So let me get this straight, you use a video of Levrone and Wheeler, training in the gym, bodybuilders version of "practice", to prove Levrone is better than Phil, no stage shots at all which is in essense their "game".
Dude, this arguement sucks so bad i shouldnt even address it any longer, but I will anyway.
Bodybuilders game is onstage, not in the gym...So an onstage video of Kevin during "game time" would make a valid arguement.
This is akin to saying on sports team is better than the other and showing practice footage to validate your arguement.
FAIL and FAIL HARD
Agreed.
Don't blame Phil for the FUNK that the past bodybuilders of the 90's did to ruin the sport. All the crazy experiments with drugs and secrecy to "special cocktails" as well as non-human-grade hormones (and most of all the lies) created the culture in bodybuilding that it is now.
I have known Phil since he was a student at Rainer Beach HS when he played ball. He put in the effort and listened and he was patient. For that consistency, he got a full scholorship to play ball at the University of Colorado, but realized he wasn't going to go pro. All the while he kept lifting weights and got more curious about bodybuilding.
I remember when he went to I believe,the Emerald cup, and met former pro Claude Grolux (sp) whom,said he had great genetics. Fast forward to 2011 and he is the BEST bodybuilder on the planet.
How he got to the top was by the template that all the other pro's used to "get ahead" he was just younger and responded better and of course he had Jay! All those year Jay chased Ronnie, he poured all that knowledge to him and now he is Mr.O. Something that makes the past bodybuilders sick to there stomach, because they all wanted, more than a "nibble on the carcuss" and Phil just blew past them.
It's pretty easy to be envious of Phil. Has the genes, the response, a good lifestyle, and a gentleman. Sure you can say he is what uncle Joe wanted; well-spoken, former athlete (like Ronnie) a great smile, everything screams markability with him. Could Phil bench 500lbs like Levrone? Yea probably in time or maybe not, but I know for a fact Kevin WILL never dunk a basketball in college hoops, as well as ever win the Mr. Olympia (this is no disrespect to Kevin, just real talk).
I have been aquaintence of his for almost 15 years (rep'in the 206!), and I can say, he is still very much the same quality of a person he was then.
Congrats Phil! and continued success to you.