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00:00heart of a lion and you know i doubt if anybody trained harder than this guy

00:04when you do it set you do one for mama the baby everybody this guy the first class and a monster

00:13at 260 pounds of mr dorian yeah i remember flex wheeler once said i never saw dorian as beatable

00:21dorian walked on the stage we never saw him okay now what is this it's not possible to be

00:26training harder or more consistent or more dedicated money because i couldn't give a

00:31single ounce more i tried to do that snow up past my knees to the gym and i thought to myself you

00:37know what those fuckers in california right now they're driving their porsche and ferrari out

00:42in the sun going to the beach i'm here trudging through the snow and they're gonna pay for it

00:48many people play the game some go on to win it but very few completely change it the six-time

00:58mr olympia dorian yates unleashed a ruthless domination from 1992 to 1997 and ushered in

01:07what we know now is the mass monster era that still influences the sport to this very day

01:12the moment he stepped on to the 1992 olympia stage bodybuilding was transformed once and for all

01:19nicknamed the shadow dorian maintained a low profile in england each year before emerging on stage in the

01:26united states looking bigger and leaner than ever the combination of size and conditioning that were

01:32never seen before he left competitors fighting for second place for six years but his domination

01:39wasn't without controversy it seemed like no one could take him down even when competing with a

01:44torn bicep and a severed tricep going from a small gang in the streets of england being jailed and almost

01:51becoming homeless to becoming the man who single-handedly changed the trajectory of bodybuilding

01:56forever this is the story of the original mass monster i've got a question which not been answered

02:05as far as i know uh which is about your name and so your name is dorian andrew mincas yes what was

02:13your relationship like with your mom and what was your relationship like with your dad well i was

02:18probably closer to my mom because my mom was there on a daily basis my dad was in and out he wasn't

02:24really at home that much but after my father passed away i'm sure that was a driving factor to succeed

02:29so i lost my father when i was quite young then we moved to birmingham just with my mom and she

02:34married a new guy and he also died quite quickly so it was pretty tragic time i'm a boy who's just

02:40hit puberty i'm 13 and my male role model now is gone so i didn't realize at the time but looking back

02:47now i was upset i was angry and nobody was taking care of me and that's at least the way i felt that's

02:52when i learned to really contain and hide my emotions because i remember i didn't want to go

02:58to my father's funeral i don't want anyone to see me crying so i told my mom i don't want to come

03:03to the funeral and people used to ask when i won the mr olympia why are you not jumping up and down

03:08and screaming and crying and like wow so happy this lifetime goal you've achieved it i think inside i

03:14was doing that but outside i was not doing that because i learned to hide this emotions if you look

03:20very carefully i think when i won the first one i'm actually biting my lip which is kind of to suppress

03:27those emotions which are coming out which i learned this so it's like default mode to go into

03:32i think my dad dying young my mom not really being able to cope with me or with my anger and confusion

03:39and everything like that that was definitely a driving force and i had to grow up and look after

03:44myself pretty quick i was 16 and i was out on the street living at you know friends houses or

03:50something and get my own little place and i gotta look after myself there's nobody else that i can

03:55fall back on being a teenager with my mates we got into a bit of trouble and at 18 years old i was sent

04:01to a detention center for a few months and i'd already done a little bit weights before when i was

04:05at school and i'd done karate and i'd done all the push-ups and squats in my room i had a ball worker

04:11and all that so i was always already interested in that and physical and when i was in this detention

04:15center part of the process is hard physical exercise which a lot of the kids didn't like

04:19but i loved it you know and it was it was something for me to have there being in this place to kind

04:24of escape for a while there were 300 guys in there and i quickly real i got the best physique in here

04:29like naturally and i'm pretty much the strongest guy in here so this is something i can do i just knew

04:35if i put my energy into something positive i would get something positive back maybe i'll win

04:39some contest oh maybe i can open my own gym one day or something that was how it started

04:43there's a couple lads that probably bigger and heavier than me but i was as strong as them and

04:47i already had what you could term as a physique looking body i had good abdominals i had a good

04:52shape so the foundation of a good physique was there and even the prison officers noticed that

04:57you know when you get out of here go and do powerlifting because you could be a good powerlifter

05:00but i already knew that i wasn't interested in powerlifting i was interested in bodybuilding because

05:04i've already seen the magazines from joe weider and i was familiar with some of the bodybuilders so i was

05:08like that's the route i want to go because i lost my dad and i didn't have male role model

05:12the guys in the magazines or at least what was projected in the magazines from the guys

05:17they became almost my surrogate fathers when i came from the detention center and i didn't have

05:22anywhere to stay the city housed me so they gave me a council flat on a very notorious council estate

05:29environment at the time and they offered me this place because not many people accept it and go there

05:34that's where i was living for probably five years when i was started training but fortunately

05:39i was successful very quickly after a year and a half training i went to compete on a novice contest

05:46absolutely like i didn't know at the time i just thought this is where i need to be but now i look

05:51back it's like there's no comparison i won the contest so easily and i don't like judges and

05:55officials there was one guy ron davis who was uh he used to judge at the mr olympia and he was the head

06:00of the federation england he was there and he was darian nice to where are you from i'm like from

06:05birmingham what are you doing in the novice class well i'm a novice it's my first contest so

06:09well you should be in the heavyweight class no no no i'm not i'm not good enough for that yet

06:13he's not good enough he started laughing like he's not good enough kid you're the best heavyweight

06:20we've seen in this country i'm like no about this guy and this guy surely they're better than me

06:24no so we want you to come and compete in the world games like next week on the british team as a

06:29heavyweight and i didn't want to go because i knew i wasn't ready to win that yet well they kind of

06:33persuaded me to go on the team so i went and then i got seventh place there and 13 guys and these

06:39were like the best amateurs in the world and then i won the british championship the following year

06:43i remember winning the british championship in 1986 and there's 2 000 people there screaming and

06:53blowing air horns and cheering and getting my picture taken i'm gonna be in the magazines

06:58but i came home and there's no tv crew waiting here for me there's no fanfare i'm back to my same

07:06block that i was living in i got no carpet on the floor i don't have a proper bed i just got a

07:11mattress i don't have any car because every penny that i earned from my work and it's just going for

07:17food training catching the bus back and forward whatever i don't have any money for a car so here i am

07:24back in my same apartment with my trophy still in the same situation so i said all right i'm british

07:31champion technically i can compete as pro i'm going to night champions my first pro show if i don't get

07:36in the top five i'm finished i'm finished with competitive bodybuilding

07:40when i went to my first pro show which was in night champions in new york came out and did my posing

07:49and uh it was quiet and then slowly the whole audience started going dorian dorian dorian dorian

07:57there must have been like who's this guy who's this guy who's this guy i got second at that contest

08:01to mohammed ben aziza and weeder must have seen something in me that was unique because i got

08:07invited out to venice california to do the shoots for the reader magazines at the gold's gym and it's

08:13every bodybuilder's dream at that point and then vince mcmahon from wwe he started a bodybuilding

08:18federation the world bodybuilding federation

08:21and tom platz who was my hero one of my heroes was like repping you know he was the guy that was

08:35putting this thing together and they contacted me and they offered me something like 170 grand a year

08:40to go and be with that federation that's money at that time i had nothing i had nothing crazy and

08:45then you know mr olympia is everybody's always dream so i have to give up on that dream to go

08:49with the wrestling federation so i made a tough decision and i said i'm going to turn down this

08:54money because i got faith in myself i will get that money and more if i stick to this path and i

08:59win mr olympia i got second and first night of champions and then i came back the following year

09:04and i won that and i didn't prove and then people and myself were thinking i could maybe take this

09:11guy and i had to change my mental approach from wow it's lee hans mr olympia to like no no no hold on

09:18it's two arms two legs lifts weights and one thing i can guarantee he does not train as hard as

09:25fantastic i'm on top of the world now how on top we looking for eight well we have to take it a year

09:36at a time by the 1991 olympia lee haney had racked up seven sandow trophies and it was just assumed

09:44he would easily secure an eighth before retiring

09:47might be my first mr olympia contest and people might think well he's going to be overrode by the

09:56occasion and intimidated there's no way you know i'm prepared psychologically i believe in myself and

10:02you know coming to show everybody what i've done but once the prejudging started 29 year old dorian yates

10:08made it clear that he wouldn't just hand the win over to the veteran

10:12who were surprised this afternoon and feed judging well uh the rumor has it that dorian yates from

10:17england is town to town the only one that can really take it from lee and we'll see if he can

10:22do that so we'll take you inside the dolphin with the 1991 mr olympia championships right after this

10:28dorian was making his mr olympia debut that year and walked on stage with hints of over-the-top size

10:35that would later go on to define the mass monster era and haney quickly found himself with some

10:42real competition breathing down his neck i used to be the last one to take off my uh tracksuit

10:49backstage so i'll be playing little mind games because i know everyone's waiting to see you know

10:54so let them wait so you're not really thinking about what you're going to do on stage your energy

10:59is being taken by me lee honie did it to me i remember he he said in the podcast that he used to

11:05do this he said i did it to dorian but i don't know if it affected him or not but it did it did a

11:10little bit i was here he was over there and just you know i was just having to look up and he just

11:15took his tracksuit off and got his back out you know and his back was super thick i was like oh shit

11:20the englishman came out to the biggest cheer in the contest since his night of champions win

11:26he's packed on another five pounds the 240 pound final product being noticeably improved by more

11:33dealt with in thickness more upper back thickness larger arms and chest with a taper improved by a

11:41more streamlined waist in considerably thicker lats the audience cheered its way through each compulsory

11:47pose and the anticipation for him and haney to mix it man to man grew with each pose they were so far

11:55ahead of anybody else that the judges only kept the two of them on stage for the title fight so lee

12:01haney is mr olympia when i'm when i'm starting out right i saw him guess i was in england it's

12:06inspiration big guy so i'm a fan basically but now i'm gonna go compete against him so i realized i

12:12can't be a fan anymore man i gotta get a little bit ruthless here maybe i can beat this guy maybe i'm

12:18better than him why not sure he doesn't train as hard as you so there's a guy in new york telling me a story

12:23which i found out later is total bullshit she was like you gotta watch out for haney on stage he's

12:27a bully i said what do you mean ah you know he'll try to intimidate you he'll bang into you a little

12:31bit he might tread on your toe or something you know they just want to like bully you and on the

12:36stage man like what he's not doing that to me man i'm getting all psyched up and everything i'm psyched

12:41i'm on the stage and there's a call out it's just me and haney which is unusual two guys right so it's

12:45obvious this is a showdown right for first and second so i'll start to walk out and lee's give me the

12:50you know friendly smile i'll give him a stone face then i walked out and you know you come and you

12:56go in this kind of relaxed semi-relaxed pose so i went into the semi-relaxed pose and on purpose i

13:01properly banged my elbow into him yeah so i banged into him and i did it a couple of times to let

13:05to let him know you know and then in the pose down lee hanging does this pose where he brings out his

13:09arms like this and i was behind and i know he kind of got me out of the corner of his eye and he

13:15clipped me with his with his knuckle i think he was like okay have some back even though dorian

13:19won the muscularity round haney topped him imposing in symmetry and went on to win his

13:25record-breaking eighth mr olympia title

13:37proving his supporters right dorian placed second in a closely fought battle with haney an act that

13:43upon haney's retirement from bodybuilding singled the englishman's arrival as the man to beat in

13:491992 to come out of nowhere as you did and you get second in your first olympia was very unheard of

13:56at that point yeah yeah um you know like people like uh ronnie coleman jay cutler so many other big

14:02body owners took years to climb the ladder whereas you just rocketed top two immediately and then the guy

14:08who you pushed for the title was like right that's enough for that then and next year bodybuilding was

14:15about to witness a transformation no one could have foreseen in 1991 dorian had met the man who

14:24changed his approach to training someone introduced me to mike when i went out to venice mike was one of

14:31my heroes when i started physique i liked his physique was like powerful strong rugged but it was more about

14:37the intellect the most gracious and the greatest of all dorian yates apparently he was motivated to

14:43start training as a result of having seen my photographs having read my articles bought and read

14:48my books he was brighter than the average bodybuilder came to understand the theory of high intensity

14:53training recognized its validity used it and went on to win british championships night of champions i had

14:59the theory of hit training from arthur jones from mike menser so the theory appealed to me because it was

15:05logical and that's the way my brain works it works in logic and mathematics and straight lines in fact

15:11dorian was so analytical that he had all of his workouts written down since 1983 i've got every

15:18single workout that i ever did from 1983 to 1997 written down and there's notes underneath how much

15:25ways did i use what exercise how many reps did i do and then every month i would do it a check i would

15:31set goals for the next month and before the 1992 olympia he began to adopt hit principles and trained

15:38with mike menser at gold's gym a clear fan of hit dorian took mike's advice regarding both training

15:45intensity and the number of sets needed for growth initially this meant one set to absolute failure

15:52which in time he raised to several warm-up sets and then one to two sets to absolute failure which was a

15:58complete change from the stimulate don't annihilate ethos that his olympia predecessor lee haney promoted

16:06dorian's training was so hardcore that some pro bodybuilders like chris cormier could barely get

16:12through a session with him dorian's insane training intensity was showcased in his iconic blood and guts video

16:30released later in 1996. hi i'm dorian yates four times mr olympia and this is blood and guts the video

16:37i'm gonna take you in my gym and show you how i've trained to be the world's number one i hope you're

16:43ready because it's gonna be rough no one had ever put up an authentic bodybuilding workout like that

16:47they're all in little stringers on the beach that's exactly why i did it i had a friend who was a

16:52photographer kevin horton i said kevin let's just hire a video filming camera but i want you to come in

16:59and i'm gonna train as normal i don't need to talk to me i don't want to mess about with lights or

17:04anything i just wanted to capture the workout and the intensity and the weight and the feeling

17:14and nobody cares about shades and angles and lights they want to see

17:22i want people to watch that training video and get pumped up and want to go to the gym now with a

17:27dialed in intense training protocol and with haney out of the picture dorian was ready to start his

17:33olympia domination this year's mr olympia competition will be the hottest competition of

17:41all time and that's saying something because last year we had a magnificent lineup this year it's even

17:47better i feel very pleased with the preparation i've improved um you know a lot from last year on every

17:54aspect it's not only my physique but presentation and everything like that so i'm you know at the

17:59moment i'm feeling really confident and i can't wait to get up there and show everybody what i've

18:03done in the last 12 months dorian stepped on stage in the helsinki ice hall in finland weighing

18:09roughly 260 pounds with an unprecedented combination of massive size and conditioning so impressive

18:15that people could see his muscle fibers a level of leanness now known as grainy when dorian walked

18:21on the stage we never saw that what the hell is this we never saw that kind of mass and kind of

18:27size dorian changed the game he ushered in the mass monsters because i no one ever thought lee haney

18:32was a mass monster he had the nice shape but dorian ushered in something that brought out the bigness

18:38and the size uh and it was a game changer for sure coming hot on their heels for the 1992 title were

18:44lee labrata a former second place in 1990 sean ray who got third and fifth in the previous two years

18:51lou ferrigno who was making a comeback after 17 years at six foot five 290 pounds and the new kid

18:59on the block kevin lavroni who had just won night of champions after the showdown the top three to

19:06stand on the podium were lee labrata in third place who had a respectable overall presence but couldn't match

19:12the top guys dorian's challenger kevin lavroni in second place who despite having good aesthetics well

19:19developed delts biceps and chest was no match for dorian's muscularity especially in the back lower

19:26back and lower body the shadow easily came in at number one to confirm the success he had the year

19:34before and to finally become mr olympia himself this is my dream a dream has come true you know i owe so

19:43much to the sport of bodybuilding and i hope it's mr olympia i can get back to the sport after the crowning

19:49he started training again that very next week for the next mr olympia always keeping one step ahead of

19:56everybody else and what dorian had in store for next year was going to redefine the game once again

20:08if 1992 proved a career turning point for dorian 1993 would be his breakthrough year a period where

20:16so widely would he distance himself from the competition that this year's olympia would be

20:21a battle for second place and his newly unveiled physique would send shock waves throughout the

20:27bodybuilding world i could have come into the contest bigger than i did but i was obsessed about

20:33having the size of a big heavyweight combined with the conditioning of a smaller lighter bodybuilder and

20:39i think that's what i brought 92 when i won the first mr olympia i could see that i was really pretty

20:44much in contest shape about six weeks out from the 92 olympia but i kept dieting down and down now

20:49because i wanted to be super ripped and i was conscious at that point lee haney was not competing

20:53so i would be able to beat the other guys sean ray vince taylor and so on on size even if i lost a bit

20:59of size so i i sacrificed size in 92 to bring in super condition and what i realized looking back is hey

21:05i just sacrificed a lot of muscle coming in so if i don't do that next year i can come in much bigger

21:11the pinnacle or what a lot of people felt like the pinnacle of bodybuilding even was was that 1993 era

21:18where you put out those black and white photographs this was uh kevin orton again can you come down

21:26and take some pictures because i got some from last year that he took in the gym i want to stand in

21:30the same spot in the gym with the same lights and everything so it was just for my reference really

21:35he said mate i've developed them photos i said yeah how do they look i'm gonna bring them down to you

21:40you're not going to believe this he said i'm going to send them to the magazine to flex magazine that

21:44wasn't the original plan it was just just for me that's why i still got my socks on if you look

21:49reader put them in the magazine and by the way reader didn't like the pictures he didn't get it

21:54he's like ah it's not the correct lighting and the shadows i said joe nobody gives a

21:58shit about that watch and they became like most iconic pictures of myself uh peter mcgough was the

22:06editor of flex magazine he was british and all the guys that used to train in venice california they

22:11used to go to the reader offices so peter he said when they come in he said um have you seen the

22:16pictures of dorian no no no no we've gone what did it was it look like i said i'll casually just drop

22:21them on the table and watch the face just drop like demoralized from that point everyone was

22:29looking to get second place and that was first for them so they already mentally were beaten before

22:36the contest not that it mattered because physically they were going to get beaten

22:40in the atlanta civic center in georgia a multitude of athletes were preparing to be the title holder

22:52sean ray lee labrada kevin lavrani and the new challenger flex wheeler who won the iron

22:58man invitational and the arnold classic in his first two pro appearances flex's symmetry and shape

23:05were a contrast to dorian's density and size and their clashing physiques made the 1993 olympia

23:12a must-see by that time people hadn't really accepted dorian's place on the scene yet because

23:18he was still a new guy when he'd first won the title they thought he might just be a one-hit wonder

23:24but 1993 was the year dorian declared that he was here to stay he presented a physique that no one had

23:33ever expected his improved muscle mass combined with the conditioning that he was known for already

23:39in 1992 made him look like a giant from another planet there were quite a few big guys walking

23:46around this year but none of them combined mass and shredding the way dorian did the judges placed dorian

23:53yates flex wheeler and sean ray in the top three and they were compared side by side even though sean

24:00presented a respectable physique the only real contender to dorian was flex flex had great symmetry

24:06and conditioning some judges described his physique as being almost cartoonish because of his incredible

24:13muscle roundness proportion and separation but despite his great aesthetics he was simply no match for

24:20dorian's muscularity which was in a league of its own despite his incredible showing that night

24:32this wasn't to everyone's liking dorian was criticized for his bubble gut and excessive muscularity

24:38with his most famous critic being arnold schwarzenegger during the 1990s arnold criticized bodybuilding

24:45which he believed privileged muscle mass over things like symmetry and appearance for this reason

24:51arnold criticized dorian at several turns for embodying this mass monster look arnold and those

24:58who championed the golden age of bodybuilding called for stricter drug testing protocols which they

25:04believed would curb the excesses deemed to be ruining the sport unless we change the judging procedure and

25:13unless we do something about where they stop just using guys with the thickest neck and the biggest

25:21muscle but not look as pleasing because look at the old days when steve reeves won and you saw him on the

25:29beach you say to yourself i would love to have this guy's body wow look at how beautiful this man looks but

25:38that's not what you can say about those guys the day they win those competitions like for instance so

25:43many of those guys have their stomachs sticking out it used to be that you should have a v-shaped body

25:50fans of the 1990s bodybuilders on the other hand claimed that dorian was pushing the boundaries

25:55of what was possible but regardless of these debates dorian had set the standards of bodybuilding

26:01for years to come and everyone else had to either adapt or perish because dorian's olympia domination

26:08was only getting started

26:14if in 1993 the mass that dorian came in with was a surprise to all by 1994 everyone knew what they had

26:21to fight against and they did all their best to surpass him the 1994 mr olympia was a clash between

26:28monsterism and classicism but it didn't go off as planned after finishing second last year with a

26:35more pleasing but less monstrous physique number one contender flex wheeler had his sights set on an

26:41olympia rematch this year but this hope would be short-lived as he was absent from the contest after

26:47a horrendous car crash where he nearly suffered paralysis defending champ dorian yates also suffered

26:54his first muscle tears in preparation i had a bicep tear in 1994 six weeks before the contest i believe

27:01anyone else would have dropped out and i did think about it for a couple of days like i was totally

27:05devastated i'd won 92 i'd won in 93 and in 93 just raised the bar so high that you know people couldn't

27:13believe it and now bang i've got an injury that this is definitely possibly a career ending injury so i was

27:19just for a day i was devastated and like i'm gonna have to drop out there's no way i can do this and

27:24then the positivity starts to take over and say well how do you know that how do you know you can't do it

27:30until you try and to make matters even worse he had a stomach bug on the day of the contest

27:35and was holding water i felt sick and bloated when i woke up he said just a small stomach bug or even a

27:42cold can make a noticeable difference in a physique that is super lean as the inflammation causes water

27:48retention it was the opening flex wheeler could have seized to snatch the sandow trophy but luckily

27:54for dorian fate had already intervened that's why many thought that sean ray who was at his career

28:01best could have overtaken the champ when he was less than his best no longer am i doing it just for

28:06myself i realize there's a lot of people pulling for me supporting me i'm trying not to let them down

28:10but at the same time keep my head up and remember where i came from and keep my eye on where i'm going

28:14and that is straight to the top of mr limpia on one hand you had the mass thickness and density of

28:19dorian on the other you had the shape symmetry and aesthetics of sean eventually the top three would be

28:26kevin levroni sean ray and dorian yates kevin was a little too murky clearly sweating out excess water

28:34as prejudging progressed his back was also still a weakness and if he was as crisp as he would go on

28:41to be the next year he could have challenged dorian for first place at 29 this year sean was in his

28:48prime and all his prime qualities were on display superb conditioning proportionate development elegant

28:55posing deep quad separation and the contest's best abs which made some contend that he should have been

29:03declared the victor that night in second place competitor number seven sean ray a lot of people

29:11don't really know this but um this year i had a lot of problems with injuries and so on and there's a

29:17couple of times i really thought it wasn't going to be possible to me for me to be here and be competing

29:23in the mr olympia um but i persevered i pushed through and it makes this victory all the more sweeter

29:30and um i'll be back next year i'll definitely be back next year and better than ever dorian won his

29:36third title that night but not without controversy a lot of people point to 1994 as the year bodybuilding

29:43took a turn for the worse when a belly bloated disproportionate mass monster defeated a smaller

29:49but tight-waisted superbly proportioned classicist i forget the fact that i thought i should have beat

29:55dorian ace i think that dorian in 94 was just a little too sloppy listen he was big there's no

30:00question you can't take that away the color was running all off of his body the bicep tear was

30:05very noticeable but when he put his hands down the obliques were hanging over the shorts so for that

30:10matter you got to go with the one with the fewest flaws forget it that i'm not trying to say i'm

30:13perfect but i had fewer flaws on the day and this is where the sport of bodybuilding could have turned

30:17the corner uh and gone a totally different direction which would have favored me but i pretty much knew

30:24by the time i got the finals that the people that were judging that show were not going to change

30:29their opinion but they could have done the right thing and i thought they didn't that year but that

30:32wouldn't stop dorian from continuing his reign and coming in better shape than ever before the next year

30:45since the 1960s the west coast specifically california has been a hotbed of bodybuilding activity

30:52for economically minded bodybuilders it was also the headquarters of joe and ben weeder the men

30:57responsible for creating the mr olympia and if joe weeder liked you it meant magazine covers supplement

31:04deals and paid appearances so california offered elite training partners the chance to train at the

31:10sports mecca and money despite working for weeder dorian was against the idea of staying in america that's kind

31:17of why one of the reasons that i stayed where i was in england although there was you know some

31:22pressure for me to move to california i was working for the leader company they would like me to be

31:26out there so they have more access to me and you know do more photos and then you know like you say

31:31you're in l.a full of hot chicks full of parties nice weather you've got sean ray and these guys

31:37always out in california driving a corvette by the beach and it's nice yeah it's great and but

31:44we're not from there we're not doing that i was scared to relax man because if i relaxed a little

31:48bit and enjoyed it maybe i'd just lose it so i want to stay isolated stay in uk stay in birmingham

31:55like where my gym was yeah and just keep my head down that whole routine which is like a training camp

32:00which people might do for two or three months before a contest i took that approach year-round

32:05nobody heard anything about you you were quiet on your island doing your thing you were just coming

32:09and i didn't want anyone to hear anything about me i didn't want anyone to know too much about me it's

32:14part of my personality i like my privacy and it works psychologically as well the guys say that to

32:19me crazy ass over there in england and we don't know what you're doing and we know that you're just

32:23pushing all the time so we gotta we gotta keep pushing we got the shadow looming over us the gym i

32:28train out is is my own gym i own the gym in england and it's basically a very small basement gym very

32:35hardcore and mostly free weights there's no we don't have any cardiovascular equipment or anything

32:42like that the paint's coming off the walls and there's no showers the toilets don't work but there's

32:47a great atmosphere there it's a hard-working atmosphere i catch people all the time at the top

32:51of the stairs looking down because you couldn't actually see anything down there it was just like

32:55you're going into a black hole you could hear rock music people screaming waves banging and

32:59a lot of people intimidated just to step downstairs it was to my advantage that i was in uk i was in

33:04this little hole in the ground in in birmingham and nobody saw me all year around so this guy they

33:09can't see somehow you know it's building like fear up in your mind because you can't see me don't

33:15anything about him i called him the shadow so you gave him the nickname yeah i i called i gave him the name

33:20you know you never saw him unless he was competing and he never hung out with anybody so that's why

33:25i hope that he's in the shadows you know just just waiting to pounce dorian's absence from the lights

33:31gave him a much needed advantage and by 1995 everyone wanted to see how he evolved from his bicep injury

33:39and evolve he did

33:47and this year i'm not necessarily coming any bigger but i feel i've come in a lot better i've come in

33:52more with better shape and better definition better symmetry all the other guys are playing my old game

33:59i'm playing a new game you know i doubt if anybody trained harder than this guy when you do a set you do

34:03one for mama the babies everybody and as i've heard better than ever before mr dorian yay this year he

34:11stepped on the big stage with a conditioning that might have surpassed that one of 93. sean ray had

34:18been so close to number one and wanted to take the crown this year regardless of how many people support

34:24me how many people think that i am already there i need that trophy to solidify my uh my mission and kevin

34:30lavroni having already come in second in 92 and third and 94 was eager to claim the throne for himself

34:37the prejudging brought the battle down to the final four dorian yates and sean ray once again

34:43and a much improved nasir el somebody and kevin lavroni fourth place a check of 25 000

34:51editor number eight sean ray

34:53in third place nasir el somebody

35:04nasa replaced ray in the top three after a few comparisons between him and ray

35:09while kevin and dorian battled for number one the front double bicep was hotly contested between them

35:16as yates had a half a bicep smaller and lavroni always had his a game when it came to arms the

35:23front lats spread was hands down one by dorian nobody got close to his massive lats the side

35:30chest pose was again a really close one but dorian's rock solid conditioning and detailing gave him the edge

35:37the back double bicep made dorian shine and he managed to hide his torn biceps surprisingly well

35:44with a thick wide back and a strong lower body he took this round too the side triceps round was

35:50again tight as lavroni's arm size went against the conditioning detail and perfect pose of dorian

35:57which took the round by a narrow margin the ab and thigh pose put lavroni's slimmer waist against

36:03dorian's stronger more developed muscular abdomen the judges preferring the latter second place competitor

36:11number 18 kevin leveroni

36:16and the winner for the fourth year in a row receiving the largest check in bodybuilding history

36:25to date 110 000 all in all the shadow triumphed once again taking home his fourth mr olympia now

36:35everybody was starting to ask themselves if dorian was even stoppable

36:41in 1996 dorian didn't have the problem he had training the year before of the recuperating bicep

36:48injury so he was able to go full throttle in the gym he expected to be in the best condition with an

36:54extra four pounds of quality muscle added to his already imposing physique

36:58this is my eighth mr olympia i've yet to win the title i put my heart and soul into this one i've

37:06been second i've been third twice i've been fourth and i've been fifth and uh i put like i said the

37:11heart and soul into this training dedicated myself refocused it and now i believe that if i'm ever going

37:16to win the mr olympia from these mass monsters i'm going to win it solely on the fact that they want

37:21to go a different direction with the look of bodybuilding ladies and gentlemen the reigning mr olympia

37:28dorian yates the 1996 mr olympia was in many ways a replay of 1994 and as always size mass and

37:37conditioning were preferred over symmetry and aesthetics combined with a smaller size when it

37:43was all said and done nobody could compete with dorian's back which helped win three rounds front lat spread

37:50back lat spread and back double bicep the side chest and triceps also going to dorian even though

37:57sean was more aesthetic with neatly separated muscles and a better ab and thigh pose it just wasn't enough

38:04to challenge the reigning champ to the second place winner sean ray and in first place dorian yay

38:13and with the sixth in sight dorian went straight back to work he reanalyzed his olympia physique and

38:21noticed he was flat due to over dieting so his goal was to show up for the german grand prix as lean as

38:28ever and even sharper than 1995. hit a stacked lineup including guys like nasser el sunbatty kevin lavroni

38:36paul delette ronnie coleman and vince taylor dorian emerged as the winner of the sixth sandow seemed

38:42like it was only a matter of time but things didn't go off as planned and next year was just about to

38:49prove a whole lot harder a bodybuilding magician of sorts dorian is one bodybuilder who could rise to

39:01the challenge silence his detractors and prevail even if his training circumstances were less than ideal

39:08and the contest itself was one of controversy such was the case in 1994 and the same scenario would

39:15happen again in 1997 in the most controversial olympia in dorian's career held in long beach california

39:24the 1997 mr olympia was hype as the dying vestiges of dorian yates's reign despite winning the previous

39:31year some of his competitors clearly felt that he could be overtaken i think the fans are screaming

39:37for something different basically because the freakiness doesn't last long it starts to wear

39:41off the challenge has been made it was set down last year it was set down in 84 i think i've come

39:47full circle focused trained hard and was very very disciplined so if the champion didn't do his homework

39:54i'm coming to take my title everyone was wondering whether sean ray nasser el somebody or flex wheeler

39:59could beat dorian on the grandest stage of them all before the olympia flex was being touted as the prime

40:06contender to dethrone the champ thanks in part to a series of strong showings in other competitions

40:12but what no one knew is that dorian was going into the contest with yet another injury only this time

40:20it was even more serious than the previous one and that's the second injury was career ending it was

40:25three weeks before the mr olympia uh tricep tendon tear on the left elbow here and literally now i couldn't

40:30train nothing no weight training for three weeks and it was the same thing like you can't compete you're

40:35going to drop to drop out i didn't tell anybody because i don't want to become public knowledge

40:40because then when i went on stage people would be really looking for it all i did for that contest

40:44last three weeks with cardio no weight training you know for a bodybuilder that's very strange yeah i

40:49had a friend that was a physio we had um it's like a big balloon device that goes over your arm and it

40:55inflates and deflates so it's constantly pumping all the time to try to get move that fluid out of the

40:59injury uh it was still a bit black and blue actually and i'll try to cover it with a tan but you see very

41:05really slightly i went into that contest in a state that i'd never been before feeling weak and

41:10vulnerable not even being able to practice my posing because i was scared to like pose too hard

41:14i didn't know the extent of the injury till i went to the states i said basically you've got like a 95

41:19detachment of the tendon so it's hanging on by a little bit so you better be very careful so even

41:24posing i was nervous and i didn't carry that uh energy that i normally had of like invincibility of

41:30power of energy chris corner they used to compete against me and flex wheeler they said they could

41:34feel that almost like a force field around me the energy was so high but that's how i felt and going

41:39to 97 i didn't feel like that at all so not my usual confidence and uh level down into that at all

41:46it was very hard for me to focus just like in 1994 this injury was the golden opportunity flex

41:52wheeler could have seized to dethrone the champ but the same scenario would play out again with a slight

41:59twist in the days leading up to the olympia flex shocked bodybuilding fans by announcing his

42:04withdrawal from that year's competition i was involved in a situation thursday it didn't turn

42:10out good for me i was hospitalized i made a decision amongst myself to mask everything 48 hours before the

42:18event he arrived at the host hotel with his left hand bandaged and claimed that six days prior he'd been

42:24involved in an unsuccessful carjacking at the hands of nunchuck and gun-wielding assailants flex the taekwondo

42:32black belt himself decided to fight his assailants instead of surrendering suffering enough injuries

42:37to exclude him from the competition over time this story got twisted to refer to his assailants as ninjas

42:46following the incident rumors circulated that he'd fabricated the story to avoid competing against

42:51as some skeptics theorized he didn't peak at the correct time however flex wheeler pulling out of

42:58the competition would only be the beginning of the controversy ready to take the reigning champ down

43:07at his most vulnerable was the professor nasser el-sandari so this year i will have probably uh 275 pounds and

43:15i think it doesn't mean that i'm smaller i think i'm looking even bigger i'm sharper and i'm straighted

43:21more than ever my back developed more i have more separation more quality also my arms got bigger and

43:28the same i can say about my ties my legs i think just in overall i improved unless that i'm competing with

43:38five pounds less than at last year by 1997 nasser had worked his way into genuine

43:44contention for the mr olympia title as exemplified by five pro show wins and six top three placements

43:51including third place at both the 95 and 96 mr olympias before being disqualified from that placing

43:58in the 96 after drug testing but this year he was a legitimate threat to bodybuilding's biggest prize

44:06nasser entered the competition with a much improved physique coming in larger and leaner than before

44:12and still possessing his famous symmetrical midsection and when the two men stepped on stage it looked

44:18like a new champion would be crowned he rivaled dorian in terms of sheer size while keeping an aesthetic

44:25quality few could match the prejudging for 1997 had put in the top positions dorian's traditional competitors

44:32kevin levroni sean ray and nasser el somebody

44:39in third place

44:46in the top floor the final showdown came down to nasser and dorian nasser was at the top of his career

44:53looking great even outclassing an injured dorian in some of the poses the big advantage dorian had

45:00was his famously large back which rarely failed to impress but the pain from his torn triceps severely

45:07hampered his posing routine somewhat mitigating any advantage that he had but when it came time for the

45:13winner to be announced it must have felt like deja vu throughout the arena in second place nasser el samvati

45:22depending on your point of view this was either the story of dorian surviving nasser's onslaught to

45:27become a six-time mr olympia or of nasser being robbed in yet another controversial olympia decision

45:34either way it was the end of the englishman's reign and bodybuilding career i had surgery after the

45:41contest to reattach the tendon and it was successful in that it reattached but the surgeon told me the

45:46tendon was very badly torn and some of the muscle was torn as well so not only was it functionally

45:51weak it looked a little different as well maybe 97 was the time for me to do my last contest and

45:58the injury just kind of forced that point i do remember starting my prep for the olympia in 97

46:06and somehow i didn't have the enthusiasm that i had previously it was starting to become like a job

46:12and i was starting to think what am i going to do after this something inside me was telling me like

46:17you need to change direction but after the surgery in a couple months rehab and i'll start training it

46:22was pretty obvious to me that there was a big strength imbalance now between the left and right side

46:27which made it impossible to train that was it my decision was made and now this was traumatic because

46:33this was a decision out of my hands went into a really deep depression to be honest and it wasn't

46:38just the retirement forced retirement from bodybuilding there was other factors in my life that were going

46:42on but it all seemed to happen at the same time i almost didn't know who i was without this all

46:47encompassing goal i don't it's gone and what am i going to do now what really what am i going to do

46:52and who am i after retirement dorian seems to have found himself again after leaving the world of

46:57bodybuilding behind he embarked on a spiritual journey one that emphasizes yoga pilates marijuana

47:05and hallucinogens and a lot of people ask you now dorian do you even lift yeah no i don't even lift man

47:14it's true i don't even lift he was and continues to be a controversial figure in bodybuilding

47:20one who refused to train the way most people trained refused to train where most people trained and

47:26refused to look the way most people looked and for better or worse he single-handedly moved bodybuilding

47:33from the aesthetic era into the era of the mass monster evolving the sport in a way no one before

47:40him ever could i do have a reputation for being real serious and never smiling especially on stage

47:48but what people gotta realize is when i'm on stage when i'm in the gym that's my job and to me you know

47:54it is serious i'll take that seriously and

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