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| x Lou Ferrigno |
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Louis "Lou" Jude Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951) is an American bodybuilder and actor. Ferrigno has appeared in such television series and movies as The Incredible Hulk (playing David Banner's - who was played by Bill Bixby on television - bulky...
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| x Lee Haney |
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Lee Haney (born November 11, 1959 in Spartanburg, South Carolina), is a former American IFBB professional bodybuilder most famous for being the current joint world record holder, along with Ronnie Coleman, for winning the most Mr. Olympia titles ...
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| x Mike Mentzer |
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Mike Mentzer (November 15, 1951 – June 10, 2001) was an American former IFBB professional bodybuilder, businessman, and author.
Mike Mentzer started competing in local physique contests when he was eighteen. His first contest was in 1969. In 1971 he...
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| x Franco Columbu |
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Franco Columbu (born August 7, 1941) is an italian actor and former bodybuilder and World's Strongest Man competitor.
Columbu was born in Ollolai, Sardinia (Italy). Starting out his athletic career as a boxer, Columbu progressed into the sport of...
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| x Chris Dickerson |
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Chris Dickerson (born August 25, 1939 in Montgomery, Alabama), is an American bodybuilder.
Dickerson was born to Mahala Ashley Dickerson as the youngest of three triplets. Dickerson studied music and is an accomplished opera singer. His bodybuilding...
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| x Anders Graneheim |
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Anders Graneheim (born May 3, 1962 in Timrå, Sweden) is a Swedish bodybuilder. He was Swedish and Nordic Bodybuilding Champion during the 1980s. After a nine-year absence from competitive bodybuilding he competed in the "Sweden Grand Prix" in...
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| x Dorian Yates |
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Dorian Andrew Mientjez Yates (born April 19, 1962 in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England), is an English professional bodybuilder, winning the Mr. Olympia title six consecutive times beginning in 1992.
His reign ended with his retirement, prompted...
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| x Sergio Oliva |
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Sergio Oliva is a bodybuilder known as "The Myth". This sobriquet was given to him by bodybuilder/writer Rick Wayne. Wayne had begun calling Oliva "The Myth" "(because everyone who saw him at the 1967 Montreal World's Fair said he was "JUST...
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| x Mickey Hargitay |
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Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay (January 6, 1926 – September 14, 2006) was an actor and Mr. Universe 1955. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He also is noted for his marriage to Jayne Mansfield, and as the father of actress Mariska Hargitay.
Growing up in...
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| x Ronnie Coleman |
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Ronald Dean "Ronnie" Coleman (born May 13, 1964 in Bastrop, Louisiana) is a former American professional bodybuilder who holds the record of eight straight wins as Mr. Olympia, a record career total that he shares with Lee Haney.
Alongside his eight...
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| x Charles Atlas |
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Charles Atlas, born Angelo Siciliano (October 30, 1892, Acri, Italy – December 23, 1972, Long Beach, New York), was the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program that was best known for a landmark advertising campaign...
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| x Steve Reeves |
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Stephen L. Reeves (January 21, 1926 – May 1, 2000) was an American bodybuilder and actor.
Born in Glasgow, Montana, Steve Reeves moved to California at the age of 10 with his mother Goldie, after his father Lester Dell Reeves died in a farming...
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| x Dave Draper |
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David Draper (born April 16, 1942) bodybuilder, actor and author, nicknamed "The Blond Bomber".
Draper was born in Mount Olive, New Jersey. His weight training began at the age of ten and was a well-formed habit by the time he was about twelve, in...
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| x Shawn Ray |
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Shawn Ray (born September 9, 1965 in Fullerton, California, U.S.) is a former professional bodybuilder and author.
In over 30 major bodybuilding competitions, Ray only failed to place in the top five once. Signing his first professional bodybuilding...
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| x Frank Zane |
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Frank Zane (born June 28, 1942 in Kingston, Pennsylvania) is an American former professional bodybuilder and teacher.
Zane received a B.S. (Bachelor of Science degree) in Education from Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania in 1964. For 13...
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| x Eugen Sandow |
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Eugen Sandow (April 2, 1867 – October 14, 1925), born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, was a Prussian pioneering bodybuilder in 19th century and is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Bodybuilding".
Sandow was born in Königsberg, Prussia, in 1867,...
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| x Bill Pearl |
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William Arnold "Bill" Pearl (born October 31, 1930) is a former leading competitive American bodybuilder during the 1950s and '60s. He won many titles and awards, including winning the Mr. Universe contest several times, and became a trainer and...
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| x Samir Bannout |
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Samir Hassan Bannout (born November 7, 1955 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Known as "the Lion of Lebanon", Samir Bannout won the Mr. Olympia title in 1983. At that time, only 6 men had held this most prestigious title since...
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| x Reg Park |
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Roy "Reg" Park (7 June 1928 – 22 November 2007) from Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, was a former bodybuilder, businessman and film actor.
An athlete from the start, he dedicated his teenage years excelling in football. He had no interest in...
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| x Casey Viator |
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Casey Viator (born September 4, 1951 in Lafayette, Louisiana ) was the youngest ever AAU Mr. America - gaining the title at the age of 19 in 1971.
Viator was born in Lafayette and grew up in New Iberia, Louisiana. In 1968, Viator placed third in the...
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| x Paul Demayo |
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Paul DeMayo (September 12, 1967- June 2, 2005) was a former IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Paul DeMayo was nicknamed "Quadzilla" for his enormous quadriceps development. Born in California, United States and raised in suburban Boston, DeMayo first...
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| x Jay Cutler |
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Jay Cutler (born Jason Isaac Cutler August 3, 1973 in Sterling, Massachusetts) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder and the current Mr. Olympia, a title he has won three times.
Cutler started working in his family's concrete construction business,...
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| x Serge Nubret |
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Serge Nubret (Born October 6, 1938 in Anse-Bertrand, north of Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe) is a french professional bodybuilder, bodybuilding federation leader, movie actor and author. Serge was awarded many bodybuilding titles including Mr. Europe ...
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| x Bob Paris |
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Bob Paris (born Robert Clark Paris on December 14, 1959) is a writer, actor, public speaker, civil rights activist and former professional bodybuilder. Paris was the 1983 NPC American National and IFBB World Bodybuiding Champion, Mr. Universe.
Paris...
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| x Roland Dantes |
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Rolando Pintoy Dantes (June 15, 1944-March 16, 2009) is an actor and Filipino martial artist who trained with Remy Presas for over 30 years.
He has also trained with other martial arts masters, such as Cacoy Canete and Edgar Sulite. He worked...
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| x Craig Titus |
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Craig Michael Titus (born January 14, 1965, in Wyandotte, Michigan) is a former IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Titus is of French and Greek origin with a French mother and a Greek father and lived most of his early life near Detroit, Michigan, in a...
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| x Robby Robinson |
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Robby Robinson (born May 24, 1946) is an American former bodybuilder who won the IFBB Mr. America, Mr. World and Mr. Universe titles. He was the Masters Olympia overall champion the first year that the event was held in 1994 and then went on to win...
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| x Jusup Wilkosz |
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Jusup Wilkosz is a German bodybuilder. He competed in weightlifting before turning to bodybuilding. In the mid-1970s, Wilkosz trained with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
During his career, he also met Tom Platz, Franco Columbu, Chris Dickerson and many...
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| x Flex Wheeler |
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Kenneth Wheeler (born August 23, 1965, Fresno, California, United States), better known as Flex Wheeler, is a former American IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Wheeler began training as a teenager, initially with martial arts in mind. However his...
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| x Tom Platz |
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Thomas Steven Platz (born June 26, 1955 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma) is a retired professional bodybuilder. He is known among fans by the nickname "The Golden Eagle". He is 5' 7" (1.70 m) tall.
Tom Platz began his competitive bodybuilding career in the...
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| x Lee Priest |
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Lee Andrew Priest McCutcheon niknamed "The Blond Myth" (born July 6, 1970 in Newcastle, Australia) is a IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Priest was raised together with his two-year older sister by their mother, who also practises bodybuilding in...
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| x Art Atwood |
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Art Atwood (born December 27, 1973, in Wisconsin) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Art's first NPC (National Physique Committee) competition came in 2000, where he placed 1st place in the super-heavyweight class of the Junior USA. His...
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| x Dennis Wolf |
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Dennis Wolf (born October 30, 1978 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan) is a German IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Dennis was born in 1978 in the dingy factory town of Tokmok, in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, still well over a decade before communism ended and the...
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| x Scott Wilson |
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Scott Wilson (1870-1942) was a judge on United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1929 to 1942.
Scott Wilson was born on January 11, 1870, in Falmouth, Maine. He graduated from Bates College in Maine in 1892 and then studied at the...
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| x Vince Taylor |
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Vince Taylor (born August 25, 1956) is an American IFBB professional bodybuilder residing in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Taylor until recently held the Guinness world record for the most IFBB professional wins at 22 victories (this record was recently...
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| x Mike Katz |
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Michael Katz (born November 14, 1944) is a former American IFBB professional bodybuilder, most famous for his appearance with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1977 bodybuilding documentary film Pumping Iron. Mike Katz worked as a Jr. High School gym...
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| x Tevita Aholelei |
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Tevita Aholelei is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Aholelei was born in the Kingdom of Tonga, an island country south of Fiji in the South Pacific. He is sometimes known as the "Stone of Tonga". At 4 years old, he moved to Hawaii and then to...
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| x King Kamali |
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King Kamali, real name Shahriar Kamali (born March 29, 1972 in Tehran, Iran), is a IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Known for his size and his ability to rattle his opponents' cages at press conferences and on the stage, Kamali is also known for his...
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| x Premchand Dogra |
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Premchand Degra is an Indian bodybuilder. Also mentioned as Premchand Degra/Dhingra. He won the Mr. Universe title in the short-height 80 kg category in 1988. He was also awarded the "Achievement Medal" by the International Federation of...
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| x Branch Warren |
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William "Branch" Warren (born February 28, 1975 in Tyler, Texas) is a professional bodybuilder.
Warren first competed in 1992 when he won the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Teenage Mr. America competition. His first National Physique Committee (NPC)...
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| x Gustavo Badell |
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Gustavo Badell aka the Freakin' 'Rican, (born November 3, 1972 in Venezuela) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Gustavo was born in Venezuela, but his family moved to Puerto Rico when he was five years old. He began lifting weights at the age of...
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| x Bob Cicherillo |
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Bob Cicherillo is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
First bodybuilding competition was the 1981 Natural America, where he placed 4th in the teen tall class. His first NPC (National Physique Committee) event was the 1987 NPC Junior Nationals, where...
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| x Chris Cormier |
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Chris Cormier (born Broderick Cormier August 19, 1967 in Palm Springs, California) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Cormier's first Mr. Olympia came in 1994, where he placed 6th. The same year he also participated in his first Arnold Classic and...
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| x Dexter Jackson |
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Dexter "The Blade" Jackson (born November 25, 1969) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder and the 2008 Mr. Olympia bodybuilding champion. He currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida.
Dexter's first NPC (National Physique Committee) competition was the...
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| x Darrem Charles |
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Darrem Charles (born July 22, 1969 in Arouca, Trinidad) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Darrem Charles' first competition was in 1989 when he competed in the IFBB World Amateur Championships, where he placed 5th in the light heavyweight...
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| x Kris Dim |
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Krisna "Kris" Dim (born May 7, 1973) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Kris Dim is among the few professional Asian bodybuilders in the industry. His first national bodybuilding competition was the NPC (National Physique Committee) USA...
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| x Alexander Fedorov |
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Alexander Fedorov (Russian: Александр Федоров) (born May 6, 1978 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder.
After competing in various Russian and other European competitions, Alexander competed in the 2005 Mr. Olympia...
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| x David Henry |
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David Henry (b.February 24, 1975 in Denver, Colorado)is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
At age 17, David started training with weights for his track & field events and competed his first bodybuilding competition, the Team Muscle Tech Challenge,...
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| x Dennis James |
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Dennis Tyron James was born in Heidelberg, Germany on 31 May 1969.
His first NPC (National Physique Committee) competition was the NPC Junior USA of 1996, where he placed 13th. In 1999 he competed in his first Night of Champions, where he placed...
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| x Don Youngblood |
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Don Youngblood (April 7, 1954 – May 8, 2005) was an American IFBB professional bodybuilder.
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| x Mark Dugdale |
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Mark James Dugdale (born December 25, 1974) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
His first competition in bodybuilding was in 1997 when he competed in the NPC (National Physique Committee) Emerald Cup. He placed 3rd in the middleweight class. His...
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| x Phillip Heath |
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Phillip Jerrod Heath (born December 18, 1979 in Seattle, WA) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Nicknamed "The Gift", Heath played basketball for the University of Denver before turning to bodybuilding in 2002. His hard work quickly paid off when...
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| x Chris Cook |
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Chris Cook is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Chris Cook's first bodybuilding competition was in 1996, where he placed 1st in the heavy weight division and Overall in the NPC (National Physique Committee) Mr. Anchorage. His first IFBB event was in...
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| x George Farah |
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George "Bulletproof" Victor Farah (b.1971 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Farah grew up in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) where he participated in combat operations as a child. Bodybuilding helped Farah...
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| x Gary Strydom |
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Gary Strydom (born 1960 in Durban, South Africa) is an American IFBB professional bodybuilder. He is notable as being the only person to win a Championship title under Vince McMahon's now defunct World Bodybuilding Federation. After the fall of the...
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| x Kevin Levrone |
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Kevin Levrone (born July 16, 1968) is a former IFBB professional bodybuilder, blogger, musician, actor and health club owner. Kevin was one of the most popular competitors, and is often cited as one of the more down-to-earth and accessible...
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| x Miloš Šarčev |
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Miloš Šarčev (b. January 17, 1964) is an IFBB bodybuilder from Bečej, Serbia known for his excellent muscular proportion and symmetry.
Šarčev owns the Koloseum Gym in Fullerton, California.
Šarčev nearly died when he struck a vein in one of his...
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| x Toney Freeman |
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Toney Freeman (born July 30, 1966 in South Bend, Indiana) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
His nickname is the X man because his wide shoulders, tiny waist, and flaring quads give his body the appearance of making an X. He did not become a...
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| x Johnnie O. Jackson |
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Johnnie Otis Jackson (born January 30, 1971 in Hammonton, New Jersey) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder. Jackson is refered to as the Worlds Strongest Bodybuilder.
Jackson first competed in an NPC (National Physique Committee) in 2001, where he...
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| x Troy Alves |
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Troy Alves (born September 26, 1966) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.
Initially a high school and later a college baseball star, Troy always had a love for weight training that dated back to his sophomore year of high school. While on a full...
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