I really do like watching him compete against the likes of Flex and the others in that class. I was just reading an article (by chance) in an MD mag where he actually say's that if he does NOT come in at 100%, he gets taken out immediately.
He can't even be a tiny bit "off" like some guys can, and you can see why. There really is no depth in his separation anywhere. His chest is shallow, abs, tris, everything... so what he does is gets shredded to the bone instead. He doesn't quite have that dry "grainy" look that Dorian made so famous, but he looks good and thick.
It's weird. If you watch his off-season training vids, he looks fat. His belly really protrudes and you see absolutely 0 separation.
Whoever said a few posts ago that he has to almost kill himself to compete is spot-on.
It's scary watching him train b/c he is always panting and out of air. It' like he is entirely anaerobic and has 0 aerobic capacity.
Scary. It's like one of those American Bully's... always panting.