Comments on: Nasser El Sonbaty creating controversy with his interviews http://www.getbig.com/headlines/2008/01/13/nasser-el-sonbaty-creating-controversy-with-his-interviews/ Current news from the bodybuilding and it's related world Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:18:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dirk http://www.getbig.com/headlines/2008/01/13/nasser-el-sonbaty-creating-controversy-with-his-interviews/comment-page-1/#comment-111 dirk Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:52:43 +0000 http://www.getbig.com/headlines/2008/01/14/nasser-el-sonbaty-creating-controversy-with-his-interviews/#comment-111 Interesting interviews. I remember Nasser & Kovacs coming to Knoxville TN on a number of occasions for guest posing at the Mr. Knoxville competition, maybe 1995 to 1997. I knew some of the guys at the Powerhouse that sponsored the event and hired them. On one visit, I was told they had to make 4 stops at fast food restaurants from the Nashville airport to Knoxville (approx 3 hours) to feed Nasser. When I saw Nasser & Kovacs together, Nasser referred to Kovacs' wife as "crap-crap." I asked someone why he called her that and was told that Kovacs approached Nasser about moving to Canada to stay with Kovacs and get him ready for NOC (maybe that was the show). Nasser was around 400 lbs at the time, so part of the deal was Kovacs' wife had to be willing to wipe Nasser's rear. Perhaps THEY had the story wrong, but I know I did not hear it wrong. As to Kovac's conditioning at the time, Nasser was dead on. Kovacs always had a fan. I was at the seminar (held at the Powerhouse off Cedar Bluff) and he was a drone. That night I saw him get in to his car and he had to back himself to the open door, grab to roof and lower himself in. It was bizarre. Interesting interviews. I remember Nasser & Kovacs coming to Knoxville TN on a number of occasions for guest posing at the Mr. Knoxville competition, maybe 1995 to 1997. I knew some of the guys at the Powerhouse that sponsored the event and hired them. On one visit, I was told they had to make 4 stops at fast food restaurants from the Nashville airport to Knoxville (approx 3 hours) to feed Nasser.

When I saw Nasser & Kovacs together, Nasser referred to Kovacs’ wife as “crap-crap.” I asked someone why he called her that and was told that Kovacs approached Nasser about moving to Canada to stay with Kovacs and get him ready for NOC (maybe that was the show). Nasser was around 400 lbs at the time, so part of the deal was Kovacs’ wife had to be willing to wipe Nasser’s rear. Perhaps THEY had the story wrong, but I know I did not hear it wrong.

As to Kovac’s conditioning at the time, Nasser was dead on. Kovacs always had a fan. I was at the seminar (held at the Powerhouse off Cedar Bluff) and he was a drone. That night I saw him get in to his car and he had to back himself to the open door, grab to roof and lower himself in. It was bizarre.

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