Wiggs, the competition is not tougher, like everything around us, the quality has gone down. The last holdouts from the 90s are fading away and you got shit up there. It has been widely said and known that Phil and Kai couldn't stand with Prime Ronnie, Flex, Shawn, Chris Cormier, Dorian, Levrone, even Alq Gurley, Charles Chairmonte, Porter Cottrell, Nasser, Dillett, Ian Harrison, Aaron Baker. Why aren't guys like these in the pro ranks. We have only a few handful, and most have bloated guts, bloated faces, less than stellar muscle seperation, conditioning and aesthetics. You have guys like Melvin Anthony, who piss their genetics away and never show up in shape. And eff to heavens, how the Hell did Kamali get his card---go asked the dead judge he thanked in the pages of Flex Magazine...The quality is rank, piss poor, and is NOT improving. Anytime society goes down, so does the quality in all aspects of what we do, there might be shining examples, but bbing ain't one. It's a microcosm of today's society fit into one tiny bowl, and amplified 10 fold. The lies, sex, drugs, backstabbing, cheating judges, all reppin that sad reality that America is falling apart and that one singular aspect is quality.As far as Jay, we all know what Jay was planned for, the great WH, marketing at it's finest. Jay was good, but look at dudes like Edgar Fletcher who had back detail, would come in the same condition, but it was expected for him to come in harder, and he never won his card.Jay, despite his win last yr, is among the weaker Mr. O's, not a true dominant force, only a force in a weak field, like a bully in a handicap school, or a mini-tornado in a small wheat field.Yep, I said Kai's days are numbered, never said he wouldn't win anything, but he is starting to look "odd" now, physique wise, he has excellent musculature, in terms of definition, but it beginning to look like he's becoming a slightly more aesthetic black version of Paco---with coorresponding black aesthestics, is what I'm saying. We all know that they are propping Phil, but it has always been the ones you think are gonna get it, don't.
5'7 25 and 257, what is going to improve...he was rewarded for only getting bigger, just like Wolf, he won't improve. You can't be that big, gained "30 pounds", and neglect the finer points. That's my point. No polish, when you get into the Pros, the polish should be there. What ruins Pros is that huge leap of weight, the gradual and steady fine tuning is what makes the great ones shine. It's like that for anything. As I said, he's got the wrong dude in his corner...and Flex Magazine has another Wolf to talk about.
The thing is he is not 5'7, really more in line with 5'9. I remember seeing him years back.
I was thinking the same thing. In the interview with Dave P. they are about the same size, I don't know how tall Dave P is, but I know he is taller than 5'7 and he had shoes on.
