Ali Tabreezi under 202lbs. he will all of the shows

[Charlys69]

Very good Arab genetics!

he has no arabics genetics...he was born and grown up in Iran, in Iran they speak "Farsi", all arabic countries speaks "arabic". Later, as a Amateur-Bodybuilder he competed for a Arabic country in the "gulf region" (because he had better commercial perspective there, then being a "poor" Bodybuilder in Iran).

[donrhummy]

in many of the Asian countries, their governments pays them more to compete as an amateur than they would likely make as a pro

the IFBB rules about having to go through your national chapter are petty, just a way for the amateur international org to have power over the national orgs, and the national orgs to have power over the athletes.    from a business perspective, it is in the best interest of the IFBB Pro League to have the best athletes in the world, even those who have never competed in an IFBB amateur contest, even those who have but who pissed off some third world bureaucrat .   better bodies mean bigger audiences means more profit.  if the IFBB were a publicly held company, rather than a privately held one, their stock holders would have voted out upper management for not making the most of their investment.

What a shame. I think there are probably about 5-10 guys out there who could make the IFBB contests a lot better and help steer us away from the gut monsters, but we'll never see them.