Mr. Olympias to be guest posers at Blaisdell event
Advertiser Staff
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In a rare faceoff, two Mr. Olympia winners will be guest posers in the 29th annual Hawaiian Islands Bodybuilding Championship.
The event, to be held 6:30 p.m. June 30 at Blaisdell's Concert Hall, will feature current Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler and eight-time winner Ronnie Coleman as part of the program.
The main feature will the competition among the state's top bodybuilders for the title that will qualify the winner for a national meet.
Other competition includes a Junior Hawaiian Islands Championship and a Women's Hawaii Figure Contest, which also is a national qualifier.
Cutler, who boasts 22-inch biceps, 31-inch thighs and a 34-inch waist, broke Coleman's streak of eight consecutive Mr. Olympia titles.
From 2003 to '05, Coleman finished first with Cutler second.
Coleman was raised by a single mother in Monroe, La. He later played football at Grambling State and graduated Cum Laude with a bachelor of science degree in accounting. After moving to Dallas, Coleman joined the police force, where one of his fellow officers persuaded him to check out a gym that was home for many competitive bodybuilders and powerlifters. Coleman's background at first was in powerlifting. He hit the stage for the first time in 1990 and has been winning ever since.
Cutler, born in Worcester, Mass., located 50 miles west of Boston, is the youngest of seven children.
He played football in high school and began training on his 18th birthday in 1991. But it was at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester that he discovered bodybuilding.
Cutler said on his web site (www.jaycutler.com) that in the beginning he only trained to look better, "but my training quickly led to competition. I competed at the age of 19. My first show was the Teen Nationals in Raleigh, N.C. I placed first. This was the start of my bodybuilding career and love for competing."