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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: IroNat on December 12, 2025, 08:00:59 AM
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https://www.vintagebodybuildingmags.com/onceuponatimeinaustralia/
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It´s well known Arnold & Paul Graham were Bum Boy Lovers
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Never saw this. Thank you for posting it.
"You can have your own high quality video cassette of the most exciting bodybuilding contest on Earth-
1980 IFBB Mr. Olympia Contest
Show it in your own home, gymnasium, or club"
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IroNat this is GOLD
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MORE GOLD
In Pumping Iron, when Arnold was talking to the guys in the prison yard.... Arnold was actually there visiting Paul Graham
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I believe that this thread caused “Pet Shop Boys” to crawl underneath a rock.😂
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IroNat this is GOLD
Based on this article if Arnold isnt in the show Mentzer gets 4th? And if Boyer isn’t in he’s third? If Zane’s out he’s 2nd? And if Dickerson doesn’t wear a traditional Jewish school boy outfit for the judging panel behind the scenes Mike wins!!!!
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LOL! What loser wrote this? Royalty? Hahaha. This guy is a little bit dramatic. How many keyboards did this guy smash raging about Arnold and the 1980 Olympia.
Im not even going to waste time reading this article, I already know what happens: Arnold (still) wins and Mike mentler slowly dies over the course of the next 20 years
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It´s well known Arnold & Paul Graham were Bum Boy Lovers
Libelous.
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IroNat this is GOLD
"Chris Dickerson...looking massive.." ???
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Libelous.
fuck off fag :D
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fuck off fag :D
LMFAO!
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I believe that this thread caused “Pet Shop Boys” to crawl underneath a rock.😂
Pet shop boys is Danimal77.
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One of Arnold’s many prison trips to visit his longtime roommate Paul Graham.
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One of Arnold’s many prison trips to visit his longtime roommate Paul Graham.
Pet shop boys is Danimal77.
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Semen-stained slacks in Sydney is all you need to know!
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Semen-stained slacks in Sydney is all you need to know!
of the main stars of “Pumping Iron”...
The only people that were heterosexual were: Ken Waller, Lou Ferigno and Lou’s father.
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I always thought that it was odd that after Arnold was filmed training legs... Arnold hit the showers, and the cameraman joined him! LOL
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Semen-stained slacks in Sydney is all you need to know!
Is this true? Pics?
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Arnold may have “twerked” on Graham’s lap backstage.
Or, Arnold simply dry humped Graham’s leg.
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Has Arnold ever given a reason as to why the footage is not available?
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Has Arnold ever given a reason as to why the footage is not available?
Arnold is exercising his right to remain silent.
Arnold had Netflix purposely avoid the 1980 Olympia completely in the documentary about his life/career.
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Arnold is exercising his right to remain silent.
Arnold had Netflix purposely avoid the 1980 Olympia completely in the documentary about his life/career.
I never heard this. But you're very right:
The damage didn't stop in Sydney, however. The very next year, the 1981 Mr. Olympia, which was promoted by Arnold and his partner Jim Lorimer, saw Arnold’s close friend Franco Columbu win under equally dubious circumstances, despite a visibly imbalanced physique due to a recent leg injury.
Top-tier competitors, including Zane, Coe, and Mentzer boycotted the event. CBS, despite having already purchased the broadcast rights, chose not to even send a film crew. A sport once poised for mainstream legitimacy suddenly looked like a closed-shop sideshow.
For its part, the bodybuilding industry couldn’t sweep the fiasco under the rug fast enough. Many decades later, in the 2023 Netflix documentary Arnold, which chronicled Schwarzenegger’s life from Austria to the California governor’s mansion, the 1980 Olympia is conspicuously absent.
While his earlier victories are celebrated, and his post-retirement career is explored in depth, his seventh and final Olympia title is ignored. This omission is telling.
Sporting comebacks are typically glorified. Think of Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, even Tiger Woods. But Arnold’s 1980 “triumph” remains shrouded in silence. Perhaps because acknowledging it means confronting an uncomfortable truth: that perhaps Arnold’s victory that day in Australia had been crafted in the shadows by promoters, friends, and a system desperate to protect its icon.
The 1980 Mr. Olympia remains bodybuilding’s darkest hour. It ended one of the most promising careers in the sport’s history. It undermined the legitimacy of the IFBB. It drove fans and mainstream television away. And it revealed a rot at the core of the sport’s governing institutions.
Fellow 1980 Mr. Olympia competitor Roger Walker later likened Arnold’s victory to seeing a man wearing a stolen watch. “What do I say?” he asked. “Do I say, ‘Nice Watch’ or do I say, ‘Why are you wearing a stolen watch?’”
The metaphor is an interesting one, as the Sandow trophy won by Schwarzenegger that night may have shined, but more than a few believe to this day that its luster was dimmed by the suspicion of corruption.
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In regards to the final 2 paragraphs: Arnold stole a watch in 1980 !!!!
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In regards to the final 2 paragraphs: Arnold stole a watch in 1980 !!!!
He couldn’t control himself. He was high on cocaine!
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He couldn’t control himself. He was high on cocaine!
You’re damn right
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At 3:20 Boyer Coe talks about how nervous Arnold was. That was probably the cocaine.
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You’re damn right
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My nikka
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https://www.vintagebodybuildingmags.com/onceuponatimeinaustralia/
This is exactly why I stop liking the 1980 mr.Olympia and begin to adore it ....
I agree and believe everything said in this article specially at the end that Chris Dickerson whould have won had the judging been fair .....
If you want this thread to go another 100 pages just ask yourself ..... Do you agree, Chris Dickerson was robbed from his first Olympia victory in 1980? ;D
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHH 10.4.80
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Pet shop boys is Danimal77.
Only if he is a good looking guy
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Has Arnold ever given a reason as to why the footage is not available?
This is actually a valid question ......
worth of a brand new thread. ;D
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This is exactly why I stop liking the 1980 mr.Olympia and begin to adore it ....
I agree and believe everything said in this article specially at the end that Chris Dickerson whould have won had the judging been fair .....
If you want this thread to go another 100 pages just ask yourself ..... Do you agree, Chris Dickerson was robbed from his first Olympia victory in 1980? ;D
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHH 10.4.80
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In 1982 NBC aired a Maury Povich DNA paternity faceof: G Butler, P Graham (lol)
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Bannout, Zane, Coe, Walker.... all said that Arnold didn’t belong in the top 5
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Good glute tie-in
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Royalty has a thriving, active, social life.
But an extremely low I.Q. and penis only a small hand could love.
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Were DNA results conclusive one way or other?
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Does president Trump have the power to release the footage to the public?
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Arnold is worth 1.2 billion :D
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Arnold is worth 1.2 billion :D
Nevertheless small and useless to us now.
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Arnold is worth 1.2 billion :D
a lot of Dick sucking his Globalist Masters payed dividends
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Arnold is worth 1.2 billion :D
Yes, he gets deserved razzing especially in terms of those early years, but you’ve got to be in awe of everything that’s been accomplished, still going strong in a depressingly small group of peers by comparison
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Does president Trump have the power to release the footage to the public?
He does ...but there's a change he will edit " the best part"
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He does ...but there's a change he will edit " the best part"
WooooSSSHHHHHHHHHHh 10.4.80
That’s for sure, Bondi’s in the basement every night updating her scrapbooks and photo albums.
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I'd be pretty happy for Royalty when the books are finally opened and Mentzer get vindicated.
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I'd be pretty happy for Royalty when the books are finally opened and Mentzer get vindicated.
Nothing substantial or substantiated, but I have always felt Royalty is on to something. Lots of smoke around that fire in that studio apartment (and Mid-City gym).
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Nothing substantial or substantiated, but I have always felt Royalty is on to something. Lots of smoke around that fire in that studio apartment (and Mid-City gym).
I am confident it's all true.
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From Lacey Rich (Old time connected gay) -
"At the premiere of Pumping Iron, Tom Minchello had a friend named Margie, who wanted to make it with Arnold. Tom told Margie Arnie's room number. She went to the suite and knocked on the door. The door opened to a darkened room. Margie could see that a light was on in the bedroom and she could hear moans. She crept to the other door . What does she see; Nothing, but Charles Gaines (author of Pumping Iron & Stay Hungry) and the great Austrian oak with his heels spread to Jesus. She quickly backed up and hurriedly left. By the time she reach the lobby she was in hysterics telling everyone that Arnold was upstairs being f$$ked by a man. I guess that taught Arnie to lock the door."
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Legendary
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Also, just because it's a funny story about Ken "Dakota" Sprague fucking over Arnold (from John Fair's "Mr America" book) -
" Another occurrence relating to Sprague’s colorful career, conveyed in Carter’s novel, involved Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose posing footage was included in a porno production called Going Down. When Arnold heard that it was playing to packed houses, he was livid. As his girlfriend Barbara Outland (Baker) relates in her memoir: “When I arrived home one winter afternoon, I heard Arnold screaming into the phone, ‘You fucking prick! How dare you screw me like dis! I’ll have your ass, you Gott-damn cock-sucker. Jayzeus Kreest, you fucked me over, and now you are fucked, believe me!’ . . . He slammed down the phone, screaming, ‘Dat fucking asshole put my posing routine in his supposed documentary—a movie where guys are jacking off while watching me pose. Dat bastard!’”
This is GOLD
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He mis spells the name, but the guy is Tom Minichiello, who owned Mid City Gym. He had a book called "Bodybuilders, Drugs, and Sex" where he tells a version of it. Over the years the rumor above got spread around, some say it was Gaines, some say Butler, but the rumor has always been that Arnold went gay for one of the guys from Pumping Iron, and Minichiello saw it.
Bob Bonham heard it was Butler - http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=306303.msg4391490#msg4391490 .
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Gaines on right, Butler in middle (photo below). The confusion over names may suggest unfounded rumor but again smoke/fire IMHO. Gaines would sell better in video market.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldschoolbodybuildingforever/posts/3023658171248250/
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