- Was best man at Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's wedding in April 1986.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger training Partner.
- Trained Sylvester Stallone for Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).
- Is in the Guinness Book of World Records for blowing up a hot water bottle by just blowing into it.
- Appeared on the sleeve of Grand Funk Railroad's 1974 album "All the Girls in the World Beware!!!" with fellow-bodybuilders Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank Zane. Band member faces were cleverly superimposed on their muscle-bound bodies.
- Credited as director of movie within a movie in Last Action Hero (1993) starring his friend Schwarzenegger.
- During the first ever "worlds strongest man" competition, he dislocated his knee during the refrigerator carrying race. The scene was not edited for CBS and was shown and even instant replayed. During an interview immediately following the race (while lying on a stretcher) he claimed that they told him it was broken but he said being a chiropractor he knew it was just dislocated.
- Bodybuilding Titles: 1976 Mr. Olympia 1981 Mr. Olympia
- Inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.
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