Two of the biggest robberies in BB history. Ruhl placed 3rd at both shows
Markus actually SHOULD have won that Grand Prix show against Jay and Ronnie in 2006. Both of the latter were WAY off their Olympia form (where, incidentally, I thought Ronnie should've cinched his 9th Olympia, albeit by a fairly small margin), and Markus was big, full and cut.
The IFBB is a fucking joke, pure and simple. I used to criticize one of my former mentors (and friend), Mike Mentzer, for throwing in the competitive towel after losing just one major contest. But now, I think I'm beginning to understand just how he felt. Maybe his latter-day training ideas were in, as another put it, in "outer fucking space," but Mentzer was right about a bunch of things, not the least of which is bullshit IFBB judging. The only reason there's any debate over that fact these days is because the so-called "top talent" suffer from so many goddamned shortcomings that it's not even funny. The reigning Mr. "O" is as wide as a crushed beer can, and his chief competition is more concerned with how he looks onstage wearing a gimp outfit, giant gut and posing that seems to highlight his weaknesses than actually *winning* the stupid show.
After that, you've got that sleepy-looking guy ... Rhoden, I think? BZZZZZZZZZZZZ. BORRRRR-RRRRRRING. Smooth as a bar of soap, no pecs, and can't even snort enough coke or whatever to get fired up onstage. Wolf? Already peaked, NO calves. "Big Ramy" has promise but only if he can dry out; i.e., practically kill himself with diuretics. Even then, when he smokes Phil and maybe even Kai alike, as others have said, the dude doesn't speak English. Automatic Olympia-winning fail :-|
Enough of my meltdown
Truth be told, I'm more interested in what lead to the break-up between Markus and Simone. They are obviously still friends, which is cool as hell (no sarcasm intended). I know that I'm not on good terms with any of my ex-girlfriends, and we never even had the good fortune of sharing test injections together
