Among the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness titles he won were Mr.
and trained at Muscle Beach - a symbol of the 20th century fitness boom - with Joe Gold, founder of Gold's Gym, and renowned bodybuilders such as Frank Zane and Irvin "Zabo" Koszewski.ĭraper was six feet tall and his ripped body weighed in at 235 pounds.
New Jersey in 1962, Draper took a job with the Weider Barbell Company in Santa Monica, Calif. "When the going got tough, when I kept missing the baseball, and when girls were far too cute to talk to, the weights were there and they spoke my language."Īfter being crowned Mr. "They were my solid steel friends that I could trust," Draper wrote on his website. said that by the age of 12, barbells and dumbbells had become very important to him. "It, as his doctor told me a little while ago, was a good death."ĭraper, who was born on Apin Secaucus, N.J. "I was with him and it was calm and peaceful," she said. His wife Laree Draper wrote on Facebook that he died on Tuesday, without giving a cause of death. Universe known as "the Blond Bomber," who inspired a generation of bodybuilders including Arnold Schwarzenegger, has died.
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