Arnold training in Beretta Island 1994

[Wiggs]

Franco owed his career to Arnold and Joe.

[Papper]

Franco owed his career to Arnold and Joe.

Nobody owes anyone anything. It's all give and take.

[The Wizard]

Nobody owes anyone anything. It's all give and take.

Think we all know who gave and who received in that relationship

[Thespritz0]

Fuck, this Italian toad is so embarrassing. How he won bodybuilding's top prize, ever, is forever a mystery. (Not really. His best friend is Arnold.) And the sheer craptitude of his films is staggering. The man's got NOTHING going for him, cinematically.

I came face to face with Franco backstage at an Arnold Classic and was floored with how small, ugly and idiotic he looks in person. And just to be clear, I've met a great many legends WAY past their primes, and none have appeared anywhere as close to the shittiness of "The Sardinian Samson".

Oh, brother.  

Bill Pearl, for instance, is significantly older, and makes Franco look like a clown, in all ways.

Franco is a pioneer in the "all drugs" campaign. Without them, he has as much muscle as a field mouse.

^^
Did you guys at least get to talk, or was he just a tool to everyone passing by??

[Fortress]

^^
Did you guys at least get to talk, or was he just a tool to everyone passing by??

I said hello and shook his hand. He mumbled something unintelligible and I smiled and walked away.

He then continued to stand where I found him, blocking everyone in the hallway, with the expression of a man who hasn't a clue what's going on.

Eventually he gimp-walked away.

On that day, the Sardinian Samson more closely resembled a sardine.