Doc's
Sports supports and promotes local and regional NPC Bodybuilding
Contests in Georgia. The company also provides top quality products
for bodybuilders. Kenneth “Doc” Neely started Doc’s Gym/Doc’s Sports
in 1976. He began making posing trunks in 1977. The first trunks
were the DR, before this time most bodybuilders wore handmade trunks
or speedos. In 1980 he was the first outside advertiser to appear in
Joe Weider’s Muscle Fitness with a full page color ad and later
expanding to a double page spread until 1986. In later years he
advertised in Flex, and Muscle Magazine.
Doc promoted the first Mr. USA and teenage USA in 1977 at the Fox
Theater in Atlanta. It was the first time that a bodybuilding
contest was held as an independent event without weightlifting. He
also promoted the Mr. America in 1979 at the Fox Theater with a
crowd of over 3,600 people in attendance. Ray Mentzer won this
event.
(Joe Weider, Gary Strydom, Doc Neely and NPC President Jim Manion
From 1986 NPC National Held In Atlanta by Doc's Sports.)
Other events promoted by Doc Sports:
