Men's Heavyweights
There will be an elimination down to 15 in this class, which has 35 competitors.
Full competitor name-and-number list is:
Heavyweights
219 Randy Moore
220 Tyrone Cane
221 Grigori Atoyan
222 TJ Humphreys
223 Matthew Lowden
224 Shaun Crump
225 Jason Huh
226 Jeff Schwartzer
227 Bobby Smith
228 Darrell Terrell
229 Ardorthus Cherry
230 Lionel Brown
231 Michael Moore
232 Carlos Rodriguez
233 Sebastian Zona
234 Jason Marcus
235 Gus Carter
236 James Ward
237 Marion Benton
238 Paul DeSimone
239 Henry Everette
240 Wondell LeFlore
241 Jeff Long
242 Jermaine Bell
243 DeShawn Grimez
244 Shawn McKinney
245 Brian Copeland
246 Fred Smalls III
247 Lee Banks
248 David Jacobs
249 Adam Weidel
250 Jason Groves
251 Michael Bishop
252 Alston Kenner III
253 Rick McMillan
Middleweight photos are now up, by the way, at www.flexonline.com/news/172
This class isn't as strong as you would expect on first glance-through. Judges will have an easy time whittling to the top 15, to be honest.
An aside, Ronnie Coleman is in the house ... with hair. Looks like a different guy. He's hanging out at the front by the judges table.
Top 15 (in numerical order):
219, Randy Moore
221, Grigori Atoyan
222 TJ Humphries
224 Shaun Crump
226 Jeff Schwartzer
227 Bobby Smith
228 Darrell Terrell
229 Adorthus Cherry
230 Lionel Brown
233 Sebastian Zona
237 Marion Benton
240 Wondell LeFlore
243 DeShawun Grimez
246 Fred Smalls III
247 Lee Banks
One guy we expected to make the cut going into the show who didn't was young Jason Huh. Otherwise no surprises.
Two more individual posing one-minute "routines" and we're on to the callouts.
First callout: Lionel Brown, Adorthus Cherry and Rnady Moore. Word on the street is Brown dumped his precontest guru, Hany Rambod, three days before the show and started working with Ronnie Coleman's man, Chad Nichols.
As for the contest, it looks to be between Brown and Cherry for the top spot.
Second callout: DeShaun Grimez, Jeff Schwartzer, Shaun Crump (who seems to have a lot of supporters on hand in the audience), and Lee Banks. Crump probably deserved to be with the first group.
Third callout: Darrell Terrell, Sebastian Zona, Fred Smalls III, and Grigori Atoyan. Atoyan's up-and-down ride continues, as his condition this time around is just not good at all.
And now, we're on to the last class of the evening, superheavyweights.