he won't beat branch. that's why they won't do a direct comparison with the two. it would have been great energy at the show having the two of them directly compared after the heat at the press conference.
but like the way they kept wolf away from cutler in 2007. they knew wolf was bigger, better conditioned and all around better, so they kept them apart, because they knew they were gonna place cutler way ahead of wolf, and they know they are gonna place branch way ahead of ben.
ben is way leaner and still would dwarf branch in direct comparison.
Well according to Chad Branch can drop from the first call out to 7th, unlikely I know, but basically they called Branch at the first glance and as he compared to everyone he was exposed so it will hard for him to hold 5th place at the finals.