Hey, Keith, you are a big guy and don't take crap from anyone. You and Lee are great that way. I am the same way or at least try to be. In the meantime those who abide by what the IFBB says are rewarded in various ways like a big club. Bawdybuilding seems so much like professional boxing and all the crap that exists there. To tell the truth it seems powerlifting has gone the same way and all manner of interest groups have virtually destroyed the sport.
I can imagine those vested interests getting together and trying to impose control on the rank and file. While I would never describe anyone with a PhD as an idiot, (even if it was an honourary award) you did make me laugh the way you described what goes on in that whatever you want to call it group. It stopped being an organization long ago. People who kiss butt are appointed and as long as they annoint Joe and Ben then remain there forever. If those people are bodybuilders and care about the sport then I guess things are tolerable. What happens is that many in control could care less about the bodybuilders and soon are looking after themselves and to heck with the knuckleheads who want to compete. Can we imagine what the executive of the IFBB thinks about bodybuilders? They must have a very low opinion of them because they treat them like cattle or dummies. Lee comes along and says he won't play their game anymore and big bad Bob warns him he is making a mistake. Heck, Lee wasn't even encouraged and congratulated for his foundation that he is trying to set up. What a joke bodybuilding has become. I have been ashamed of being a bodybuilder for decades and things are getting worse instead of getting better.
I have always maintained that you get what you deserve and you deserve what you get. If the professional bodybuilders are happy with what they get then I guess nothing will change.
