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Title: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: nicorulez on March 04, 2006, 09:13:27 PM
Take a look and cry Branch lovers.  No contest.

Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: nicorulez on March 04, 2006, 09:14:12 PM
Here's a comparison shot for ya.  You need a back to win in the big leagues.

Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: 240 is Back on March 04, 2006, 09:16:19 PM
Chris cook =

(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/US/Southwest/02/21/train.collision.ap/story.train.crash.ap.jpg)

Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: Borracho on March 04, 2006, 09:20:52 PM
Here's a comparison shot for ya.  You need a back to win in the big leagues.

If you're gonna put a comparison shot than why not one with Dex and Branch?
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: nicorulez on March 04, 2006, 09:47:02 PM
That is the one on Flexonline.  I am sure others will pop up, but they will prove my point easily.  No contest from the back.  Branch looks great from the side, but his front relaxed shot really highlights how his lower body overshadows his chest and upper body.  Dude needs better symmetry.
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: hifrommike on March 04, 2006, 09:50:12 PM
I agree Branch still needs to make some adjustments, but he will.  This is his highest placing & he's still young as a pro.  He's a mofo beast & keeps getting better. 

Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: Tuna Sammich on March 04, 2006, 09:55:52 PM
Chris has a really large ass. He's one of those guys who would win if all the competitors had to sport an off season physique
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: nicorulez on March 04, 2006, 09:56:56 PM
I agree, he is large but he is anything but young.  He is 31 years old.  He will get bigger, but will he make the quantum leap that Coleman made.  Only time will tell.
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: JOHN MATRIX on March 04, 2006, 09:59:25 PM
Chris cook =
(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/US/Southwest/02/21/train.collision.ap/story.train.crash.ap.jpg)
hahahah, how long did it take you to find that picture? anyway cook would be good if he wasnt smooth as hell all the time.
branch needs to learn, its all about back.
spend a year focusing on back, hes be unstoppable.
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: Mr. Intenseone on March 04, 2006, 10:01:30 PM
I agree Branch still needs to make some adjustments, but he will.  This is his highest placing & he's still young as a pro.  He's a mofo beast & keeps getting better. 

Thiiick...but his head look like it's going to explode!
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: 240 is Back on March 04, 2006, 10:02:45 PM
hahahah, how long did it take you to find that picture? anyway cook would be good if he wasnt smooth as hell all the time.
branch needs to learn, its all about back.
spend a year focusing on back, hes be unstoppable.

I just typed in Chris "-t Almighty this guy is smooth" Cook into google and a pic of a train wreck came up, appropriately enough.
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: RUDE BUOY on March 04, 2006, 10:24:37 PM
dexzzzzzzzzzzz iced it mayne he looked great and he deserved it what happened to gus mayne why you gots to let me down gus why!
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: weedoutheweak on March 04, 2006, 10:28:25 PM
I just typed in Chris "-t Almighty this guy is smooth" Cook into google and a pic of a train wreck came up, appropriately enough.

This from a guy who can't even go to a gym on a consistent basis. 
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: JOHN MATRIX on March 04, 2006, 10:51:55 PM
I just typed in Chris "-t Almighty this guy is smooth" Cook into google and a pic of a train wreck came up, appropriately enough.
lol.
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: 240 is Back on March 04, 2006, 10:53:02 PM
This from a guy who can't even go to a gym on a consistent basis. 

I hit the gym regularly.  It's diet i suck at!
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: BayGBM on March 04, 2006, 10:55:50 PM
I just typed in Chris "-t Almighty this guy is smooth" Cook into google and a pic of a train wreck came up, appropriately enough.

Ouch!  :'(
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: Wombat on March 04, 2006, 11:10:04 PM
He needs more detail not size...
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: Borracho on March 05, 2006, 05:40:45 AM
That is the one on Flexonline.

This is Melvin, Branch, and Cook bro.

(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=58188.0;attach=68723;image)
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: gordiano on March 05, 2006, 06:58:49 AM
Chris cook =
(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/US/Southwest/02/21/train.collision.ap/story.train.crash.ap.jpg)

LOL.
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: nicorulez on March 05, 2006, 06:59:50 AM
Even better, although my bad.  When the guy who gets what, sixth, kicks your ass from the back something is wrong.  Branch's shape sux bad.  Dude will never win the Mr. Olympia.  Hell, he got a gift here.
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: pumpster on March 05, 2006, 07:24:30 AM
Branch reminds me of Yates with the powerlifter look: torso too big for the arms and and boxy waist and hips along with the same lack of aesthetics.

Like Yates he'll never be aesthetic and if it's close, will always lose to those who have it, like Dex, who also has the great arms Branch doesn't have (yet).
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: bigdumbbell on March 05, 2006, 07:41:15 AM
branch looks fabulously grotesque and not at all natural
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: UPINTHEMGUTS on March 05, 2006, 08:52:27 AM
I agree, he is large but he is anything but young.  He is 31 years old.  He will get bigger, but will he make the quantum leap that Coleman made.  Only time will tell.

31 is not young? Even for a bodybuilder? Didn't Coleman win his first Olympia at 34 in 1988?
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: Parker on March 05, 2006, 08:58:07 AM
I agree, he is large but he is anything but young.  He is 31 years old.  He will get bigger, but will he make the quantum leap that Coleman made.  Only time will tell.
Flex Mag was toughting him the end all, be all back when he was 25. Thing is Chris was smooth when he got his pro card, and has been smooth at every single contest since then
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: UPINTHEMGUTS on March 05, 2006, 09:04:33 AM
I think you are right but it was 1998 that Coleman won his first "O".
Whoops. My bad. Typo.

But the point was that bodybuilders really hit their prime in their early 30's. So 31 is young by those standards.
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: IceCold on March 06, 2006, 09:12:44 AM
branch needs to work on his posing.  his back would look better if he learned how to pose it correctly. 


he remind me of mike francois. 
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: Karl Kox on March 06, 2006, 09:19:56 AM
Take a look and cry Branch lovers.  No contest.
I am a Big Branch Fan but I have to agree
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: 1Fast400 on March 06, 2006, 10:32:24 AM
In person, at the first round of prejudging, branch kicked his ass.  I was sitting 4 rows away.  When branch would hit a pose it just made everyone else look stupid.  His skin is so thin, it is amazing. 

I'm not sure melvin deserved to be up there.  The judges even realized it after the first callout and slowly started moving him down.  From 3rd-8th the guys could have been in about any order with justifcation being made easiliy. 
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: MB on March 06, 2006, 10:55:08 AM
It was a very close show.  From where I was sitting, I would of had it:
1. Branch
2. Dexter
3. Vic
4. Gustavo
5. Mustafa
6. Melvin
7. Darrem
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: bigdumbbell on March 06, 2006, 10:59:03 AM
It was a very close show.  From where I was sitting, I would of had it:
1. Branch
2. Dexter
3. Vic
4. Gustavo
5. Mustafa
6. Melvin
7. Darrem

midget bias
Title: Re: The reason Dex won and Branch is in second
Post by: b_sinning on March 06, 2006, 11:46:25 AM
Damn Melvin has small waist in that back pose.