The bottom line in all this is the quality and integrity of the people involved in the sport. Ben recruited businessmen who were handling his products around the world. Amazingly these 'vice-presidents' were recruited to judge important contests. That is a step worse than getting gym owners to judge contests!
You can't make a silk purse organization out of a bunch on sows ears stooges! Chick joins the mediocre blokes forming the IFBB although, according to him, he isn't part of it at all. No one knows what is going on in those organizations because they sure aren't sporting ones. Where is his integrity and sense of justice. The Milos incident is typical of how the IFBB handles bodybuilders. They cast out outspoken individuals because they threaten their organization. Lee Priest was made an example of so that no one in the future will enter non-sanctioned contests. I am sick of the official this and official that shit that Ben always yapped about. In the end, it is just a bunch of blokes deciding things. There is nothing official about that.
I guess mainstream bodybuilding is composed of flotsam and knuckleheads because look at how the IFBB treats bodybuilders. The IFBB still don't know how to run a contest, have valid judging criteria and methods, and be responsible for what they do. They could start by treating the bodybuilders with respect instead of treating them like sheep.
Why on earth they appointed a sheep dog (Bob C) to assist them is a travesty. That bloke knows only how to enforce laws not how to deliver justice. Look at his pathetic attempt to clear his name and save the IFBB. He couldn't save Lee or Milos.
