Would you buy a ticket to see a drug tested IFBB show?

[benchmstr]

I enjoyed Paul Dilletts "Rigor Mortis on stage a few yrs back.  

or when i was at the olympia and gene rychlack crushed his ass on bench,i laughed so hard i almost threw up

bench

[Karl Kox]

NO

[Birdman]

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[local hero]

im sorry like, but i wouldnt pay unless theres a big bunch of freaks up there,,, theres nothing to blow you away.. youd soon get bored with endless nice lines and no fuck off huge size and unreal conditioning

on another note, most the audience are on somthing  id say 80% and carrying quite a bit of size,,, why would they pay to watch somone smaller than themselves, albeit with a nicer shape, but small netherless?

[nycbull]

how many would pay to see physiques similar to the pros of the late 1970s and early 1980s?   lots of steroids but no GH, insulin and (little) diuretics.  symmetrical, proportional, almost healthy looking.  we could have that now without drug testing.  judges just need to reward such physiques.

Absolutely,and also if they got rid of the high contrast spot lighting and pro-tan. No need for that, just a plain flood light and maybe a little tan for the pale guys.

[christinafitness]

I think the "freaks" can make a promoter sell more tickets. They target part of the core bodybuilding audience.
On the other end you have more appealing and symmetrical athletes like Stan McQuay, Sagi Kalev, Mike O'Hearn, etc. which sell magazines, but would not fill a stadium.
This is basically the dilemma of today's bodybuilding. Unfortunately less and less people go to see bodybuilding shows. You only find friends and families of competitors at the shows. And if you live in the US, you hardly get an international perspective of bodybuilding, which results in an uneven picture of bodybuilding as a whole.
I think bodybuilding has a far greater potential for a far greater audience. But none of the promoters dares to leave his regional niche, which can be quite comfortable.

[BEAST 8692]

no

this is precisely why, in reality, the 70's bodies wouldn't attract an audience today.

people like to talk about all the problems with the gh gut, etc but when it comes down to it people don't want to pay money to see yesterday.

sport MUST progress, even if said progress ultimately destroys itself.

it's a bit like when tyson was koing everyone in the 1st round. everyone complained about paying good money to watch a mismatch, but yet they came in droves to watch subsequent mismatches.

if they actually wanted to see a boxing contest they wouldn't have paid for the tyson tickets.

fans want to be amazed and shocked.

besides, who actually believes they're natural anyway? call me a cynic but i'd be a fucking idiot to believe these so called 'naturals' were anything more than second rate juicers.

but then, maybe i'm being too cynical. maybe dante's little fuckboy actually does bench 6 plates at 230 ripped for reps and is all natural.

[suckmymuscle]

I think the "freaks" can make a promoter sell more tickets. They target part of the core bodybuilding audience.
On the other end you have more appealing and symmetrical athletes like Stan McQuay, Sagi Kalev, Mike O'Hearn, etc. which sell magazines, but would not fill a stadium.

  You're right. Pretty much the only people who want to see men with pretty faces and physiques posing are gay men and a small number of women. Even most heterosexual women have no interest in watching half naked men posing for them. Rewarding aesthetics and facial beauty over freaky muscle at bodybuilding shows would turn bodybuilding into male beauty pageants, and only gay guys, like "Earl1972", would appreciate that.

SUCKMYMUSCLE