Pellius might be the biggest anomaly out of all the competitors. While his combination of conditioning and vascularity is absolutely elite, at the top end of the list imo (The dude is just ripped, period), I just have a real hard time looking past that damn stomach of his. I don't know if that's a genetic thing or if it's something that he can work on but it just doesn't flow at all.
So it's like you mark him way up for conditioning and then the next line you have to mark him down for lack of aesthetics. Even so, that puts him right in that area just below DaVinci and right in with MuscleCenter and devilsmile.
That being said I don't have an issue with your call on that one.
It's not the gut per se it's my ribs. Specifically my lower rib. The floating rib. During the course of my underwhelming MMA, Jiu-Jitsu career beginning in the early 1990s when it was bare fisted, few rules, and no official weight classes (they tried to match you up as close to size but no weigh ins or anything like that) and done on Indian reservations, it is without exaggeration that I must have broken my ribs on both sides at least 14 times combine. I've long since lost count. I never understood why I was so prone to rib injuries as I got my bone density checked.But over the years the calcium deposits has gotten to the point that my lower ribs stick out. Chaos notice it right aways when I first posted pic and also noticed I broke my collar bone. I've been meaning to ask if he just has a sharp eye or is familiar with these types of injuries.
Also I had an umbilical hernia that I didn't get treated until after about nine months. I simply didn't know what it was when my belly button popped out and just kind of put it off. It was uncomfortable in certain positions but at that time I always had some ache or pain if not a minor injury. It's only when my belly started to distend that I sought treatment.
I'd be beautiful if it wasn't for the wear and tear of life.
Note how much my ribs protrude. It looks worse when I suck in my gut.