Did Jay Cutler deserve to win Mr. Olympia?

[c3bodybuilding]

Find another sport where the athlete(s) look anything like him....

Admittedly, I can't tell the difference between anyone in the top 10, but I know that when I put on an NFL, NBA, or MBL game, nobody looks like Mr.O. Then again, since they earn about the same in a day as Mr.O earns in a year, I don't think they mind not looking like him.

So sad yet so true! Bodybuilders gets paid nothing compared to other pro athletes. The money is there, it's just all in the suppelment makers pockets, lol. All jokes aside though, the above is one of the most true posts I've read in a good long while.

 

[NickyE3]

i would like to see the actual judging criteria for the O

 

[Anthony Roberts]

So sad yet so true! Bodybuilders gets paid nothing compared to other pro athletes. The money is there, it's just all in the suppelment makers pockets, lol. All jokes aside though, the above is one of the most true posts I've read in a good long while.

Because bodybuilding isn't "fun" to watch. It's absurd. The actual competition doesn't generate much money, so there's not much to give to the contestants.

The major money is likely from related advertising, but to be totally honest, the average supplement buyer doesn't want to look like Mr.O, so having Mr.O as your product rep is of limited use, from a marketing point of view, in the big leagues. The big supps are not the ones in GNC for Bodybuilders, they're the ones in Walmart for fat people.

The sport generates no money, and the athletes make none. It's pretty much standard operating procedure. The market, for the most part, in terms of writing for a bodybuilding magazine...is writing for the mainstream ones. Look at the titles which came out last year. Every major BB'ing magazine's publisher ALSO came out with a goof-ball main stream mens fitness magazine in the last 24 months; that's because Men's health kills MD, Ironman, Musclemag, etc...in sales and advertising revenue.

The Market isn't Mr.O, if you want to make money in supps, magazines, books, etc...it's in the mass appeal...and 300lbs, at 2% bodyfat, with no athletic ability...isn't what the general public is into.

Why do they get paid less in the WNBA than the NBA? Because Lay-ups suck when someone else can slam dunk. Why does the IFBB make less money than every other sport? Because flexing sucks when someone else can hit a baseball 500 feet.

 

[Svengali]

But, I bought your e-book.. and the Phil Hernon endorsement and pic did not hurt .

 

[Anthony Roberts]

But, I bought your e-book.. and the Phil Hernon endorsement and pic did not hurt .

Most people who buy stuff I write are likely "recreational bodybuilders"...i.e. people who use gear to look better (80% of all steroid users don't compete in anything at all). So yes, a pic of a bodybuilder helps with things like that.

 

[AAP]

It isn't a question of whether Jay deserved to win, but rather whether Ronnie deserved to lose. And on that day, he did. Ronnie wasn't his best. He was injured and hampered.

However to be fair, Jay has something funky going on with that leg and it is starting to look a bit withered.

Jay won't be O for long. He is just too bland. No personality at all. Ronnie will come back and lay waste to the field again. The 2001 ASC version of Ronnie is the most perfect physique to ever grace a stage.

Though personally, I would like to see Freeman take top spot. Even though we hang out a good bit, I am not saying that because I am biased. I just simply like his physique.

 

[Mac173]

It isn't a question of whether Jay deserved to win, but rather whether Ronnie deserved to lose. And on that day, he did. Ronnie wasn't his best. He was injured and hampered.

However to be fair, Jay has something funky going on with that leg and it is starting to look a bit withered.

Jay won't be O for long. He is just too bland. No personality at all. Ronnie will come back and lay waste to the field again. The 2001 ASC version of Ronnie is the most perfect physique to ever grace a stage.

Though personally, I would like to see Freeman take top spot. Even though we hang out a good bit, I am not saying that because I am biased. I just simply like his physique.

Just had to throw that in there, didn't ya?

 

[monti3333]

if you look in pics you can see one of ronnies traps are smaller and same with lat i think thats what made jay take it

 

[AAP]

Just had to throw that in there, didn't ya?

Actually, yeah. Because otherwise people would think I was just saying that to give props to my boy.

 

[Nelson Montana]

I've seen three bodybuilding competitions in the last 25 years.

The first being when Arnold lost to Sergio Oliva at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1969. (I was just a wee tyke).

The next was when I entered the 1999 NPC.

The last was the 2004 Night of Champions where I had an invitation from some industry folk.

I just don't get it. The judging is subjective as it is in any beauty pagent. The 2004 show was more poorly run than the 1969 show. It's really kinda silly and frankly, quite boring after about 15 minutes.

There's no logic behind voting for aesthetics because then what you have is essentially a male modeling revue. Guys in the audience would be bigger than the contestants.

Competitive bodybuilding has no superstar -- no one with charisma. No spokesman. Then again, when Arnold did it, he was enlightening the public about the benifits of exercise. What are the guys today going to do? Advocate more exposure for the use of horse hormones?

Pros have no right to bitch about lack of money. How can you expect to make money from 2 performances a year? And ones which almost no one gives a fuck about. The supp companies barely make their money back. It's more for the advertising at the symposiums.

Competitions are just an outdated spectacle with no novelty left to it -- like jugglers, ventrilaquists and parades. It just doesn't cut it anymore.

But as they say, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.