Jay Cutler: Mr. Olympia 2006!!!

That's right boys and girls there's a new Mr. O in the house!

Jay Cutler finally took his rightful place at the top, after four second place finishes since 2001 (he didn't compete in 2002), dethroning 8-time Olympian winner Ronnie Coleman in the process.

"Say good-by to the day of the freaks! We have witnessed more than one man lossing his title... we witnessed the beginning of the end for the mass monsters."

So said a fan on one of the sites, echoing many a response that the Olympian judges were finally rewarding the more astheticly pleasing physiques over the sheer unaldulteread mass monsters (like Ronnie). Still at 280+ pounds Jay ain't no shrimp! But with Victor Martinez, Dexter Jackson and Melvin Anthony filling out the top 5 spots, it certainly looked like symetrey and conditioning won out over sheer mass this year.

Unfortuantly that meant my boy Branch Warren fell to 12th (he ranked 8th in 2005). Clearly having added a whole lot more mass this year, he just wasn't as cut as we've seen him in recent shows (like the 2005 Charlotte and Europa Pros, he took first in both). Branch is a freak of the future. He's got the mass and he can attain the conditioning that one day soon will take him to the top!

And at only 31 Branch has many more years in the sport!