Dennis James has been bringing on all kinds of company to hitch him, Milos Sarcev, and Chris Cormier on The Menace Podcast. One latest episode had two company, Dave Palumbo of RX Muscle and former bodybuilding nice Dennis Newman. All 5 gents on this episode have a connection to the bodybuilding scene within the 1990’s. Newman, particularly, turned professional by profitable the general on the 1994 NPC USA Championships. However, he didn’t get to have fun that accomplishment for too lengthy as a result of he might inform one thing was off whereas he was onstage.
“The white blood cells took over the red blood cells, and I was losing oxygen,” Newman advised the panel. “I couldn’t catch my breath, and I couldn’t understand why. The photo shoots the next week were gruesome.”
Newman was identified with leukemia, and as shortly as he rose to prominence, he was introduced proper again right down to Earth. Instead of competing in reveals and qualifying for the Mr. Olympia stage, he was attempting to cease the illness from advancing to a extra severe stage. That battle would take three years, however Newman survived it. He returned to the stage in 1998, being the primary identified bodybuilder to drag off such a feat.
Newman stated, “It was the first of a kind that somebody had come back (to compete) after having cancer.”
Newman would compete 4 instances as a professional between 1998 and 2001 earlier than calling it a profession. He nonetheless trains however admitted he isn’t linked to the game now. He and the remainder of the fellows did speak extra about Newman’s leukemia battle, reminiscences with Cormier and Palumbo, how the competitions labored again in his period, they usually all shared a number of entertaining tales.
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