Big Muscles Forever

According to the article Dick Tyler came out of retirement to write on the Mr. International Contest. Dick had taken a few years of for his medical studies.

The article starts with a half page photo of some bodybuilding stars. I recognize Bill Pettis, Dan Howard, Johnny Isaacs, Ken Waller and one of the Smith’s. Sorry Smith the article is 34 years old and I can’t recall your first name. Serge Nubret and Joe Weider were in a smaller photo below.

Bill Pearl and George Eiferman were judges. The event opened with the Mr. Western America contest. Ed Guiliani won the overall and most muscular titles.

The Mr. International contest had a lot of competitors that looked 4 to 6 weeks away from being in top shape. Ed Corney was the winner of the short class albeit in smooth condition. Bill Grant and Bob Birdsong competed in the medium class with the nod going to Bob Birdsong. The tall class went to a smooth looking Lou Ferrigno. As often happens Ferrigno and Birdsong were tied and Lou wound up with the title. The big man wins again.

Spotted in the audience were Zabo Kosewski, Chet Yorton and Earl Maynard along with Dave Draper.

Frank Zane, Franco Columbu, Serge Nubret and Ken Waller guest posed. Franco Columbu challenged Sergio Olivo to a power-lifting contest but Sergio did not show. Dave Dupree accepted the challenge but franco ended up dead-lifting 675 pounds for three reps. A mention was made by Dick of underrated bodybuilder AJohnny Maldonado.

That’s it folks. Go to ebay and by this issue if you can find and afford it.

This was an article written by Arnold about a bodybuilder who was built along the lines of Bruce Lee but with larger more chiseled muscles. Pierre was born in 1934 and this article appeared in the 1975 issue of Muscle Builder/Power putting Pierre in his 40’s. Pierre was a small superman along the lines of Franco Columbu, even lighter at 150 pounds.

The article explains how Pierre at a bodyweight of 165 pounds  did a 520 pound squat and a bench press at close to 400. Squating three times your bodyweight isn’t too bad although I think Japanese power-lifting legend Inaba did four times his weight. Pierre also did a standing press of 250 pounds while weighing 150 pounds. The photo in the article shows Pierre with a 17 inch arm at a body weight of 140 pounds. In 1969 Pierre won the IFBB title in Belgium for his height class. He was edged out for the main title by the great Frank Zane.

Pierre Came to California in 1973 to train with Arnold and the Gold’s gang. He was solid muscle, Arnold and Ken Waller kept their shirts on around this guy. Pierre normally trained for forty sets so when Arnold wanted to stop at 20 to 25 sets Arnold could see why Pierre was so cut and defined.

Also mentioned in the article was the fact that Pierre was an engineer and owned a gym. He was a tireless worker for the IFBB and was an overall very nice guy who Arnold was impressed with.