I was making the 5 hour drive from Tampa to Miami this afternoon, and I resorted to Twitter for my entertainment. I can’t say this is the safest way to entertain yourself on a long drive, but it generally works for me.
At 1 pm today, Victor Martinez walked into a US Immigration and Customs courtroom with hopes of leaving a free man. Sadly, things did not go how he, and most of the bodybuilding community, had hoped. While his girlfriend and IFBB Pro Jon Delarosa observed, the lawyers conferred.
Victor Martinez, $50,000 richer from winning the 2011 IFBB Arnold Europe, strolled right up to the U.S Custom window at JFK Airport on October 11th; however, he never saw the “light of day”. As of Monday November 7th, he’s been behind bars for a solid month and today is D-day for Victor. He’ll be appearing at a hearing in front of a judge that’ll determine whether or not he’ll be granted bail and temporarily released from custody.
As recently as three years ago, bodybuilding media outlets were locked up like Fort Knox. No one came in, and no one went out. Job security was at a all time high, and very little had changed for years. In magazines you had Joe Weider, David Pecker, Steve Blechman, and Robert Kennedy. Those four names are still securely at the top of the heap, but all the players under those kingpins have changed. Starting with Peter McGough being replaced with Allan Donnelly at FLEX, working down to the firing of Dave Palumbo and John Romano. Those changes were the first of many, and as of this week, the hits keep coming.
Two weeks ago in Mumbai, India my girlfriend, Darielle, and I were eating dinner at the airport with Kai Greene and George Farah. We had gotten to the airport several hours early and found a restaurant with a decent menu. We hadn’t planned to eat dinner with Kai and George but, not surprisingly, Kai was hungry and this was the only restaurant in our wing of the airport.
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