Agreed Hadi should have been higher. I would have put him no 1 actually.
He had the best conditioning, arguably better upperbody and definitely better legs than those placed ahead of him and Curry and Bonac have ammy looking calves, I can get 10 guys together from my local gyms with better calves.
How the fuck do you win when you are missing a bodypart? Pick your fav of all time, lets say Dorian or Levrone in their classic 1995 battle. Now remove a random bodypart like biceps or side delts. Are they even on the stage? Could they even place in an ammy show?
Maybe the judging criteria has changed more than I am aware but the first quality judged used to be symmetry FFS.
It's a fucking crime the way legs are ignored, particularly the calves. Yeah I get that the judges often can't see the calves from where they are sitting (most people are not too aware of this) . At a low level ammy show with a small budget I can forgive it somewhat but at a pro show (THE FUCKING O) surely somehow they could figure out how to make sure the judges can see them. Pet peeve of mine for decades, it's "bodybuilding" not "everything from the knees up building where the legs are not as important as the upperbody"