The officials who gave Big Dan the Pro-Status are guilty...
he´s young and motivated, ok....but he competed to early (in my opion), not having enough time to built up a good natural basis. He competed nearly every Year in the juniors up from 18 yrs., and i guess that he took (u know what..) way to much in this early phase of his carreer. If not, his improvements in the last 3 Years must be much bigger.
His best condition was at his last Juniors Year where he won the ifbb World-championship.
Between last year and this year i can´t see any improvement. Maybe he´s 5 lbs. heavier now, but his conditioning is not as good as last year. I guess that the result will be very much the same....the gap between him and the Top-Pros and even the 2nd class pros is not close, it´s Big (Dan).