{"id":13404,"date":"2021-06-06T03:20:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T03:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitolympia.com\/?p=13404"},"modified":"2021-06-08T00:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T00:43:33","slug":"jay-cutler-reflects-on-beating-the-greatest-ever-ronnie-coleman-to-win-mr-olympia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fitolympia.com\/na\/jay-cutler-reflects-on-beating-the-greatest-ever-ronnie-coleman-to-win-mr-olympia\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Cutler Reflects On Beating \u2018The Greatest Ever\u2019 Ronnie Coleman To Win Mr. Olympia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jay Cutler looks back on avenging his years of second place performances by beating Ronnie Coleman to win the 2006 Olympia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fitnessvolt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jay-cutler-ronnie-coleman-750x393.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Cutler Ronnie Coleman\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of being the perennial runner-up,&nbsp;<strong>Jay Cutler<\/strong>&nbsp;was able to dethrone the great Ronnie Coleman and win the Mr. Olympia &nbsp;A decade and a half later, he reflects on that moment and what it meant to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The onstage career of Cutler has two fairly distinct parts. What most people know him for is the fact that he was able to\u00a0win four Mr. Olympia titles\u00a0across five years, only briefly disrupted by Dexter Jackson in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However there was also the part of his career where Jay seemed to always be the bridesmaid but never the bride.<strong>\u00a0Between 2001 and 2005, the Massachusetts born bodybuilder found himself coming in second place<\/strong>\u00a0at every single event he competed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After this run of second place scores, Jay Cuter was finally able to win the 2006 Mr. Olympia, breaking the legendary\u00a0Ronnie Coleman\u2019s\u00a08 year reign as champ. Speaking in a recent\u00a0interview, Jay explained just how much this moment meant to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He started off by&nbsp;<strong>going on record to say that Ronnie Coleman was the greatest bodybuilder to ever do it,<\/strong>&nbsp;and he looked up to the legend. He then explained that after being second for so long, it took him a while to come to terms with the fact that he won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cHe\u2019s the greatest ever, I\u2019ll go on record. We all sit here and look at bodybuilders and who we admire, this guy was my idol. So for me to come up and have him as my idol and &nbsp;then become a rival, and then of course have to beat him,\u201d Cutler explained.<\/p><p>\u201cWhen I did beat him, I felt bad because not only did I beat him, but he was going for record number nine at the time\u2026 So I held (him) from that happening. He was going to break that record, and I was the first guy to defeat Mr. Olympia onstage, never been done in history, still to this day.<\/p><p>\u201cTo have all those second (placings), I was second to him four times to him, where most guys would have given up. It seemed like there was a curse of the second place Mr. Olympias, if you go back to like Rich Gaspari, and Kevin Levrone, Shawn Ray, all these guys they never end up getting the title, Flex Wheeler, like they all pursued that title and then fell back, whereas I was the one who was able to leap forward and actually win the title,\u201d Cutler continued.<\/p><p>\u201cTo do it in my home town of Vegas, and have everyone behind me\u2026 By that point, as the underdog you build up a huge momentum. It took me weeks to realize that it happened, and to this day it was still one of the greatest moments in our sport\u2019s history, and probably 50 years from now will be recognized even further. It seems like the further I get away from my career, the more respect I get.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, Jay Cutler goes on to explain that top bodybuilders were portrayed as perfect in magazines. So there was a certain expectation that fans had when they met him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However he knows that all of these bodybuilders had their own issues going on behind the scenes, and were far from the perfect expectations set before them.<strong>&nbsp;So that makes him appreciate the vulnerable moments that he had early in his career,<\/strong>&nbsp;before he found success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWith success comes a different mindset\u2026 If you told me at 18 when I started, I was a shy country kid, and I remember standing onstage and I was shaking, and I was wining,\u201d Cutler said.<\/p><p>\u201cI remember guest posing, being nervous as hell up there, like oh my gosh. I was paid to be there because I just didn\u2019t have the experience. And then starting to get behind a microphone, and having to do it onstage, and I was only in front of 500 people or 1000 people.<\/p><p>\u201cEventually, when you\u2019re on the Olympia stage doing speeches with 10,000 people, and then you go to seminars, and you travel worldwide,\u201d Cutler continued. \u201cAnd then of course you get behind a microphone for social media, and you\u2019ve got millions of people.<\/p><p>\u201cYou learn to adjust and then you realize that \u2018Wow I\u2019m actually changing people\u2019s lives.\u2019 I look back on the accolades of what I did, right? All these awards and titles, we can talk for days about that, but its the people now who appreciate you for the message that you provided, and the motivation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/YBTQle25Ntc\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"click to play the video\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is crazy to look back on the career of Jay Cutler and see how far he came. His story is nothing short of motivational, and even years later it is incredible to hear him reflect on these moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Cutler looks back on avenging his years of second place performances by beating Ronnie Coleman to win the 2006 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