Thank you for this Vavabody, really enjoyed watching it. I think your top 10 are really accurate, however, my personal preferences here would have put Flex and Leverone in there somewhere. I know Dorian Yates quite well and he was an incredible body builder when you look at size, but he didn't have the symmetry of The Zane or Arnold. Take care. Dr George.
Fun to watch. I hope you make another list based on physical appearance. There were some guys in parts 1-2 that looked like they did only about 20% of the work of everyone else!
thats a pretty good top ten. i think that theres alot of bodybuilders who would make the top 10 of any list thats why theres alot of dispute over it, like any of the top 20 could have made the 10, but i think the list was very good, and pretty well done. its as close and as accurate as you can get without personal preference, sure you can switch up a spots but its really splitting hairs. nice job, well done.
aaa yeah .....damn dude when number 1 appeared that made me smile . he really is still number one. i got introduced to bodybuilding in the 90s cuz of his ifluence in media etc.
fckin beautiful job....well done ...I been around watching these guys for yrs and also trined wit mike quinn iffb....nevertheless loved your picks... question is it difficult to make a clip as such..well done again hatz off 2 ya..
@ vavadboyd i 100% agree with ur list brother...and with wat u have said. i we knew more than u, u would definitely b ready our list of top bodybuilders. Excellent job.
There's one of the greatest missing: Steve Reeves. Don't know if you did this list in order but in terms of domination of titles it's surely accurate but in my opinion FranK Zane should definitaly be in the first 5. Anyway, GREAT VIDEO. :)
Pretty good list. I would have put Flex a little higher and Phil Heath a little lower. Also would have put Jay Cutler at 5 or 6 just because he took down Ronnie at the Olympia and it was very close a couple other times.
My list based on who became most famous, and who did the best either in contests or who created careers in something else because of bodybuilding. These arent necessarily my fav bodybuilders, but they were certainly some of the most successful. My favourite bodybuilder is kevin levrone for how he's given back to the sport, but hes not in my top 10. my top 10. 1. arnold 2. ronnie 3. haney 4. dorian 5. sergio 6. zane 7. larry scott 8. jay cutler 9. ferrigno 10. franco columbu
hy, i'am a fan os bodybuilding and i am a bobybuilder too.look, in punping iron Scawartzy says: the mr.O criteries was: proportiony, simmetri, muscle groups definiton and muscullar mass;) GOD JOB, i subsribe you;)
Your forgetting the criteria he used. It wasn't just amount of wins, it was dominance of the sport and also the era in which they competed. Ronnie coleman was one of several mass monsters in his time. Arnold... no one could even compare to arnold in his time. He was on an entirely new level than the rest of the competition. Plus, he brought more attention to bodybuilding then any other bodybuilder in history.
this is a good work brother. Collection of 40 among the world's several best body builders is a tough job. as u said you will weclcome the suggestion. i think that sergio oliva must be at number 2 instead of ronnie. although ronnie is a legend no doubt about it. why arnold deserves to be number its not because of his body size its because of posing and classification of each muscle. any way that was tremendous job what u did.
i liked bodybuilding better when it was back when flex wheeler, kevin levrone and shawn ray were competing they had more of the proportion on them rather than the people competing now where all they cared for was just mass
My top 5 list of body builders. 1. Arnold Schwarzenegger 2. Arnold Schwarzenegger 3. Arnold Schwarzenegger 4. Arnold Schwarzenegger 5. Arnold Schwarzenegger
@popanth4r Yes but arnold came back after 5 years out and with only 8 weeks prep he was invited to mr olympia and won in 80 just proves how great he is.
@lakeerie90s, I agree, both Ray & Levrone were great champions, but like Mohamed Makkawy, Lee Labrada, Rich Gaspari, etc... they never won the Olympia, but came in second multiple times. Franco and Zane won the Olympia multiple times from another era, and like Arnold are cornerstones and legends that put bodybuilding on the map. Good aruguement, though.
Curious list, I'm not certain that the criteria you claimed at the outset was followed. For example placing Franco and Larry Scott ahead of Zane is, I think, objectively questionable. That aside, as you pointed out such 'greatest lists' tend to be subjective, irrespective of 'objective' criteria. So in the end, what good are greatest lists?
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Cutler and ferrigno should have been higher in my opinion. Greatness depends on a lot more than the wins they had. It's about the intensity and will power that they showed. Cutler is actually up for winning 2011!!! Ferrigno would be about...4 in my opinion.
I like your list. Only changes I would do is remove Lou Ferrigno, he should not be on the top ten. Larry Scott and the Myth were great but the level of competetion wasn't as good during their reign, no fault to them. I would rank Frank Zane ahead of them because of level of competition during his run. I would also add Chris Dickerson to the top ten. Outside of that, the list is legit. Arnold is the Babe Ruth of bodybuilding, he will always be king.
I suppose , with arnie having a 5 year gap 75- 80 that is pretty remarkable , even if coleman ran circles around him. Totally in a different class! Coleman no.1 no matter how i look at it!
Sergio Olivia is my inspiration. I want the breadth of his physique. Could have he been more cut? Sure, but given the era he was in he was unnatural. I don't want to get huge but I do want that physique as it most closely matches my form.
I just don't understand how you think someone like Ferrigno is better than Cutler or Heath even when Ferrigno never even won an Olympia, doesn't matter the era or not, Arnold dominated his era, Cutler has 4 Olympia's and Phil has 2 already
I'd say coleman and haney are 1 and 2 respectively. They did far more for the sport than arnold did and I'd put zane ahead of franco. Also you should put sandow in there, the mr. O title is named after him for a reason..
Excellent list and, Arnold should have been first. Nobody has had the impact on the sport of Bodybuilding like him and, that includes Ron coleman. Only the governor could win 6 Olympia's in a row, take a 5 year layoff, comeback and, win a 7th. Ronnie was defeated by Jay and, he should have lost to Jay in 2001. Excellent list and excellent order!!!!!!
with the criteria used i think arnold is the right choice. he moved the sport to what it is today. the arnold classic a top bodybuilding comp. he was chosen by pres. bush to promote fitness awareness. he has done more for the sport than the others. the others are very good but none has used their celebrity in the way arnold has to promote the sport to what it is today. the others have booths at the arnold classic. arnold does not have a booth at others' events.
Ronnie should've been number one, especially by your criteria. I also don't understand why Flex Wheeler is so far back or why Victor Martinez is so high above Kai Greene and Branch Warren.
@Sag1e Did you read the criteria ? it's not about mass its about what people did for the sport. And in the 1980s when pumping iron was made. arnold made bodybuilding one of the most popular sports. Combine that with 7 mr olympia wins. thats why he's number one
arnold was the best bodybuilder politically but not in statistics and regulations of bodybuilding that's why judges should do a better job in comparing the actual factors of a bb physique not their personality
