Mr Suriname is Flex champ

Shawnell Warner, the 2012 Miss Bikini winner of the inaugural Flex Night International event (Orlando Charles photo)

By Emmerson Campbell

Despite being the shortest bodybuilder to grace the National Cultural Centre’s stage on Saturday night, Mr. Suriname, Soepe Koese, stood head and shoulders above the competition by flexing and posing his way to the Mr. Flex Night overall title.

Standing at four feet, 11 inches, Koese was the David among the Goliaths but he possessed a superior level of detail and his 153-pound frame was a mass of striated muscle.

With chiselled arms, deltoids, glutes, legs, a barn-door back and a