{"id":13877,"date":"2025-04-05T01:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=13877"},"modified":"2025-04-05T01:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:36:04","slug":"bodybuilding-greats-recall-the-show-they-regret-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=13877","title":{"rendered":"Bodybuilding Greats Recall The Show They Regret The Most"},"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>Host Dennis James was joined by his regular panelists, Chris Cormier and Milos Sarcev, along with special guests Sergio Oliva Jr and Victor Martinez for Episode 226 of The Menace Podcast, and the guys got cathartic by reliving the shows that they regret entering the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive me one show, if you even have one, that you regretted stepping on stage,\u201d asked Dennis James, who has competed in seven Olympia events.\u00a0 The host kicked things off my admitting that as relates to the 2012 Masters Mr. Olympia in Miami, he was not happy with third place and should have \u201cstayed my ass home.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/flexonline\/ifbb\/top-10-greatest-mr-olympia-moments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/arnold-and-friends-PS.jpg?w=150&amp;h=84&amp;crop=1&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 280px\" alt=\"Top 10 Greatest Olympia Moments\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" data-fallback-img=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/arnold-and-friends-PS.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Victor Martinez shared that he felt the 2017 Olympia was his worst day on stage. With his peak performances taking place in 2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V%C3%ADctor_Mart%C3%ADnez_(bodybuilder)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martinez won the Arnold Classic and came runner-up to Mr Olympia that year<\/a>, but in 2017, he failed to place in the Olympia at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s the one that Victor won: 2003 Night of the Champions,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milo%C5%A1_%C5%A0ar%C4%8Dev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milos Sarcev, a former Mr Universe.<\/a> \u201cI had no business being there but I signed the contract (to be there), right?\u201d The legend explains that during 2003, \u2018The Mind\u2019 was \u201ca big time mess, but I had to do it. I just hated it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Cormier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Cormier<\/a> says that one of his worst experiences on stage occurred during a competition in Canada after suffering an infected spine in 2006. \u201cAfter I had that hospital stint, came back from the dead, did the show in Canada,\u201d reflects the bigtime bodybuilder who\u2019s career includes an impressive third place at Mr Olympia in both 1999 and 2002.\u00a0 For that show in 2006 though, Cormier shares he just wasn\u2019t in the right shape to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Oliva Jr, who followed in his father\u2019s lofty footsteps and won many competitions in his own right, including victory at the New York Pro in 2017,\u00a0 says that his worst memory is more recent than his peers. \u201c2023, when I got out of the jail from Dubai\u201d he shares. \u201cIt was so stupid. I just thought in my head that it was gonna be like a movie. I\u2019m gonna get out of jail, I\u2019m gonna go back to California where I\u2019d moved from, and I\u2019m gonna do this show and go to the Olympia. When bodybuilding\u2019s hard as f***. You\u2019re not going to be able to do s*** like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Oliva Jr had been inspired by a similar feat from Martinez, who\u2019d had a spell in a Brazilian prison, the ending would not be the same for him. \u201cI should have just come back to the States and chilled,\u201d reflects Oliva now. Incredibly, he still placed third, however.<\/p>\n<p>Episode 226 was a packed show that also discussed the Detroit Pro, William Bonac, and the Pittsburgh Pro among other hot bodybuilding subjects. To view the entire podcast see below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SERGIO OLIVA Jr. &amp; VICTOR MARTINEZ JOIN THE MENACE PODCAST!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ksq-gdAEbRc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><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\/bodybuilding-greats-recall-the-show-they-regret-the-most\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host Dennis James was joined by his regular panelists, Chris Cormier and Milos Sarcev, along with special guests Sergio Oliva Jr and Victor Martinez for Episode 226 of The Menace Podcast, and the guys got cathartic by reliving the shows that they regret entering the most. \u201cGive me one show, if you even have one, &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-13877","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\/13877","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=13877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}