The few times I hung with Dave, in the later-Nineties, him dressed in shorts and sleeveless gym tops, the dude was flat-out huge and freaky.
But, no, his was not a championship physique, once cut to the extreme and in a battle thong.
And the drug abuse quickly turned massively against him.
Palumboism was born.
The man is ground zero for what has become a known affliction, one irreversible, in the contemporary competitive bodybuilding world.
His legacy is self-induced-through-pharmacology hideous physical deformity.