He only went to prison for killing a home invader at his mom's house. Nothing else. Look it up

My older brother is into bodybuilding and we don't talk much. I only see/ talk to him about twice a year. I blew him away because of some of the lesser known bodybuilders ive heard of the last time we spoke .all because of your videos .

@rastachandolo9766

6 жыл бұрын

blkmustang007 loss my younger brother recently....he tried to connect with me through bodybuilding. It worked. I wish he didn’t pass away so we could compete together or some shit like that. Keep the love strong brother

This guy was legit. He had gang ties because he came up in LA but I think he denounced gang violence and wanted kids to get in the weight room.

What about CJ when you get him to 100% muscle in GTA San Andreas?

@hecatrice2064

6 жыл бұрын

*obligatory follow the damn train meme*

@hugoleonardoamaral586

6 жыл бұрын

Could CJ have been a bodybuilder?

@thomasmorrell2737

6 жыл бұрын

Get him to max fat and muscle and he becomes Phil Heath

@SOUSO991

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Morrell im fucking dead, 🤣

@ozvictorian

6 жыл бұрын

Iowa Hawkeyes cj did roids

I think it’s funny when people say Nicks videos are just Wikipedia articles. Where’s Craig’s Wikipedia with all this information? Where are all these rare photos Nick found? Not even on google image

@ragnarlodbrok9091

6 жыл бұрын

Agree that he pieces together the history really well but I found all these images on google.

@jbman890

6 жыл бұрын

Justin Medhat 😂😂😂

@bordercitykid

6 жыл бұрын

Justin Medhat lol?

@MrYodeezy

6 жыл бұрын

There's a really great three part interview Mr Monson did with Josh Bryant on the KZread channel called Jail House Strong. He's still getting his buff on in the gym.

@lancemilliken9078

6 жыл бұрын

Justin Medhat so is garry word, I mean jerry ward

Big Craig was the best to ever do it. I say that because he did it without all the help, without money, without fame. That’s why this OG is the best to ever do it

Back then gangsters still fought like men so it was advantageous to them to lift weights and get big and strong. Nowadays they only need to work out their trigger finger.

@timpenfield5

5 жыл бұрын

Good point, We used to be a dueling culture, not a pussy with a gun culture, vets come home , fight overseas and get shot by pussys. also.

@richbrake9910

5 жыл бұрын

Cowards

@facksvillain2296

5 жыл бұрын

Or they hit you from the blindside.

@RBNZ-lg9cy

4 жыл бұрын

the realest thing ive heard in a long time!!! in my contry new zealand we fight and if you use any weapons your instantly known as a bitch

@zyd_zz7588

4 жыл бұрын

WILD THINGS man tf r u talking about, back then all gangsters had guns too 😂😂

Great physique. He actually looks functional, unlike 99,99% of bodybuilders.

Tookie got banned from the weights room in prison His back was so thick he had to be double cuffed!!

GRAIG WAS FUCKIN HUGE. WEIGHTING 272LBS ON STAGE BACK THEN, HE WAS A MASS MONSTER. LITERALLY A RONNIE COLEMEN OF THAT ERA.

I trained at the same gym in Hollywood as Big Craig for years, and knew him pretty well. He’s the nicest guy you could hope to meet in the gym, and a true monster, even in his older age. His hands are absolutely massive, and he continues to carry a body weight of what appears to be 265lbs+. Great video!

@craigpatterson1547

6 жыл бұрын

MattSulentic I know him as well ! He's the nicest guy ! He was always a nice man to everyone ! This guy ! , you could walk up to him and just talk ! And he would stand there and listen ! No attitude ! No ego ! Just one Huge Bro Bro with a heart that's bigger !

@itsateaparty8282

5 жыл бұрын

GRE, do you realize you might be telling a 14 year old to grow up? Everyone here isn’t an adult.

The characters that came out of 1970's California are simply unmatched by today's bodybuilders. So many little-known beasts and stories of just guys who liked to fucking lift and were good at it. Love these vids Nick keep it up

@ragnorke634

6 жыл бұрын

But now we have Kai Greene fucking Grapefruits, and Phill 1 month away from his pregnancy due date.

@markthorpe6847

6 жыл бұрын

totally agree with your comment my friend.as i commented.bodybuilders of 70s era tons better than today.

Craig will always be remembered....he was ahead of his time...by 30 years. He made Lou and Arnold look like "little brothers" back in the day. Great to see footage of a Legend.

Wow, I'm from that era. I never heard of this guy. I think I've known every bodybuilder you've featured before this one. awesome video Nick!

Thank you for covering Monson. He's a true legend.

WOW!! I've been following bodybuilding since about 1980, and have a large collection of bodybuilding mags - but I have never seen a picture or heard of this guy till now. Great video Nick. This guy made a lot of the stars of his era look small. It's a crime that the powers that be chose to not let the public know about this guy. Craig Monson was an earlier version of Paul Dillett !!

wouldn't want to be caught in a drive-by shooting from those guns!

@Infam0usKiller

6 жыл бұрын

Lmaoo

@gprince7953

5 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@NORTH_CAROLINA

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao

You did a great job presenting him. Thank you for sharing. He was enormous!

Thank you!!! Been waiting on this video forever

Monson is A Monster. Respect. Awesome reporting by Nick. Great Job. 70s bodybuilders are really naturally gifted.

Always original content Nick :) Keep it up.

Nick is on a roll with his videos lately

My uncle was a Crip he said it was part of being a Crip doing 2 hours of exercising and helping out your neighborhood

@AbbasAbbas-wm6rg

5 жыл бұрын

johnnycage435 yea gangs are meant to help not destroy your community. Basically cops called a gang by white folk

@chongtak

5 жыл бұрын

I don't doubt what your uncle told you, but unfortunately it's long ago.

@TallCanDan02

5 жыл бұрын

r/quityourbullshit

@b.brewster3785

5 жыл бұрын

Do me a favor and ask your uncle did Schwarzenegger kill Tookie Williams as a favor for Craig Monson? @Bodayga

@litosway9875

5 жыл бұрын

“Community Resistance in Progress” is the original meaning for Crip!

Thank you so much for revealing this phenomenal guy !

Brilliant nick. You really dig deep man and do your homework. You tell it so well👍.

Love these kinda videos 👏🔥

You can see Craig Monson bench 500 lbs here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKujy7J9obKdo6w.html

@gamefortheladies7983

6 жыл бұрын

streetgangs Definitely Should Had Acknowledged Your Channel For Giving Those Classic Videos About Craig Monson

Amazing, I'm almost 60, in the very early 80s I had a buddy competing in the Mr. Cal. at Santa Monica Civic. I was standing at the urinal when this inhumanly huge black dude steps up to the one next to me. I'm 6',240lb college Md.Linebkr.,probably 19"arms,30"thighs fairly hard. This guy's delts were bigger than my head! We were approx . the same height, but this guy DWARFED me like I was a little kid. I never to this day knew exactly who he was to right this minute! Wow that's who that was, Incredible!

@TINKYSTEELE

6 жыл бұрын

Discernment LOL...AWESOME STORY!!!!! THANKS

@addyy78692

6 жыл бұрын

Discernment haha he must have had a bigger willy than you as well haha

@rickjason1786

6 жыл бұрын

Discernment. Funny story.

@tonys9796

5 жыл бұрын

*Damn, wow!!!!*

@lavarball6906

5 жыл бұрын

@@addyy78692 Nah too much juice!!! Womp womp woooommmmmpp

Nick, you're pretty much the only guy I know of that takes such an interest in the history of bodybuilding, the details, who would ever have known about Monson, I never even heard of the guy. I love watching your videos, sometimes i'm surprised how young you are, I would expect an old guy to be that deep into the history. Keep up the great work man!

Fascinating. My roots go back to the early 70s, watching Arnold et al...and this is the first guy you've shone the spotlight on that I've never, ever heard of.

I appreciate your insight and information Nick. You’re always spot on and thorough.

Another great one, Nick! The fact your'e keeping bodybuilding history alive needs to be 👏🏽

Craig was one of tookie wiliams idols he was looked up to by so many of the west side crip and east side crip ogs

Great Vid. Use to see him when I went down to Venice when I was in High School. Massive and Strong. The Old Workout Pit was Legendary in the 70's & 80's.

Stories like this is why your channel is becoming legendary.

WOW!!! GREAT VIDEO!! THANK YOU! Hope to see Mr.Monson celebrated more in the future!

Dude has some crazy forearms. Really thick. Also on the subject of gangsters, Al Capone wasn't as big but he was natty. Just throwing that out.

@gpeterspeter

6 жыл бұрын

jmarcguy lmao.

@cookedit

6 жыл бұрын

Well old scarface was a bouncer at speakeasy's for the mob before taking control.

@johnnycage435

6 жыл бұрын

jmarcguy how do you get bigger forearms ?

@eucalyptusdreadlord1552

6 жыл бұрын

johnnycage435 Wrist rotation, gripping, and pulling. Go to Athlean X for some workouts.

@johntaylor-lo8qx

6 жыл бұрын

Amazing !!!! Keep it up !!! Can't believe I've never heard of him !!!!

Good stuff man, Monson was definitely ahead of his time

Great work Nick, fantastic research

Thank you for this!!! Much love.

Wow, awesome topic and video. I haven’t thought about Craig in decades. Ground breaking physique for sure.

This the type of guy that looks even more huge in person. Unlike a lot of other bodybuiders. Not hating, this guy is just massive

Great video thanks for posting

Great video Nick, keep it up!

Biggest man ive ever seen and I've seen almost every top bodybuilder at the old and new Golds gym in Venice. Saw Munson at The Pit at Venice beach in early 80's. Saw him bench 505 for 12 reps and tricep extension with 315 . Blew my mind man . I was young bodybuilder then and a good 200lbs but this brotha was so large as to defy imagination. You can catch a clip of Munson and another brotha in the Gap Band party train video . To date i have not seen a bigger man than Craig Munson . Impressive

Nothing like the 70s.

You always have great informative videos! Thank you!

Dude was a beast...thanks for the enlightening video Nick. Love your equal opportunity videos bro.

2:32 that waistline is flawless :o

This guy dwarfed Sergio Oliva and Serge Nubret!

@JerkVegas86

6 жыл бұрын

Phillip Carter And Sergio was huge!!

There are no words to describe how incredible amount research you put into this sport. I really do appreciate all the time you take to give us (your fans) all of these incredibly insightful and entertaining videos. Thank you.

Well done, Nick!

The real "Conan the Barbarian"

"They were just vitamins" It's crazy how roids use to be over the counter.

Love these kinds of videos that tell bodybuilding history!

Great vid, Nick! Thanks for the info and keep em comin 💪🏼

Thanks for the education man I really like your page and the history of the past

Dude looked phenomenal

What's good Nick? I wanted you to know how much I appreciate your unbiased coverage you put together on these great men of their respected profession. Many of these titanic participants would never have been heard of if not for your passion for this sport. Beyond your passion, you possess a blinding characteristic that allows you to respect the hard work of many of these warriors of iron in a way that I've not had the attention span long enough to recollect. Thank you for not having that line that says "I won't cover a flawed human being, and that others will know his name regardless. Much Love from the copper/Black/Aborigines Americans. We greatly appreciate your coverage of our people... Peace be unto you sir.....

Great info, great video!

Even bigger than tookie

@Damondeeh20

6 жыл бұрын

Nick Salvatore I know bro crazy

@Beechboy68

5 жыл бұрын

Tookie Williams and Raymond Washington looked up to Craig. Craig was a few years or so older than the two Crip leaders

@anthonyharp7696

5 жыл бұрын

He taught tookie how to lift

@anthonyharp7696

5 жыл бұрын

@@jodyspeedball454 paper work?

@Ricobaca

5 жыл бұрын

Tookie was short.

Don’t mess with this dude!

That was awesome brother! OG mass at its finest ✊🏾

I have been waiting on this video. Thanx!

I heard that hedge actually has many mafia ties and he is a made hedgehog

I am a little bit embarrassed that I never heard of this guy and he is incredibly impressive to say the least.

Nick usually i don't comment any videos but this time i have to do this. Nobody on youtube would make a video about bodybuilder from the 80's which is known only because CT talked about him for a minute. That's what makes your channel special. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Great stuff Nick.

It’s so weird how the only thing separating him from a mass monster is his legs and waist, yet Tom platz has mass monster legs but not the upper body lol

Looks like perfect morph of Oliva and Coleman! 😎

Awesome video Nick. I have learned plenty of Bodybody Building history on your channel. Keep up the great work!

Great vid!

I wonder, how Arnold become most famous while all these monsters were there.

@giovamontana6130

6 жыл бұрын

El Caballo check out who arnolds dad is and you will know why..

@JerkVegas86

6 жыл бұрын

Cause he's white lol

his back is insane

Once again a on point video I love this freaking Channel great job especially telling stories of people you haven't heard of very very good

Great videos Nick keep em comin!

CT got a great interview with him...

One of the Crip kings real OG my man.🌞 tribe

@davidiweta269

4 жыл бұрын

He wasn't no crip. His slapping of/and prevention of Raymond Washington from joining the Avenues actually led to the formation of crip as a gang. Know your history.

im a big fan of yours nick dont stop the great work you do by making all the videos

love your documentaries

Looks like jordan peele in the thumbnail lmao

Thanks man, mad respect! Never heard of him until just little bit before now.

This is one of your best video about Craig Monson

Monster Monson

Since we're on gangsters..... Could Franklin from GTA V been a bodybuilder?

Thanks for the great Video

Thx 4 posting I got tons of magazines of the eighties and never heard of this man , a gangster? that is a pity , because he was a tremendous talent!! what a superb physic!!! a true winner!!

I never knew that Munson was a bodybuilder. I just knew him as a co-founder of the Crips.

@robertm3951

4 жыл бұрын

Munson was the leader of the Avenues The younger brother of one of the Avenue gang members started the Crips when Munson would not let him start the "Baby Avenues".

@bobbysmith35962

4 жыл бұрын

he slapped the shit out if the one that started the crips Raymond Washington

You finally got me man, I can't believe I've never heard of this guy before. Truly 30+ years ahead of his time.

Another Cool Video, Nick Always Manages To Find These Great Hidden Gems Throughout Bodybuilding History.

I really love ur videos man. U r doing a great job. Keep going!

Monson does 585 for 10, Larry Wheels- Hold my beer

@mydickenscidar2033

4 жыл бұрын

Monson was a lot bigger than Wheels

Dude does prison workouts...totally raw lifts...first comment ...welcome to the " first one thousand views squad " great upload NICK!

Keep the awesome videos coming!

Great video!!!

Reminds me of Aaron Baker

I drink cow juice nick

These topics are great.

Great video bro,well done giving props and respect.

Did he do G4P like Chuck Basher?