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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Royalty on September 04, 2006, 06:41:00 PM
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Could Mattarazzo have been top 5 throughout the 90's is he had a shorter torso
Could he have been up there with Yates, Levrone, Ray, Wheeler, and Dillett?
(http://www.musclephotos.com/mata22.jpg)
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Could be...He wasn't to far off...Had Awesome Arms and legs..
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See - nobody stays away from getbig for long. NarcissisticDeity will be back. ;D
What happened to ND?
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mikey would need to come in bigger. not much going on from the side. he would also need a bigger and better back.
he always came in great conditioning and looked great from the front.
one of my all time fav's. its a shame what happened to him.
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What happened to ND?
he choked to death on Dorian's english banger
:-*
naw, seriously, I think he got tired of being made fun of.
but who could resist? We are not the kind of folks who will let someone argue "dorian has better overall arms than Ronnie" and get away with it, now would we?
that would be no fun 8).
In all seriousness, he probably got tired of trying to argue what only he could see (eg. peak Ronnie had small traps from the front, was unbalanced, unaesthetic, etc etc).
After being systematically and elegantly proven wrong for 355 pages, it was probably too much.
But I agree - he will be back.
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he choked to death on Dorian's english banger
:-*
naw, seriously, I think he got tired of being made fun of.
but who could resist? We are not the kind of folks who will let someone argue "dorian has better overall arms than Ronnie" and get away with it, now would we?
that would be no fun 8).
In all seriousness, he probably got tired of trying to argue what only he could see (eg. peak Ronnie had small traps from the front, was unbalanced, unaesthetic, etc etc).
After being systematically and elegantly proven wrong for 355 pages, it was probably too much.
But I agree - he will be back.
proven wrong. how?
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proven wrong. how?
by showing countless videos (which were ignored) and pics showing that everything he said about peak Ronnie was in fact, wrong.
eg.
fiction: ND argues dorian had a better front double bi than Ronnie.
reality:
(http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h29/NeoSeminole/Ronnie%20Coleman/RonnieColeman74.jpg)
no way in hell he did.
this is just but one tiny example. Review the thread for countless more.
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the man's back was pitiful. Great guy with huge arms, fantastic quads, and w-i-d-e shoulders, but NO back. a real shame he didn't bring it up in his 10 years on a pro stage . . .
(http://body.builder.hu/imagebank/starprofile/Mike_Matarazzo.jpg)
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Calves from hell!!!
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he looked great on video in 98 and 99O
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Calves from hell!!!
he said he once trained them to 23 inches. I wish I'd seen that
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he looked great on video in 98 and 99O
synthol
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Could he have been up there with Yates, Levrone, Ray, Wheeler, and Dillett?
(http://www.musclephotos.com/mata22.jpg)
great BB and a great person!
his weakest part was his upper chest though.
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His calfs are outstanding....Damn how I have forgotten..... 8)
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I remember somewhere - probably Flex - there was a picture of Mike's dad with like 23 inch calves. Mike got a good start from birth. Anyone have some shots of those silly cows of his?
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To bad from his injuries....he trully was amazing
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Don Ross and I sat in the front row at the 1991 USA and when Mike came on stage we looked at each other and just started laughing. His arms & calves were as crazy as any arms & calves ever. His razor sharpe flat-top haircut added to the whole package. Very cool and absolutely unique.
Edit: dates and facts
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Don Ross and I sat I the front row at the 1990 USA and when Mike came on stage we looked at each other and just started laughing. His arms & calves were as crazy as any arms & calves ever. His razor shape flat-top haircut added to the whole package. Very cool and absolutely unique.
The Ripper!! I miss him.
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could also catch the fuckoutta fish too!
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This just goes to show how good the competition was in the 90's.
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i can vouche for mike being a cool fucker. i didnt even know the guy other than seeing him at the gym a couple days a week and he would even conversate with my 18 yr old pipsqueek ass in the gym during precontest training for the olympia! i dont think there's another pro on earth that would do the same. he's still in the modesto area working at AJ's bailbonds. i dont recall ever seeing him train anything other than shoulders and abs and doing cardio and i would see him in there pretty regularly. never once did i see him train chest or back. i know he trained at at least one other gym though so maybe he trained other bodyparts at other gyms.
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Those arms not viscous assisted? Don't mean to bash MM, dude was great, but they truly looked unreal.
What do you guys think?
Calves were genetically outta this Universe. Heard he didn't train 'em.
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I think his arms were natural "in the badell way".
Remember that he was already very big in 1991.
He did not gain much mass after that year.
Synthol was almost unknown at that time, except maybe in germany.
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He turned pro at the 91 usa ,and i think he only did one other show in his state mass,he was rock hard and only listed at 228 5'10 ,long torso and short leg's which really exaggerated his calve's,but at what cost did all that extra bulking he did to contend with the big guy's.seemed like a cool guy.
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Mike is great!
(http://www.darkwoods.com/bodybuilder/male/bb/gallery/fullsize/matara07.jpg)
(http://www.darkwoods.com/bodybuilder/male/bb/gallery/fullsize/matara19.jpg)
(http://www.darkwoods.com/bodybuilder/male/bb/gallery/fullsize/matara20.jpg)
(http://www.darkwoods.com/bodybuilder/male/bb/gallery/fullsize/matara21.jpg)
(http://www.darkwoods.com/bodybuilder/male/bb/gallery/fullsize/matara25.jpg)
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Those arms not viscous assisted? Don't mean to bash MM, dude was great, but they truly looked unreal.
What do you guys think?
Calves were genetically outta this Universe. Heard he didn't train 'em.
hey man you heard that wrong he did not train calves..dude he did train calves but he did train them very seldom
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Those arms not viscous assisted? Don't mean to bash MM, dude was great, but they truly looked unreal.
What do you guys think?
If you watch his performance at 98 and/or 99 Olympias, Mike's arms did look suspicious. His triceps in particular were soft and he didn't seem able to flex them all the way.
Mike's arms were incredible. In the later years of his career though, I'm sure he used synthol on them.
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Anybody knows how he ended up in Modesto, CA ?
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Mike was a cool mofo.
remember the first muscle and fitness magazine I bought had him in it describing his usual day. Always came across as stand up dude. Miss him from the competition stage.
Hope he is doing good
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Mike was a cool mofo.
remember the first muscle and fitness magazine I bought had him in it describing his usual day. Always came across as stand up dude. Miss him from the competition stage.
Hope he is doing good
me too! Came off right away as a cool guy and became one of my favorites.
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i remember reading that he'd absolutely hate people interrupting his workouts so he'd just roll in with headphones and mean-mug anyone who tried to approach him while working out. he also said he lifted with his eyes closed to better feel the mind-muscle connection. widely credited with inventing the tongue-out most muscular pose.
i always assumed mike drove around in t-top 80's muscle cars blasting hair music while wearing Wayfarer sunglasses, tongue out with his left arm flexing out the window to people walking by on the street. can anyone confirm?
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i remember reading that he'd absolutely hate people interrupting his workouts so he'd just roll in with headphones and mean-mug anyone who tried to approach him while working out. he also said he lifted with his eyes closed to better feel the mind-muscle connection. widely credited with inventing the tongue-out most muscular pose.
i always assumed mike drove around in t-top 80's muscle cars blasting hair music while wearing Wayfarer sunglasses, tongue out with his left arm flexing out the window to people walking by on the street. can anyone confirm?
when mike was training he was training. no talking until after or before he was working out. always trained in sweaters and shit and rarley wore shorts (calves were absolutely insane). he drove one of those 4 door ford explorer suv/trucks that came out a few ears ago(the first 4 door trucks to come out). he also had a sick Bad Boy custom bike with 110 horsepower that he said cost him 60 grand. it was a sick bike for sure, this was a few years ago before custom bikes were common. he was usually on the bike unless he was dieting for a contest. then he said he didnt trust himself with it cause he was on "low cabs"(insert itallian accent) really loud guy but nice as hell.
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cool info....and i think that'd be the boston accent with the "caaabs"
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I think his arms were natural "in the badell way".
Remember that he was already very big in 1991.
He did not gain much mass after that year.
Synthol was almost unknown at that time, except maybe in germany.
"in the badell way"? ???
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"in the badell way"? ???
natural as in no syntol
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natural as in no syntol
When did Badell become poster-boy for non-synthol muscle?
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cool info....and i think that'd be the boston accent with the "caaabs"
my bad, boston accent, thanks for the correction sir william.