Author Topic: pretty good for early 80,s (Read 11924 times)

timfogarty · « **Reply #25 on:** May 10, 2006, 09:03:32 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Intenseone on May 10, 2006, 05:31:24 PM

Do you have a copy of the 1981 Muscle Digest with Belknap on the cover and the America results inside? I was in that issue !!

yes, I own pretty much every mags prior to 1990. what page?

Mr. Intenseone · « **Reply #26 on:** May 10, 2006, 09:10:42 PM »

Quote from: timfogarty on May 10, 2006, 09:03:32 PM

yes, I own pretty much every mags prior to 1990. what page?

I forgot, but I'm the one featured in the chest artical, I was 18 then!

timfogarty · « **Reply #27 on:** May 10, 2006, 10:04:48 PM »

service with a smile!

body88 · « **Reply #28 on:** May 10, 2006, 10:12:19 PM »

Doesent that dude live in a cave?

No seriously I'm not kidding....

Mr. Intenseone · « **Reply #29 on:** May 10, 2006, 10:14:29 PM »

Quote from: body88 on May 10, 2006, 10:12:19 PM

Doesent that dude live in a cave?

No seriously I'm not kidding....

I'm not Benny Podda. It's me at 18

!

240 is Back · « **Reply #30 on:** May 10, 2006, 10:24:04 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Intenseone on May 10, 2006, 10:14:29 PM

I'm not Benny Podda. It's me at 18 !

bring the pain!!!!!!!!! www.darksidebodybuilding .com has the newer pics of this Benny Podda lookalike

Chick · « **Reply #31 on:** May 10, 2006, 11:33:42 PM »

Quote from: timfogarty on May 10, 2006, 09:03:32 PM

yes, I own pretty much every mags prior to 1990. what page?

Tim-

As long as you're scanning...check me out . I believe thats the issue they had the natural America coverage...

thanks

timfogarty · « **Reply #32 on:** May 11, 2006, 01:24:17 AM »

Quote from: Chick on May 10, 2006, 11:33:42 PM

As long as you're scanning...check me out . I believe thats the issue they had the natural America coverage...

Don't see anything in the Dec 81 Muscle Digest

LuciusFox · « **Reply #33 on:** May 11, 2006, 03:55:38 AM »

Quote from: Chick on May 10, 2006, 11:33:42 PM

Tim-

As long as you're scanning...check me out . I believe thats the issue they had the natural America coverage...

thanks

You're too young to have been featured in that magazine.

Chick · « **Reply #34 on:** May 11, 2006, 08:11:08 AM »

Quote from: timfogarty on May 11, 2006, 01:24:17 AM

Don't see anything in the Dec 81 Muscle Digest

No, the MD cover you scanned...that issue. Not Muscle Digest...you got me confused with the other guy.

thisiskeith12 · « **Reply #35 on:** May 11, 2006, 08:14:45 AM »

Quote from: LuciusFox on May 11, 2006, 03:55:38 AM

You're too young to have been featured in that magazine.

Bob has been bodybuilding for a very long time.

alexxx · « **Reply #36 on:** May 11, 2006, 08:57:48 AM »

Quote from: timfogarty on May 10, 2006, 10:04:48 PM

service with a smile!

Bob looks better here.

timfogarty · « **Reply #37 on:** May 11, 2006, 12:14:36 PM »

Quote from: Chick on May 11, 2006, 08:11:08 AM

No, the MD cover you scanned...that issue. Not Muscle Digest...you got me confused with the other guy.

the only mag I dug out was the Dec 81 Muscle Digest. all the magazine covers from my site were scanned many years ago.

donrhummy · « **Reply #38 on:** May 11, 2006, 12:49:08 PM »

He was awesome in the 1981 Mr. America and then that was it. he was never that good again. he became blocky, got gyno and it was over.

Dan-O · « **Reply #39 on:** May 11, 2006, 12:59:59 PM »

Quote from: donrhummy on May 11, 2006, 12:49:08 PM

He was awesome in the 1981 Mr. America and then that was it. he was never that good again. he became blocky, got gyno and it was over.

Tim dieted from around 240 all the way down to 191 for his Mr. America win and he looked better at that lighter weight.

There were photos of him in M&F before he won Mr. America and he looked very different, bigger and with a very bloated face, maybe from his diabetes, I dunno?

The Viking · « **Reply #40 on:** May 11, 2006, 01:07:10 PM »

Belknap was a great bodybuilder and the first to say he used insulin, this because he is a diabetic.
In the late nineties he had a heart surgery and almost died.
One of the driest bodybuilders of al time.

pumpster · « **Reply #41 on:** May 11, 2006, 01:11:39 PM »

Good thickness & pretty good density, though dryness was more common then.

Then as now, also fairly forgettable.

Dan-O · « **Reply #42 on:** May 11, 2006, 01:39:21 PM »

Quote from: pumpster on May 11, 2006, 01:11:39 PM

Then as now, also fairly forgettable.

So that explains why there's a thread about him 25 years later...

Man of Steel · « **Reply #43 on:** May 11, 2006, 01:45:24 PM »

Quote from: LuciusFox on May 10, 2006, 04:33:00 PM

Looks hard and round!

Oh crap, Lucius got dick on the brain again.

bmacsys · « **Reply #44 on:** May 11, 2006, 02:23:57 PM »

Belknap was blocky and had no chest.

bmacsys · « **Reply #45 on:** May 11, 2006, 02:28:04 PM »

Quote from: Dan-O on May 10, 2006, 05:37:29 PM

Belknap was a sensation when he burst on the scene in 1980 or so! He was 5'4" or shorter, not sure exactly. Tim had the best legs since Platz and a split in his chest reminiscent of Franco Columbu. He beat Rory Leidelmeyer in the LHW class and beat Lance Dreher (HW) for the overall at the 1981 Mr. America.

I saw the contest on HBO, back when they used to cover the Mr. America. Those days are long gone now.

Belknap couldn't ever win his class at the IFBB Worlds but fared better in NABBA competition.

I wonder what Rory would have done in the IFBB? He was very, very good.