By Dayne Hudson
All eyes and ears have been on 4 X Mr Olympia Phil "The Gift" Heath at the 2015 Mr Olympia press conference in Las Vegas, in the wake of the biggest bodybuilding saga in recent history.
Mr Heath said of the Kai Greene contract saga: It's not my responsilbity to wonder what a grown man is going to do. If I'm going to worry about Kai signing something then I should be worrying about Dexter, Branch everybody else signing theirs...'hey did you sign your contract?'" he said.
"Of course they're going to sign their damn contract, these are professionals" he said, in a subtle swipe against Kai Greene.
Mr Heath also revealed he was not impressed with what he brought to the stage last year.
"Was I happy with my physique last year? Absolutely not" he said.
But Mr Heath said he didn't beat himself up over it too much - but rather stopped to think about the facts: Ronnie Coleman won his first Olympia at 33 and he had won his 4th Mr Olympia at the age of 34.
"This year was about being positive, I'm going to stop and smell the roses" Heath said.
He added Dexter Jackson and Branch Warren's efforts at the recent Arnold Classic have motivated him this year.
And when asked who he thought would win if he wasn't competing - he response was Dexter Jackson, citing his experience.
But Phil isn't worried about the hypotheticals, he sent a scary message to his competitors, saying his physique this year is "a fusion of 2011 and 2013," the years where he looked his best.
"And that my friends is very dangerous" he said.
NPC GLOBAL UPDATE:
In the wake of the new federation NPC Global started by former IFBB judge Jim Thompson, the National Physique Committee of the U.S.A has quickly moved to declare they and the IFBB have nothing to do with the new federation.
Jim Thompson said in his video announcing the new federation, that NPC Global is a place where athletes from the IFBB and WBFF can all compete together, whilst handing the athletes a share in revenue.
