Some more of the Robinson / Weider Bust story from parts of the book -
"The time had arrived. As Joe walked up on the stage, the hall’s lights started to dim and silence replaced the party chatter. “Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the new Weider bust to be used on all our products and advertisements throughout the world,” Joe proudly proclaimed.
When he lifted the veil I had the shock of my life. I looked at Ashley and saw her jaw drop to her chest. For a couple of seconds, neither one of us could breathe or speak. My head had been severed off the bust and replaced with a replica of Joe’s head.
We immediately got up and left. During the car ride home, I had never seen Ashley more upset. As I sat speechless, still in shock, there was a lot of name calling. In the past when we drove through the Sepulveda Pass, it seemed like we flew over the hill. Now the ride out of the Valley felt like a battle just to get over the hill.
I knew they had me in a position in which I could do nothing. Ashley disagreed, “We have to get a lawyer, like Dave Draper did after not being paid for the use of his image for all those years. If Dave hadn’t crumbled and accepted Weider’s settlement, the court would have awarded him almost a million dollars.” Nobody knew the details of Dave’s complaints, except that they had to do with not being compensated for the use of his image.
For a brief moment, it was hard to hear her. I just wanted to disappear into a world above all the madness and not have to deal with it. But I knew that wasn’t me. I couldn’t let this soulless man put a weakness in me. There was no way I would go along with his lie: that he was a nice guy who was helping bodybuilders and the sport. “Sure, I’ll talk to a lawyer, but there is no way I’ll back down for a few thousand, because that would be it. I’d be out of bodybuilding and work. Then what?”
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Didn't sue because the lawyer wanted $20,000 as a retainer.
From there he sorta considers Weider his moral enemy in the book. The Hitler to his Jesse Owens as he puts it. He takes Weider's money, but tells fans the supplements are bogus when the write to him. He gets in with the Euro set, who appreciate his physique more. He thinks Weider pushed Roy Callendar to get back at him.
He shits on Rick Wayne a little, about how he could trust him more as a black man, but he was still Weider's mouth piece, so not much more. He found Ben Weider weird.
Then the end comes when Robbie does an interview with Muscle Digest, a competing mag that hates Weider. Weider sees this and bans him for life. From there he heads off to Europe again for the loving arms of the Euros and NABBA. He also buys a monkey in Europe.
By '82, he's back in the IFBB, probably by the help of Wayne Demilia he surmises. Claims he was natural from 80-82, and started on a small cycle upon his return. Was absolutely shocked at the size of the Weider Guys upon his return, especially Fox and Bannout.
Lightly shits on the new guys, claiming they were over doing the drugs, still blames Weider, also blames Weider for not pushing Haney enough because he was black.
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Claims during almost all his pro career, the secret was just 200mg Deca, a B12 shot, and extra calcium a week, plus volume training, and some old school water dropping tips that helped him look the way he did.
