CANADIAN REVIEW - emusclemag.com by Garry Bartlett

Most readers were probably still in diapers when Hamilton, Ontario's intensively competitive Mike Watson virtually tore up the Canadian bodybuilding scene with his unique brand of bone-dry muscularity in the late '70s and early '80s. Despite his awesome physique, which included legendary vascularity and striated muscle density, Watson was better known for his fiercely competitive and aggressive stage antics. Any brave competitor who stood in his path was likely to experience a shove, an intimidating glare, or choice words of discouragement. 25 Years later, Mike has a successful chain of gyms in the Hamilton area and has managed to pass on the bodybuilding bug.

At this spring's Festival City Championships in Stratford, the legend of Watson returned in his 21-year-old son, 5'8'' 210-pound Zane, who's already striking fear in his competitors' hearts. When Zane walked onstage, the clock seemed to turn back 25 years. As the saying goes, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Mike, who coached and trained his son, was a proud papa as he sat and watched Zane dazzle the packed auditorium by winning the heavyweight class and then the overall championship title. Sporting the same kind of extreme muscle density, Zane is the spitting image of his famous dad. He fully intends to follow in his footsteps by re-establishing the legacy the great Mike Watson set over 25 years ago.