Your top 5 favorite pro bodybuilders

[Curt James]

We are talking favorites here not who we think is best right?

Best would have to be the multiple Olympia winners.

Here's my favorite list

1 Robbie Robinson
2 Tom Paltz
3 Rich Gaspari
4 Jay Cutler
5 Mike Mentzer



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Only if you agree with the judges.

[Curt James]

Cedric and Juan are in my current top 5.

Arnold, Sergio, Serge Nubret, Ed Corney, and Rory Leidelmeyer for my old school top 5, but how can anyone leave Lee Haney, Mohamed Makkawy, Danny Padilla, and guys like Matt Mendenhall, Gunnar Røsbø, Ron Teufel, et al. off their list?

Top five? It's an impossible task.

[Curt James]

Separate top 5 for women...

Claudia Montemaggi!





Sharon Arrildt or Marvel is on that list, absolutely.

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Oh, and Anja Langer!



Juliana is in my current women's top 5. <3

[Sandpig]

Only if you agree with the judges.

Regardless of whether you think they should've won all their contests, you got to admit they were the best during their reign.

Arnold
Lee
Dorian
Ronnie
Jay
Phil

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[Curt James]

Regardless of whether you think they should've won all their contests, you got to admit they were the best during their reign.

Arnold
Lee
Dorian
Ronnie
Jay
Phil

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I'm a diehard Arnold fan, but there are many who would contest the idea that he was better than Sergio during his reign. Weider never allowed him to compete head to head with Bill Pearl. Sergio was avoided and then banned to spend his peak competitive years in organizations like NABBA, WABBA, and the WBBG.

Dorian, at least a few might argue that competitors like Levrone, Shawn Ray, and even Nasser should have been awarded the Sandow.

Jay in 2007? I wonder what he thinks of that win.



Phil Heath? Kai Greene might have a Sandow today if Lee Thompson had left the IFBB sooner.

All of those athletes are legends, but I'd argue only Lee Haney and Ronnie Coleman have truly dominated. The others are branded by at least a tiny asterisk.

[Sandpig]

I'm a diehard Arnold fan, but there are many who would contest the idea that he was better than Sergio during his reign. Weider never allowed him to compete head to head with Bill Pearl. Sergio was avoided and then banned to spend his peak competitive years in organizations like NABBA, WABBA, and the WBBG.

Dorian, at least a few might argue that competitors like Levrone, Shawn Ray, and even Nasser should have been awarded the Sandow.

Jay in 2007? I wonder what he thinks of that win.



Phil Heath? Kai Greene might have a Sandow today if Lee Thompson had left the IFBB sooner.

All of those athletes are legends, but I'd argue only Lee Haney and Ronnie Coleman have truly dominated. The others are branded by at least a tiny asterisk.

I agree they didn't deserve every one of their wins

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[Curt James]

I agree they didn't deserve every one of their wins

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I'll surely go to hell for questioning -- even obliquely -- the certainty of ALL of Arnold's wins. :-(

Hope you're doing well, good sir.

And, more importantly if you ever get within reach of my neck, for questioning the 2007 O?

=8^O

[nsp]

I've always been a fan of the more comic book, super hero, cartoonish look as that's what attracted me to the sport as a kid. Rather than traditional bodybuilding standards.

Bertil Fox
Vic Richards
Lee Priest
Kai Greene
Lenda Murray

[cook]

My senior year in high school I was wandering around trying to find a good outlet for my energy.I had played football but we didn't have a weightlifting program.The season had been over a few months and I was in a bookstore looking around when I saw Ed Corney on the cover of Pumping Iron.Standing there with his arms raised and ripped abs and quads.I bought it and was hooked.Those great black and white pics I still remember to this day so my favorites are
Ed Corney
Arnold
Denny Gable he wasn't a big name but I remember he looked awesome
Serge Nubret
Big Louie

[Curt James]

My senior year in high school I was wandering around trying to find a good outlet for my energy.I had played football but we didn't have a weightlifting program.The season had been over a few months and I was in a bookstore looking around when I saw Ed Corney on the cover of Pumping Iron.Standing there with his arms raised and ripped abs and quads.I bought it and was hooked.Those great black and white pics I still remember to this day so my favorites are
Ed Corney
Arnold
Denny Gable he wasn't a big name but I remember he looked awesome
Serge Nubret
Big Louie

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[blacktaboo]

in no particular order

Jay Cutler
Ronnie Coleman
Jose Raymond
Evan Centapani
victor Martinez

[hifrommike65]

I want to post of list of pro BBs I have seen compete I liked the most onstage. These contests were in 2000, 2002 & 2003, all promoted by Jan Tana. I couldn't get it down to five. Here are six.

Don Youngblood
Betty Pariso
Tazzie Colomb
Vince Taylor
Robby Robinson
Claude Groulx

[Curt James]

Awesome thread is awesome.

[hifrommike65]

Glad to see these being mentioned:

Platz
Murray
Gable (miss him)

[hifrommike65]

Another fave of mine from days of yore: Jusup Wilkosz.