Have We Seen the Future...and is it Called Big Ramy?

By the time this issue nestles into your gnarled deadlift-stressed hands, the 2014 New York Pro, staged on May 17 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan by ace promoters Bev Francis and Steve Weinberger, will be a matter of public record.

  At last year’s rendition, we witnessed the most explosive pro debut in years as 286-pound Mamdouh Elssbiay, known as Big Ramy, made more jaws drop than an incompetent dentist as he walked out and just stunned the assembled muscle masses with his sheer size and development: he was like a giant sandwich board with a wicked V-taper. New York had seen nothing like it since King Kong decided that ascending up the Empire State Building was more fun than necking a few with Babe Ruth at The Cotton Club.
 Big Ramy just crushed the opposition (including marquee competitor Victor Martinez), and in his first foray into the pose-for-pay ranks nailed down a straight firsts victory. His emergence was the catalyst for more hype than an Elvis Presley comeback tour, with many predicting he was a future Mr. Olympia, and some stating he would win it first time out in his Big O debut last September. In the end, probably not as sharp as New York, he was adjudged eighth at the 2013 Olympia, although personally this humble scribe saw him a couple of places higher than that.

  Probably even more remarkable than his explosion onto the bodybuilding landscape is the fact that he only started seriously training as bodybuilder back in 2011 when he weighed around 200 pounds. Now he’s the hottest thing in bodybuilding since the sun beds in Gold’s, Venice, malfunctioned.
This year Big Ramy aims to improve on his Olympia placing of last year so 2014 will be a year of proving that his 2013 exploits were not a flash in the pan........this article is continued in the July issue of MD Magazine - pick up your copy soon or subscribe today.

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