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Don Ross
« on: May 01, 2020, 09:04:26 PM »
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michael arvilla

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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2020, 09:07:22 PM »
Met him in Gold’s Venice... (came up asked me where I was from?/had I checked out The Firehouse yet? Or the Pit at Muscle Beach) cool experience..seemed like a great guy!
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2020, 09:10:07 PM »
Quote from: michael arvilla on May 01, 2020, 09:07:22 PM
Met him in Gold’s Venice... (came up asked me where I was from?/had I checked out The Firehouse yet? Or the Pit at Muscle Beach) cool experience..seemed like a great guy!

Did he gaze in the vicinity of your cock during this brief interlude? 
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2020, 09:29:11 PM »
Quote from: AbrahamG on May 01, 2020, 09:10:07 PM
Did he gaze in the vicinity of your cock during this brief interlude?
more interested in the girl that was with me .....( And I had a sock stuffed in my “ Hot Skins”)
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2020, 12:47:23 AM »
Quote from: michael arvilla on May 01, 2020, 09:07:22 PM
Met him in Gold’s Venice... (came up asked me where I was from?/had I checked out The Firehouse yet? Or the Pit at Muscle Beach) cool experience..seemed like a great guy!

I also remember him at Gold's 91-92. We had a mutual friend, Benny Podda. He was always really friendly and approachable. I was in awe of him because I heard so many crazy stories about him. But he always took the time to chat with me a bit. When I told him I was a fan of Mike Mentzer he introduced me to him. Mike was always really cool as well and always called me by my name.
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2020, 07:58:58 AM »
Quote from: Olde Tyme Muscle on May 01, 2020, 09:04:26 PM



Bet Ed Conners got into his drawers top!!
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2020, 08:05:31 AM »
Quote from: usmcdevildoc on May 02, 2020, 07:58:58 AM

Bet Ed Conners got into his drawers top!!

So now we know what fantasies you beat off to. TMI
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2020, 08:24:51 AM »
He seemed like a nice guy. His shoulders were a bit narrow though, other than that, great physique
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2020, 08:33:11 AM »
Quote from: pellius on May 02, 2020, 12:47:23 AM
I also remember him at Gold's 91-92. We had a mutual friend, Benny Podda. He was always really friendly and approachable. I was in awe of him because I heard so many crazy stories about him. But he always took the time to chat with me a bit. When I told him I was a fan of Mike Mentzer he introduced me to him. Mike was always really cool as well and always called me by my name.

Eric?
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2020, 08:35:05 AM »
He died so young. Remember his most muscular pose?
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2020, 08:38:21 AM »
He was freakishly veiny, I remember that
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2020, 08:39:45 AM »
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2020, 08:46:25 AM »
A man of many talents

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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2020, 08:50:26 AM »
This is brutal.  Don blows out his knee 2 secs into the match
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2020, 09:04:55 AM »
Quote from: pellius on May 02, 2020, 12:47:23 AM
I also remember him at Gold's 91-92. We had a mutual friend, Benny Podda. He was always really friendly and approachable. I was in awe of him because I heard so many crazy stories about him. But he always took the time to chat with me a bit. When I told him I was a fan of Mike Mentzer he introduced me to him. Mike was always really cool as well and always called me by my name.
You were friends with Benny Podda?  I'm sure you have some crazy stories about him.
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2020, 09:15:06 AM »
Quote from: Humble Narcissist on May 02, 2020, 09:04:55 AM
You were friends with Benny Podda?  I'm sure you have some crazy stories about him.

he used to carry his saliva bucket
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2020, 11:45:38 AM »
He might have lived if he listened to his body more. He was getting ready for a photo shoot, and was on the treadmill for extended periods. One day his chest started to hurt, he got off the treadmill, rested a little, then jumped right back on. Whammo, massive heart attack.

I enjoyed his writing. He had a hand in training Christoper Reeve for the Superman film, which shifted him from training full body to mainly working back, arms, and shoulders with little to no chest and trap work. He did that to try and get him an exaggerated V taper in a short amount of time.
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #17 on: May 02, 2020, 01:37:00 PM »
Did he ever have any triceps?
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #18 on: May 02, 2020, 01:56:41 PM »
    Don was a nice guy but don't piss him off! He ripped every major muscle group in his body x 2. He had migraine headaches  and chest pain for more than 6 months before his heart attack but refused to go see a doctor. He loved training.

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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2020, 06:44:27 PM »
Quote from: Humble Narcissist on May 02, 2020, 09:04:55 AM
You were friends with Benny Podda?  I'm sure you have some crazy stories about him.

Benny was probably the most dynamic personality I've ever met. Funny as hell, tough as nails, trained like a maniac, and real intelligent. I was kind of a bookworm and was surprised at how well-read he was.

He seemed to have went crazy later in life and getting weird spiritual and living in a cave on an Indian reservation.
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #20 on: May 02, 2020, 06:47:34 PM »
Quote from: joswift on May 02, 2020, 08:33:11 AM
Eric?

You really can't stop yourself from talking to me and then in the same breath claim you don't give me a second thought.

Such a weird and creepy middle-age man pursing a complete stranger over the net. Such a boring life you must have. I am really beginning to suspect that you are quite the pervert in real life.
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2020, 09:17:02 PM »
Don and I were good friends for 15 years. Many great stories.

I called him the day he died. He had been taken away in an ambulance about one hour prior to my coincidental phone call. So sad.

RIP Ripper Savage.
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #22 on: May 02, 2020, 09:47:51 PM »
Quote from: pellius on May 02, 2020, 12:47:23 AM
I also remember him at Gold's 91-92. We had a mutual friend, Benny Podda. He was always really friendly and approachable. I was in awe of him because I heard so many crazy stories about him. But he always took the time to chat with me a bit. When I told him I was a fan of Mike Mentzer he introduced me to him. Mike was always really cool as well and always called me by my name.

You were friends with Benny Podda...but heard crazy stories about Don Ross?

The craziest stories I ever heard were of Benny Podda.  Was he a strange person?  Seems like another "Zone Capone" to me, who brags about continually injuring himself at the gym because it makes him hardcore:

https://www.chaosandpain.com/tips/tips-baddest-mofos-ever-benny-podda-pt-1
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #23 on: May 02, 2020, 10:01:23 PM »
Anything I've ever read about Benny makes him seem like a complete weirdo, but the writer here insists that he is a nice guy...robbing a pharmacy of painkillers is not cool though.  That's an extremely dick thing to do, and can literally traumatize people.  Unless he had an opiate prescription for pain that they didn't fill because of their own incompetence, or something like that.  Otherwise, that is not acceptable behaviour to me.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/9kwv37/photographing-benny-podda-the-bodybuilder-turned-martial-artist-turned-cave-dwelling-medicine-man
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Re: Don Ross
« Reply #24 on: May 02, 2020, 11:34:42 PM »
Quote from: joswift on May 02, 2020, 09:15:06 AM
he used to carry his saliva bucket

Your attraction and fascination with me is quite disturbing. I can just picture that lecherous grin on your dorky granny face.
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