The most underrated / rarely mentioned pros

[BLKGUY2006]

heavily considered mentioning him here as well, just didn't want to make a 20-guy list, now that I think about it though, I dont know why that would have been a bad thing.

I mean

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O7 was completely robbed at the Olympia. One of the most perfect combinations of size and symmetry.

 

[BLKGUY2006]

I don't know you probably can...I know someone did for sure. Kinda different, though I imagine putting together a posing routine is pretty difficult. Anyway I searched YouTube and this came up. Dude looks great! I didn't feel like watching a bunch of videos so this was it. Not the video but a video

Ronny just didn’t have the name recognition and I don’t think he spoke . I think today he would’ve been more competitive due to social media, dude had a beautiful very muscular physique.

 

[BLKGUY2006]

Dexter Jackson, nobody´s favourite and seldom included in any "best" list, yet the man had the most impressive career. He competed 28 years from 1992 to 2020 with a record 29 wins, a bit of Wikipedia:

• Jackson has made a record-setting 21 Mr. Olympia appearances.
• Jackson is the only bodybuilder to win the overall title in both the Mr. Olympia and Masters Olympia bodybuilding competitions.
• Jackson has won the original Arnold Classic five times (2005, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2015), more than any other bodybuilder.
• Jackson is one of only four bodybuilders to have won both the Mr. Olympia and Arnold Classic titles. The other 3 are Ronnie Coleman, Jay Cutler & Brandon Curry.
• Jackson is the fifth oldest bodybuilder (second oldest male bodybuilder) ever to win an open IFBB pro show at the age of 49 years 8 months and 9 days after Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia at the age of 49 years 10 months and 13 days, Lisa Aukland at the age of 49 years and 364 days, and 50 years and 361 days, Betty Pariso at the age of 53, and Albert Beckles at the age of between 52 and 61.

Those stats are insane. 5 Arnolds!!!!

 

[Eguz22]

Didn't Rockel like pose one year to heavy metal music and was headbanging the whole time?

Must be this routine

 

[stackdizzy]

Must be this routine

Man he looks great, but no this wasn't it. Maybe it wasn't him, it was rock music and it looked like someone took a bunch of uppers and turned someone loose on stage.

 

[IntenseVolume]

Pete Grymkowski. Just a freak of a golden age bodybuilder.

 

[stackdizzy]

Was a big fan of Hamdullah Aykutlu growing up. 200lb but competed with the big boys

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Dude that back is crazy!

 

[Ashop]

Great thread,,,Always enjoy reminiscing. A lot of great names mentioned here!

 

[danieltx]

Pete Grymkowski. Just a freak of a golden age bodybuilder.

And one of the first guys to be open about using high dosages.

 

[Drax]

And one of the first guys to be open about using high dosages.

Whole bottles of Anavar per day.

 

[Drax]

The great, and overlooked in the ifbb, Charles Clairmont:

 

[alfresco]

And one of the first guys to be open about using high dosages.

Yes, and all the while proving that more is not always better.

 

[IntenseVolume]

Yes, and all the while proving that more is not always better.

Not necessarily. We have no idea how he would’ve looked taking less. He was a lot bigger than a lot of the other guys of that era

 

[alfresco]

Not necessarily. We have no idea how he would’ve looked taking less. He was a lot bigger than a lot of the other guys of that era

Yes we do, the same

 

[Isovet]

Chris Cormier... if he could have just kept his head right could have been unstoppable..

melvin anthony was great, mike matarazzo, dennis james was a monster..... so many great guys from the 90's and 2000's.....

 

[Isovet]

Curious to hear your guy's thoughts on this. Your most underrated or not mentioned enough as a great pros. We all know the "uncrowned Olympia" guys that get mentioned often, and rightfully so, the Kevin Levrone, and Shawn Ray types. But what about other guys with incredible physiques that were just forgotten by time or overshadowed by a dominant bodybuilder of that time/era.

Mine are in order:

Charlie Clarimonte: My all-time favorite bodybuilder. never gets mentioned ever, Most aesthetic guy I have ever seen

Mike Francois: My second favorite bodybuilder of all time and very close to Charlie. Perhaps because I have met him and trained with him a few dozen times, but he was him back in the day. A career cut short by illness, but a tremendous and interesting person. Love you Mike.

Lionel Beyeke: I guess he never truly realized his true potential, but godamn if this guy didn't have the gifts

Günter Schlierkamp. An absolute monster, tall, enormous, yet still aesthetic. Everyone remembers him, but not sure if everyone remembers how good he actually was.

Aaron Baker: I mean just an aesthetic yet huge beast, another lost name

Theiry Pastel: dude defined aesthetic, his name literally does not exist in bodybuilding lore

aaron baker was great but his problem is he went to vince mcmahons WBF in 1990 and that pissed off the IFBB.... but he was such a great physique.

 

[WeakFNG]

From a previous era, I though Sergie Nubret looked incredible. One of my favorite looks.

More modern times, I feel like Cedric McMillan (RIP) and Jose Raymond were both under appreciated.

If I could snap my fingers and have any physique, Cedric at the 2017 Arnold. No doubt.

Jose had a tone of muscle on his frame and was always sliced.

 

[Biggerp73]

Ronny Rockel

 

[Biggerp73]

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[AllOkJumpmaster]

The great, and overlooked in the ifbb, Charles Clairmont:

my favorite physique of all time right here