tbh, i can see why Steve has made this Decision.

Md has gradually increased in popularity, and are way ahead of Flex in the online Department. Steve wants to push alot more online content/videos of the pros, up to date research papers etc. If he does this, then MD could easily surpass Flex in Sales figures.
Romano and palumbo carry alot of baggage. Very Pro-Steroid, checkered pasts (Jail time). Steve is simply cleaning up the MD image and marching forward.

[west0000]

There have been contributors like Layne (too many others to mention- I dont want to give them the publicity) that came in as a result of John and Dave and have had their stock increase as a result.. Even Shawn and Flex Wheeler for example.. Do you think he could have got in on ground level like those guys?

Don't know if Layne's input had much to do with John and Dave.

[CQ]

Likely,
Shawn is a shrewd business man.

Tbh, i can see why Steve has made this Decision.

Md has gradually increased in popularity, and are way ahead of Flex in the online Department. Steve wants to push alot more online content/videos of the pros, up to date research papers etc. If he does this, then MD could easily surpass Flex in Sales figures.
Romano and palumbo carry alot of baggage. Very Pro-Steroid, checkered pasts (Jail time). Steve is simply cleaning up the MD image and marching forward.

I see your point, especially with them bringing on Layne and Eric Broser.

However, yes showing my age here, I recall last time they went "All Natural" - was a disaster, and I assume was by sales figures as they switched back.

I think now, the "natural" and people dumb enough to not realize the pros are pumped full of buckets of drugs are all over at bb.com, they seem to have captured that online market, not sure if trying to lean that way online is too viable, their hardcore edge seemed to work well.

[AVBG]

Don't know if Layne's input had much to do with John and Dave.

Layne got a big break by appearing a while back on their show, and because Dave's support ended up now with his own column.

Eric Broser (does the natural column) got his start by kissing Romano's ass.

[Balloon]

I see your point, especially with them bringing on Layne and Eric Broser.

However, yes showing my age here, I recall last time they went "All Natural" - was a disaster, and I assume was by sales figures as they switched back.

I think now, the "natural" and people dumb enough to not realize the pros are pumped full of buckets of drugs are all over at bb.com, they seem to have captured that online market, not sure if trying to lean that way online is too viable, their hardcore edge seemed to work well.

I would love to see the FLEX vs MD mag sales.
Obviously MD kills Flex Online (the forums are a ghost town)

Dave was definately plugging his Species supplement line ALOT, both on the boards, and on NBR.
John Made a post a little while ago explaining he had "been advised by the boss (Steve) to let the MD forum members know that he was sponsered by Species, and paid to promote the supplement line"

Seems like Steve was a little annoyed at Dave using MD as a platform for his own business.

[AVBG]

I would love to see the FLEX vs MD mag sales.
Obviously MD kills Flex Online (the forums are a ghost town)

Dave was definately plugging his Species supplement line ALOT, both on the boards, and on NBR.
John Made a post a little while ago explaining he had "been advised by the boss (Steve) to let the MD forum members know that he was sponsered by Species, and paid to promote the supplement line"

Seems like Steve was a little annoyed at Dave using MD as a platform for his own business.

Good point Balloon.. Also, the species line was never sold on the md online store..

[CQ]

I can see the conflict with Species and MD, fair enough.

What explains Romano?

[tu_holmes]

Good point Balloon.. Also, the species line was never sold on the md online store..

True... But I believe the last time I looked... Flex out sells MD by quite a bit, with M&F outselling both put together.

Flex is sold in many countries around the world... MD is North America only the last time I checked.

Things may have changed by now of course.

I can see the conflict with Species and MD, fair enough.

What explains Romano?

He's had too many moments where he was not professional?

[WillGrant]

Perhaps from Shawn Ray but not Flex Wheeler.  While Shawn has proven experience from working with ESPN on actual TV, can Flex actually commit to doing a weekly show and do it well?


Like I said a while back.  It would not be too long before Blechman got rid of that Muscle Mob bullshit.  It made advertising the show as a gimmick and couldn't be taken seriously which is why it got crushed by PBW every time.  In addition, Romano is what I call a corporate shoe licker who did whatever he had to do to keep his job from baking cookies (early to mid 90's MD) to being a hardcore ex-felon who went out and "wacked" people for messing with the MD Mob (current)


Blechman isn't no John Gotti...he's a magazine editor and he's cleaning up that P.O.S forum and putting things back the way they should be and getting rid of that stupid Mob shit.

I'm sure Romano and Palumbo still have their jobs so they actually should be glad they can go back to getting serious.  However, Romano needs to get fired.  He's just a waste of space in MD and there are a lot of writers out there more talented than he is.  Get Layne Norton or Will Brink to take his place because Romano has never done anything in his life except being Blechman's personal lackey

blah blah blah no one is interested in your opinion Vince , go chuck one up vissy the sissy 

[dustin]

I can see the conflict with Species and MD, fair enough.

What explains Romano?

Romano's a skinny, coked up little tit. Who cares?

That sucks about Dave though. That's real asinine of that little homo Blechman to fire him and even delete his threads - WOW!!! There was a lot of good information when you sifted through the shit and the plugs for his supplement line. Blechman is shooting himself in the foot. What a homo.

[Saxon]

True... But I believe the last time I looked... Flex out sells MD by quite a bit, with M&F outselling both put together.

Flex is sold in many countries around the world... MD is North America only the last time I checked.

Things may have changed by now of course.

He's had too many moments where he was not professional?

You can buy MD in the UK.

[CQ]

MD sells quite a few nations, seen it in my travels, also sells here as well.

[rkw1969]

dave is cool but blechman and romona are cocksuckers. watch it to the end

[rkw1969]

the chink is the funniest 

[tu_holmes]

You can buy MD in the UK.

MD sells quite a few nations, seen it in my travels, also sells here as well.

I stand corrected.

[flexingtonsteele]

THe whole thing was done so abruptly.

All His threads were deleted and all videos removed literally within a few hours.

That thread was hundreds of pages. I'm actually pretty pissed off cos Dave knows his stuff.

 

yea i love how everyone is throwing dave under the bus, when half of the people who work for MD are there because dave got them hired.

what a crock of shit.

Pretty much all these guys want there jobs, and would go as far as getting on there knees and blowing the 60yr old cock of there faggy boss til his prostate explodes for there jobs.

[Tapeworm]

[saucetradomous]

Palumbo's in the trenches interviews were pretty informative, that was the only reason I ever cared about their videos.  Fuck shawn ray and Flex.
Flex's videos were shit in his prime, why would I want to watch him train synthol filled arms now?

[Triple-H_2005]

Likely,
Shawn is a shrewd business man.

Tbh, i can see why Steve has made this Decision.

Md has gradually increased in popularity, and are way ahead of Flex in the online Department. Steve wants to push alot more online content/videos of the pros, up to date research papers etc. If he does this, then MD could easily surpass Flex in Sales figures.
Romano and palumbo carry alot of baggage. Very Pro-Steroid, checkered pasts (Jail time). Steve is simply cleaning up the MD image and marching forward.

Doing too much "clean up" will do more to hide knowlegde than spread it.  See Flex magazine for an example..."YOU CAN BE AS BIG AS THE PROS WITH JUST HARD TRAINING AND MUSCLETECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Oy vey...

[Honour]

yea i love how everyone is throwing dave under the bus, when half of the people who work for MD are there because dave got them hired.

what a crock of shit.

Pretty much all these guys want there jobs, and would go as far as getting on there knees and blowing the 60yr old cock of there faggy boss til his prostate explodes for there jobs.

QFT mate, sad but true .

[swilkins1984]

well i was never a fan of romano, he added nothing to the website or the radio show. but palumbo will be sorely missed. His Q%A  thread was one of the most read on the internet period, he worked on that website til 5am everyday and was always putting up new content, contest pics, radio shows, in the trenches videos etc......whether it was good or bad didnt matter, or if u liked it or not it didnt matter, that dude really made that site go.

Very true about Dave. He built the MD site from nothing to the best contest coverage and bb info/training site there is.  I can't see Shawn and Flex holding down a radio show and constantly being the boards. Steve has lost his f*ckin mind. If you're going to cut your costs don't cut the 2 most most important people you have. This is all about money and I predict more cuts in the near future especially from the bodybuilders. I think Dave and John put in over 20 years with MD between the two of them and they got f*cked in the ass and a pink slip in the end.

[Relentless]

over the years shawn and kenneth have provem themselves to be shitty human beings..not just once or twice or just when they were youthfull..

For once, we agree.  These guys are completely out for themselves.  Dave will land on his feet.

[Relentless]

Palumbo's thread was very good, I read a good 100 pages of it over time.

Another thing, and I don't mean this as a flame - I have never seen Flex post any form of decent post. Seriously. One can flame Shawn all they like, but he is articulate. Flex seems capable of nothing more then making a post using that annoying head banging smiley. Seriously, maybe he does post actual decent posts and I have missed them, but he strikes me as quite inarticulate and not a good replacement for either Romano or Dave.

Correct; Flex Wheeler comes off as a very stupid person.

[Blockhead]

 If you derelicts ever believed anything I have ever said to be true listen to this one...

 Steve Blechman used to tell people at MD that his nikname was 'CroMagnon', in college because he had a 16'' neck.

 
 He wants the magazine more like FLEX now. Less roid talk, no luv for female bodybuilding and more fanboy stuff.

 Dave and Romano saw it differently.

 Dave and Romano will do just fine. SPECIES Nutrition is actually blowing up unlike your cell-phones at 2am on a Saturday night from some slut-whore figure bitch. Like mine does.



 TBH.

[The_Leafy_Bug]