Generation Iron Page #8

Phil Heath has had

a lot of gifts.

He's a gift, he's "The Gift."

I don't represent gifts,

I really don't.

He's had a lot of help,

a lot of help.

It's not like I had people

handing me money and stuff.

When I first came into this sport,

I was working two jobs, unlike him.

I don't even know if he has a resume...

I don't even know if he knows what that is.

Easy, easy.

Guess what, Kai?

You've been bodybuilding

for 20 years.

I'm already better than you.

You know it, but now

you're making an excuse,

saying,

"He got this, he got that."

Each man's body

will represent years

of focus and concentration.

It'll be a great event.

You're one injury away

from your career being over.

I've fought too hard

to get where I'm at,

to slide back down.

I'm not one to lay down

and cry about it.

I'm gonna take this thing

by the horns,

I'm gonna overcome it... I'm doing

everything I can do, man, I'm 100 percent.

Have a dream.

Everybody need to have a dream.

Have a dream and go after it

with everything you got.

Time to make Phil

look small, Bro.

Come on!

Make 'em all look small.

Yup.

They're gonna announce my name,

crowd's gonna go crazy,

I'm gonna hit my front

double bicep, this and that.

Crowd's gonna go,

"Whoa!"

And I'm gonna just...

I'm gonna feel...

like a true Adonis, man,

like a god.

But this trophy is mine.

Come on, take your shirt off.

Yo, who do you think

was the best ever?

Best ever?

Arnold or Lee?

Arnold.

- Arnold is better than Lee Haney?

- Of course.

That's a big statement

to say on camera!

How many, how many, how many

Olympias has Arnold got?

Seven.

How many Lee got?

- Eight.

- Eight.

So who will be better?

Arnold, still Arnold!

Hold on, wait a minute,

so we go back...

Then you gotta go with what

century you was in or what...

It doesn't matter how many

Olympias he won.

- It doesn't matter?

- Doesn't matter.

Who's had the best, what year...

Who had the best

chill body ever?

- Ronnie Coleman.

- Ronnie Coleman?

He was a good one.

All right, big...

hold on, one thing!

Let's arm wrestle.

- You lost!

- Oh!

Olympia, a plain in Greece

in the western Peloponnese.

The ancient Olympic Games

were said to be played

on this stretch of ground,

and it held the chief sanctuary

of the supreme god, Zeus.

Now on a stage in Vegas,

the supreme man,

Mr. Olympia, will be crowned.

When I go back

and I think of the Olympia,

I go back and I think

of Arnold Schwarzenegger,

when the first prize money

was $1,000.

And then today,

in the 48th Olympia,

we're hoping to give out prize money

of one million dollars.

Good afternoon,

ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to Joe Weider's

Olympia fitness

and performance weekend 2012!

Just before the competition,

the contenders begin

their pre-show preparations.

The most agonizing

is dropping their water weight.

We always need to lose

a little bit of water

in the last couple of hours

before the show

because on stage,

with all those lights

and the tan and the oil,

you still look a little watery.

If you lose the water,

it makes you look

on stage much, much dryer

because all the cuts,

all the separation, coming though more

and more, you know?

Now I'll introduce

the 19 competitors here

to vie for the title

of Mr. Olympia.

Before Olympia,

a press conference is held

for the contenders.

For the first time,

but not the last,

they are on stage together.

What do you think about people

saying Phil can't be beat

at this year's Olympia

tomorrow night?

I don't give a damn

about what people say.

I think I'm a better poser

than Branch.

Well, I think I'm a better

bodybuilder than Dennis.

This is a bodybuilding contest,

not a dance contest, baby.

Going into tomorrow night,

I'm crossing my fingers,

praying to God

that I can be at my best,

because my best

will be good enough

to win another Sandow.

No question.

I'm happy I'm here,

I worked hard for it.

You'll see the best package

you've ever seen tomorrow night.

If you and Phil Heath

are 100 percent on game day,

who wins?

I expect to be

the last man standing this year.

A fallen warrior

arrives in Las Vegas.

It pains him to be a spectator,

for this sport

and its contenders

have been

his most constant family.

My phone used

to ring off the hook, you know?

Now it's a little quiet

and it's... damn, you know?

Am I taking it personal?

It's like you really can't,

you know?

It's what it is.

Remember, it's... it's a business

and if you're not producing,

they could just drop you,

and that's something

I might have to do as well,

go into my next show

without a sponsor, and that's gonna be

one of the biggest challenges of my life,

not just coming back from injury

or coming back from seven months

of being incarcerated,

it's gonna be

competing as a free agent.

That goes

into the whole question of,

"Does politics exist

in bodybuilding?"

It's alive and well.

The hypocrisy is part of the business,

it's part of it.

The makings of a champion

are elusive.

Is it in the genes?

Are some destined for greatness

while others doomed

to mediocrity?

Or is a warrior made,

forged out of steel,

honed from oak

and chiseled from the stone

of his skilled hands?

The Mr. Olympia Competition

has been sanctioned

by the IFBB since 1965.

It alone decides

who is the best in the world.

I mean, look at this.

This is what Mr. Olympia

should look like.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

I saw your wife yesterday.

Yeah, yeah, she told me.

Yeah, for sure, yeah, for sure.

My mom says she saw you too

and yeah, you know?

We're huge fans of yours,

trust me.

Come on, Branch.

I didn't even get to pump up!

Can someone bring me

some dumbbells or something?

We're back

at the 2012 Mr. Olympia.

I'm Lane Norton

with my co-host, Larry Pepe,

and Larry, we talked about...

is this the beginning

of a run for Phil?

If he hits it tonight,

do you think he starts

to put these guys

more in his rear view,

and start to build

on that momentum

and maybe get three, four,

five, six Mr. Olympias?

I think coming in, we thought

the question for Phil is:

Is this gonna be

that type of performance

where you just look up there, you see him

and you say, "It's him,"

and everybody else

kinda battling out for second.

I think we now feel

that it's him and Kai Greene.

Ladies and gentlemen,

as you know,

the Mr. Olympia final results

will be based

on a combination

of both tonight's

and tomorrow's scores.

The lights flash.

The pre-judging begins.

One by one,

the athletes pose on stage,

their bodies are exposed

and ridiculed for any failure

in symmetry and conditioning.

There's just something to be

said for the dude that can...

Man, he can...

He can run up in there

with an arm

tied behind his back

and still...

he's still a deadly dude.

Man, you still gotta watch out

for him!

And even with that,

this dude is still fighting

for his life.

And then...

slowly...

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