Larry
Scott, “The Legend”, established and personified
bodybuilding’s beach Adonis image, and duly became the
sport’s Golden Boy after winning the IFBB Mr. America title
in 1962 and the IFBB Mr. Universe in 1964. He was the
first-ever IFBB Mr. Olympia in the contest’s initial two
years of life, 1965 and 1966.
Joe
Weider’s brainchild of a competition got the perfect
first-time winner in Larry. Of all the Hall of Fame inductees,
perhaps Scott started with the least raw potential.
Told
he was too narrow-shouldered – a condition then considered
insurmountable – he persevered and packed on prodigious
mounds of delt muscle which, coupled with the greatest arms in
bodybuilding, enabled him to present front double-biceps shots
that worked up a crowd like no other.
Witnesses
still say that the audience reaction to his 1966 IFBB Mr.
Olympia entrance was the most vociferous and emotional ever
seen at a bodybuilding contest. A devout Mormon, Larry lives
in Salt Lake City, where he runs his own bodybuilding advisory
company.
