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Title: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: MASS MONSTER MIKE on March 03, 2021, 11:59:32 AM
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRlL5u4-k9_JBZUUTkepR6RwppdvYC9KWWNJQ&usqp=CAU)
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: IroNat on March 03, 2021, 12:06:04 PM
If Franco wasn't Arnold's pal you'd probably never have heard of him.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Flexacon on March 03, 2021, 12:06:07 PM
Platz looks like a wellness competitor and now looks like a dyke lesbian grandma.

Columbu wins even with salt water filled lungs.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: IroNat on March 03, 2021, 12:19:33 PM
Columbu now looks dead.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Atlas pump on March 03, 2021, 12:27:04 PM
Platz looks better in that pose

Am i seeing something wrong?
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: BlackMetallic on March 03, 2021, 12:31:28 PM
Platz looks better in that pose

Am i seeing something wrong?

Agreed
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Humble Narcissist on March 03, 2021, 12:33:24 PM
Platz never got the credit at contests that he got by fans of the sport.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: DanielPaul on March 03, 2021, 12:40:37 PM
Looks like a touch of gyno on Franco in that pic.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Humble Narcissist on March 03, 2021, 12:44:15 PM
Looks like a touch of gyno on Franco in that pic.
Just a touch?
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: OlympiaGym on March 03, 2021, 12:52:21 PM
Franco was an MD? I thought he was a chiropractor. Not quite the same thing.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: LurkerNoMore on March 03, 2021, 12:54:41 PM
Platz is winning that pose.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Darren Avey on March 03, 2021, 02:46:36 PM
Two great warriors locked in battle
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: ThisisOverload on March 03, 2021, 02:50:45 PM
Franco was an MD? I thought he was a chiropractor. Not quite the same thing.

He wasn't.

Arnold gifted him his Chiropractors license when he was Governor I believe.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: BB on March 03, 2021, 02:53:44 PM
They're more even than anything in that pic, but Columbu's gyno is showing, so Platz wins.

That was the year this photo was taken -

(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/im/im4104.jpg).
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Atlas pump on March 03, 2021, 02:55:40 PM
Blocky as hell wide waist and holding water
Bigger calves, and legs.
Bigger chest
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Taffin on March 03, 2021, 03:04:53 PM
Platz is winning that pose.

(http://i.postimg.cc/x1T2Y5zz/Platz-YEAH-smaller.jpg)
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: AbrahamG on March 03, 2021, 03:08:05 PM
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRlL5u4-k9_JBZUUTkepR6RwppdvYC9KWWNJQ&usqp=CAU)

Platz is raping him in this pose.  Arnold should have sucked the milk out of Franco's right titty.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Bevo on March 03, 2021, 03:24:08 PM
Both were pretty overrated with I just don’t get platz, all legs, that’s it
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Vince B on March 03, 2021, 06:28:09 PM
Danny was the best. He had the best physique in 1980 as well. Too bad they ignore short guys.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: GymnJuice on March 03, 2021, 07:39:26 PM
Danny was the best. He had the best physique in 1980 as well. Too bad they ignore short guys.

The Shire just doesn't have the media presence to generate enough buzz for them.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Megalodon on March 03, 2021, 09:39:14 PM
Just because Columbu had horrific gyno, bow legs, and the contest was fixed doesn't mean that he shouldn't have placed any higher than last, had his citizenship revoked, been deported, and put on an FBI watch list.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Vince B on March 03, 2021, 10:10:32 PM
Decades ago they used to publish the scores of each judge. Nowadays they don't disclose such delicate things. Instead you have the head judge call out the first comparison and he is telling the judges who to put first, second, and third.

In the judging system they have a rule that if a judge deviates too much from the others he won't be invited back to judge. Ah, how perfect to control the sheep who enter those pageants.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: AbrahamG on March 03, 2021, 10:54:28 PM
Decades ago they used to publish the scores of each judge. Nowadays they don't disclose such delicate things. Instead you have the head judge call out the first comparison and he is telling the judges who to put first, second, and third.

In the judging system they have a rule that if a judge deviates too much from the others he won't be invited back to judge. Ah, how perfect to control the sheep who enter those pageants.

Back then they used to let folks handpick their judges too. 
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: kevin25 on March 04, 2021, 04:11:09 AM
One way to see how good Franco actually was; Cover his legs in a photo and look only at his torso. Its massive! Somehow his short legs destroys his overall impression. Anyway, 81 Franco was way behind 76 Franco.. 76 was a very deserved win! Probably only Lou or Serge could have beaten him then if they had competed. And of course Arnold, but he was all done. For 81 Danny should be the winner in a weak lineup.. No true king of bodybuilding between 76 and 84.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Humble Narcissist on March 04, 2021, 05:09:08 AM
He wasn't.

Arnold gifted him his Chiropractors license when he was Governor I believe.
Governors can give out medical degrees? ???
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: bigbychoices on March 04, 2021, 05:17:46 AM
franco become a chirpopracter way before arnold became gov. franco got his degree in the 1970s. The problem with alot of people nowdays they only think that the biggest freakiet bodybuilder should win. back in the day that is not what it was about. so when they see people like platz losing they think how wrong it was.  he was massive and a great bodybuilder but was not in proportion or symmetrical.  franco was better. period. however he was not the best that day. padilla should have won but franco was deserving too. now days they dont have symmetry proportion and cant pose etc. they all look the same. like 10 lbs of smashed assholes forced into a 5 lb container
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Humble Narcissist on March 04, 2021, 05:19:13 AM
Franco was great in 76 but absolute dog shit in 81.  No way was he the best that day.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Taffin on March 04, 2021, 05:53:29 AM
Just because Columbu had horrific gyno, bow legs, and the contest was fixed doesn't mean that he shouldn't have placed any higher than last, had his citizenship revoked, been deported, and put on an FBI watch list.

 ;D
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: joswift on March 04, 2021, 08:40:27 AM
They're more even than anything in that pic, but Columbu's gyno is showing, so Platz wins.

That was the year this photo was taken -

(http://musclememory.com/magCovers/im/im4104.jpg).

my legs are better than that at 56 and not trained for 3 months
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Humble Narcissist on March 04, 2021, 09:35:06 AM
my legs are better than that at 56 and not trained for 3 months
Yeah, but you don't carry refrigerators on your back, do you?
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: sync pulse on March 04, 2021, 09:52:45 AM
Yeah, but you don't carry refrigerators on your back, do you?

That was such a stupid show...There is no better measure of how strong some one is than the classic Olympic three...clean, snatch and military press.


I said "snatch"
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Grape Ape on March 04, 2021, 09:58:01 AM
That was such a stupid show...There is no better measure of how strong some one is than the classic Olympic three...clean, snatch and military press.


I said "snatch"

Not necessarily disagreeing, but technique matters just as much in those lifts.

Hoisting a jay cutler does not, and is more about raw strength
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: BB on March 04, 2021, 10:11:56 AM
That was such a stupid show...There is no better measure of how strong some one is than the classic Olympic three...clean, snatch and military press.


I said "snatch"

Not necessarily disagreeing, but technique matters just as much in those lifts.

Hoisting a jay cutler does not, and is more about raw strength

Unless you're in the sport, Ol and Powerlifting are boring, hours to watch some guy do two or three lifts. And the average person doesn't really understand weights, especially back then (#400lb? My uncle Cletus who works down at the Piggly Wiggly, did that in High School before he threw his back out).

Some guy running with a full sized fridge on his back wows the eye, and is instantly understood as heavy.

Also fuck Columbu. He's the reason they didn't hold the WSM in the States for a number of years, and part of the reason why big TV left covering strength sports.

He sued everyone and got rich off of that fall, Somewhere between $1-1.5 million in early 80's bucks he made off of it.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Griffith on March 04, 2021, 10:19:34 AM
my legs are better than that at 56 and not trained for 3 months

His one leg was basically snapped in half though from the accident at the strongman event.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: BB on March 04, 2021, 10:25:12 AM
He really did wreck it something awful -

.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: joswift on March 04, 2021, 10:34:43 AM
His one leg was basically snapped in half though from the accident at the strongman event.

And he won the best bodybuilder in the world contest?????

Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: oldtimer1 on March 04, 2021, 10:57:31 AM
Governors can give out medical degrees? ???

Before Arnold was the governor Franco was a chiropractor. When Arnold became Governor he made Franco the head of the State Chiropractor licensing board.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Jizmonkey on March 04, 2021, 11:08:49 AM
He really did wreck it something awful -

.
Apparently it was only dislocated.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: BlackMetallic on March 04, 2021, 11:19:47 AM
Decades ago they used to publish the scores of each judge. Nowadays they don't disclose such delicate things. Instead you have the head judge call out the first comparison and he is telling the judges who to put first, second, and third.

In the judging system they have a rule that if a judge deviates too much from the others he won't be invited back to judge. Ah, how perfect to control the sheep who enter those pageants.

I’ll start competing again when the judges start getting drug tested

-Mike Mentzer
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Humble Narcissist on March 05, 2021, 03:47:16 AM
I’ll start competing again when the judges start getting drug tested

-Mike Mentzer
Funny coming from a meth head who was juiced to the gills.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Griffith on March 05, 2021, 06:16:30 AM
Apparently it was only dislocated.

Like 90 degrees backwards and 60 degrees sideways.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: oldgolds on March 06, 2021, 02:12:10 PM
Danny was the best. He had the best physique in 1980 as well. Too bad they ignore short guys.




Dannies torso is too long and legs to short....Not symetrical.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Hypertrophy on March 06, 2021, 02:37:01 PM



Dannies torso is too long and legs to short....Not symetrical.


Time for an eye exam, lol



Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Flexacon on March 06, 2021, 02:51:18 PM



Dannies torso is too long and legs to short....Not symetrical.

Danny was a near perfectly symmetrical/proportional midget. He would however have benefited from smaller skull ala Shawn Clarida.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: pamith on March 07, 2021, 01:52:29 AM
Platz looks like a wellness competitor and now looks like a dyke lesbian grandma.

Columbu wins even with salt water filled lungs.
Bro...
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: pamith on March 07, 2021, 01:56:31 AM
Platz is raping him in this pose.  Arnold should have sucked the milk out of Franco's right titty.
No, Franco wins because of his smaller waist (sorry Tom)
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Bevo on March 07, 2021, 02:37:51 AM
Danny was a near perfectly symmetrical/proportional midget. He would however have benefited from smaller skull ala Shawn Clarida.

I don’t even know how that pint size Clarida even won the 212’s, saw him training recently, don’t understand the appeal of his physique
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Humble Narcissist on March 07, 2021, 04:07:16 AM
No, Franco wins because of his smaller waist (sorry Tom)
Ha, ha, yeah, because a small waist is everything in bodybuilding. ::)
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Taffin on March 07, 2021, 05:42:45 AM
Danny was a near perfectly symmetrical/proportional midget. He would however have benefited from smaller skull ala Shawn Clarida.

Agreed.  It's called 'Labrada' syndrome

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ironmagazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F12%2FLabrada-sr.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)

Benfatto also had a touch

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-5hNcuHQ_ZNI%2FT4WKLVPnfpI%2FAAAAAAAAERg%2FZkxMg8Z7PCY%2Fs1600%2FFrancis%2BBenfatto.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: hipolito mejia on March 07, 2021, 09:25:20 AM
Platz looks better in that pose

Am i seeing something wrong?

You’re only looking at the legs. 

It’s an ABS shot and it was 1981. 

Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: ThisisOverload on March 08, 2021, 02:44:43 PM
Before Arnold was the governor Franco was a chiropractor. When Arnold became Governor he made Franco the head of the State Chiropractor licensing board.

That's right, i thought he gifted him his license but i was mistaken.

I remember he was having trouble with his business and Arnold helped him out.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: OlympiaGym on March 08, 2021, 06:30:15 PM
Either way, he wasn’t a medical doctor.
Title: Re: Mr O Franco Columbu, M.D. DESTROYING Tommy Platz
Post by: Humble Narcissist on March 09, 2021, 09:36:06 AM
That's right, i thought he gifted him his license but i was mistaken.

I remember he was having trouble with his business and Arnold helped him out.
Seems like Arnold helped out a lot of bodybuilders.