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Title: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: MCWAY on June 15, 2026, 07:11:52 PM
Pro bodybuilders got guaranteed contracts, exclusive magazine deals, and the first six-figure prize money for a pro show ($100,000), because of this show. I give you....

THE 1991 WORLD BODYBUILDING FEDERATION (WBF) CHAMPIONSHIP - June 15, 1991:

Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: Royalty on June 15, 2026, 07:23:34 PM
Didn’t you do this exact thread last year on June 15 ? 😂
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: Never1AShow on June 15, 2026, 08:21:44 PM
Pro bodybuilders got guaranteed contracts, exclusive magazine deals, and the first six-figure prize money for a pro show ($100,000), because of this show. I give you....

THE 1991 WORLD BODYBUILDING FEDERATION (WBF) CHAMPIONSHIP - June 15, 1991:



The Toast of the Town at 1:35.  1991 was peak bodybuilding and we didn't know it.

Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: NaturalWonder83 on June 16, 2026, 12:24:22 AM
Does this video have anything to do with the 1980 Olympia contest that wasn’t shown on CBS?
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: Van_Bilderass on June 16, 2026, 02:08:06 AM
Crazy that McMahon would invest in bodybuilding in the first place. But the steroid hysteria killed the WBF. OTOH the antics at the second show especially were embarrassing to me regardless.

And Mike Quinn was busted at the show hotel when a maid found GH in the fridge. Mike was a fat fuck even with the GH LOL. Since I'm so interested in drugs, Dr Mauro DiPasquale claimed they could test for GH and penalized a few athletes when they tested positive for it. I don't think there was a test, not one that would have held up in court anyway.
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: MCWAY on June 16, 2026, 05:30:26 PM
Crazy that McMahon would invest in bodybuilding in the first place. But the steroid hysteria killed the WBF. OTOH the antics at the second show especially were embarrassing to me regardless.

And Mike Quinn was busted at the show hotel when a maid found GH in the fridge. Mike was a fat fuck even with the GH LOL. Since I'm so interested in drugs, Dr Mauro DiPasquale claimed they could test for GH and penalized a few athletes when they tested positive for it. I don't think there was a test, not one that would have held up in court anyway.

DiPasquale made that claim during the intermission of the 1992 show on pay-per-view.

Mike Christian got popped and lost a month's pay ($25,000).
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: LurkerNoMore on June 18, 2026, 06:05:49 AM
Jim came in with crazy conditioning at the last one they held.
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: Pet shop boys on June 18, 2026, 06:52:01 AM
Does this video have anything to do with the 1980 Olympia contest that wasn’t shown on CBS?

Beat me to it


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Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: MCWAY on June 18, 2026, 10:04:23 AM
Does this video have anything to do with the 1980 Olympia contest that wasn’t shown on CBS?

Nope! Nothing to do with Mentzer placing 5th at that show for the 7,393rd time ;D

Jim came in with crazy conditioning at the last one they held.

I remember reading that he was around 300 lbs in the off-season before McMahon started drug testing. Quinn insisted that both he and Strydom were tested but, because they were both SUPER BIG, they had size to spare.

He was also adamant that he did NOT follow DiPasquale's high-fat diet. FWIW, Jim Quinn did win the 1990 North American Championship, the year it was drug-tested; Aaron Baker won a drug-tested USA Championships that year as well.
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: njflex on June 18, 2026, 06:48:24 PM
Nope! Nothing to do with Mentzer placing 5th at that show for the 7,393rd time ;D

I remember reading that he was around 300 lbs in the off-season before McMahon started drug testing. Quinn insisted that both he and Strydom were tested but, because they were both SUPER BIG, they had size to spare.

He was also adamant that he did NOT follow DiPasquale's high-fat diet. FWIW, Jim Quinn did win the 1990 North American Championship, the year it was drug-tested; Aaron Baker won a drug-tested USA Championships that year as well.
Yes, true.Aaron baker  for both the WBF shows was super ripped but he was definitely down in size even from his 90 USA look and then comes back 94 9596 enormous one of the bigger pros at that time.
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: MCWAY on June 18, 2026, 07:13:43 PM
Yes, true.Aaron baker  for both the WBF shows was super ripped but he was definitely down in size even from his 90 USA look and then comes back 94 9596 enormous one of the bigger pros at that time.

Aaron was the only guy who looked BIGGER at the 2nd WBF championship than he did at the 1st one. I thought people should have suspected him of cheating the test more than Strydom (who was smaller in '92 than he was in '91).

Maybe it was simply because he tied his hair up. He talked about using Chinese herbs. Do you think he was using Longjack (Tongkat Ali) back in the day?
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: beakdoctor on June 18, 2026, 07:59:20 PM
McWay-  you should start a petition to make a Juneteenth in honor of the WBF. Then the nigglets can have Juneteenf in honor of their stupid shit.
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: Bevo on June 18, 2026, 08:45:41 PM
McWay-  you should start a petition to make a Juneteenth in honor of the WBF. Then the nigglets can have Juneteenf in honor of their stupid shit.

Vince could get that done quickly with his connections
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: Humble Narcissist on June 19, 2026, 07:43:54 AM
Does this video have anything to do with the 1980 Olympia contest that wasn’t shown on CBS?
Had Mentzer competed he would have finished last instead of 5th.
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: MCWAY on June 19, 2026, 12:26:13 PM
McWay-  you should start a petition to make a Juneteenth in honor of the WBF. Then the nigglets can have Juneteenf in honor of their stupid shit.

Juneteenth has been around for over a century. It just became a national holiday 5 years ago, under Sleepy Joe (although I don't have today off).
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: beakdoctor on June 19, 2026, 05:22:50 PM
Juneteenth has been around for over a century. It just became a national holiday 5 years ago, under Sleepy Joe (although I don't have today off).

Yes. June teeth, the day white people freed all the blacks and they were too fucking dumb to leave the plantation.  Now over a century later we have to listen to all this white guilt bullshit and watch Niggnorant knee-grows on tik tok come up with dances celebrating Austin Metcalf getting stabbed. It would be more noble and useful if it were in honor of the WBF.
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: MCWAY on June 19, 2026, 05:42:40 PM
Yes. June teeth, the day white people freed all the blacks and they were too fucking dumb to leave the plantation.  Now over a century later we have to listen to all this white guilt bullshit and watch Niggnorant knee-grows on tik tok come up with dances celebrating Austin Metcalf getting stabbed. It would be more noble and useful if it were in honor of the WBF.

Leave the plantation and go where? Plus, I believe Juneteenth is supposed to mark when slaves in Texas found out they were freed, which happened reportedly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. The country was recovering from a civil war, after all.

As for the WBF, since June 15th was the day of the first championship, maybe we could get 10 lbs of protein powder or weight gainer for $6.15  ;D

Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: Humble Narcissist on June 21, 2026, 05:05:12 PM
Leave the plantation and go where? Plus, I believe Juneteenth is supposed to mark when slaves in Texas found out they were freed, which happened reportedly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. The country was recovering from a civil war, after all.

As for the WBF, since June 15th was the day of the first championship, maybe we could get 10 lbs of protein powder or weight gainer for $6.15  ;D
Some moved North to work in factories but most just stayed home and became share croppers.
Title: Re: 35 YEARS AGO TODAY: The world of pro bodybuilding changed.....FOREVER!!!
Post by: MCWAY on June 21, 2026, 07:24:02 PM
Some moved North to work in factories but most just stayed home and became share croppers.

Very few made it up there, and it ain't like the Yankees welcomed them with open arms or anything.