1972 Mr. Olympia New pics!

[alexxx]

Who's your fave? Post more pictures if you have some

[sculpture]

There not new pics but i still stand by my argument that this was sergios contest. Granted i wasnt there and neither was anyone else who'll reply but i feel sergio was better. In great condition, full as ever with superior legs, v taper and structure than arnold. A full years of radical training with arthur jones got sergio in that shape and imagine another couple of years and he perhaps would of presented a physique that theyd still be trying to catch up to today.

[nzmusclemonster]

sergio makes arnold look like a little boy

[sculpture]

Judging by those pictures Arnold by a landslide.

Lol!!!!!!!!!!!! History shows it was one of the closest contests up to that point in time and you have the audacity to say  arnold won it by a LANDSLIDE!!!

[sculpture]

The only the thing Sergio has in those pictures is a smaller waist.

Arnold kills in legs, arms, chest, conditioning and back, especially lower back.

Get off the nuts of the 'myth' 

I will once you hop off arnolds. I accept sergios flaws such as high lats and traditionally poor conditioning but in this instance he was on. Sergios quads are so better than arnolds it not fair - incredible fullness, natural shape and sweep compared to arnolds highly detailed but "light" quads. You claim arnolds arms are superior -yes youre right if we judged them soley on the flexed bicep pose, which of course we don't. Sergio has superior triceps and forearms which if we applied NDs logic "would make for a superior arm" (note his logic doesnt extend to dorians arms bein better than ronnies).

[cauthon]

Sergio looks like an alien in that first pic

[Tigerman]

There are more pictures around... Sergio was robbed!
Can you imagine how a different outcome would have changed bb history? Sergio would have been an IFBB athlete in the following years with more Sandows in his bag and... no Terminator and no governor Arnold...

[brianX]

Frank Zane looks better than both of them.

[MisterGX]

The reason Sergio's legs are a tad 'fuller' is because of all water and fat he's holding in them. His conditioning was MUCH worse then Arnold's.

As for arms, just because his triceps were bigger means nothing. He has almost no definition in them, no flow nothing.

Just looking at the two without judging any single bodypart Anrold looks a million times better.

Not to mention back in that period, bodybuilding was based on aesthetics. Being a tad bit bigger didn't mean anything when you looked 10 weeks out.

Minus the small waist and Sergio wasn't shit.

You either need glasses or your head examined/both.

[Tigerman]

Frank Zane looks better than both of them.

Frank didn't have enough mass to match Sergio or Arnold. Later in his career compensate the lack of mass with amazing conditioning but in '72 he was not quite there yet.

[pumpster]

Besides the smaller waist, Sergio wins on virtually every other criteria in this shot:
Better lat/waist ratio, better shoulder/waist ratio, huge advantage on tris, much better quads..

Except for legs, I'd put Nubret 2nd in this, Arnold 3rd.

[brianX]

The reason Sergio's legs are a tad 'fuller' is because of all water and fat he's holding in them. His conditioning was MUCH worse then Arnold's.

As for arms, just because his triceps were bigger means nothing. He has almost no definition in them, no flow nothing.

Just looking at the two without judging any single bodypart Anrold looks a million times better.

Not to mention back in that period, bodybuilding was based on aesthetics. Being a tad bit bigger didn't mean anything when you looked 10 weeks out.

Minus the small waist and Sergio wasn't shit.

Yeah, his conditioning was terrible.

[Borracho]

Sergio refused to be weider's man servant and was black and hispanic. These things didn't help him.

[tommywishbone]

That's chocolate & hispanic.

[alexxx]

here are some more for ya...

[sculpture]

Good job posting a picture that wasn't from that contest, dumbfuck. 

I'll echo what another member said - you need your eyes examined. You say sergios conditioning was poor but arnolds looks about the same from where i'm sitting so does that make arnolds conditioning poor or not?

[gibberj2]

Arnold wins on conditioning and aesthetics. For all you people who say he had no legs look at everyone else's.

[sculpture]

Arnold wins on conditioning and aesthetics. For all you people who say he had no legs look at everyone else's.

You mean look at evryones bar zanes and sergios. Zane could match arnold on detail but not absolute size whilst sergio whoops him in mass and shape. Out of the five principle players only nubret and columbo have notcieble poor legs

[Farcry]

Arnold said it could of gone either way.  The head judge was really impressed by the two it was really hard for him to make a decision, it probably could of been a tie but Arnold was more popular thats why he probably won

[alexxx]

How cool would it be if Sergio was in pumping iron? 

[sculpture]

Poor arnold stepping on stage like that knowing he was beat. Must of flet like some spoilt little kid who needed to be saved by kind uncle joe. Sergio never stood a chance (politicaly) but gets marks in my books for sticking the middle finger up at the establishment.

[Borracho]

Just sick!
Thanks for this pic bro. I'm saving it.

[sculpture]

Look at that expression on sergios face: "i own this fuckin pose, step aside kiddies"

[Borracho]

Sergio should be cloned. He was just insane.

[Flex 215]

There are more pictures around... Sergio was robbed!
Can you imagine how a different outcome would have changed bb history? Sergio would have been an IFBB athlete in the following years with more Sandows in his bag and... no Terminator and no governor Arnold...

                           You're probably right. If Sergio won, he would have had 4 Mr O's compared to 2 for Arnold at this time. Sergio also would have been 2 and 1 against Arnold in head to head Olympias. ( I think Arnold beat Sergio in the Mr. World in 1970, so they would have been 2 and 2 overall. ) The fact that Sergio would have been ahead, might have made Arnold have to totally beat him the next year to win, as the judging meantality of one needs to knockout the champ would be in effect.
                           As I read, the judging in this contest was 4 to 3 in favor of Arnold, so it was as close as it could get. If one judge had gone the other way, it could have totally changed the history and possible future of bodybuilding. I think Arnold pretended to walk off stage, and when Sergio did as well, Arnold came back and hit some more of his best poses to help sway the judges.