The 2025 Dubai Pro is scheduled for the weekend of June 20-22 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Promoters Mo Barakat and Adel Al Ali will host 2025 Olympia qualifying contests for four of the five IFBB Professional League men’s divisions. The absent men’s division is Men’s Wheelchair.
The winners of each contest become eligible to compete at the 2025 Olympia in Las Vegas, NV, on Oct. 9-12. No qualification will be awarded if the division’s winner is already qualified.
2025 Dubai Pro Rosters
The lineups for all four shows are below, with names in alphabetical order.
Men’s Open
- Giorgi Adikashvili (Georgia)
- Sayed Alrefaei (Kuwait)
- William Bonac (Netherlands)
- Adolf Burghardt (Germany)
- Tonio Burton (USA)
- Nathan De Asha (UK)
- Mo Foda (Egypt)
- Dennis Friedrich (Germany)
- Ashraf Hassasnin (Egypt)
- Alie Edward Kargbo (UAE)
- Rubiel Mosquera (Colombia)
- Seyed Hassan Mousavi Nejad (Iran)
- Ismail Radwan (Egypt)
- Ibrahim Sobhy (UAE)
- Behrooz Tabani (Iran)
- Mazaher Tabaniabarghani (USA)
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- Mahmoud Adel (UAE)
- Rado Angelov (Bulgaria)
- Obenrocksman Arrah (Cameroon)
- Vahid Baharlou (Iran)
- Angel Calderon Frias (Spain)
- Farshad Ganji (Iran)
- Richard Gayle (Jamaica)
- Mohamed Gomaa (Egypt)
- Mehdi Jaberinezhad (Iran)
- Nihat Kaya (Turkey)
- Muzi Maluleke (South Africa)
- Felipe Massaroca (Brazil)
- Mehdi Mostafaloo (Iran)
- Mahmoud Negm (UAE)
- Ramil Penaflor (Philippines)
- Orlando Perdomo Lopez (USA)
- Artem Reva (Russia)
- Roman Ukrainian (Ukraine)
- Giuseppe Zagarella (Italy)
Classic Physique
- Almostafa Aljaafreh (Jordan)
- Krimo Ammari (Morocco)
- Vahid Badpei (Iran)
- Michael Daboul (Syria)
- Joe Davis (USA)
- Khaled El Nahawy (Egypt)
- Ramadan El Sherkawy (Egypt)
- Valeri Enchev (Bulgaria)
- Sunmeet Gill (India)
- Ethan Gohari (Australia)
- Wassim Hassan (Syria)
- Paulo Henrique (Brazil)
- Adama Jammeh (Sweden)
- Azamat Karabashev (Russia)
- Ahmed Khalifah (Egypt)
- John Le (Canada)
- Eric Lisboa (Brazil)
- Lihsuan Liu (Taiwan)
- Miguel Malimo (Mozambique)
- Abdalla Mohamdi (Saudi Arabia)
- Reda Nacirdin (Morocco)
- Richard Nagy (Hungary)
- Kent Nasarondo (Philippines)
- Bader Nuri (Saudi Arabia)
- Chanuk Ock (South Korea)
- Chaitanya Prabhu Puralachetty (India)
- Luca Reger (Germany)
- Denis Rose (Spain)
- Mustafa Salman (Iraq)
- Sajad Samandar (Iran)
- Julio Simoes (Brazil)
- Kevin Stutz (Austria)
- Mikhail Timoshin (Russia)
- Edgar Daniel Valencia Palafox (Mexico)
- Dmitrii Vorotyntsev (Russia)
- Alexander Westermeier (Germany)
- Mustafa Yildiz (Turkey)
Men’s Physique
- Qaisai Al Assi (Bahrain)
- Abdullah Al Sharafi (Oman)
- Majid Alessa (Saudi Arabia)
- Mishal Alhassan (Saudi Arabia)
- Mahmood Almaghrabi (Bahrain)
- Ali Al-Saeedi (Iraq)
- Kalil Al-Sheick (Saudi Arabia)
- Andrea Amato (Italy)
- Patrick Asiedu (Australia)
- Adeyemi Awoyemi (Nigeria)
- Nishant Bansal (India)
- Saad Binhashim (Saudi Arabia)
- Alireza Bolookifooladi (Iran)
- Abdullah Bu Halim (Saudi Arabia)
- Jeffrey Darko (Ghana)
- Philippe Degila (France)
- Surojit Dey (India)
- Amit Eagre (India)
- Mahmoud Elsabagh (UAE)
- Felix Famuwagun (China)
- Gowtham Gowthu (India)
- Ahmed Hamdy (Egypt)
- Hachemi Hemza (Algeria)
- Rany Issa (Lebanon)
- Miroslav Juricek (Czech Republic)
- Hossein Karimi (Iran)
- Salah Eddine Lahrach (Morocco)
- Hidayat Maharramli (Azerbaijan)
- Matheus Oliveira (Brazil)
- Elton Pinto Mota (Portugal)
- Davoud Rahimi Asl (Iran)
- Ahmed Shokry (Egypt)
- Vyacheslav Tarasevich (Belarus)
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Men’s Open Athletes to Watch
The main event is the Men’s Open contest, which will award $140,000 to the winner — the third largest individual prize purse of the season. The following three athletes will likely be in the mix to win the title:
Behrooz Tabani
Behrooz Tabani is the defending champion. Despite winning and qualifying for the Olympia in past years, travel issues have prohibited him from competing at the Olympia.
If Tabani wins this show, it would allow him over three months to prepare for the Olympia and find a way to travel to Las Vegas.
William Bonac
William Bonac finished second to Tabani in 2024 but is already qualified for the 2025 Olympia thanks to his win at the 2025 Detroit Pro. Bonac is competing for prize money, so his Olympia qualification is not at risk if he loses.
Nathan DeAsha
Nathan DeAsha is among the winningest athletes in his category, with 12 pro victories. He has yet to qualify for the 2025 Olympia but has said in the past that it did not make business sense for him to compete on that stage. Whether he competes in the Olympia season remains to be seen, but he will likely be in callouts with Tabani and Bonac for the win.
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