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It should come as no surprise that Hunter won Italy. There really wasn’t a lot of competition there and even though the top five did a good job of bringing quality physiques as we predicted they would, nobody was really any sort of a match for Hunter’s. I know that there is a camp that suggests that Andrea could have won and maybe he could have in a different lineup, but Labrada was too much. In fact I have no doubt he could have done very well with lesser quality guys but when you’re up against a guy like Hunter that has competed on the biggest stages in the world, you have to really bring it.
Even though Hunter’s midsection was a little bit off and even though he didn’t bring the type of condition that we would expect from him at the Arnold Classic or the Olympia, this was not the Arnold Classic or the Olympia. Again, what did Samson bring to Texas? Was it anything like what he plans on bringing to Las Vegas? No. Why would an Olympian peak as hard for a qualifying event, especially when there is no real competition to talk about? What would the incentive be to put the body through that very taxing process? To satisfy the talking heads? To give the contest photographer more to work with?
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