To clarify a point....people keep asking me about these "declining numbers"....here is a recent example:
Jon Lindsay (NPC Promoter) has a show tomorrow
NPC/ IFBB PRO Figure
160+ in the show
100 are NPC Bikini and Figure
2 are FBB
I could care less how many are in the "show", how many are in the audience? How many are new to the audience? How many are repeat schmoes?
Bodydoping is not something the general population is even remotely interested in and all because it is quite disgusting given the drugged up male and "female" competitors. No one I know would even entertain the idea of attending a bodydoping show and why should they? Fake muscles, fake hair and fake tans do not a healthy image promote.
It is not a sport, not in the most far-ranging sense of the word. It is a highly subjective endeavor judged by (given the current state of bodydoping) and for weirdos. And for the record,
why would a woman desire to look like a man?
If any man took estrogen and got breast and butt implants, wore makeup and paraded around like they thought the were a woman what would you call them? A dissolutioned, fugly, transvestite and that would be polite.
The idiots that perpetrate this human dross on the world, this flotsam of fake muscles and masculine "women" are responsible for taking what was once a health conscious pastime and making a mockery of it. Those that participate in this display of stupidity are responsible for their own actions. They are fake, fugly, look like burn victims with severe infections and all that for a trophy that won't hold the front door open when the wind blows hard.
I suppose a career in "female" wrestling/boxing films or male thongoloid "lifestyle" presentations is the best these extra chromosome endowed "athletes" can expect. Cretins the lot of them. Nothing less than sickening licentious cultural philistines attend their displays of aritificial physiques.
Their health, such as it is , will most definately decline with the passage of years, as will their salability to schomes/schmoettes.
Keep it up, IFBB and NPC. Like the WNBA, no one of any importance really cares. You know, the people with money. The public. The ones that attend real sporting events like football or soccer games. There is nothing remotely athletic about these things, male or "female". What they have to offer is nothing more than a facade.
And as for calling something "Classic" bodybuilding, it has to have
class to begin with. Sorry. No how, no way.