Ronnie Coleman

About

Ronald Dean Coleman (born May 13, 1964) is an American former professional bodybuilder who is widely regarded as the greatest bodybuilder of all time. Known as “The King”, Coleman shares the all-time record for most Mr. Olympia titles at eight with Lee Haney. The winner of 26 IFBB professional titles including the Mr. Olympia for eight consecutive years, he is renowned for his combination of size and conditioning, dominant body-parts and extremely heavy workouts, making him the strongest Mr. Olympia of all time.
Coleman was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 and was bestowed with the ‘Arnold Classic Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 2021.

Ronnie Dean Coleman was born on May 13, 1964, in Monroe, Louisiana, to Ed Coleman and Jessie Benton Coleman. He was raised in a household that emphasized hard work and commitment. He graduated cum laude from Grambling State University in 1989 with a BSc in accounting. While there, he played football as a middle linebacker with the Grambling State Tigers as a walk-on under Hall of Fame coach Eddie Robinson.
After graduation, he failed to find work as an accountant and instead went to work at Domino’s Pizza, where…