The Item:
IFBB Pro League Contest Results, Andrew Oye's Pro Athletes Roundup
The Scoop:
Just Announced: Over the weekend, IFBB Pro Justin Compton won 1st place
at the 2014 IFBB Pro Europa Show of Champions at the Europa Games 'Get Fit and Sports Expo' in Orlando, Florida,
earning his first victory in his professional bodybuilding career.
Fighting tooth and nail with Compton, IFBB Pro Jon Delarosa took 2nd
place. IFBB Pro Fred Smalls placed 3rd,
followed by IFBB Pro Daniel Toth finished in 4th place (his highest
pro-contest placing so far) and IFBB Pro Eddy Wilson in 5th place.
The remaining field at the IFBB Orlando Pro Bodybuilding Championships:
Powerlifter IFBB Pro Ben White (6th), IFBB Pro An Nguyen (7th), IFBB Pro
Marius Dohne (8th), IFBB Pro Clarence DeVis (9th), IFBB Pro Keith
Williams (10th), IFBB Pro Lloyd Dollar (11th), and IFBB Pro Malcolm
Marshall, 2013 Team Universe Masters Class Winner and former NFL Pro
football player signed to the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Jets
(12th).
The "So What?":
As reported in "Andrew Oye's Pro Muscle Report," the IFBB Pro Olympia
Qualification Series Point System: (1st automatic qualification, 2nd - 4
Points, 3rd - 3 Points, 4th - 2 Points, 5th - 1 Point) applies to IFBB
Pro League athletes' eligibility to compete at Joe Weider's Olympia
Weekend in Las Vegas to face reigning 3-time Mr. Olympia IFBB Pro Phil
Heath. Justin Compton (who placed 5th at the 2013 Chicago Pro, won by
IFBB Pro Roelly Winklaar) earned his IFBB Pro card by winning the
Heavyweight Class at the 2012 NPC National Bodybuilding Championships
(won first in 1982 by 8-time Mr. Olympia Lee Haney), and the Florida win
earned him an automatic invitation to compete at the 2015 IFBB Pro
Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic Bodybuilding Championships. The 2013
Orlando Pro Bodybuilding Championships only held a 212 Division contest,
which was won by former Open Division competitor and newly retired IFBB
Pro Troy Alves.
Andrew Oye's Verdict: The Show of Champions contest was billed as a showdown of bodybuilding's next
generation -- devoid of the sport's older, more prominent names and
leaving the fight to 25-year-old, 243-pound Justin Compton from
Kentucky, and 29-year-old, 237-pound Jonathon Delarosa from New York. I
had seen pre-contest photos and an arm-training video of Compton, and
the dude is impressive. While Delarosa's hamstrings hang and his lat
spread casts a big shadow, Compton's height and his imposing
delt-pec-bicep mash-up in the Most Muscular pose have people likening
him to a next-generation IFBB Pro Dennis Wolf, recent winner of the 2014
Arnold Sports Festival's Arnold Classic.
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