Author Topic: Franco Columbu - RIP - August 30th, 2019 (Read 37602 times)

Slik · « **Reply #25 on:** August 30, 2019, 10:47:12 AM »

Geez I actually just teared up at work.

Coach is Back! · « **Reply #26 on:** August 30, 2019, 10:51:26 AM »

Quote from: Slik on August 30, 2019, 10:47:12 AM

Geez I actually just teared up at work.

X2

Primemuscle · « **Reply #27 on:** August 30, 2019, 10:52:09 AM »

Franco Columbo was a confident man with a good sense of humor.

WalterWhite · « **Reply #28 on:** August 30, 2019, 10:55:02 AM »

PIP

Arnold lost his best friend.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1y_SfRA68f/

dan18 · « **Reply #29 on:** August 30, 2019, 10:56:48 AM »

Quote from: Wiggs on August 30, 2019, 10:39:16 AM

Arnold will be crushed. That's his best friend over like 50 years. That's insane. I would be devastated.

Arnold talked bad about franco calling him his side kick and puppet that hes like a child..you don't talks shit about your true friends

Humble Narcissist · « **Reply #30 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:00:01 AM »

Quote from: Vince G, CSN MFT on August 30, 2019, 10:09:50 AM

Prob...but not a bad of a way to go...doing what you love

???Drowning is literally the worst way to go besides burning. RIP Franco.

Primemuscle · « **Reply #31 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:01:55 AM »

SuperTed · « **Reply #32 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:02:23 AM »

RIP. A legend.

TheGrinch · « **Reply #33 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:02:37 AM »

wes · « **Reply #34 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:03:08 AM »

When I saw Francos back development in Holyoke Mass. back in around 1975,the image has been burned into my memory bank.

Never saw anything like it before.

RIP

Primemuscle · « **Reply #35 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:05:28 AM »

Quote from: dan18 on August 30, 2019, 10:56:48 AM

Arnold talked bad about franco calling him his side kick and puppet that hes like a child..you don't talks shit about your true friends

Not today, he didn't.

"When I finally got to America, I was alone. I’d left my family, my country, my whole life behind. So when I asked Joe Weider to bring you to train with me, it was because I knew I wasn’t the same without my best friend. I could thrive without money, without my parents, but I couldn’t thrive without you.

I love you Franco. I will always remember the joy you brought to my life, the advices you gave me, and the twinkle in your eye that never disappeared. You were my best friend.

Love always,

Arnold"

Nails · « **Reply #36 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:05:52 AM »

PIP franco, a true bodybuilding icon

Fortress · « **Reply #37 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:16:18 AM »

He lived well.

Had a lot of very good luck.

dan18 · « **Reply #38 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:18:23 AM »

Quote from: Primemuscle on August 30, 2019, 11:05:28 AM

Not today, he didn't.

"When I finally got to America, I was alone. I’d left my family, my country, my whole life behind. So when I asked Joe Weider to bring you to train with me, it was because I knew I wasn’t the same without my best friend. I could thrive without money, without my parents, but I couldn’t thrive without you.

I love you Franco. I will always remember the joy you brought to my life, the advices you gave me, and the twinkle in your eye that never disappeared. You were my best friend.

Love always,

Arnold"

Arnold could only dream to be the guy franco was , good family man just an all around good guy..

Henda · « **Reply #39 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:21:27 AM »

Sad news r.i.p

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #40 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:21:43 AM »

Absolute legendary figure. RIP

Thin Lizzy · « **Reply #41 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:48:23 AM »

As a teenager just getting into lifting, Franco was one of those guys who seemed super human. His passing reminds you of your own mortality.

RIP

Vince G, CSN MFT · « **Reply #42 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:53:34 AM »

Quote from: Coach is Back! on August 30, 2019, 10:51:26 AM

X2

X3

Primemuscle · « **Reply #43 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:54:10 AM »

Quote from: Thin Lizzy on August 30, 2019, 11:48:23 AM

As a teenager just getting into lifting, Franco was one of those guys who seemed super human. His passing reminds you of your own mortality.

RIP

A fatal accident can happen at any age to anyone. Some of us are lucky enough to avoid them well into our senior years and often we die from natural causes instead. Franco enjoyed a long life.

dan18 · « **Reply #44 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:57:58 AM »

Quote from: Primemuscle on August 30, 2019, 11:54:10 AM

A fatal accident can happen at any age to anyone. Some of us are lucky enough to avoid them well into our senior years and often we die from natural causes instead. Franco enjoyed a long life.

True but still to die alone family really had no chance to say goodbye. that's the sad part.

Schmoff · « **Reply #45 on:** August 30, 2019, 12:09:13 PM »

very sad.

funk51 · « **Reply #46 on:** August 30, 2019, 12:11:41 PM »

IroNat · « **Reply #47 on:** August 30, 2019, 12:29:39 PM »

Quote from: dan18 on August 30, 2019, 10:56:48 AM

Arnold talked bad about franco calling him his side kick and puppet that hes like a child..you don't talks shit about your true friends

You may not be aware but the movie "Pumping Iron" was not real.

It was all scripted.

honest · « **Reply #48 on:** August 30, 2019, 12:46:56 PM »

RIP. one of the first guys along with Arnold that convinced many of us to first pick up the weights. 32 years later still the best decision i ever made.

TheShape. · « **Reply #49 on:** August 30, 2019, 12:48:40 PM »

What a way to go, but that happening to him in his homeland is fitting in a dark way. His final resting place is his home. His physique gets shit on around here sometimes but in his prime he was one of the greats.