Dennis James has been bringing on all kinds of visitors to affix him, Milos Sarcev, and Chris Cormier on The Menace Podcast. One current episode had two visitors, 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. Nevertheless, he didn’t get to have a good time 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 crimson blood cells, and I used to be dropping oxygen,” Newman instructed the panel. “I couldn’t catch my breath, and I couldn’t perceive why. The photograph shoots the subsequent week have been ugly.”
Newman was recognized with leukemia, and as rapidly as he rose to prominence, he was introduced proper again right down to Earth. As a substitute of competing in reveals and qualifying for the Mr. Olympia stage, he was making an attempt to cease the illness from advancing to a extra critical stage. That battle would take three years, however Newman survived it. He returned to the stage in 1998, being the primary recognized bodybuilder to drag off such a feat.
Newman stated, “It was the primary of a sort that any individual had come again (to compete) after having most cancers.”
Newman would compete 4 occasions as a professional between 1998 and 2001 earlier than calling it a profession. He nonetheless trains however admitted he isn’t related to the game now. He and the remainder of the blokes did discuss extra about Newman’s leukemia battle, recollections 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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