Colorado Pro Pre-Judging Pics !!

[Tim Wescott]

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Colorado Pro Prejudging


DATELINE JUNE 2, 2007: The prejudging of the 2007 Colorado Pro is complete, and it looks like Darrem Charles, Ronny Rockel, Silvio Samuel and Kai Greene are battling for first-place honors.

Charles, in fact, should either be winning at the halfway point of the contest, or is being screwed on callouts, as he came out only twice, in the first and eighth callouts, both times with the same group mentioned above.

Here at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver, it appears quality is winning the day over quantity, as the two behemoths of the show, Branch Warren and Dennis James, fresh off a one-two placing in New York three weeks ago, are both likely on the outside of the top three looking in. While Warren does have a fair level of conditioning, James is admittedly well off of his best, which is probably a factor in his fall.

By the bodybuilding standards of quality, conditioning and muscular shape, Charles, Rockel and Samuel are the top three on stage, and any one of them could make a defensible claim to the title. Meanwhile, Greene, while he has conditioning and the momentum of his sudden rise to prominence based on his strong showings in New York and at last week's Keystone Pro (where he qualified for the Olympia with a third-place finish), doesn't necessarily have the structure to match up with those three. However, that doesn't mean the judges won't give him a higher placing anyway.

Other notables who are vying for top eight spots are David Henry, much improved from his disastrous early season; George Farah, who is sliced but doesn't have the muscle proportions he'd need to break into the top five; and Johnnie Jackson, solid but with smaller legs than his frame requires, a flaw that's again holding him back.

To see who emerges victorious in Denver, tune in to bodybuilding.com and Flexonline's free webcast tonight, live at 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific time.

The callouts:
1) Darrem Charles, Ronny Rockel, Silvio Samuel, Kai Greene
2) George Farah, Branch Warren, Dennis James, David Henry
3) Ronny Rockel, Silvio Samuel, David Henry, George Farah
4) Kai Greene, Dennis James, Branch Warren, Johnnie Jackson
5) Johnnie Jackson, Will Harris, Omar Deckard, Ed Van Amsterdam
6) Omar Deckard, Richard "Tricky" Jackson, Leo Ingram, Khalid Almohsinawi
7) Leo Ingram, Emmanuil Tzinidis, Jimmy Canyon, Zoran Vejic, Khalid Almohsinawi
8) Darrem Charles, Kai Greene, Ronny Rockel, Silvio Samuel
9) Will Harris, Tricky Jackson, Khalid Almohsinawi, Omar Deckard
10) George Farah, Silvio Samuel, David Henry, Branch Warren, Dennis James
11) Jimmy Canyon, Zoran Vejic, Emmanuil Tzinidis, Leo Ingram
12) David Henry, George Farah, Johnnie Jackson, Branch Warren
13) Kai Greene, Ronny Rockel, Silvio Samuel

2007 Colorado Pro Classic
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1) JIMMY CANYON
2) DARREM CHARLES
3) GEORGE FARAH
4) LEO INGRAM
5) JOHNNIE JACKSON
6) RICHARD "TRICKY" JACKSON
7) WILL HARRIS
8) RONNY ROCKEL
9) SILVIO SAMUEL
10) OMAR DECKER
11) EMMANUEL TZINIDIS
12) ED VAN AMSTERDAM
13) BRANCH WARREN
14) DENNIS JAMES
15) KAI GREENE
16) DAVID HENRY
17) ZORAN VEJIC
18) KHALID ALMOHSINAWI

[Tim Wescott]

[Tim Wescott]

[EBA84]

I am really impressed with Kai Greene. He is what bodybuilding is all about. These gut monsters have to go.

[youngblood]

Wow, Branch and Dennis look horrible. I don't know what is worse, their conditioning (lack thereof) or that they "are allowed on-stage."

[BigMikeReed]

youngblood said:

Wow, Branch and Dennis look horrible. I don't know what is worse, their conditioning (lack thereof) or that they "are allowed on-stage."

OH come on now.. they aren't THAT bad but you're right they aren't sharp. I'm a huge Branch fan and he won the overall at another show a few weeks back- must have peaked then.

Ronnie Rockel should take this show in my opinion.

[youngblood]

I don't think should have placed top 3 in the show he won! :-\ Compared to Kai, and Wolfe, and Samuel? Forget it, James was better too, and that puts him out of the top three.
The last two shows, you've got Kai, Wolfe (not in the Co. Pro though), Charles, Silvio Samuels all beating some of the other guys with size. Wolfe, being the biggest. But the smaller guys are making some good showings at the earlier shows lately. But, come Olympia time, they always get moved to the back of the pack.

[Tim Wescott]

[Tim Wescott]

[Tim Wescott]

DJ looks terrible!!