Could he have been the GOAT if Arnie didn't mess with his head?

With the pharma they had back then? No.
Lou never measured up to that generation on stage since with his height he lacked that "Wow" factor. Like, nigga was big, but to be that tall and have the muscle size to look aesthetic on stage, you need some powerful-ass shit.

>>42583554
What arnie did to him?

>>42583635
Watch Pumping Iron

>>42583554
i think so. he was good anyway though even if he wasnt the goat
sry you were off by one better luck next time

>>42583686
Just tell us you fucking faggot, I don't have 2 hours to watch a documentary of the most overrated bodybuilder

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>>42583554
According to Arnold himself, Lou had better genetics than him, but he didn't have enough drive. Arnold said in his book that if he had Lou's genetics he would have been unbeatable.

>>42583554
>wristlet

reminder that arnie paid off the judges, commonly known actually

>>42583709
if i remember correctly, arnie convinced him to shout according to how he was posing, like when he was moving shout softly and when he was flexing shout loudly.
arnie made up this whole routine and practiced it with him. arnie might have done this to some one else though
like i said in this post>>42583700, I think he was good, but if you fall for something that fucking stupid maybe you actually deserve to lose.

Arnie was the superstar in Pumping Iron, so he was predestined to win. If he lost, then it obviously wouldn't sell.

>>42583741
That was a completely different person, if Lou had fallen for it then he would have fallen out of relevancy in the history of bodybuilding the second that happened

>>42583755
Arnold was the villain in Pumping Iron. He purposefully acted like (even more of) an asshole.

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>>42583554

Lou is supremely overrated. Arnold made him look like a pancake. He looked good from the front but when you compared them from the side Arnold just made Lou look like a child. There is a reason he placed 3rd.

>>42583852
>Lou is supremely overrated
>implying Arnold isn't
Wew lad

>>42583896

Let me guess...you're a Zane bumboy aren't you?

>>42583909
Not really but let's be real dude, Arnold was pretty overrated

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>>42583909
What does Zane have to do with this discussion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBbK_kO5tw

>implying he is not more aesthetic than Arnold

Any bodybuilder after 1960 looked like shit.

Franco looked better than arnie

>>42583762
yee, i thought so
still funny as shit

>>42583635
Arnie kind of subconsciously put into Lou's head that he didn't belong. He did shit like tell him the way he was giving himself a pump before a show was unusually noisy and distracting, and it affected Lou's confidence and the grace of his posing.

>>42583896
idolizing any one golden age bodybuilder over the others is overrating them imo. they were all amazing for what they achieved with what was available at the time