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What a monumental prediction from the greatest bodybuilder of all time Ronnie Coleman when it comes to Keone Pearson. Ronnie has not made a lot of these types of predictions, in fact, I can only think of one other time in which The Big Nasty made a similar type endorsement. And it’s a ringing endorsement let me tell you. As I said, when you’re dealing with the eight time Mr Olympia he seldom, if ever, likes to put himself out on the line like this. And that’s exactly what he did for 212 Mr Olympia Keone Pearson. He basically said that when Keone transitions into the open category of men’s bodybuilding that it would only be a question of time until he was in fact the greatest bodybuilder on Earth. That is not something that you will hear from the big Texan. The reason you don’t hear that is because what it does is it puts him behind Peaeson as a competitor and separates him from the pack.
The only other time that Coleman did something like this was when he said that his successor would be Victor Martinez. Now when he made that statement it sent shockwaves throughout the industry. At the time print media was still king and everybody hung on Coleman’s every word. He made the statement in 2005 before that year’s Olympia. And he picked Victor Martinez not Jay Cutler. This of course deeply offended Cutler, who had been taking second to Coleman year after year. It was almost like a slap in the face. Ronnie did not mean any offense; he was just being honest and giving his two cents to one of the many magazines that were interviewing him. The problem is it ruffled Jay’s feathers and it also created some animosity from other competitors who thought that they had been overlooked for The Dominican Dominator. As it would turn out Martinez was considered to be the winner of the 2007 Mr Olympia by many fans, even if not by the judges.