35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!

[MCWAY]

Pro bodybuilders got guaranteed contracts, exclusive magazine deals, and the first six-figure prize money for a pro show ($100,000), because of this show. I give you....

THE 1991 WORLD BODYBUILDING FEDERATION (WBF) CHAMPIONSHIP - June 15, 1991:

[Royalty]

Didn’t you do this exact thread last year on June 15 ? 😂

[Never1AShow]

Pro bodybuilders got guaranteed contracts, exclusive magazine deals, and the first six-figure prize money for a pro show ($100,000), because of this show. I give you....

THE 1991 WORLD BODYBUILDING FEDERATION (WBF) CHAMPIONSHIP - June 15, 1991:

The Toast of the Town at 1:35.  1991 was peak bodybuilding and we didn't know it.

[NaturalWonder83]

Does this video have anything to do with the 1980 Olympia contest that wasn’t shown on CBS?

[Van_Bilderass]

Crazy that McMahon would invest in bodybuilding in the first place. But the steroid hysteria killed the WBF. OTOH the antics at the second show especially were embarrassing to me regardless.

And Mike Quinn was busted at the show hotel when a maid found GH in the fridge. Mike was a fat fuck even with the GH LOL. Since I'm so interested in drugs, Dr Mauro DiPasquale claimed they could test for GH and penalized a few athletes when they tested positive for it. I don't think there was a test, not one that would have held up in court anyway.

[MCWAY]

Crazy that McMahon would invest in bodybuilding in the first place. But the steroid hysteria killed the WBF. OTOH the antics at the second show especially were embarrassing to me regardless.

And Mike Quinn was busted at the show hotel when a maid found GH in the fridge. Mike was a fat fuck even with the GH LOL. Since I'm so interested in drugs, Dr Mauro DiPasquale claimed they could test for GH and penalized a few athletes when they tested positive for it. I don't think there was a test, not one that would have held up in court anyway.

DiPasquale made that claim during the intermission of the 1992 show on pay-per-view.

Mike Christian got popped and lost a month's pay ($25,000).

[LurkerNoMore]

Jim came in with crazy conditioning at the last one they held.

[Pet shop boys]

Does this video have anything to do with the 1980 Olympia contest that wasn’t shown on CBS?

Beat me to it


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[MCWAY]

Does this video have anything to do with the 1980 Olympia contest that wasn’t shown on CBS?

Nope! Nothing to do with Mentzer placing 5th at that show for the 7,393rd time

Jim came in with crazy conditioning at the last one they held.

I remember reading that he was around 300 lbs in the off-season before McMahon started drug testing. Quinn insisted that both he and Strydom were tested but, because they were both SUPER BIG, they had size to spare.

He was also adamant that he did NOT follow DiPasquale's high-fat diet. FWIW, Jim Quinn did win the 1990 North American Championship, the year it was drug-tested; Aaron Baker won a drug-tested USA Championships that year as well.

[njflex]

Nope! Nothing to do with Mentzer placing 5th at that show for the 7,393rd time

I remember reading that he was around 300 lbs in the off-season before McMahon started drug testing. Quinn insisted that both he and Strydom were tested but, because they were both SUPER BIG, they had size to spare.

He was also adamant that he did NOT follow DiPasquale's high-fat diet. FWIW, Jim Quinn did win the 1990 North American Championship, the year it was drug-tested; Aaron Baker won a drug-tested USA Championships that year as well.

Yes, true.Aaron baker  for both the WBF shows was super ripped but he was definitely down in size even from his 90 USA look and then comes back 94 9596 enormous one of the bigger pros at that time.

[MCWAY]

Yes, true.Aaron baker  for both the WBF shows was super ripped but he was definitely down in size even from his 90 USA look and then comes back 94 9596 enormous one of the bigger pros at that time.

Aaron was the only guy who looked BIGGER at the 2nd WBF championship than he did at the 1st one. I thought people should have suspected him of cheating the test more than Strydom (who was smaller in '92 than he was in '91).

Maybe it was simply because he tied his hair up. He talked about using Chinese herbs. Do you think he was using Longjack (Tongkat Ali) back in the day?

[beakdoctor]

McWay-  you should start a petition to make a Juneteenth in honor of the WBF. Then the nigglets can have Juneteenf in honor of their stupid shit.

[Bevo]

McWay-  you should start a petition to make a Juneteenth in honor of the WBF. Then the nigglets can have Juneteenf in honor of their stupid shit.

Vince could get that done quickly with his connections

[Humble Narcissist]

Does this video have anything to do with the 1980 Olympia contest that wasn’t shown on CBS?

Had Mentzer competed he would have finished last instead of 5th.

[MCWAY]

McWay-  you should start a petition to make a Juneteenth in honor of the WBF. Then the nigglets can have Juneteenf in honor of their stupid shit.

Juneteenth has been around for over a century. It just became a national holiday 5 years ago, under Sleepy Joe (although I don't have today off).

[beakdoctor]

Juneteenth has been around for over a century. It just became a national holiday 5 years ago, under Sleepy Joe (although I don't have today off).

Yes. June teeth, the day white people freed all the blacks and they were too fucking dumb to leave the plantation.  Now over a century later we have to listen to all this white guilt bullshit and watch Niggnorant knee-grows on tik tok come up with dances celebrating Austin Metcalf getting stabbed. It would be more noble and useful if it were in honor of the WBF.

[MCWAY]

Yes. June teeth, the day white people freed all the blacks and they were too fucking dumb to leave the plantation.  Now over a century later we have to listen to all this white guilt bullshit and watch Niggnorant knee-grows on tik tok come up with dances celebrating Austin Metcalf getting stabbed. It would be more noble and useful if it were in honor of the WBF.

Leave the plantation and go where? Plus, I believe Juneteenth is supposed to mark when slaves in Texas found out they were freed, which happened reportedly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. The country was recovering from a civil war, after all.

As for the WBF, since June 15th was the day of the first championship, maybe we could get 10 lbs of protein powder or weight gainer for $6.15 

[Humble Narcissist]

Leave the plantation and go where? Plus, I believe Juneteenth is supposed to mark when slaves in Texas found out they were freed, which happened reportedly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. The country was recovering from a civil war, after all.

As for the WBF, since June 15th was the day of the first championship, maybe we could get 10 lbs of protein powder or weight gainer for $6.15 

Some moved North to work in factories but most just stayed home and became share croppers.

[MCWAY]

Some moved North to work in factories but most just stayed home and became share croppers.

Very few made it up there, and it ain't like the Yankees welcomed them with open arms or anything.

[Humble Narcissist]

Very few made it up there, and it ain't like the Yankees welcomed them with open arms or anything.

The factory owners did.

[MCWAY]

The factory owners did.

They did. The white folks who got replaced.......NOT SO MUCH!!

[MCWAY]

The Toast of the Town at 1:35.  1991 was peak bodybuilding and we didn't know it.

Between his $400K a year contract and the $100K he won for winning the WBF title, Gary Strydom hauled in at least half a million bucks in 1991.

Adjusted for inflation, that's about $1.2 million by 2026 standards.

For perspective, Haney was reportedly making $50,000 a year on his Weider contract. I don't know how much he made with Twinlab his last two years as Mr. Olympia. He got $60,000 for winning the Olympia in '90 and $80,000 in 1991.