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The Neckzilla phenomenon continues to grow. He won the Flex Pro and then won the Portugal show. Rafael Mosquera, aka Neckzilla, has never done an Olympia and represents what many of us would call the freak factor that has always been a hot commodity in the sport of bodybuilding. Whether it was Dillett, Sonbaty, Ruhl or Ramy, the fans love guys that are larger than life. They’re willing to sacrifice it all for the size. Some of these mass monsters have lacked symmetry, others lack condition, some are just plain ugly to look at, but if they’re huge and their fans will leave no stone unturned.
They’ll make themselves heard. That translates to supplement purchases, ticket sales, and commanding voices on the message boards, the Facebook groups, IG, Tiktok and YouTube. And this was the way it was with the mass monsters of yesteryear. The fans would always get flustered and sometimes enraged when the major commentators overlook their favorite star. And this is because mass monsters really don’t fit in bodybuilding. If you talk to any of the purists from the 1960s and 1970s they will tell you that bodybuilding is about proportion. They will point to symmetry, balance, and flow. They will stress the importance of posing and they will downplay all other aspects such as the size of the competitor. Because the sport of bodybuilding is a subjective/aesthetic sport. Size, while important to some, really is not a major factor.
Try telling that to fans of moss monsters. They want to see the size because they associate size with freakiness. And some even associate sheer size with things like hard work and discipline.