Royalty knows why Phil stopped competing 😃
Phil said that the drugs stopped working. So he quit.
Jerry Brainum said Phil told him that. Phil's placings dropped off from year to year. He wasn't getting bigger, was coming in smoother. He won the NOC in 88 by 90 he wasn't breaking the top 10 of the NOC.
Phil was going to make a run to be the Mayor of Trenton NJ. So stepped away from the sport. Jerry Brainum saw Phil sometime later and asked him about a comeback. Phil told him he no longer responded to steroids the same. Had to use more and more and wasn't making gains.
I seem to remember he was diabetic too. So he was using insulin before it was popular as an anabolic.
It's hard to believe though. Just stop responding altogether?
I also thought he became a cop or state trooper later? Who tf knows. He was freaking awesome for a few years.