STEVE BLECHMAN RxMuscle Q&A

[Musclepapa John]

The Blechman Grinch is a bitter, grouchy, cave-dwelling creature with biceps “two sizes too small" who lives on snowy Mount Publisherpit, a steep high mountain just north of IFBB-Proville, home of his merry and warm-hearted Sponsored-IFBB-Pros. His only companion is his unloved, but loyal dog, Adina. From his perch high atop, the Blechman Grinch can hear the noisy Christmas festivities that take place in IFBB-Proville. Annoyed, he decides to stop Christmas from coming by taking away his IFBB Pros sponsorships. He crudely disguises himself as Santa Claus, and forces poor Adina, disguised as a reindeer (by tying an antler from a deer plaque on the wall to her head), to drag a sleigh to IFBB-Proville, where he slides down the chimney and steals all of his sponsored IFBB Pros Christmas sponsorship checks. (He is briefly interrupted in his burglary by Palumbo & Aceto, a pair of very interesting guys and bodybuilding experts, but Blechman Grinch concocts a crafty lie to effect his escape from being interviewed) The Grinch then takes his sleigh to the top of Mount Publisherpit, and prepares to dump all of the sponsorship money into contest coverage. As dawn breaks, he expects to hear the formerly Sponsored-IFBB-Pros bitter and sorrowful cries, but is confused to hear them singing a joyous Christmas song instead. He puzzles for a moment until it dawns upon him that perhaps Christmas is more than sponsorships: "Maybe Christmas, he thought, means a little bit more." The Grinch's shrunken biceps suddenly grow three sizes larger to almost the size that Per Bernal used to photoshop them to. The reformed Grinch returns all of the IFBB-Pros sponsorships and is after promising not to let his dog chew on their legs about what they do with their social media etc is warmly invited to the IFBB Pros feast, where he has the joy along with his pet Adina of dining on Species Nutrition supplements that don't upset their stomachs like the stuff from the MD Supplement store. Moral to the story is the IFBB Pros are going to have a good Christmas regardless of whether they are sponsored or not, but with sponsorship comes a place at the table.

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[Anders JP Eskilsson]

Slow down on the sarcasm people - it's christmas in a few days.

[Musclepapa John]

[Musclepapa John]

Mr Blechman,
Was Cedric signed before the Brazil show in 2013 to a one or two month contract or was he let go due to not making the check-in at the Brazil-Pro? I've heard it a few ways with the editor stating he wanted out of the contract and you were being nice.

[Musclepapa John]

Mr Blechman,
Why was Jose Raymond let go to make room for someone that's considered better somehow; more popular on social media or is it just a belief that the 212 division aside from Flex Lewis isn't a big enough draw to warrant sponsorship? If the latter then might you have Bob Chic address this issue as he notes it being his idea and is employed by you. Might either you or him address how if probably the second most popular and successful athlete in the division can't get sponsorship with MD who might serve the magazine better from that division if any?

[lil mama]

Ohhh pops when will you just let it go? Set yourself free from the drama and just enjoy the holidays

[Musclepapa John]

Ohhh pops when will you just let it go? Set yourself free from the drama and just enjoy the holidays

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[lil mama]

Ok, well then all I have to say is may the grinch who stole your Christmas have pity on you and return your once golden heart back to you ��

[Musclepapa John]

Ok, well then all I have to say is may the grinch who stole your Christmas have pity on you and return your once golden heart back to you 

Its humor not rainbows and butterflies like you get at MD sister.
I'm fine. Daughter is driving in tonight from Kentucky after finishing up her double bachelors degree with honors in psychology & women's lib from University of Louisville. So its all good in the kingdom.

[huge285]

I almost choked of laughter..........I needed CPR ......after seeing these Muscle Papa photos..........

[Musclepapa John]

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[Musclepapa John]

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[JohnnyStyles]

This is awesome....Thanks Stefan for being here.

[Musclepapa John]

Mr Blechman,
Your editor and play by play guy David Baye took lots of annoying paparazzi photos (annoying to the subject) at North Americans and nationals of The Rock at North Americans and Nationals, but didn't speak seriously with him about any business with your mags. Do you need his number?

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[Musclepapa John]

Mr Blechman,
How did you manage to keep press access when Peter McGough had this to say about the Brazil Pro in his report STEVE KUCLO WINS BRAZIL - BUT CONTROVERSY RAGES when in fact the only controversy was started by Team MD at the MD forum,

McGough wrote this in his report, "Judging a pro bodybuilding contest is not that hard. It’s a combination of who has the least last flaws, while assessing condition and proportions. Throw in the Wow! factor and we have a winner. At the Arnold Classic Brazil staged in Rio de Janeiro on April 26 the consensus of observers and reporters there (including our own Shawn Ray and Adina Zanolli) was thatLionel Beyeke was a clear winner. That’s the way these peepers saw it following the contest via photos beamed from Rio. The panel saw it differently by placing Steve Kuclo first. In fact looking at the formation of the call outs they had the Dallas firefighter first from the get-go placing him in the center of each comparison he was involved in. More on Steve in a minute. Now contention is the meat of bodybuilding contest debate. So Steve was first , but how the hell was Lionel Beyeke – under the auspices of Dennis James coming in conditioned for perhaps the first time in his career – fourth? Repeat, how the hell was Lionel Beyeke fourth? He brought the Wow! factor was ripped and while admittedly his hams and calves were not up to par with the rest of his physique to most observers he led the pack in Brazil
You know if you have to explain why one guy won and another didn’t and get down into the "He had one more striation in his side delt” detail then it’s like having to explain a joke and the joke ends up not being funny. An what happened in Brazil, wasn’t funny, and there’s no need to burn up the words explaining what went down. Some things just smack you in the face like a Mike Tyson left hook of yesteryear."


Note: He used a photo by me. Normally when someone is going to use my photos to complain about judging I insist they not, but in this case I was there shooting coverage for you, but not long after that as I let McGough no of my disagreement with his positions and fell out of favor with Team MD as a result.

So again, Mr Blechman how can Team MD get away with things such as questioning judging decisions that RxMuscle for instance cannot?