Shaun Davis, the British bodybuilder who won Mr. Universe in 1996, died at 57.
A cause of death was not announced.
“I’m absolutely devastated,” his friend Kuldeep Bhardwaj posted on Facebook last Friday. “Rest in Peace my friend you was a true inspiration right from the day I met you at school, through your amazing bodybuilding years and after. Your smile and laughter will be missed.”
He signed with a pro soccer team when he was younger, but a broken leg cut his career short.
“Some of my friends were going to the gym and working out and friends locally were looking good so I thought I’d get into bodybuilding,” Davis recalled in a 2018 interview.
His “Dinosaur” nickname came from a friend at the gym who said Davis “had a great big body and a little brain.”
“It stuck so everybody started calling me the Dinosaur,” Davis recalled.
Davis also earned the title of Mr. Britain and Mr. Europe before kidney issues forced him to retire,” Metro reported.
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