Kevin Levrone (K-Lo) won the 2001 Olympia

[HERACLES]

kevin should NOT have won in 2000:




Ronnie's back made kevin's back look like a little boy's.

Kevin fell into the same trap that most other Ronnie challengers ran into:

They had a better ab and thigh, but not a whole lot else to go on- and they get murdered from the back..

Kevin of 2000 was not good enough to overcome Ronnie's 2000 shape.
Had Kevin matched his early 90's condition (ie he had legs) it might have been different.

But Ronnie still looked pretty damn good in 2000:

even though he was way too heavy that year.

 

[Wombat]

IMO, Kevin should have won in 2000 and 2002. He had weak legs, esp in 2002. But from the front it didn't hurt him that much.
IF Kevin had won, things as far as aesthetics would have been much better in bodybuilding. Where bodybuilding is today it can
only get worse. It's a freakshow. Kevin is a legend, but with todays judging criteria and maybe politics he never won. Sadly...

sad thing is that people want to see freaks...Thats why circus's sell out everywhere...IMOP if what you say would have happend  and aesthestics starting winning shows, their would have been a "PDI" alot sooner and they would for sure bring in the freaks and sell tickets...The freaks would flock to it...

[haider]

you really like to be wrong don't you

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yea, how can anyone say bodybuilders are not athletic!

[Mr. Intenseone]

Who should have won the 2001 Olympia? Even though Ronnie was massive and Jay's conditioning was the best onstage, neither should have won.

Jay tested positive for diuhretics, clearly violating the rules of that show (also explains why his conditioning was better).

So then Ronnie's the winner, right? Nope. During Big Ron's posing routine, which he dedicated to the fallen police officers and firefighters of 9/11, he removed his posing trunks revealing another pair coloured with the stars and stripes of the American flag. However, according the official IFBB regulations handbook, only solid coloured posing trunks may be worn on stage. Thus, an American flag trunk would disqualify whoever wore it.

And so, with Big Ron and and Iron Jay both technically disqualified, the true winner of the 2001 Mr. Olympia is and was K-Lo himself, Kevin Levrone!

Then according to you Levrone should have won by default instead of winning with his physique?

[djohnsen]

sad thing is that people want to see freaks...Thats why circus's sell out everywhere...IMOP if what you say would have happend  and aesthestics starting winning shows, their would have been a "PDI" alot sooner and they would for sure bring in the freaks and sell tickets...The freaks would flock to it...

I agree with you, Wombat. Freaks sells tickets. But the direction is frightening to think about.
What happens when 300 pounds shredded is no longer freakish? Lee Haney was about 250 and
considered a freak, today this is the average weight i would guess. The direction of body-
building needs to take a different turn, IMO. Where is bodybuilding 10 years from now?