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Always enjoy the hype for the Olympia with Flex Magazine, as they started the new series of Phil Heath vs Kai Greene in a face off on how will get the cover of the 2010 Olympia issue. Here is the first segment on the battle between the two powerhouses of bodybuilding. Pretty interesting. Face Off #1: Phil Heath Vs. Kai Greene

The IFBB Tampa Pro show brought quite a few surprises in terms of competitors and placings, but on the heels of Tampa, comes another 5 IFBB Pro Contests. Here is the tentative pro lineup (not final lists) for the 2010 Europa Battle of Champions, set for July 23-24, in Hartford, Connecticut. 2010 Europa Battle of Champions Mens Open 1 – Serdar Aktolga (Turkey) 2 – Troy Alves (USA) 3 – Damaso Chacon (Venezuela) 4 – Darrem Charles (Trinidad) 5 – Oscar Dexter (Tahiti) 6 – Oleg Emelyanov (USA) 7 – Erik Fankhouser (USA) 8 – George Farah (USA) 9 – Leo Ingram Jr. (USA) 10 – Johnnie Jackson (USA) 11 – Emro Karaduzovic (Montenegro) 12 – Michael Kefalianos (Australia) 13 – Michael Liberatore (USA) 14 – Jeff Long (USA) 15 – Alexandre Nataf (France) 16 – Ed Nunn (USA) 17 – Ben White (USA) 2010 Europa Battle of Champions Mens 202lb and under 1 – Feliz Abiu (USA) 2 – Anthony Finocchiaro (USA) 3 – Wendell Floyd (USA) 4 – David Henry (USA) 5 – Tim Martin (USA) 6 – Luc Molines (France) 7 – Frederic Sauvage (France) 2010 Europa Battle of Champions Women’s Bodybuilding 1 – Lisette Acevedo (USA)…

What an incredible contest as Ben White defied all expectations and wins the contest over Troy Alves! Congratulations! 2010 Tampa Pro Men’s Bodybuilding results 1 – Ben White 2 – Troy Alves 3 – Johnnie Jackson 4 – Edward Nunn 5 – Michael Kefalianos 6 – Brandon Curry 7 – Francisco ‘Paco’ Bautista 8 – Michael Liberatore 10 – Darrem Charles 11 – Alexandre Nataf 12 – Constantinos Demetriou 13 – Omar Deckard 14 – Manuel Romero 15 – Jo Jo Nitiforo 16 – Serdar Aktolga 16 – Mark Antonek 16 – Damaso Chacon 16 – Oleg Emelyanov 16 – Vonne Francis 16 – Manuel Lomeli Mex 16 – Heinz Senior 16 – Greg Ulysses DNF – Hidetada Yamagishi 2010 Tampa Pro Men’s Bodybuilding 202lb results 1 – Jose Raymond 2 – Steve Namat 3 – Tricky Jackson 4 – Nathaniel Wonsley 5 – Luc Molines 6 – Clarence Devis 7 – Feliz Abiu 8 – Frederic Sauvage 9 – Angel Manuel Rangel Vargas 10 – Noar Ziv 11 – Daryl Stafford 2010 Tampa Pro Bikini results 1. Nicole Nagrani 2. Jaime Baird 3. Vanessa Campbell 4. Diana Fields 5. Kat Holmes 6. Dinah Al Sabah 7. Nathalie Mur 8….

Updates are live and up to date on the Twitter Account regarding what is going on at the IFBB Tampa Pro contest. We have put together a special twitter page just for any up to the minute updates. Click below to check it out. Twitter Updates from the IFBB Tampa Pro

Thanks to Isaac Hinds, here are some press conference pictures of the IFBB PBW Tampa, on Friday evening. Favorite Hidetada and Cathy LeFrancois look great, as well as a multitude of other competitors in an ‘Olympia’ style press conference, in which Bob Chicherillo and Dan Solomon hosted. Here are the pics Press Conference Pics

The 2010 IFBB Tampa Pro contests are coming up this weekend, and here are the tentative competitor lists for the four IFBB pro contests that will be held. It looks to be quite an interesting lineup. They are: 2010 Tampa Pro Men’s Bodybuilding competitor list 1. Serdar Aktolga (Turkey) 2. Troy Alves (USA) 3. Mark Antonek (USA) 4. Francisco Bautista (Spain) 5. Damaso Chacon (Venezuela) 6. Darrem Charles (USA) 7. Brandon Curry (USA) 8. Omar Deckard (USA) 9. Constantinos Demetriou (Australia) 10. Oleg Emelyanov (Russia) 11. Vonne Francis (Grenada) 12. Johnnie Jackson (USA) 13. Michael Kefalianos (Australia) 14. Michael Liberatore (USA) 15. Manuel Lomeli (Mexico) 16. Alexandre Nataf (France) 17. Jojo Nitforo (USA) 18. Edward Nunn (USA) 19. Manuel Romero (Venezuela) 20. Heinz Senior (Venezuela) 21. Ben White (USA) 22. Hideatada Yamagishi (Japan) 2010 Tampa Pro Men’s Bodybuilding 202lb competitor list 1. Abiu Feliz (USA) 2. Clarence DeVis (Belgium) 3. Tricky Jackson (USA) 4. Luc Molines (France) 5. Steve Namat (Hungary) 6. Angel Manuel Rangel Vargas (Mexico) 7. Jose Raymond (USA) 8. Frederic Sauvage (France) 9. Daryl Stafford (USA) 10. Nathan Wonsley (USA) 2010 Tampa Pro Bikini competitor list 1. Dina Al-Sabah (Kuwait) 2. Jamie Baird (USA) 3. Vanessa Campbell…

The following memo was given to all IFBB Pro Figure competitors today, and it involved the elimination of the one piece swimsuit round. Effective today, only the two piece swimsuit will be presented. Here is the memo from the IFBB Professional League. From: IFBB Professional League To: ALL IFBB FIGURE COMPETITORS Date: Monday, July 12, 2010 Subject: IMMEDIATE ELIMINATION OF 1-PIECE SWIMSUIT ROUND IN PRO FIGURE At the IFBB New York City Pro Figure on Friday July 9th, several members of the IFBB Professional League Pro Committee were on hand, including Chairman Jim Manion. A meeting was called that included a quorum to discuss the immediate elimination of the 1-Piece Swimsuit Round in the IFBB Pro Figure. This will take effect starting with the 2010 IFBB Pro Bodybuilding Weekly Championships on July 17th. This was originally proposed to take effect at the 2010 IFBB Houston Pro Figure as stated on Advisory Notice from Tuesday, June 15th. All IFBB Pro Figure competitions from this date forward will only consist of one (1) round, the 2-Piece Swimsuit. This includes the 2010 Figure Olympia. The first contest to be effected by this rule will be the Europa Battle of Champions Contest in Hartford,…

Here are the links to the complete results from the 2010 NPC Team Universe competitions, and the 2010 NPC National Fitness Championships. Congratulations to everyone who earned the right to turn pro here. They are 2010 NPC Team Universe Bodybuilding Men’s Results 2010 NPC Team Universe Bikini Results 2010 NPC Team Universe Figure Results 2010 NPC Team Universe Bodybuilding Women’s Results 2010 NPC National Fitness Championships Results

Congratulations to Cheryl Brown for winning the IFBB New York Pro Figure, and for Dana Fallacara and Terri Turner also for placing second and third, respectively. Here are the complete results. 1. Cheryl Brown 2. Dana Fallacara 3. Terri Turner 4. Josie Zamora 5. Gennifer Strobo 6. Gina Trochino 7. Meriza DeGuzman 8. Ann Titone 9. Marcy Porter 10. Candice John 11. Jelena Abbou 12. Tivisay Briceno 13. Chelsey Morgenstern 14. Jennifer Migliacci 15. Holly Beck 16. Michelle Mayberry 17. Jeni Briscoe 17. Christina Casoni 17. Nicole Coleman 17. Caroline Hernandez 17. Jennifer Hernandez 17. Juliana Malacarne 17. Angela Mraz 17. Marie Newman 17. Vicki Nixon 17. Katherynne Ramirez 17. Tammy Strome 17. Kimmy Trowbridge 17. Rosalind Vanterpool 17. Stacy Wig 17. Magdalena Wilk 17. Jennifer Woodruff

Team BSN athlete & IFBB Pro bodybuilder will be appearing tomorrow (July 10th) at the Supplement Giant in Lakewood, Colorado. Stop by and get a free autograph from 10am-5pm. The store will also be giving out free supplements, t-shirts and samples all day. Check out the latest from BSN, Dymatize, VPX, Muscle Fortress, Axis Labs, MAN Sports, iSatori, Epic Performance & More. If you stop by the store look for the tallest guy in the room wearing a BSN shirt and tell him that Getbig sent ya. He’ll have a special prize for you. The store is located at: 7134 W Alaska Drive Lakewood, CO 80226

The 2010 IFBB New York Pro Figure Championships will be taking place this weekend, with more than 30 pro figure competitors in the lineup. Here is a list of the competitors. 1. Jelena Abbou 2. Holly Beck 3. Tivisay Briceno 4. Jeni Briscoe 5. Cheryl Brown 6. Cristiana Casoni 7. Nicole Coleman 8. Meriza DeGuzman 9. Dana Fallacara 10. Caroline Hernandez 11. Jennifer Hernandez 12. Candice John 13. Juliana Malacarne 14. Michele Mayberry 15. Jenn Migliacci 16. Chelsey Morgenstern 17. Angela Mraz 18. Marie Ann Newman 19. Vicki Nixon 20. Marcy Porter 21. Katherynne Ramirez 22. Gennifer Strobo 23. Tammy Strome 24. Ann Titone 25. Gina Trochiano 26. Kimmy Trowbridge 27. Terri Turner 28. Rosalind Vanterpool 29. Stacy Wig 30. Magdalena Wilk 31. Jennifer Woodruff 32. Josie Zamora Along with the IFBB Pro competition that is taking place, the 2010 NPC Team Universe and the 2010 NPC Natural Fitness Championships are also taking place. It is going to be a packed Friday and Saturday, with new 32 new IFBB cards up for grabs. Competitors elegible for the IFBB pro cards includes the overall NPC men’s bodybuilding winner, the overall NPC women’s bodybuilding winner, the top two in each of the…

Phil Heath was in town here in Woodland Hills, California, where he was working on some pictures and videos featuring Phil and Kai Greene, for the upcoming Olympia and Flex Magazine. What garnered everyone’s attention is that Phil was wearing a Muscletech T-shirt and not the usual Met-Rx. Well, it was confirmed that Phil did sign a supplement contract deal with Muscletech, and now is representing them. Phil joins a multitude of other high profile bodybuilders that are with Muscletech, including Jay Cutler and Branch Warren. Congratulations.

Muscle Beach, Venice, California is known for a lot of things, including where many bodybuilders worked out, competitions and sheer spectacles. But on this warm, sunny day on July 4th, 2010 – top NPC competitor Jerome ‘Hollywood’ Ferguson married the love of his life, IFBB Pro Marnie Holley, right on the stage at Muscle Beach. It was a beautiful ceremony, complete with Marnie coming down the boardwalk in a horse drawn carriage. Here are a few of the pics, as it was a pleasure to attend. Here is a link to a lot more pictures from the ceremony. Marnie & Jerome’s Ceremony Pictures

For the 3rd straight year, “Pro Bodybuilding Weekly” radio in conjunction with Florida-based promoter Tim Gardner will be presenting a BIG weekend on the IFBB Pro calendar. The “PBW Championships” (July 16-17) will feature a Mens Open Pro event along with an Under 202 division, plus a full menu of womens competition, including Womens Pro Bodybuilding as well as a Pro Bikini contest. The hosting duo of Dan & Bob will be back calling the action from their “on-stage” broadcast booth at the Tampa Center for the Performing Arts located in the beautiful Tampa Bay area on Florida’s West Coast. Among the confirmed athletes: Troy Alves, Hidetada Yamagishi, Darrem Charles, Ben White, Brandon Curry, Mike Lideratore, Tricky Jackson, Roc Shabbaz, Monique Minton, Jaime Baird, Missy Coles, Dayana Cadeau, Nicole Ball and the list keeps growing. The event will also feature the annual presentation of the “Ben Weider Lifetime Achievement Award” (Past winners: Chris Dickerson and Rich Gaspari). This years honoree will be 8-time Mr. Olympia Lee Haney. For more information, tickets, lineups, hotel: visit www.PBWProShow.com

A record 140+ competitors came to the 2010 NPC West Coast Classic in El Monte, California, and it was a great contest indeed, with some tough competitions. For the Men’s bodybuilding, Eli Blahut beat Rowdy Rusconi for the overall title. In Figure, Darice Castro easily won the overall, while in Bikini, Khay Rosemond dominated. Here are the links for the complete results and also lots of pictures. Complete Results Contest Pictures

On June 26th, the 2010 NPC West Coast Classic Bodybuilding, Figure and Bikini contest is going to be held at El Monte, California. With a record number of competitors competing in this National Qualifier event, it is going to be a great contest. Ron Avidan will be there covering the event for Bodybuilding.com, Hardbody.com and Getbig.com. Here is the information regarding the contest. See you there.

Friday and Saturday, June 18th and 19th, in Rosemont, Illinois, the 2010 NPC Jr. National Bodybuilding, Figure, Fitness and Bikini Championships are going to be held, with close to 400 competitors. Here is the information regarding this competition.

The 2010 NPC California is going to be a tough bodybuilding contest, but one competitor giving his all to be the best is Justin Lovato. Here is Justin at Gold’s Gym Venice one week out as he prepared. Wishing Justin the best in getting that first place recognition in his class!

On May 29th, 2010, in Culver City, California, the 2010 NPC/IFBB California Bodybuilding, Figure and Bikini contest will be held. Some of the top NPC competitors will be competing here, as well as 19+ IFBB Pro Figure competitors. See you there. Here is the updated list of the IFBB Pro Figure competitors. They include: 1. Thais Cabrices-Werner 2. Raechelle Chase 3. Meriza DeGuzman 4. Jennifer DeJoya 5. Ginette Delhaes 6. Heather Mae French 7. Valerie Gangi 8. Carin Hawkins 9. Candice Houston 10. Zaneta Ksiazek 11. Georgina Lona 12. Katina Maistrelles 13. Michele Mayberry 14. Christina Mehling 15. Rosa Maria Romero 16. Susan Salazar 17. Masae Tagami 18. Angela Terlesky 19. Jessica Wright

Here are the pics, from bb.com, of the 2010 IFBB New York Pro bodybuilding and bikini contests. Men’s Open Bodybuilding Men’s 202lbs and Under Bodybuilding Women’s Bodybuilding Bikini Pros