Flex Magazine UK Edition - UK | March 2015

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Filling In The Blanks by TONY MONCHINSKI When a 19-year-old Jay Cutler won the heavyweight class at the NPC Teen Nationals in 1993, Branch Warren took home the light-heavies and the overall. Three years later, Jay took his pro card on his first attempt at the 1996 NPC Nationals. He did it by beating a heavyweight class that included Tom Prince (second), Orville Burke (third), Bob Cicherillo (eighth), King Kamali (11th), and Bill Wilmore (13th). Willie Stalling won the light-heavyweight class and overall title that year (Dexter Jackson was sixth in Willie’s class).Bodybuilding glory didn’t come immediately for Cutler: He placed 12th in his pro debut at the 1998 Night of Champions (he would come back to win it in 2000); he was third at the 1999 Ironman Pro, and fourth at that year’s Arnold Classic (he’d win his first Arnold Classic in 2002 and take the Ironman title a year later); and in his Olympia debut in 1999, he was 14th (a year later he was eighth). But when he hit his stride, very few could hold their own against this mass monster. What Cutler might have given up to a few other competitors in aesthetics, he more than made up for with sheer mass and a seeming yardstick’s measure of width through his shoulders. Cutler’s physique literally crowded other competitors off the stage.
Europe’s Top 10 Pros by JOHN PLUMMER About 375 million males live in Europe. We reckon the following 10 have the best physiques.
Howling Wolf by MATT TURNER Last year might have been the year of the horse in the Chinese zodiac, but in the bodybuilding zodiac it was indisputably the year of the wolf—Dennis Wolf. For the German giant, 2014 was a landmark year in a career that had previously been dogged by yo-yoing placings. His fourth place at the Olympia in 2008 was his best finish ever at that point but was followed by a humiliating DNP a year later. He then followed that up by jumping straight back to fifth in 2010. In short, no one knew quite what to think of the Big Bad Wolf.
Also in this issue 24 Filling In The Blanks 32 Europe’s Top 10 Pros 46 Howling Wolf 60 The Beast In The Middle East 72 Back To The Future 82 Bridging The Gulf 94 The One To Watch 104 Legs To Stand On 136 News 138 Star of Tomorrow 140 Irish Ambition 142 Ryan Terry 144 Nina Ross 148 Looking Back 12 Welcome 14 Arnold’s Page 16 It’s Only My Opinion 18 Hard Times 112 Gym Bag 118 Advanced Nutrition 122 Advanced Bodybuilding 124 Anabolic Academy 126 The Freak Speaks! 130 European Muscle 156 Under The Microscope 158 Bodybuilder of The Month 160 The Shot