kind of cool if you are an old fart like me... Arnold classic

well the Arnold classic USA is once again coming next month and there is a youtube site ...
well they are posting some old arnold contests from the early 90's
see andreas munzer, momo benaziza sonny schmidt mike mattarazzo and some guys that are still alive
oh boy that is a bad very in-sensive joke ..I almost didn't post it,,,,,almost

anyhow you young punks might want to see what passed for big before Dorian Yates and Nasser
hope fully they will keep posting and post 1997... 5 former arnold winner's all in one show...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=277ka8d6Y7s

oh and who doesn't like hans and frans at the AC 89


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhOrmr4qaqw

Nice!

Ahhhhhhh...... I miss the 90's!!

just add 95
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatktnbxsg0


1 Michael Francois
2 Ken Wheeler
3 Charles Clairmonte
4 Andreas Munzer
5 Lee Labrada
6 Aaron Baker
7 Ian Harrison
8 Darrem Charles
9 Lee Priest
10 Henderson Thorne
11 David Fisher
12 David Dearth
13 Leif Langbacka
14 Michael Devitis

1997 AC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXgERCYwQUI


1 Ken Wheeler
2 Nasser El Sonbaty
3 Michael Francois
4 Ronnie Coleman
5 Vince Taylor
6 Paul Dillett
7 Lee Priest
8 Kevin Levrone
9 Aaron Baker
10 Alq' Gurley
11 Ian Harrison
12 Don Long
13 Eddie Robinson (1)
14 Agathoklis Agathoklous

4 former AC champs and Nasser at the top of his game

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Originally Posted by xdude

1997 AC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXgERCYwQUI


1 Ken Wheeler
2 Nasser El Sonbaty
3 Michael Francois
4 Ronnie Coleman
5 Vince Taylor
6 Paul Dillett
7 Lee Priest
8 Kevin Levrone
9 Aaron Baker
10 Alq' Gurley
11 Ian Harrison
12 Don Long
13 Eddie Robinson (1)
14 Agathoklis Agathoklous

4 former AC champs and Nasser at the top of his game

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I'll take that Top 10 against any Top 10 in any show today.

Yeah I remember seeing this on TV and I recorded it ,and for you young kids it was on something call VHS
I have no idea where the tape is and even if I did don't have a vhs player , and this is a much better copy.

this was the classic BB battle that matched the mass of sonbaty and more classic physique of wheeler
Arnold does the commentary . I love the comment he makes about arron baker "I could win with that physique" what a mind f*ck
Ron Coleman was Mr o , yet, 4 previous AC winners, Sonbaty ( second in 97 mr o and there are people that say he should have won)
and throw in muscle mass monster Dilllett, Priest ( if he was 4 inches taller would win ) and I always like Harrison.
Don Long went into kidney failure after but had incredible physique. Someone you knew was destined for greatness

you are right this is probably a best of the late 90's line up, I can't believe this was 20 years ago

well they posted the 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZKVEemnJIM&t=55s

I remember this being on UPN, a network that is remembered for Star Trek Voyager...and that is about it(.. did it last more than a year?)
great line up ,rock, concert lighting, and a lots of switching cameras , angles and basically ruins the whole thing if you are a bodybuilding fan, if you are regular person it might be more interesting. IMHO you want to see a front lat from the front, not from side, then angled up and then panning over the bodybuilder to show the audience .This is not a football game during the huddle. The only worse coverage for a bodybuilding contest is the 2001 Mr O, where they kept panning the audience and front lat from the side ..


1 Ken Wheeler
2 Nasser El Sonbaty
3 Vince Taylor
4 Jean Pierre Fux
5 Chris Cormier
6 Darrem Charles
7 Aaron Baker
8 Don Long
9 Ian Harrison
10 Roland Cziurlock
11 Jeff Long (1) ( The Black Jeff Long................LOL )
12 Grant Clemesha

I remember those days and the 80s reading Muscle and Firness and trying everutging they talked aboutvto get bjgger. Never worked like I hoped for, but I eventuality got big and ripped, and now 17 surgeries for wearing out tendins and two hernias, lateri wish I jad never go e above 200 lbs. Would have been much better off and not fighting to just stay in the gym. I make zero testosterone among other little things.

Good videos, brings back the memories and reminds me we are all human and all destined for the dirt nap.