by Christian Duque
Rubiel Mosquera aka Neckzilla appears like one thing out of a comic book e book and he’s lighting up the professional circuit not like something I’ve ever seen. Just some weeks in the past this man wasn’t even a professional. Now he’s a professional and he’s made severe injury on the professional circuit. Only one look and also you’re left questioning the place his neck ends and the place it begins. When you beloved the freaks, then you definately’re going to like this man. He’s a throwback to guys like Markus Ruhl and Paul Dillett, however along with his stage of conditioning, he can stand with the perfect of the perfect.
Not solely has this Columbian phenom pushed the mesomorph card to absolutely the restrict he’s getting in contrast with the likes of Samson Dauda! That’s fairly insane contemplating the ink on this man’s professional card hasn’t even dried but and he’s being included in the identical dialog as a defending Arnold Basic champion and a High 3 Olympian. And it’s not a fantasy comparability or a subject to cross the time amongst muscleheads on a message board, both. These guys really went toe to toe in open competitors. Furthermore, Dauda didn’t precisely greatest the rising star, and that too has been grounds for some fairly full of life discussions.
It is rather very uncommon for an newbie competitor to show skilled after which flip round and achieve this nicely at a professional competitors like we simply have seen with Neckzilla. The truth that only one present into his professional profession he already has a particular nickname and this quantity of buzz makes it as to the place any promoter goes to wish to have him of their lineup.
On the finish of the day we can’t ignore the ten,000 lb elephant within the room. It is rather vital to promote tickets on the door and to promote pay-per-view packages. These days it appears everybody desires world class productions for buy on-line however only a few promoters are seeing the numbers to justify the funding. Furthermore at a time when many companies are submitting for chapter safety it’s changing into more and more troublesome for contests to promote sales space area. Corporations don’t wish to take a shower and lose out on the chance to maneuver merchandise when there are merely only a few members of the viewers accessible to buy something. Competitions have to suppose exterior of the field and so they want rivals whose very presence goes to usher in the followers. Extra followers means extra cubicles they’ll promote and which means more cash they’ll preserve on the finish of the evening. In any case, contest promotion could be very a lot a enterprise primarily and a pastime secondarily. You may’t pay the payments with ardour, however you possibly can pay the payments with cash.
The underside line is that Neckzilla is already changing into a power to be reckoned with. A number of rivals have gotten very uneasy at the truth that he’s incomes so many accolades and successful over so many followers with little or no time within the sport.
Now right here’s the large query and that’s – will he have the ability to do what he did at his professional debut at among the larger competitions? Wouldn’t it be justified for him to get an Arnold Basic invitation when he’s barely been a professional for simply a few months?
I’ve to be sincere with you, the invitational committee has to consider the {dollars} and cents concerned in placing on a contest whose prize cash final 12 months was $300,000 and which subsequent 12 months could also be equal to that or much more. The one factor they by no means wish to expertise once more in Columbus Ohio is that the second largest bodybuilding present solely has six rivals. The present that’s second solely to the Olympia and it nearly didn’t occur in 2023. They must actually deliver it in 2024 to have the ability to rival a contest often known as the Tremendous Bowl of Bodybuilding.
There have been years the place the occasion in Columbus was as large because the occasion in Vegas. Final 12 months after all was not one among them. Might we see Neckzilla on the 2024 Arnold Basic? Solely Time Will Inform.
I’ll let you know I’d not be shocked to see his identify on the invite listing regardless that many veteran rivals could be up in arms that he could be given this monumental reward so early on.
Other people are speaking about whether or not or not we’ll see Neckzilla on the 2024 Mr Olympia? Might he qualify? And if he certified the place would he place?
The actual fact of the matter is he’s changing into a fan favourite in a short time and he might doubtlessly win the individuals’s award subsequent 12 months in Las Vegas. If we see Mosquera battling with the most important guys within the sport on the most important stage – all bets are off. Think about seeing Neckzilla battling it out with a revamped Huge Ramy, a revamped Nick Walker, and guys like Hadi and Derek. That will be the form of showdown that each fan of mass monsters and genetic freaks would kill to see. Even when Neckzilla didn’t win, if he was a minimum of within the dialog, that might be blockbuster!! Gangbusters!! It might be the most important bodybuilding present that you would ever think about! I don’t even know how you can describe it!
I imply it’s important to notice that though the game of bodybuilding relies on aesthetics and symmetry most followers might care much less about all that. They don’t wish to see little frail bodybuilders with lovely muscle bellies. They wish to see veins, slabs on slabs of muscle, and guys that look as cartoonish as potential. They might not have lovely physiques however who cares about that to on a regular basis followers?!?! They wish to see the wow issue. They don’t care if bodybuilding doesn’t turn into a mainstream sport. They’re not right here to develop the game or see it within the Olympics. They know that the freaks use gear and so they know that among the freaks are actually human pincushions. They might care much less about that. They need the freak issue and Neckzilla delivers on that 110%.
The massive query just isn’t going to be whether or not or not Neckzilla will have the ability to rise to the highest of the game relatively the query might be how lengthy will it take? When you have a bodybuilder that’s critically dedicated and listens to the judges, that bodybuilder can go all the way in which to the highest.
Furthermore, Columbia is a hotbed for the game as is Brazil, Europe and Asia. Regardless that bodybuilding appears to be targeted in the USA, I’d argue that the game is way extra common around the globe than it’s right here. The identical means that Huge Ramy and Hadi set the Arab world on fireplace after they gained the Olympia, I think that Mosquera would do the identical for Latin America.
We now have by no means seen a Latin American champion. There have been some fairly shut calls with Victor Martinez and Gustavo Badell, however there has by no means really been a Spanish-speaking Mr Olympia – a minimum of not for the reason that late nice Sergio Oliva again within the late Sixties. That was 50+ Years In the past!! This might be an absolute bonanza for each nation from Mexico to Chile and Argentina all the way in which over to Spain. The game would come alive if it had a Latin American as Mr Olympia.
Now after all that is extraordinarily untimely as a result of we’re speaking a couple of man who actually simply acquired his professional card lower than a month in the past however nonetheless the chances round this one specific competitor are mainly limitless.
As somebody that loves media and loves advertising and marketing I can let you know I can consider any variety of campaigns centered round Neckzilla. That is nice for the game by way of growing an actual buzz that may be sustained not only for just a few weeks and even a few months however for years to return. This man might be the following Markus Ruhl or he might be the following Dorian Yates or Ronnie Coleman. Once more we’re not simply speaking a couple of man with slabs of muscle; Mosquera has some form, he does have some symmetry and he has conditioning on his aspect. Nonetheless, the neck appears fairly gnarly and I don’t know if that’s going to throw a monkey wrench into his Olympia aspirations. Nonetheless so long as he’s this common and this dedicated and pushed the sky’s the restrict for him.
How far do you see Neckzilla going? Do you suppose a number of that is untimely hype or do you suppose this specific competitor warrants all the consideration?
Solely time will inform what he does on the professional circuit however from what I’ve seen to date a number of guys must be completely mortified to share a stage with Neckzilla!
