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

swim, beach, gym at Benson HST Brooklyn in 1978 and I got a sign that the biggest star in sports at the time was Robbie. Robbie came on the scene, the

black

prince

, the afro on the vest, all destroyed, you know, those lats sticking out of this and that. They were all John Travolta in the gym

black

hair back white t-shirt with his pack of cigarettes under his arm fresh from the movie and I walk in there and they say hello you're the owner he says yes who are you I said I'm going to introduce a show in May and I would like you to put up my poster and sell tickets for me.

Look at that thing that is Robbie Robinson. I said yeah, he's a friend of mine, who the hell are you? I just sold tickets to Dan Lorie and he said he was going to make Arnold, Sergio and Arnold not show up and they all wanted their money back and now that you're coming here you're bringing Robbie Robinson, get out of here, he's coming to me, I told. No, they're coming, I'm going, I'm telling you why I take out my wallet, I said here, it's my driver's license, it has my address, he says, yeah, I said, look at this phone number here, that's my phone number.

Home, give me that calendar. he looked at me, I said, give me the schedule for Off the Wall, it's backing off a little bit now because I'm getting aggressive on Monday the 1st, we're back to this day in April at 8:00 p.m. m. Robbie Robinson I'm bringing Robbie Robinson to your gym 3 weeks about 3 weeks before the show, but when I do, you're going to put up my posters and sell me tickets, and if I don't. do it all your friends from Guido here can come and take me out and they are looking at me they say you are a stuck up guy you know what I said copy it we are going to go that Monday night 8:00 I said let's go his name is Johnny Barbero the owner I said remember I'm going to go on Monday night I called him on Thursday before he leaves better he said I already have registrations better let's go out there I told him no problem so let's park a couple of blocks away, he gets to the street where the gym is , the gym is 3/4 of the way down the street and there was a banner up and there were like 30 or 40 guys outside, so as we get closer, someone goes there, now it's, you know. when a group of boys talk, you hear this low silence that was like Moses and Robbie were my scepter.

I am, I am carrying the Red Sea that they have just opened. He's looking, you walk into the gym, it was a store and the gym was in the basement and

everyone

goes and stands next to the thing and we walk and there's Johnny his father his brothers his uncles I go Johnny Barbaro Robbie Robinson and they with the mouth he's fighting he's in great shape you know and they're going crazy because back then there was no internet, these were the pages of the magazine coming to life and you have to remember that the 1978 magazine was in 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!

It's real, look at this, 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 it to Robbie, if there was ever a real physique worthy of Michelangelo in the

body

building world today, it would have to be be this and then I would see Robbie Robinson to this day, to this day, when Robbie Robinson is doing seated cable rows in the gym. I stop and look, it's so perfect the way he does seated cable rolls, he always kept me in some form in good condition he does it all the way the way he does it he trains on his back there is an art and there is a style and there is a love and I give my attention to that I try to emulate that look of Theus tremendous biceps probably the best in the the sport only reached 75 we all P for Mr.

I was from Mr War he Mr. O he is a dog everyday P just supposed to go in there with something different come up that powerful ride they got like they got one you got I came up with some muscle that was on a Time pin where

everyone

said in my neighborhood you know you don't go to be able to do that. I wanted you to be black and I said yes I can, you know I can do anything. I want that if I go in and put in the right time, energy and work that put into me what I wanted to achieve, then Joi was like The Godfather, setting up

body

builder on the big Mars of the United States, someone sent him pictures of me and then he .

He sent me a letter asking me to come to Los Angeles and train after returning from Vietnam. I was really motivated to like training because a lot of the guys that went to psychiatrists used it as therapy, so me using bodybuilding as my therapy kept me motivated and I pretended to train as hard and beat all the kids as much as possible. You have to understand that I was always in shape. Oh, I came out in 1975 B for Mr World Mr Universe. Little by little they allowed me to enter. that clip uh, once I established myself and saw that my body was changing rapidly, they allowed me to come in and train with them heading into he was trained for Mr Olympia and I was training for M, but during that period of time it was just I was evil of the body, they call it the black prince.

He dominated bodybuilding circles in the late '70s and early '80s. He is now back at the top of the sport and says he looks and feels as good as ever. I'm 70 years old, I mean, no. I don't feel like I'm 70 years old. I feel like I did when he was younger. I don't feel like he's aged. I feel healthy, strong and happy. This is something I'm really proud of. I mean, Mr. Olympia had to come in there and dominate. You can't come there peacefully. I'm sorry and I think they're looking for the old guys to come back because that's where the real quality muscle really is.

Leave me the double shot Double B for this lady. Here, quick, come on, come on, now, I love the body to study with the Masters, so to this day, I mean, 3 weeks ago, I was at the Gold Gym, look at that Robbie Robins look, he still has that delicacy, the fibers and the stretch marks. It was timeless, I mean I can relive that one more time.