Grant, I hate to say it, but none of the National level athletes have that wow factor like they used to have except for Robert.I remember guys like Flex Wheeler, Mike Matarazzo, Dennis Newman ,Keven Leverone,Tom Prince,Jim Quinn,and even Jay Cutler had mind blwong physiques.When I saw USA, this weekend, only like 3 guys impressed me, the rest just looked like very good local level competitors.Its seems that the caliber of bodybuilders isnt what it used to be.
If you even look at pro bodybuilders 60% look like sh$#$ on stage.
Back in the late 80's up until 2001 90% of the pro and national level bodybuilders were all big, and shredded.
I think that bodybuilders lost its energy, since then.I think the reason for this 1) there is no money in bodybuilding 2) most guys starting out dont think they can or want to look like a pro bodybuilder