1992 Olympia - And not a single gut was seen on stage that day...

[Da Freak]

Some notes:

Unbelievable lineup!
Kevin Levrone looked incredible and could have won the whole thing.
Shawn had spectacular conditioning.
Hard to fathom how thick Momo was.
Ronnie makes a very brief cameo (blink and you miss him).
I have never seen bodybuilders train in a sauna before to dry out  

I was too young that time. Was this one of the best Mr. O contests of all time?

[hench]

totally different ballgame from today, everyone now looks thrown together and the quality just aint there

Some notes:

Unbelievable lineup!
Kevin Levrone looked incredible and could have won the whole thing.
Shawn had spectacular conditioning.
Hard to fathom how thick Momo was.
Ronnie makes a very brief cameo (blink and you miss him).
I have never seen bodybuilders train in a sauna before to dry out 

I was too young that time. Was this one of the best Mr. O contests of all time?

[old-school-lifter]

i had kevin winning

momo was a freak, so much muscle on his short frame

kevin never got in such great condition again

[Twaddle]

WOW, WTF has happened to bodybuilding?  The guys today look like shit compared to this vid.

Ray has crazy conditioning.
Levrone is the same, with more muscle.
Yates routine was terrible, but his muscle size and dryness is crazy.

It's truly sad to see what this shit has become.   

[BigRo]

Helsinki I will be going to compete there in 3 months!

[Shockwave]

Yates owned this show.

[ENZO]

Nice find

[Pumpzilla]

Yates dominated.

This video goes to show you just how big of a step backward bodybuilding has taken today. Those thin, cut, streamlined waist are pretty much nonexistent. Replaced by the bloated guts of todays pros. Sad times, indeed.

[Slik]

How In the hell does Shawn not have a sandow?! JEEZUS

[Danimal77]

Yates owned this show.

And he was a dieted down 242 pounds that year. 1 year later he gained about 15 pounds and everyone else the following year had to up their game because of him.

[Shockwave]

And he was a dieted down 242 pounds that year. 1 year later he gained about 15 pounds and everyone else the following year had to up their game because of him.

Yeah. 93 was awesome. i still think the 96 GP was his best combo though.

[Grape Ape]

Yeah. 93 was awesome. i still think the 96 GP was his best combo though.

Yates made Levrone look soft in 92, and 93 was the most dominant win in Mr. O history.

I think, could be wrong, that the 92-93 offseason was when the insulin shit started.

[TheShape.]

Levrone looks great here.

[MP]

Today's crop is shit.

[Shockwave]

Yates made Levrone look soft in 92, and 93 was the most dominant win in Mr. O history.

I think, could be wrong, that the 92-93 offseason was when the insulin shit started.

Well, he said he changed nothing from 92-93, he just dieted less.

He said he was so overly concerned about being shredded up until 92 that he always overdieted.

[Country Guy]

Yup - much better look back then for sure. The distended guts had yet to rear their ugly head...

[TEMPER]

Jesus Christ Wayne DeMilia is such a fucking queen....Holy shit.

[Da Freak]

sad to see how effed up the current crop is in their pursuit of presenting the biggest, most bloated and distended body parts on stage. hardly a handful of pros personify what the golden era used to be.

#RIPbodybuilding

[Ex Coelis]

how do you "over-diet" on 6 grams of AAS?

[Sokolsky]

daayyymmmm Bev Francis jawline genetics of peace  

[Lustral]

Thick Nick would've been fucked on that stage, it was in an ice hockey arena.

[gracie bjj]

cool vid, yates might not have had the prettiest build but he sure was big,grainy n sliced,deserving win imo, only thing i didnt like was when he was talking about american bodybuilders not training hard. i wish he woulda did a leg workout with platz n sang that tune after he was on the floor gasping for air,platz woulda showed him a thing or 2 about training hard

[Alucard]

Awesome line up, nothing to share with the bloated oil tankers of today, totally different quality... Decisive win for Yates, probably the best Levrone ever looked with 1995, back a bit weak but big shredded legs were there... Benaziza truly a small freak...

[Powerlift66]

momo was a freak, so much muscle on his short frame

Sad that he was dead a few weeks after this contest at age 33. Who else in this contest is deceased?

1. Momo
2. Sonny

Is that it??

The total prize money awarded was $275,000.

Place  Prize    Name
1   $100,000   Dorian Yates [1]
2   $50,000   Kevin Levrone
3   $30,000   Lee Labrada
4   $25,000   Shawn Ray
5   $15,000   Mohammed Benaziza
6   $12,000   Vince Taylor
7   $8,000   Sonny Schmidt
8   $7,000   Porter Cottrell
9   $6,000   Ron Love
10   $5,000    Thierry Pastel
11              Steve Brisbois
12              Lou Ferrigno
13              Alq Gurley
14              Henderson Thorne
15              Francis Benfatto
16              Samir Bannout
16              Ronnie Coleman
16              Miroslaw Daszkiewicz
16              Jose Guzman
16              Johani Herranen
16              Patrick Nicholls
16              Milos Sarcev

[Sumpa]

Look at their faces. Sunken in cheeks, not double chins like today.