Can’t deny what a fantastic bodybuilder he was…Not even those “firing range glasses” can take away his legendary status in the sport. 💪🏾😎
@Matthew01733Ай бұрын
He was, a very tough era to be competing in the Olympia
@pacocarrion7869Ай бұрын
Somepeople hate Shawn Ray, but Shawn is one of the best bodybuilding in all history, and very inteligent, he always has clear what to think and what to say.
@chrisballard5743Ай бұрын
Shawn Ray gives some of the best interviews in the industry. Very articulate, honest, paints a very clear picture of what he went through in the sport. And like him or hate him he had one of the top physiques in the sport at one time.
@Matthew01733Ай бұрын
It was great to get the chance to speak to one of my early BodyBuilding hero’s face to face in Newport beach, 💪🙏
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
Pleasure was mine 💪🏽
@VenmayloveАй бұрын
You both deserve a fluffy cat. Here:
@Hypnos_Official1Ай бұрын
Is right boss to see a proper historian and a fan of the sport
@VanquishingEvilАй бұрын
@@sugarshawnray I'm certain it was!
@JamesWilmoth-wj4cpАй бұрын
Great interview
@scottlapointe9682Ай бұрын
Shawn is an important voice for this sport. !!
@VanquishingEvilАй бұрын
Bodybuilding is not a sport. It's pageantry.
@richardbello2262Ай бұрын
Mr.Shawn Ray, In my humble opinion, You have always been a class act, both as a bodybuilder and your professional career, Wishing you good health and plenty of successes.
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
Thank you 🙏🏾
@Powerup54Ай бұрын
Agreed! Shawn Ray is a amazing human being💪🏿🔥👌🏿
@vinceandrich4603Ай бұрын
Saw Shawn win the California, competed in the 87 Nationals he won (phenom) and always appreciated the physique and his commitment and impact on the art of bodybuilding.
@jgamez5023Ай бұрын
My favorite bodybuilder of all time - the man always gave a great performance on stage - my favorite version/posing routine of Shawn Ray was at the 1997 Mr. Olympia. His 1999 Mr. Olympia form was out of this world also !
@TOSHTONАй бұрын
Uncrowned Mr. Olympia in my books and a True spokesman of the sport, smart and articulate, a True Champion!
@ALT3REDB3ASTАй бұрын
I started working out and fell in love with bodybuilding because of Shawn Ray.😄
@BeastmodeJones316Ай бұрын
Shout out to Shawn Ray. A legend in bodybuilding. 💯💪
@NaijaBeats12Ай бұрын
Yes indeed....and shout out to you Chris as well. I came across you years ago during your infant stages with Vince. You were definitely one of the early sources of inspiration for me to take weight training seriously. Blessings to you and your family.
@vegasloveforever2486Ай бұрын
Shawn should have had at least 2 Mr Olympias
@johnsavage4786Ай бұрын
Now 77 and I am still training hard to become my vision 60 years ago when I also read the same magazines.
@tmv-777Ай бұрын
One of the more interesting bodybuilders he was and still is. Always enjoy to listen to his stories and perspective.
@ronaldmccutcheon1329Ай бұрын
I was at the '90 Mr. O in Chicago. Shawn should have won. Lonnie Teper of Ironman Magazine yelled in the lobby after the show, "Shawn Ray won that contest!" I agree. That's not what Lonnie wrote later in the magazine, however...
@latman1Ай бұрын
I've always liked Shawn for his ability to articulate his views more than just a great physique . Ronnie may have beat him but Shawn looked much better in pictures and poses!
@TheZgriffinАй бұрын
Was shocked and pleased to hear him shed more light on Victor Conte. He isnt as important of a figure in bodybuilding but sports in general he still has his toes dipped with SNAC i believe it is.
@Utoobdewd28 күн бұрын
An absolute living legend in Bodybuilding! One of the greatest to ever step in the gym..
@SauliusStanАй бұрын
Shawn is the best period
@tubemoozfulАй бұрын
Ray was an outstanding bb
@SuperJohnyyyАй бұрын
Shawn is a great ambassador for the sport , love his glasses
@AussieBodybuilderАй бұрын
🤣😂 He's a weirdo
@2up4downАй бұрын
Most impressive bodybuilder of all time in my opinion. Greetings from Switzerland.
@Matthew01733Ай бұрын
🙏💪
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
My man 💪🏽🙏🏾
@judah6152Ай бұрын
Great interview
@Matthew01733Ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@KirkieMarineАй бұрын
Shawn Ray is one eloquent speaker, I believe if his voice was more embraced bodybuilders would be making millions
@leninmelian2581Ай бұрын
Legend shawn ray.uncrownd mr.olympia 1994 fore me you are mr.olympia
@wisamsleiman3652Ай бұрын
Shawn ray is spot on😊
@gymganeshfitindiaАй бұрын
An excellent conversation as expected with the uncrowned Mr.Olympia. The sports most outspoken legend known for his candour and always standing up of what is right and who walks the talk. Mr.Shawn is whom I would call the new-age genre of bodybuilder with the right balance to create mass and symmetry. That inspired many upcoming youngsters in the pursuit of muscle starting in the 90s and into the new millennium and still do so in India. (If I am not wrong I think that even a ShawnRay classic was held in India in 2018.) Also Shawn along with other new age legends like Rich Gaspari, Kevin Levrone, Lee Labrada, etc were the face of many bodybuilding posters that were sold in huge volumes in India and graced the walls of many gyms in India that saw a fitness boom and in bodybuilding as a sport in mid 90s and into the new millennium. Thanks and appreciation to Mr.Ray, Mr.Matthew & Escape Fitness for this knowledge enriching podcast.
@Matthew01733Ай бұрын
Many thanks for the kind words 🙏
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
Thank you 🙏🏾
@great456789Ай бұрын
Shawn always says he retired in 2001. Those of us that were around then know this is not really true. His last show was in 2001. But he planned to compete in 2002. When that year came he said he was too busy with his duties as the athletes’ rep, and that he would be back to compete at the 2003 Olympia. When 2003 came he instead announced he was retiring.
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
Ahhhh, my last contest was 2001 hence Retired 🤡
@Mark_MN24Ай бұрын
When you have a bodybuilder who knows his stuff. It makes an Awsome podcast especially having the likes of Shawn ray listening to his stories. 💪 🇬🇧
@hugadogstudioАй бұрын
Shawn Ray is as great lecturer/raconteur to listen to as he was a physique to look at 😎💪 Calos Cagathos !
@clarencedavis16 күн бұрын
I met John Brown in Paris at one of his contests and asked about training. He told me straight, ' Train and you will grow '. Didn't understand completely at the time but later on I realized why he told me that. I lived in Europe, he couldn't give me constant supervision. He gave me a nugget of information that got me started on a positive path. I became Mr Hercules 1982 in Amsterdam at age 24. That's as far as I got before stopping. To go further I would have needed to use roids, something I wasn't willing to do. But I was in aw of John Brown too.
@ciaran8306Ай бұрын
Shawn had a amazing physique that every man on the planet could relate to and wanted to have. This is what bodybuilding should look like. Dorian may have been bigger etc, but Shawn looked far better in my opinion, and from a golden era that was so inspiring!! Modern bodybuilding has lost its sparkle.
@TheDewosaurusАй бұрын
Ppl hate but shawn more interesting to hear than other bb’s
@jasonito2319 күн бұрын
I was a primary school teacher for a few years. I taught Spanish but one year they also gave me a special reading class of students who had absolutely no interest in the books we had in our library. (3rd and 4th graders) So I brought in my stack of Flex magazines. I had about 20. The students ate them up and after the semester, the reading director told me that the score of my students were the most improved scores of all the classes. The students loved those Flex magazines.
@jesusmontoya8633Ай бұрын
I can listen to Shawn Ray talk all day!
@tjsullivan5119Ай бұрын
Love the glasses, at a moments notice he is ready to get into a paintball war
@billybarnett2846Ай бұрын
One of the most complete bodybuilders. It baffles me that he never got a Sandow.
@Boss3NateАй бұрын
Flex Wheeler and Shawn Ray having a combined zero Olympia wins is an absolute shame and joke in bodybuilding
@fastingfeastingbeastingАй бұрын
Shawn sugar ray calls a spade a spade . One of the best ever physiques ,definitely an uncrowned Mr O . Keep going strong Shawn . Good one Mat . Tq gentlemen .On On !!
@boriskrizan744729 күн бұрын
Shawn was an amazing bodybuilder
@LA4HINGISАй бұрын
Thanks
@JamesWilmoth-wj4cpКүн бұрын
Love this interview! Please interview Frank Zane or Boyer Coe
@michaelr.4878Ай бұрын
I love it when he says, 'fertographer'.
@TinoDiaz-ir4lmАй бұрын
Legend
@tonycostello3872Ай бұрын
I remember his first FLEX magazine cover it was in the 80s he was with this blond girl with huge hair probably 84 or 85
@Rookie40KАй бұрын
Great interview!
@johnlammergeier289017 күн бұрын
I was in a pump up room with Shawn in 1992 in Toronto Canada, He was just after doing the AC and getting busted for anavar or something. I was doing my second ever show, and here I was sitting on a bench oiled up ready to go, and I was watching Shaun only a meter away going through his routine in the mirror. I wonder if he remembers. His body looked like a cartoon.
@tonycostello3872Ай бұрын
I miss those magazines i had them all FLEX musclemag international IRONMAN muscle&fitness Dan Luries muscle training illustrated great era to be lifting i remember all those guys Lee Haney Gary Strydom Lee Labrada Mike Christian Berry De May Shane Di Mora Eddie Robinson great time the ads photographers i went broke buying those magazines
@dilligaf2386Ай бұрын
Albert Beccles wtf 56 came second at the Olympia to Lee haney. Well, shorly to do that at 56, you should be appointed the greatest bodybuilder to ever live.
@TheSmooveguyАй бұрын
One of the greatest bodybuilders ever and great ambassador for the sport. Definitely robbed a few Sandows in Dorian’s run.
@VanquishingEvilАй бұрын
I came here to be reminded that haters will always be haters!
@TOSHTONАй бұрын
Indeed!
@ronaknanda6175Ай бұрын
Shawn Ray The Snake
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
Ssssssss🤣
@balitzkyАй бұрын
Always good to hear Shawn Ray.
@tjsullivan5119Ай бұрын
Didn’t know Alan shearer loved bodybuilding
@Michael-cb5nmАй бұрын
After the interview, Sean going to replace some drywall with those glasses…
@AussieBodybuilderАй бұрын
Why is the odd dude wearing safety glasses 😂😂
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
Lol 😂😂😂😂😂
@olig7336Ай бұрын
Shawn is razor sharp
@j-uk2189Ай бұрын
Stand up guy!! 👍🏼
@ypmm53Ай бұрын
Great interview! This maybe the best Shawn Ray interview I’ve listened to thus far. Shawn has contributed a lot. But he toots his horn a tad bit too much. In addition, many times he has pissed people off not because he speaks the facts but his delivery and most recently his lack of sensitivity. When 2018 Mr Olympia Shawn Rhoden died in 2021, he made disparaging comments. Many of Shawn’s friends let it be known. He later apologized. Still, he sounded like a hater and jealous guy of Rhoden. I still respect Ray accomplishments and physique. He is probably in my top 5 of most favorite or greatest physiques ever.
@getfitron15528 күн бұрын
This dude is LEGIT
@markrobby71365 күн бұрын
Why American love wearing factory glasses?
@edmundchoy2992Ай бұрын
Shawn is an uncrowned mr olympia, has one of the best physique ever and speaks well....but the uncanny need to keep giving credit to himself and subtly putting his peers down is cringe worthy.
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
Because i did it by myself without an army of people helping me and still had success! Today, these guys don’t even know what to eat from one meal to the next unless they check with their trainer who never competed! Most don’t even know what their next contest is unless they ask their coach! Hope this helps you see the vast difference between me & them
@detonator2112Ай бұрын
Shawn was a great bodybuilder. But as a casual bb fan I never understood his delusions that he won all those Olympias against Yates. When you see the footage from those competitions you'll see how friggin' huge and how GRANITE RIPPED Yates was. Pictures don't do his condition justice. Shawn simply couldn't match his size and condition. Sure he was probably more symmetric but Yates was simply much more impressive. Not hating Shawn at all but he should let that crap go already.
@geoffhampton9155Ай бұрын
"All those Olympias". No, he mainly points out the controversy of him losing in 1994 and 1996, 1994 is really the one he believes he should've won because Yates was off. Dorian even admitted it. But don't say all those Olympias, that's over exaggerating.
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
You must of not heard me correctly. “I” was never the one saying I should have won, a lot of other people did and believe I should have. So there’s that 😘 Thanks for listening 💪🏽
@venusoflatassimus3584Ай бұрын
Hey is it you! You definitely are Mr Olympia in my book..every line up you were the most defined most detailed and of course pleasing to the eyes @sugarshawnray
@detonator2112Ай бұрын
They also say that Nasser clearly won the 1997 and Dorian looked like sh*t. I just watched footage from the show and man Yates looked good in that too. Let's not just rely on the pictures but watch the actual shows. Sure he had that torn bicep but other than that he was amazing. Of course not as good as 1993 and I agree it was a bit controversial but people exaggerate that Nasser got a clear win. He did not. Watch the footage.
@Chocolatesauce._Ай бұрын
Shawn beat him in literally every aspect except size and density💀they were both conditioned Shawn was arguably more contitioned Dorian jus had oldman muscle which gives the grainy look but if u look at the back poses Shawn literally had striated glutes, neatly separated delts, detailed back and arms and a crazy Christmas tree n standing next to Dorian all of that stands out even more. From the front it’s not even close Shawn ran away with it, he only loses the front n rear lat spreads and from the side I would’ve given those both to Kevin levrone. So Shawn should’ve won 3 mandatories then Dorian n Kevin 2 each then factor in the posing routines and who’s got the least amount of flaws…Shawns the 94MrO n it honestly shouldn’t even be a debate
@boosnakejonesАй бұрын
I hate the usage of “manifest” in this day & age. Why didn’t he manifest a Mr. O win then?
@sugarshawnrayАй бұрын
Its a sport of Subjectivity, Opinions. Look up the definition of 🤡
@boosnakejonesАй бұрын
@@sugarshawnrayit says Clown: see; sugarshawnray
@Elfrontu_1972Ай бұрын
Shawn Ray takes a little thought and runs with it. Most people hate been told the truth, and he was hated and still is by many in the industry of bodybuilding. But the guy is highly educated in all aspects. I like listen to him, and how he articulate his ideas. And yes, I’m a fan of him! 🦾🦾🦾