Bob Cicherillo Explains Why Nick Walker Did not Win 2023 Arnold Traditional

Walker did not convey his finest to the present, per Cicherillo.

Written by Robert Zeglinski Final up to date on March 14, 2023

For some, Nick Walker was the presumed heavy favourite to win the 2023 Arnold Traditional (AC). In Mr. Olympia legend Jay Cutler’s eyes, Walker was supposed to finish on top (key phrase: supposed). As an alternative, Walker would take a house runner-up consequence to champion Samson Dauda and be left trying forward to what’s next in the 2023 competitive calendar. As one bodybuilding icon would clarify, Walker’s end was earned.

On Mar. 10, 2023, Mr. Olympia commentator and former Worldwide Federation of Bodybuilding and Health (IFBB) Professional League competitor Bob Cicherillo, posted a YouTube video to his Voice of Bodybuilding channel explaining methods to choose a bodybuilding contest correctly. Inside his rationale, he provided particular readability on why Walker in the end fell wanting a second AC title in three years.

Whereas some have significantly thought of the deserves of Dauda as a legitimate force in the sport, Cicherillo didn’t have such qualms. He made it readily obvious that Dauda had the most effective and most balanced physique over the remainder of the sphere. That features Walker and the “deserved” third-place finisher in Andrew Jacked.

Dauda was merely probably the most well-rounded of his friends.

“Why did Samson [Dauda] win the Arnold over Nick [Walker], [Andrew] Jacked, and everybody else?” Cicherillo requested rhetorically. “As a result of he had the most effective of all worlds: form, symmetry, proportion, size, conditioning, and presentation. He had all of it. Was he the most effective in each one among them? No, however you possibly can’t make the case for another person general … I maintain getting loads of responses, ‘Yeah, however Nick [Walker] gained this pose, this pose, and this pose.’ It doesn’t work like that, of us … He loses to Samson, outright, relating to form, symmetry, and proportion. … Total, Samson had a greater physique and that’s why he ended up within the winner’s circle.”

As for Walker’s individualized disappointment, Cicherillo appeared to talk to the athlete straight. The commentator made it clear he believed Walker appeared in tip-top form. Nonetheless, he had misplaced a number of the mojo that after made him one among bodybuilding’s quickest rising stars.

“Nick Walker was super,” Cicherillo mentioned. “If he seemed like he did on the [2022] Olympia, he in all probability would have gained. However he misplaced a little bit of the ‘freak issue,’ bringing it down just a little bit. That was in all probability a mistake on his half. You’re not going to streamline a physique that may’t be streamlined. Nick, return to being a ‘freak.’