Neil vs. Nguyen - Getting from Average to Advantage

Many a man is gifted with above than average physical appearance, intellect, personality and sense of duty yet like many in the great mass of people remains obscure and unheard of. It isn’t that he has nothing worth noticing or commenting on, it’s just that he hasn’t come up onstage to be noticed.

So how does an ordinary, unheard of fellow shoot to the limelight in a jiffy? One of the surest ways is to take part in a world class event and emerge winner. Everybody loves a winner and the spotlight is on him. That is the same route many of our written, and talked about pageant misters had taken.

Here are just two dudes who had the courage to be their own man, who did what they should and showed up from the crowd. Check and compare them onstage in their skivvies.

Nicklas vs. Nguyen - Black and White Photographic Modeling

Nicklas Pedersen, Mister World 2014 and Nguyen Van Son Mister Global 2015 are unmistakably of contrasting looks and ethnicity, one is European the other Asian but in these black and white photographic modeling shoots, the two parallel each other in how they pose for the camera, what their angles are and how they show their best natural style. With the colors out, it’s purely about making that connection - how they talk to the camera and give you a feel of their personalities. Don’t you find the likeness a bit uncanny? 

Nguyen Van Son on the cover of MOT Vietnam

Nguyen Van Son, Mister Global 2015 lands on the April issue of MOT Vietnam. The magazine is Vietnam’s leading fashion publication that aims to bring Vietnamese designers’ and fashion entrepreneurs’ design ideas and creative talents to the forefront. It banners the tagline “Sân chơi Việt- tinh thần Việt- trí tuệ Việt - Vietnamese magazine – Vietnamese spirit – Vietnamese intelligence.”

World vs. Global - How do their trophies compare?

Aside from sporting comparable name versions of our planet – World and Global, these two mister pageants have strikingly similar pageant trophies if you’d notice. Both trophies are made of glass with a square base, a sloping body and an orb at the top. And need we say that if ever you have the good fortune of gaining one of these, the correct way to display it is with a firm two hands grip like our winners show us.  

Ready, Aim, Win for Nguyen Van Son

Nguyen Van Son just by the look of it is not your average Joe.  For one thing, he is 6’4” tall not the typical height for most men nor particularly for most Vietnamese men. For another, he is a professional Taekwondo athlete with over 15 national and international medals under his belt. Next to that, he is also a professional model in Vietnam. And here comes the whopping topper - at age 21 he was just declared winner of Mister Global 2015.