Andrew Jacked wins the Arnold UK! John pulls no punches on his coverage

The Arnold UK is in the books! Hear John Livia's thoughts on who looked promising and some hot takes on who looked terrible. 

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All right, the honored UK is over. It's in the books. It's done. And Andrew Jack is your winner. No surprise there. Andrew looked incredible. He really did. I think Andrew looked better at the finals here than he did in Ohio. He's a threat to the Olympia. You know, guys like Derek and uh and Samson and even Nick, you know, Hottie, they're gonna have their work cut out for him with this guy on stage, especially if he shows up. He shows up any better because he is getting better and better at every show. He shows up better at the Olympia. I don't know who's beating him. He's he's he's getting that that good. You know, his symmetry, his balance, is God given, and his conditioning and his muscularity is getting better with every show. And not only that, his posing is getting better with every show. Like he's guys, he he is he is becoming one of the best bodybuilders in the world today. Period. End of story. So uh don't be surprised if this guy winds up winning the Olympia. And then you, of course, you gotta get Vesito. How many, if that happens, how many Olympia champions does he have? With 212 and he opened. Okay, that guy's like the greatest trainer in the world that ever lived. All right, anyway. All right, the other guy I gotta give props to, Brandon Curry. Brandon Curry, as far as I'm concerned, as far as I'm concerned, is legendary status. Check that box. Former Mr. Olympia, multiple honor classic winner, and at 43 years old, he's still bringing the pain on that stage. He's still knocking the young guys out. He looked incredible here. He has enough gas in the tank to continue for the next two to three years, you know, all things being equal, without injury, sickness, and the fact that um age doesn't catch up to him right away, but the guy is 43 and still fucking wrecking shit on stage. Legend status in that category of top 10, top 20 that ever lived. You got to put him up there, okay? I don't know why a lot of guys didn't do this show. There was a lot of money at stake here. Andrew Jack just won a million dollars in in like in less than a month. He won 750,000 at the Arnold, Ohio, won 250,000 here in the Arnold, UK. I just question why these guys didn't do it. I mean, this was a show, like a good show for a Nick to do, uh Bonack to do, a Raphael Brandau. I mean, pretty much like anybody could have jumped into this show. He okay, so it turned out to be a weak lineup. We can't do anything about it. As fans and promoters and and uh and judges, we can only watch what shows up on stage, right? It is what it is. Separating those two guys who did a fantastic job. Um Patrick Moore looked good. He looked better than he normally does. He comes in third out of a very, you know, uh weak Arnold UK. I don't want to take uh that away from him, and he deserved third place in this lineup. After that, it was dog shit. Martin Fitzwater looked terrible. Absolutely terrible. Just awful. He looked worse at the finals than he did in pre-judging. He looked like he didn't even try to come into condition in this show. He should be ashamed of himself. He should be ashamed how he acted at the Arnold USA, and he should be ashamed of how he came in shape at this show. He looked like an off-season bodybuilder. It was it's disgusting that you call yourself a professional and you conduct yourself like this. It was unbelievable. I wouldn't have been upset if blessing beat him. I wouldn't have been upset if blessing came in fourth place and you had and you had uh Martin in fifth. Not at all. And then you had Blessing in fifth, and you had Arkeem Williams in sixth. Blessing, you know, if Blessing's legs were better, but Blessing, that's his that's blessing's curse. You know, um, and again, I know I said this in Detroit. Blessing's curse is that he comes in condition, but his legs are just they're downsized and they're not separated. It just it's gonna it's gonna haunt him for his entire career. All right. Let's look at some let's look at some picks here. Alright, here we go. Alright. Andrew looked for$50,000. Andrew looked great. He really did. He look he looked great, and he he really deserved a victory. Um he's not playing games anymore. He knows that he could be the best bodybuilder in the world, and he's proving that to everybody. This Olympia is gonna be stacked, and people better be afraid because he looked phenomenal. Look at the guy, just okay. If bodybuilders don't start coming in shape, with the exception of the guys at the top, bodybuilding is gonna turn into a laughing stock. Look at what Hassan Mustafa looks like right next to Andrew Jack. I mean, he literally, he literally has his stomach hanging over his posing shorts. How do you call yourself a professional and you and you show up like that? Seriously. That's disgusting. He's another guy that should be absolutely ashamed of himself. He shouldn't be on that stage. You're disrespecting the sport coming on that stage looking like this. Jesus Christ. Is this what our sport has come down to? Like, oh, he showed up. All right, let's look at Brandon because Brandon looked great. Um this guy, as far as I'm concerned, legendary status, looked phenomenal, great posing, very confident on stage. He came in shape. He was really, he he really 43 years old and he's still bringing it. Fantastic. Fantastic. Let's look at Patrick Moore. Same thing. Patrick Moore looked good. Patrick, no, okay, the live stream wasn't that great. I mean, obviously, I've I've heard from sources that it's better in in person. The live stream really wasn't that great. I really couldn't do it. I was at complaining to Ian from uh you guys know he's been on my channel before yesterday about the live stream, but it it is what it is. Patrick looked good, but he's supposed to look good. He's supposed to come in shape. You're a professional bodybuilder. Um, and he has been on stage a lot in the last uh eight years, six to eight years, give a take. And he it's a it's a crapshoot whether he's gonna do well or not. Okay, uh I'll get into that. Let's look at Martin. Martin looked horrible. Just horrible. Just horrible. He had nothing, nothing, no hamstring, no glutes, I mean, holding water, I mean, just nothing going on here. Okay, look at this. And I'm gonna get to this. Great energy from Martin Fitzwater. He he he there's nothing. He had no striations, his stomach was distended, he had a layer of what I mean. He had a layer of water on him that it was worse now than uh the kid should be ashamed of himself. You're disrespecting the sport if you're gonna come in this shape. All right, let me let me get out of here and and we'll move on. Okay. All right. The coverage of this show between RX Muscle, Nick Strength of Power, and even Phil Heath. The coverage of this show was equivalent to giving everybody a participation trophy. And here's what I mean by that. Phil gives this great speech about Patrick Moore and coming back from Achilles, an Achilles injury, and coming in shape. I I understand that he had an Achilles tear, an Achilles injury. I don't know how serious it is, but it's not 1970 anymore. Your career's not over if you have an Achilles tear anymore. Okay? Like it if it's extremely serious and you had to have surgery, 50% of athletes still come back to perform, like at a at a top level today. If it's a tear, sometimes you don't even need surgery, like a brace and some physical therapy, and you and in a couple of months you're back to normal. So so applauding that Patrick Moore came in shape, I I don't, I don't, I don't understand that at all. I don't get it. Okay. We just saw, and I'm gonna show you again, what RX Musle put up for Martin Fitzwater. Great energy from Martin Fitzwater. Is that is that what we're down to now? Is this what we're down to now? Like, are we like praising him because he didn't have a complete meltdown anymore, even though he looked like dog shit on stage? Thank God he didn't have a complete meltdown and embarrassed the whole world and himself again. Oh, what a good sport. You have to be kidding me. He looked like shit. He should be embarrassed, he should be ashamed of himself, and these and these media outlets aren't covering it. It's uh it's unbelievable. Same thing with Nick Strength and Power. Mike Sommerfeld comes in wait. Oh, Mike Sommerfeld came in weight. Finally, after three shows, he came in, he came in. This is what they are. They're professional bodybuilders. They're supposed to come in shape, they're supposed to make weight if you're classic, they're supposed to get back on stage even after a minor injury or even a major injury. This is what they do for a living. I'm not gonna throw you crumbs. I'm not gonna throw you a bone because you decided to come in shape this fucking month and not last month. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna applaud you because you didn't have a complete meltdown this time. It's ridiculous. Andrew Jack is a professional, is a professional, acts like a professional. Brandon Curry is a professional. Nick Walker is a professional. No matter how good or bad they do, they take it and come back and they come back better. That's what it is to be a professional. I mean, the coverage was just like, thank God Mike Sommerfeld make way. Thank God Martin didn't fucking have a conniption fit on stage. Oh, uh. Thank God Patrick Moore can't finally came in shape. And this is fucking ridiculous, guys. This was a weak lineup. Martin should be ashamed of himself. Mike Sommerfeld should be ashamed of himself that he that he that he stood up fans and promoters in the past and he finally came in shape. And he comes in shape and he wins. So I'm it's it's it's getting to the point now where if we don't start holding these bodybuilders to a higher standard, the sport's gonna turn into a joke. And if you guys follow my channel, I've always stuck up for the for the for the younger bodybuilders that get shit from the older guys. I don't know if you've seen, I think it was uh maybe a year ago. You know, guys like Dorian were coming out and uh Chris Cormier were coming out, and um uh and I forgot what other what other bodybuilders were coming out, and they were like shitting on the guys that weren't getting in shape for the shows. And I stuck up for these guys. I don't have a leg to stand on if this is the shape you're gonna come in. I can't defend you if you decide to not to make weight this this fucking this show and next and shows it next show's a crapshoot. I can't defend you if you look like a water buffalo and you don't have a conniption fit on stage. Holy shit. Can we if you're gonna cover a sport, can we at least be truthful? That's unfucking believable, man. Unreal. I mean, this was this was this was embarrassing. If I was Andrew Jack and Brandon, I'd be like, you guys are you guys are you guys call yourself IBB IFBB pros? It's just it's it's it's ridiculous. Hopefully the next few shows will be better as far as who comes in shape, who makes weight, and their attitudes. I mean, Martin Fitzwater having you know a good time on stage, clearly it was fake. Clearly, he was trying to actually, you know, outshine his terrible attitude from the first Arnold, the Arnold Ohio. But that's gonna cover up the shape that he came in. He looked like eight weeks out, he looked horrible. I don't know, guys. We gotta we gotta start holding these bodybuilders to a better standard. And believe me, okay, believe me. I stick up for the guys that come in shape. And other people say the older bodybuilders go, oh, those guys from my back in my day, we would have killed them. I can't defend you if you show up looking like this. It's it's it's awful. Media outlets have to call it as they see it. You can't sugarcoat it. Otherwise, these guys are just gonna show up in any shape they want and have have any personality meltdown. And as the as long as the next time you do, it's fine. As long as the next time you don't have a meltdown, we're good. As long as you come, you make weight next time, it's okay. No, it's not okay. People spend a lot of money. Promoters spend a lot of money, fans spend a lot of money. They want to see professionals. All right, I'm done freaking out, but alright. I gotta take a breath. Take a fucking Xanax after this. Smoke a joint, eat a gummy, do something. Shit. All right, later, guys.