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Along with his remarkable work in movies like The Terminator and Predator, Arnold Schwarzenegger also boasts a legacy in bodybuilding. Winning three Mr. Universe titles and the professional Mr. Olympia title six years in a row from 1970 to 1975, along with a seventh win in 1980, the actor has become a legendary figure in the world of bodybuilding.

Arnold Schwarzenegger won 7 Mr. Olympia titles

However, Schwarzenegger’s seventh win along with the subsequent win of his close friend Franco Columbu in 1981 have sparked debates over fairness, prompting three legendary bodybuilding icons to boycott the competition.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mr. Olympia Dominance Sparked Outcry in Bodybuilding Community

The 1980 and 1981 Mr. Olympia competition faced unprecedented disruption and scrutiny with the allegations of unfair judgment. Arnold Schwarzenegger, also known as the Austrian Oak in the bodybuilding world, won the title of Mr. Olympia for the seventh time following a five-year hiatus in 1980.

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An unmade Silver Surfer project plan might reveal the perfect introduction for the cosmic character in the McU's future. Affiliated with the Fantastic Four and Galactus in Marvel Comics, the Silver Surfer is one of the most highly-anticipated characters to be introduced into the MCU, after previously being seen in live-action in Fox's 2007 film, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, played by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne. Several attempts have been made at a Silver Surfer solo film over the years, including a spinoff of Fox's Fantastic Four series and a 2018 solo project, but none ended up getting developed.

After Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox was finalized in 2019, there was speculation that Marvel Studios had set to work on producing a solo Silver Surfer project. While there has been no confirmation of this film going into production, the recent introduction of Marvel Studios' Special Presentations reignited buzz around the project,...

Feature Ryan Lambie 19 Mar 2014 - 06:21

The 1977 docu-drama Pumping Iron launched Schwarzenegger's career, and led to an era of fitness obsession and action heroes, Ryan writes...

In February 1976, the Whitney Museum in New York played host to a highly unusual exhibit: Arnold Schwarzenegger, clad in little more than a tiny pair of brown briefs, posing like a Greek statue on a rotating platform. Around him, some of the Manhattan art scene's most famous critics sat and pontificated.

Called Articulate Muscle: The Male Body In Art, the exhibition included two fellow Mr Universe bodybuilders, Frank Zane and Ed Corney, plus a panel of artists and historians, who discussed the notion of "the body itself as an art medium". The event was inspired and organised by Charles Gaines, a former weight lifter and author of the book Pumping Iron, a candid and in-depth account of bodybuilding with photographs by George Butler.

Originally expected to attract around 300 visitors,...

A digest of Arnie's 650-page, aptly-named autobiography, Total Recall – from muscles to movies and from Maria to Mildred

Like most profoundly unfunny people, Arnold Schwarzenegger is very proud of his sense of humour.

Hardly a page goes by in Total Recall, his whopping 650-page memoir, without a reference to some sticky situation he got out of through cunning use of deadpan or a passing zinger – for example, when he debated Arianna Huffington during the 2003 California gubernatorial race:

"If she got overly dramatic, I could say, 'I know you're Greek' or 'Switch to decaf.'"

The other thing you learn from Arnie's book is that everything in life has a bodybuilding analogy. Once in office, losing a dispute with the labor unions was like "losing to Frank Zane in Miami [Mr Universe, 1968] when I first came to America."

Bonnie Garcia, the state legislator he got into trouble with for referring to as "very...