Author: Anton Eurenius
– And we’re on to Classic Physique!
As always, classic is stacked, in every competition there’s good guys, and this time there’s no difference, here are all the competitors! As in the Open i will only be writing about my top guys and the dark horse!
Top ten:
Breon Ansley
Santiago Aragon
Lee Banks
Marvin Cornejo
Kevin Ford
Courage Opara
Danny Hester
Kenneth Owens
Robert Timms
Arash Rahbar
Dark horse: Svetozar Milenkovic
Out of top 10:
Armando Aman
Isaac Balbi
RD Caldwell
Ko Chandetka
Garrott Coelho
Eric Dankwa
Tony Davis
Roger Ferrer
Aaron Futel
Dion Harris
Valentino Harris
Shavis Higa
Andrew Landis
Jason Lowe
Nhon Ly
Christopher Niemczyk
Matt Pattison
Dani Younan
Panexce Pierre
Sharif Reid
AJ Shukoori
Kevin Wilson
The top guys
Our Mr. Classic Olympia, challenging to be the first ever Classic Physique Arnold champion here! There’s not much to talk about when Breon is the topic, he’s a great poser, always in great conditioning and always positive! Not the most classic looking physique in my eyes, but he’s got a small waist and round bellis for sure, the man to beat! Will be in the top two for sure.
Santi is a NPC Nationals Welterweight winner turned 212 Pro, turned Classic Physique Pro, this guy holds a lot of muscles on his relatively small frame. We’ve seen that he’s capable of high placings (Toronto Pro) and he’s also one of the best posers in the entire IFBB Pro League!
Lee is a former open competitor and his frame is magical, in the Classic division he’s a great competitor that can do damage to a lot of his fellow Pros on stage, it won’t be enough here though.
Marvin Cornejo
The first Amateur Olympia Overall winner in Classic Physique enters the Arnold with a second place finish in his bag from his first Pro show, The Ferrigno Legacy. With great arms and an amazing back he won’t be beaten easily.
This guy has kinda exploded on social media lately, and it’s not hard to see why.. The 8th of February he posted a posing video showing off some amazing conditioning, as well as a whole lot of added size! The 2016 Jr. Nats overall Classic winner placed as high as 2nd at the Toronto Pro last year, only being beaten by superstar Chris Bumstead. Will for sure be in the top six, I have him as high as 4th!
Oh my, this kid got it! He’s not just got great lines, he looks thick as well! If he comes in diced, then he’s going to do some serious damage, believe me!
The first ever Classic Physique Pro winner, as well as the first ever Mr. Classic Physique Olympia coming in with a grudge from last years 5th place at the Olympia. Hester is complete, from head to toe, time is the one thing that isn’t on Hester’s side, he’s still placing in the top three though.
“The Ebony King”, one of the most gifted athletes in our industry, shape wise there’s not a whole lotta people beating him, if he’s done his homework, he’s a top six, at least.
Called “Mr. Classic Physique”, Timms is as classic as it gets basically, he’s tall, have broad shoulders and a tiny, tiny waist. He’s coming here a champion, winning the Ferrigno Legacy for the second year in a row, beating the already mentioned Marvin Cornejo. After his disappointing run at the Olympia last year, dropping to 14th from 6th the year before he’s here to prove himself with the best in the business again!
Winner of Pittsburgh Pro and New York Pro 2016, first runner up at the Olympia 2016 and then a disappointing 4th place at last years Olympia, Arash is here to redeem himself! He’s been going as hard as you can for the last months preparing for this, putting in work, hunting. We haven’t seen a single update of Arash progress over this prep, but seeing the work he’s been putting in… I think we’ll see a completely new and improved Arash, and this time he won’t be making any mistakes in the final touches either, be aware, Arash is coming for blood, will be one of the two last standing guys together with Breon.
Dark horse: Svetozar Mihlenkovic
“Toza” is working with Justin Miller, the same man leading Arash into this competition as well as coaching 3rd place Olympian George Peterson and two of the most promising new pros, Steve Laureus and Amit Roy. We haven’t seen Toza since he placed 6th in last years Musclecontest Fit World Pro just after winning his Pro Card in the Classic Bodybuilding Championship at last years Arnold Amateur, Toza was well below his weight class last year and with another weight increase and time off, the added size could make him a force in this division!
1st: Arash Rahbar
2nd: Breon Ansley
3rd: Danny Hester
4th: Kevin Ford
5th: Kenneth Owens
6th: Robert Timms
7th: Courage Opara
8th: Marvin Cornejo
9th: Lee Banks1
10th: Santiago Aragon
About Anton Eurenius:
As you probably understand things have changed, since 2012 I’ve been training hard and almost religiously been trying to build muscles, shaping a physique. Since 2015 I’ve done 5 shows, crowning it all of with the gold medal and first place trophy at last years Swedish Nationals. You see, things change, I’m nowadays kind of a bodybuilding-nerd, I love reading articles, researching about it, watching youtube series and listen to various bodybuilding related radio shows/podcasts and if someone asked me now, I would most likely say “I LOVE weight training and i wanna build A LOT more muscle!”.
Do you agree with Anton’s predictions or which one do you have as the top finishers?
See also: Arnold Classic USA Competitors List
See also: Arnold Classic 212 Predictions 2018
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