Victor is an old buddy.
Whether he is a legend or not depends on what constitutes a legend within an activity that requires no direct competition between two individuals and instead relies on the subjective opinion of a set of judges. This isn't like one of your many professional sports where two entities compete and you usually have a clear-cut winner (think Olympic swimming, runners, boxing, baseball, soccer, football, basketball etc).
When you define legend, at least based off of what you find on the internet, you get this:
an extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field
The only individual within the bodybuilding industry that could be said to be "extremely" famous is probably Arnold Schwarzenegger. When you consider all the other Mr. Olympia winners, outside of the small bodybuilding cult, no one really knows who they are. You can go anywhere in the world and odds are that someone will always recognize Arnold, but good luck asking some random kid in the middle of Russia who the fuck Jay Cutler, Ronnie Coleman, Dexter Jackson or Phil Heath is.
With that same token, if you were to look at it through a much smaller scope, Victor is famous and notorious within the bodybuilding industry, not for the right reasons, but certainly fits the bill for both.
He got arrested and caused a few ripples through the industry (This covers the notorious aspect, since it would satisfy the definition of notorious - widely and unfavorably known).
In terms of competitions, he won these (grants him some level of fame, particularly within this small industry, as famous defined means - known or recognized by very many people):
2000 NPC Nationals, Heavyweight, 1st and Overall
2003 IFBB Night of Champions, 1st
2004 IFBB GNC Show of Strength Pro Championship, 1st
2007 IFBB Arnold Classic, 1st
2011 IFBB Arnold Classic Madrid, 1st
2013 IFBB Toronto Pro Supershow, 1st
2014 IFBB Wings Of Strength PBW Tampa Pro, 1st
You make the call. I think the only legend in professional bodybuilding is Arnold.
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