{"id":14273,"date":"2025-05-22T06:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T23:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=14273"},"modified":"2025-05-22T06:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T23:47:54","slug":"larry-wheels-earns-ifbb-pro-card-after-2025-musclecontest-win-then-calls-out-sam-sulek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=14273","title":{"rendered":"Larry Wheels Earns IFBB Pro Card After 2025 Musclecontest Win\u2014Then Calls Out Sam Sulek"},"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>Powerlifting record breaker Larry \u201cWheels\u201d Williams is now officially an IFBB Pro bodybuilder following his victory at the <a href=\"https:\/\/musclecontestinternational.com\/2025-musclecontest-ireland-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Musclecontest Bullman Qualifier in Dublin, Ireland<\/a>, and has wasted no time in calling out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/flexonline\/flex-news\/sam-sulek-earned-his-ifbb-pro-card-at-the-2025-arnold-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fellow IFBB newbie Sam Sulek<\/a>, who quickly responded.<\/p>\n<p>While Sam Sulek earned his pro card in just his second competitive appearance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/interviews\/wheels-motion-rise-larry-wheels-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Wheels\u2019 journey to an IFBB pro card<\/a> has been rather less straightforward. The big man from The Bronx was a prolific powerlifter from the age of 18, breaking numerous records, and won his first bodybuilding show in 2018, but would place eleventh in his next outing, putting pro status firmly out of his grasp. Wheels tried to become pro again in 2023, and showed great improvement, coming second in his class, but would announce his retirement in 2024, sighting steroid misuse and mental health issues for the departure.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a serious subject that the athlete has spoken openly about on social media, and it is this honesty alongside his herculean feats of strength that has earned him millions of followers as an influencer. Still, when it came to earning that IFBB Pro card, we now know that Wheels had an itch that he couldn\u2019t shake off, and mercifully, he finally scratched it on May 17, 2025, placing first in the amateur Classic Division in Dublin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NTq3gvTnIE\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifbbpro.com\/competition\/2025-musclecontest-bullman-pro\/\">2025 Musclecontest Bullman Pro<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content optanon-category-C0002-C0003-C0004-C0005\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201c2025 Musclecontest Bullman Pro\u201d \u2014 IFBB Pro\" data-secret=\"NTq3gvTnIE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ifbbpro.com\/competition\/2025-musclecontest-bullman-pro\/embed\/#?secret=oktXlTn2J7#?secret=NTq3gvTnIE\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Larry Wheels Calls Out Sam Sulek, and Sulek Responds<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cJust won my pro card,\u201d commented Wheels via his Instagram account on May 18, 2025. \u201cThis has been a lifetime goal.\u201d Now excited to share the stage with a fellow social media megastar, he also wasted no time in calling out his fellow IFBB newbie. \u201c@sam_sulek, when is your next show?\u201d he asked playfully. Of course, that comment was noticed by Sulek, who then showed respect to his powerful peer. \u201cThe biggest and strongest,\u201d he responded, adding a flexing bicep emoji to the message.<\/p>\n<p>Wheels\u2019 celebratory post was understandably flooded with messages of support from the world of bodybuilding. \u201cCongrats champ,\u201d wrote 2023 Mr Olympia Derek Lunsford, and he wasn\u2019t the only Olympian to weigh-in. \u201cCongrats my good friend,\u201d wrote Ronnie Coleman. \u201cHard work, dedication, passion and resilience always pay off. \u201cYesszziirrr,\u201d added Andrew Jacked. \u201cCongrats bro!\u201d commented Brandon Curry.<\/p>\n<p>Still, those that think Wheels could be destined for the 2025 Mr. Olympia competition perhaps shouldn\u2019t get too far ahead of themselves, as the bodybuilder had also entered himself into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifbbpro.com\/competition\/2025-musclecontest-bullman-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the professional portion of the contest in Dublin and placed tenth<\/a>. So, there may be a long road for Wheel\u2019s still to travel in his quest to win big in pro bodybuilding but if we\u2019ve learned anything over the years, it\u2019s never to underestimate this inspirational athlete.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/larrywheels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To follow Larry Wheels on Instagram, click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/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\/larry-wheels-earns-ifbb-pro-card-after-2025-musclecontest-win-then-calls-out-sam-sulek\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerlifting record breaker Larry \u201cWheels\u201d Williams is now officially an IFBB Pro bodybuilder following his victory at the 2025 Musclecontest Bullman Qualifier in Dublin, Ireland, and has wasted no time in calling out fellow IFBB newbie Sam Sulek, who quickly responded. While Sam Sulek earned his pro card in just his second competitive appearance, Larry &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-14273","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\/14273","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=14273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}