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dude, thats a supplement contract.............we are talking about magazine contracts
Ronnie didn't have a magazine contract with ANYBODY, until he joined Weider. Then, he was in their magazines and promoting their supplements.
What you don't seem to get was that, back in the day, that both Weider and Twinlab owned Flex/M&F and MD, respectively. There was NO seperation.
If you signed with Weider, you rocked their supplements and did articles for FLEX and M&F.
If you signed with Twinlab, you rocked THOSE supplements and appeared in MD/MDFH/ANMD.
Twinlab owned MD, until 2001, when Steve Blechman bought out his father and brothers, took the magazine, and separated from the company. That's why he was able to start talking about "Hardcore" bodybuilding and steroids, after promising (when it was "All-Natural" Muscular Development" that no steroid-using bodybuilder would ever appear in his magazine again.