Lee Priest — Napoleon Complex Or Underrated Superman?

In the mid to late 90s, the stories about bodybuilder Lee Priest were insane.

Wild speculation from his sex life to steroid use, the crazy off-season blowouts and career-damaging blow-ups, reports of illness, retirement and imminent demise fuelled the era’s out-of-control gossip columns.

Standing a mere 5’5, Priest was one of the largest pound-for-pound bodybuilders, one of the sport’s youngest pros, and voted for possessing some of THE best arms in history. He’s also famous for being the man who almost mentally broke a young up-and-coming Ronnie Coleman.

With undeniable good looks, magnetic charisma and membership to the newly emerging 90s freak fest, few cultivated a following as polarizing as Priest.

Looking more like an overstuffed beef burrito in the offseason it’s no surprise that an almost 300 pound Priest was for consecutive years, a leading front-runner in the internet’s unofficial Dead Pool.

Yet the quixotic Priest’s biggest battle has been less with the iron or his own mortality…