Monday morning, January 12th, and an updated competitor list came out, as the start of the 2009 IFBB Men’s bodybuilding season will begin 12 days, on January 24th, at the Los Angeles Convention Center Hall. As I have heard, there will be more added to the list as the deadline to enter approaches, but here is who we have competing at the moment. Eddie Abbew (England) Oliver Adzievski (Sweden) Mohammad Bannout (Lebanon) Thomas Bengali (Italy) AD Cherry (USA) Constantinos Demetriou (Australia) Mark Dugdale (USA) Moe El Moussawi (New Zealand) Oleg Emelyanov (Russia) Aiman Faour (Lebanon) DeShaun Grimez (USA) Ahmad Haidar (Lebanon) Marcus Haley (USA) Martin Kjellstrom (Sweden) Marc LaVoie (Canada) Don Long (USA) Daron Lytle (USA) Caesar Mendible (Venezuela) Evgeny Mishin (Russia) Ronny Rockel (Germany) Silvio Samuel (Spain) Daniele Seccarecci (Italy) Hidetada Yamagishi Japan) The biggest name to pull out is Gustavo Badell, who was rumored to have said that he pulled out due to family reasons… but with the Arnold Classic six weeks after the Ironman, will he be ready for that show?