What comes out of it for me above all is the total class of Brian Shaw who hasn't been shown to have kicked off in the slightest and just took it on the chin when he could have finished 2nd. I like shaw a lot and the way he seems to operate. I am Eddie's biggest fan but i love strongman full stop and always have since the Capes/Jon Paul 80s era. If i went on mastermind i seriously think 'WSM 1985-2020' could be a specialist subject for me. I'd like to think i can see these issues through neutral glasses most of the time.
I like the way Brian is on his YouTube, he seems really genuine and clearly has a huge love for strongman. Hopefully he takes a backroom role when his career is over, I think he will be able to really grow it. He also strikes me as the type that couldn't care less about second, ha. If he doesn't win he's failed. Even in some of the eating challenges with Eddie he looks annoyed when he loses.
JPS was something else, 20 years before his time too. Ive not seen a huge amount of him, only the things in the flashbacks/documentaries. But it feels if he was around now he would be leaps and bounds ahead of everyone, both athletically and commercially.
I wonder if there will be more strict rulings in the future after all this, where appeals have to be more formal as opposed to surrounding the refs. MVM seems like to type to not care, the same with Darren Sadler, I am really surprised CB seemed so passive, but I guess he didnt change his mind.
I was walking today and was thinking just how far Adam Bishop maybe ahead of the field in the next Brits as he trains from home most of the time. He did an unofficial dollar DL record the other week.