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LAST SET<br />
POSEDOWN<br />
MCCARVER VS.<br />
SCHLIERKAMP<br />
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, GÜNTER MANIA RAGED.<br />
COULD MCCARVER MANIA BE NEXT?<br />
SOMETIMES, it’s not how<br />
much you win, it’s who you beat.<br />
At only 26 and in only his third pro<br />
year, Dallas McCarver has already<br />
won twice as many pro titles as<br />
Günter Schlierkamp totaled in his<br />
13-year, 39-contest career. And<br />
yet the German giant’s single<br />
victory is the greatest upset in<br />
bodybuilding history. Fifteen<br />
years ago, two weeks after<br />
finishing fifth in the 2002 Mr.<br />
Olympia, where many enthusiastic<br />
converts felt he deserved first,<br />
Schlierkamp bested reigning Mr. O<br />
Ronnie Coleman. And Günter mania<br />
was born. Most remarkably, that<br />
earthquake-inducing victory was<br />
Schlierkamp’s 31st show in his ninth<br />
year, and he was 32. That places a<br />
different context on McCarver’s<br />
current year, when many have<br />
criticized him, despite seconds in<br />
two shows, for failing to inspire<br />
mania. Relax, we’re still in the<br />
initial chapters of what could be a<br />
very long tale.<br />
MCCARVER<br />
SCHLIERKAMP<br />
HEIGHT<br />
WEIGHT<br />
AGE 1ST<br />
PRO WIN<br />
PRO<br />
YEARS<br />
3<br />
PRO<br />
CONTESTS<br />
7<br />
PRO WINS<br />
2<br />
HEIGHT<br />
WEIGHT<br />
AGE 1ST<br />
PRO WIN<br />
PRO<br />
YEARS<br />
PRO<br />
CONTESTS<br />
PRO WINS<br />
1<br />
PER BERNAL; CHRIS LUND<br />
222 FLEX | JULY/AUG ’17
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