{"id":11861,"date":"2024-10-30T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=11861"},"modified":"2024-10-30T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:15:07","slug":"chris-bumstead-unretires-to-compete-in-the-evls-prague-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=11861","title":{"rendered":"Chris Bumstead &#8216;Unretires&#8217; To Compete In The EVLS Prague Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Classic Physique kingpin, Chris Bumstead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/flexonline\/flex-news\/olympia-2024-chris-bumstead-wins-6th-straight-classic-physique-title-announces-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his retirement<\/a> in his victory speech following an historic sixth Olympia win less than three weeks ago, but rather than hang up his wrist straps, Bumstead has already confirmed that he will be returning to the stage at least one more time, and it is literally his biggest challenge to date.<\/p>\n<p>A regular in the Classic Division, it seems that just like Rocky Balboa, CBum still has some \u201cstuff in the basement\u201d that he needs to be cleared before all is said and done: by ending his career in the Open Division. The new first was first announced by the EVLS Prague Instagram account, with a post sharing that Bumstead was a confirmed athlete for the Men\u2019s Open Bodybuilding event at the PVA Expo in Prague, Nov. 16-17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c6-time Mr. Olympia winner in the Men\u2019s Classic Physique category, @Cbum, will be competing for the first time in his career in Europe at EVLS PRAGUE!\u201d read the shocking post. For those wondering, the Open Division has no weight limit, meaning that the biggest bodybuilders on earth walk this stage.<\/p>\n<h2>Chris Bumstead Has Wrestled with Appearing in the Open Division his Entire Career<\/h2>\n<p>The news was quickly confirmed by Bumstead himself via his own IG account. \u201cY\u2019all said I had a decent physique and should try competing (in Open)\u2026 so I figured I\u2019d give it a shot,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOne more run just for fun, giving the people what they want\u201d. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBrVzZ4CBbh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EVLS Prague Pro event<\/a> will also boast a $105,000 prize pool. And, Bumstead doubled down on his European appearance via a YouTube video, stating: \u201cNo sense beating around the bush, something has been posted, it\u2019s already been announced: I\u2019m finally doing an open show. I\u2019ve been wanting to do this my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bodybuilding fans have long wondered how Bumstead would fair in Open after dominating the Classic Division for so long. It\u2019s a question that Cbum has wrestled with himself, weighing up the health implications against his lofty ambitions. The canny Canadian has been completely honest about this subject many times, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tLqn5jy_KkM&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fmuscleinsider.com%2F&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a YouTube Q&amp;A<\/a> made after his second Classic Olympia title win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why people can\u2019t just be happy with me winning Classic Physique. I\u2019m happy with it,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cAnd, I\u2019m still just trying to win a third title. People are talking about me moving to Open already. To answer the question, would I ever? I might. It depends what goes on in the future, how my health holds up. It\u2019s up in the air. It depends on how my body holds up, but I don\u2019t even like thinking that far ahead because my only goal right now, my only dream is to be a longstanding Classic Physique champion, to build a legacy in this. This (Classic) division\u2019s new, it\u2019s young, and I want to be the person at the forefront that people look back and remember like \u2018F**k, Chris won like five years in a row when it started. I want to look like that.\u2019 That\u2019s my only goal right now, so I\u2019m not even thinking of switching classes anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With an incredible six Olympia titles now under his belt in 2024, Bumstead has every right to chase the \u201cstuff in the basement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Chris Bumstead on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cbum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/flexonline\/flex-news\/chris-bumstead-unretires-to-compete-in-the-evls-prague-pro\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic Physique kingpin, Chris Bumstead announced his retirement in his victory speech following an historic sixth Olympia win less than three weeks ago, but rather than hang up his wrist straps, Bumstead has already confirmed that he will be returning to the stage at least one more time, and it is literally his biggest challenge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}