Trust me, you are so wrong. First of all who did he disapoint? Dennis just turned 28 and he is the first german bodybuilder in the history of bodybuilding who managed to qualify for the Olympia at a pro contest in his first pro year ( Gunther got his qualification through his win at the world championships back in 1993 )
Now as you can see on his recent pics he already made a lot of changs to his physique and right now he is wheighing 300 pounds in great offseason condition.
Oh, boy, here we go again. Lets start with your last sentence. 300 pounds offseason means nothing if you don't come in shape, a la Ronnie Coleman. Off season weight has no bearing on the conditioning on the day of the contest. Kamali used to show pics of himself blown up to 300+ off season, but he competed at 230-245 pounds, and still looked like crap. Yes, Dennis looks good, but not as good as he was hyped up to be. On the cover of Flex, all over the place, then the pics of him 9 weeks out. Next thing you know everbody was hyping him to win the show...He didn't, didn't even come close. Then everbody forgot about him and were on to the next "big thing". Too much hype going around on guys that haven't proven themselves, like they are trying to find the next Flex Wheeler, Shawn Ray, or Dorian.
I say wait and see, then give him the hype. I'll give a good example. On autospies.com, there is much hype going on about the new Lexus IS-F (the high performance model), people are saying it will beat the new BMW M3. But here's the deal, neither car is out yet!!! So how can you tell what one is going to do, when one hasn't proven themselves.
It matters not how he qualified, Gunter has been given invites before. Those rookies who are on the top of their game, should qualify by either winning a pro contest (Flex, Heath) or finishing near the top (Richard Jones, Melvin Anthony)
