Hi, I'm Tom Flats.
Welcome to Hollywood, California. Universal Studios.
Site of the 1998 Mr. Olimpia contest.
Bodybuilders from all over the world are here to compete tonight for the Mr. Olimpia contest.
Bodybuilding's most prestigious event.
The favorite tonight, of course, is Mr. Olimpia Lee Hayney.
Lee Hayney has won it four times in a row.
Can he win it five times?
And can he ever dream of coming close to matching Arnold Shwasticker's record, of wining it seven times?
Over the years we have heard a lot about the weights of the bodybuilders, in the magazines.
And, there's a lot of speculatiion.
This year, it's gonna be official.
You'll see them, and then you'll know what they weigh.
Take your seats gentlemen.
First bodybuilder, Richcus Barry.
Rich has focused this year was,
reducing his body weight over last year.
He was too heavy last year and appeared to blocky on stage.
And making his waist look small, he feels he'll be able to be more of a threat,
more of a viable threat to Lee.
Two hundred nine and a half pounds.
I'm going into this show,
going in the best that I can be.
And that's what I wanna do.
I wanna go in, to this show,
with people saying, "Man, does Barry look phenomenal."
"Does Barry look the best shape I've ever seen him?"
You know, and to me,
that's more satisfaction than winning this contest.
But, you know, I was saying this the whole way training for this contest
and out comes down to the wire and I wanna win.
I wanna win this thing bad.
You know that I feel that I've improved my symetry.
I kept that mass in my upper body, but I lost it all in the waist
so I have more of a streamline physique.
Having a small waist but a thicker upper body.
A thicker back.
Everyone says my back's improved and my arms have improved.
Plus I think that with time and maturity,
competing in the Mr. Olimpia.
I started competing in the Mr. Olimpia at 22 years old.
I was relatively young.
And being that young, I feel like my muscles haven't matured yet.
Now being 25, they, they seem to look a lot more mature.
They have more of that density.