AGELESS BODY - HE SHOCKED EVERYONE IN THE 70S GYM ERA - ROBBY ROBINSON 'THE BLACK PRINCE'

[Music] bath beach gym in Benson HST Brooklyn in 1978 and I got a poster the biggest star in the sport at that time was Robbie Robbie came on the scene the black prince the afro of the vest all shredded up you know those lats coming out this and that everybody was John Travolta in the gym the black slipback hair the white T-shirt with their pack of cigarettes under the arm just right out of the movie and I go in there and they go hi you're the owner goes yeah who you I said I going to be running a show in May and I'd like you to put up my poster and sell tickets for me he looks at the thing that's Robbie Robinson I said yeah it's friend of mine who the heck are you I just sold tickets for Dan Lorie and he said he was going to have Arnold and Sergio and Arnold don't show up and everybody wanted money back and now you come in here you're going to bring in Robbie Robinson get out of here he goes to me I said no they're going to come I go I tell you why I take out my wallet I said here it's my driver's license it's got my address on it goes yeah I said see this phone number on here that's my home phone number give me that calendar he looked at me I said give me the calendar Off the Wall now he's backing up a little cuz I'm getting aggressive Monday here the 1st we go back this day in April 8:00 p.m. Robbie Robinson I'm going to bring Robbie Robinson to your gym 3 weeks approximately 3 weeks before the show but when I do then you're going to put my posters up and you're going to sell me tickets and if I don't do it all your Guido friends here they can come and take me out and they're looking at me they go you're a cocky guy you know that I said copy it [Music] down we're going on that Monday night 8:00 I said let's leave called Johnny barbero the owner I said remember I'm coming Monday night I called him the Thursday before he goes you better he said I got signs up you better we're coming out there I said no problem so we park a couple of blocks away get to the street where the gym is the gym is 3/4 the way down the street and there's been a banner is up and there's like 30 40 guys outside so as we're getting closer somebody goes there he is now you know when bunch of guys talking you hear that low Rumble silence that was like Moses and Robbie was my scepter I'm I'm porting the Red Sea they just opened up is staring you go into the gym it was a storefront and the gym was in the basement and everybody goes and standing along the thing and we walking and there's Johnny his father his brothers his uncles I go Johnny Barbaro Robbie Robinson and they they with their mouth he's hting he's in great shape you know and they're going crazy because back then no internet this was the pages of the magazine coming to life and you got to remember 1978 magazine was black and white here's Robbie In the Flesh in color right in front of him on a bench posing and you're looking at him saying wow this is real look at this [Music] our next competitor is the black prince a former Mr America a former Mr Universe you know him as the black prince and right now let's give Robbie [Music] [Applause] [Music] if there were ever a true Michelangelo worthy Physique in today's bodybuilding world it would have to be this one and so then I I I would watch Robbie Robinson to this day to this day when Robbie Robinson's doing seated cable rows in the gym I stop and I watch it's just so perfect the way he does seated cable rolls always just kind of kept myself in some shape in good condition he does t-all Road the way he does back training there's an art and there's a style and there's a love and I I give my attention to that I try to emulate [Music] [Music] that [Music] [Applause] look at [Applause] Theus tremendous bicep probably the best in the sport only came in at 75 we all P for Mr I was from Mr War he Mr O he's a dog every single day P just suppos to come in there with something different come up that power driving they got like they got one their you you got to come up with some [Music] muscle that was in a Time pin where everybody's saying that in my neighborhood uh you know you're not going to be able to do that it want you were black and I said yes I can you know I can do whatever I want if I go in and put in the right time of time and energy and work that put into my what I wanted to achieve so Joi was like The Godfather establishing bodybuilder in the United States big Mars someone sent him pictures of myself and then he sent me a letter and asking me to come to Los Angeles and train [Music] for after I came back from Vietnam I was really motivated to like train because a lot of the guys that got with psychist and they use that as a therapy so I use bodybuilding as my therapy kep me motivated and simulate to train as hard and win all the children as much as I possibly [Music] could you have to understand I was always in [Music] shape [Music] oh [Music] I came out in 1975 B to Mr World Mr Universe I was slowly allowed to come into that clip uh once I've established myself and had seen my body was changing rapidly they allowed me to come in and be trained with them going toward he was trained for Mr Olympia and I was training for the M but during that time period it was it was just body [Music] wrong they call him the black prince dominated bodybuilding circles the late 7s early ' 80s he's now back on top of his sport saying he looks and feels as good as he ever has I'm 70 years old I mean I don't feel 70 I feel like I did when I was younger I don't feel like I've aged I feel healthy and strong and happy this is something I really kind of take pride in I mean Mr Olympia got to come over there and dominate you can't come over there pacif in around I'm sorry and uh I feel think they're looking for the old guys to come back because that's really where the real quality muscle [Music] is let me the dou shot Double B shot for this lady here quick come on now come on now I love body to study with the Masters so I to this day I mean 3 weeks ago I was in the Gold Gym going look at that look at Robbie Robins he still has that finesse the fibers the striations that was Timeless I mean I can relive that over again

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Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 31 2024