Muscle Wars by Rick Wayne:    SOLD!!!!!

The Behind the Scenes Story of Competitive Bodybuilding.

1985 Hard Back 1st Edition.  260 pp – published by St. Martin’s Press.  Used: Very good condition.

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Muscle Wars is an insider’s account of the sport, the business, and the stars of competitive bodybuilding.

Now Rick Wayne, himself a bodybuilding champion and longtime journalist for Joe Weider’s Flex and Muscle & Fitness, tells the inside story of the fights, feuds and friendships that have shaped the sport.

Muscle Wars is crammed with fascinating stories, such as how Arnold Schwarzenegger psyched defending titlist Sergio Oliva into walking off the stage during their dramatic confrontation for the 1970 Mr. Olympia crown.  Here are riveting sketches of the sport’s dominating personalities, from Larry Scott and the legendary Oliva to Franco Columbu, Frank Zane, and Schwarzenegger; and – backstage – Ben and Joe Weider.

Included is the real story behind the blistering controversy of the 1980 Mr. Olympia held in Sydney, Australia and of the contest held the following year in Columbus Ohio, called by Wayne, “The Biggest Booing Contest of All Time”.  Muscle Wars provides wickedly entertaining backstage gossip as well as inside accounts of the controversies that have marked and occasionally almost wrecked the International Federation of Bodybuilding.

Rick Wayne writes with bite and panache.  Not since Pumping Iron has there been such a revealing look at the world of bodybuilding and the remarkable, temperamental characters who are its stars.