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Ron Teufel was a legendary teen bodybuilder tht unfortunately passed away at the age of 45.
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Wow man, since watching some of Nick's videos have like been having flashbacks. Very interesting, reminds us of how long the steroids have been around.
It would be hard to believe anything OTHER than steroids led to his death…same with Walter Peyton.
I remember him well.
RIP RON very sad but on a happy note Fuck that chick at end of video is hot 🙂
I believe he also won Mid-East States. Met him at a local bodybuilding completion in Pittsburgh in the late seventies. I believe he was one of the guest posers that night. Who didn't love Ron.
Interesting video. For the first I could say that I have never heard about him.
Bu bu bu bu but, steroids don't kill you.
That cannot be his real surname. Means devil in german lol.
I remember him well. It's too bad we're not learning much from some of these deaths. For many of these deaths, the cause is, apparently, drug abuse of various kinds, not steroids, however.
Seen him once in the 70s
Nick can you do one on Ron Love. And it would be really cool if you could do one on Big Will and Norm Dabish who founded the Power House Gym in Detroit Michigan in 1974. Now that would be some good ones and talk about a chunk of the history of the sport.
I seem to remember he used to train with Mike katz in his garage.
Such a long list of golfers dying young!? Sorry no? A list of soccer players!? Sorry no? List of basketball players? No? Seems like a pattern occurring here about the healthy sport of bodybuilding????
Dianabol was main drug in 70's…toxic oral to liver…
He never got over losing the overall to Tony Pearson at the 1979 Mr. America. They had completely different builds. I would not say one was better than the other, but the judges were looking for the clean lines and conditioning that day. Many said Teufel should have placed ahead of Pearson. I did not even know he was dead. Thank you Nick for the update.
It was not the steroids. I knew Ron very well and again it was not the steroids.
Should do a vid of "little Hercules" a 9 year old that was aesthetic and very well built back in the 90's. And what became of him today
Dbol
He was featured in Strength and Health magazine back in the '70s. He also entered those DelMarVa benching competitions.
A lot of body builders used anadrol 50 a very harsh and dangerous oral steroid it will cause liver damage, it’s main use for medical purpose was for cancer , people still use it
I remembered him in a old muscle mag from 1980 which I still have. he was doing felt workouts. RIP
I remember him….he was his time's …..what's that guy's name….that guy who now sells supplements…
I think the first picture was Frank Richards.
Ron trained at Ed Ryans Gym in Glenolden, PA back in the 1970's. I used to see him in there all the time.
I spotted him one day at Ed Ryan's gym in Glenolden PA. He was the only guy I ever saw use the heaviest dumbbells in the place 100lbs. He asked me to hand him one and watch him. Don't know that I would have done to help him. I could barely hand him the one dumbbell. He was HUGE! I officiate wrestling and one of my fellow officials told me he wrestled Teufel. He wasn't huge yet but muscular. My friend said Teufel was so strong he couldn't do anything. Teuful threw him all over the mat. It was sad to see what happened to him
I remember him from the mags of that era.
Ya short video 8f your going to do one I'm sure theres alot more to it Nick
Although I do like your video's Nick, you are kind of missing stories about the actual person who is featured – stories that define the person, his setbacks, triumphs and trials. Instead of just enumerating how many titles he or she won it might make sense to do more research on the person and talk about the real person beneath those muscles along with the muscularity that defined him and her along with some humour added.
Hey Nick,
I have watched this video a couple times to re-live the era kinda in my memories. I was a teenage bodybuilder in daytona beach in the 70s and Ron was a huge inspiration for us boys in the gym. I had even used the cover of a muscle mag featuring ron tuefel doing a bicep peak pose that I silk-screened a t shirt in a high school art class. I had made 10 shirts and sold them to gym buddies and gave the teacher one also. Anyhow, it was real nice to see you do a piece on Ron Tuefel , who, was a genetic teenage freak that dominated the under 200 class , as a teenager. As many still do, I believe he deserved to win the Mr America, not Tony Pearson.
Seems like a lot of these short bb’ers end up being alcoholics later in life. Oral anabolics kill livers too though and I’d imagine orals would be something a teenager would be more inclined to use and abuse.
Steroids causes liver failure when are people going to leave them alone
Ron Teufel was the center of the big controversy at the 1978 AAU Mr. America in which a dark horse, Tony Pearson, won the overall over Ron Teufel and Tom Platz, who were the big favorites. The fallout was so big, Ron walked off stage, and though Pearson won the overall…he didn't make the Universe Team. This is when talks of a separate Bodybuilding organization started to really take hold and eventually lead to the NPC years later. I was 18 at the time and remember it like it was yesterday.
I was a friend of Ron. It was a sad day when he died. Small correction. He lost overall 1975 teenage USA to Steve Shields, he won his height class. He never won AAU Mr American. He lost to Tony Pearson the year it was in Cincinnati and Ron was robbed in a giant way. Ron beat Tom Platz in their height class and on the same stage later on that night after the America was over Tom Platz beat Tony Pearson in a qualifier for IFBB Mr World. Ron places ahead of Tom Platz on a regular basis. He told people he was 5’6” but he was almost 5’5”. He was crazy strong for his size benching about 450, squatting around 625. Dead was about 600ish. As a teenage in the 181lb class he had about a 1700 total and trained like a body builder. He would have been a crazy powerlifter if he got serious. Ron was devastated by the robbery and was never the same mentally after that. He turned to self medicating with alcohol. Sad day going to that funeral. His beautiful younger sister had a neuromuscular disease and a couple of his brothers did some drinking also so it may have been familial. As stated in an earlier post he trained at the legendary Ed Ryan’s gym.
Nostalgic feelings. (64) thanks. Those were the days.
I’m gonna guess steroids
Great journey down the road-of-memories Nick!! Thanks!
I remember Ron from back in the day and always noticed him b/c his last name means "Devil" in German!
I actually didn't know/notice at the time that he was a teenage BB "phenom" like Platz, we would just see/hear/read about these guys in "monthly" mags not "daily" real-time updates/info.!
It's a lill' weird to see one's (my) own history in that 20/20 hindsight kinda way….to just now get all the details of what all was going on behind-the-scenes (private lives) & just simple facts of life. Humbling….we thought we "knew" so much (all) when we were young….(sic)
He trained at Ed Ryan's gym in Glenolden, it's a time capsule, the gym is virtually unchanged since he trained there, and yes it's still open. Evan Centapani and Frank McGrath have filmed training videos there because it's so old school