Mr. America is thrilled to announce that a groundbreaking broadcast agreement has been secured to showcase the 85th anniversary of the most iconic bodybuilding event and multi-sports festival. This ...

Not only was Dickerson the first Black man to win the title, he was also the first openly gay Mr. Olympia. Chris Dickerson, who rose to fame in the fitness industry, becoming the first Black Mr.

According to his friend Bill Neylon, a gym owner and former amateur bodybuilder who trained with Dickerson, he resided at a rehab center in Fort Lauderdale and died of a heart ailment. He had been ...

Roger Callard has received a lot of honors in his bodybuilding career. But his latest — getting inducted into the Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame — ranks up up there with any of them. Callard, 72, ...

Chris Dickerson, who as the first Black man to win the Mr. America contest shook up the muscle-bound world of bodybuilding and established himself as one of its elite competitors, died on Dec. 23 in ...

Vince Taylor, a former Mr. America and a five-time Masters Mr. Olympia, can pinpoint exactly when he became enamored with the sport of body building and wanted it to be his future. "I was 11 or 12 and ...

Jules S. Bacon, 89, who won the Mr. America bodybuilding competition in 1943, died Saturday at his home in York, Pa., the John W. Keffer Funeral Home and Crematory said. When Bacon won the Amateur ...

CROFTON, Md., April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --As top athletes prepare to compete in the 2021 Mr. America competition, the reality show, "Mr. America's Gym. Eat. Repeat: The Road to Mr. America", provides ...

Chris Dickerson, who rose to fame in the fitness industry, becoming the first Black Mr. America and the first openly gay man to be Mr. Olympia, died last month at the age of 82. According to People, ...