size only donīt win Shows....so many big Bodybuilders are out there who never get even close to a procard.
create an Illusion with Quality wins Shows.....and so he did in his Peak-time.
I believe 1982 he was overlooked at the Olympia in London. But the talk after his 1982 package was his first step to be really recognized as a possible candidate for the Mr. Olympia title in 1983.
Samir is still in touch with many german fans who know him from the Olympia in Munich. He prepared the last weeks before the Olympia in Munich and trained in the legendary "Athletenschmiede" (Reinhold Pregler was the owner, RIP) with Erwin Knoller who was a top Amateur in the early eighties, and Samir still today is talking only in good words about his time and Training Partners in Munich.