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The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« on: May 17, 2009, 08:37:56 PM »
How about a tribute to some of the guys who made bodybuilding fun to follow?  I'm on the verge of losing my interest with today's scene.

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2009, 08:40:53 PM »
Will we ever see a bodybuilder as complete as Chris Cormier?  With lines and conditioning like Shawn Ray?  The freaky mass of Dillett? 

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2009, 08:43:35 PM »
Genetics, genetics, genetics!

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2009, 08:48:15 PM »
I wouldn't say best, it made it's peak in the 90's and officially died in the 00's.

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2009, 09:08:03 PM »
Sadly this thread hits the nail on the head.  The 90s was far and away the most progressive decade for bodybuilding.  Dorian & Ronnie both took bodybuilding to new heights.  Kevin, Cormier, Ray, Flex, Nasser & Co. would all dominate today's pro shows.

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2009, 09:11:27 PM »
90s fucking rock man, yeah the "two-k's" suck....suck totally... fuck "two-k's"
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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2009, 10:01:50 PM »
The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!= 100% True  8)
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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2009, 11:09:20 PM »
a little bit nostalgic but it's true.

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2009, 01:43:47 AM »
True for the women's side as well.
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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2009, 01:58:18 AM »
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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2009, 02:39:52 AM »
I have no interest in today's scene, but to be honest, I thought the guys looked too freaky in the 90s as well-although, now when I look at them, I think they look great.

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2009, 06:12:27 AM »
agree 100%

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2009, 06:19:50 AM »
If they stuck to the traditional BBing criteria of penalyzing a wide and/or distended waist, we'd put a limit on the blockiness and bad physiques.  Its the judges fault.

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2009, 06:46:21 AM »
If they stuck to the traditional BBing criteria of penalyzing a wide and/or distended waist, we'd put a limit on the blockiness and bad physiques.  Its the judges fault.

Something happened with drugs in the late 90s, early 2000s where we started seeing the waist problem. 

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2009, 12:40:42 PM »
Mike Quinn once said that he felt that the 80's was the golden era of bodybuilding. Thats when Haney, Ray, Strydom, Christian, Labrada, Quinn, Buchanan, Gaspari, ect... hit the scene.


I think there was clearly more drug usage with each proceeding decade.

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2009, 12:53:02 PM »
I think the 80s were the glory days of BBing as well.  The best physiques were probably in the early-mid 90s though. 

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2009, 02:37:56 PM »
90's for sure,, not even worth debating....

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Re: The 90s - bodybuilding's best decade!
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2009, 04:30:33 PM »
Yes before all the pros got big ass bellies. :o