Ramonet deserves even more credit

Ramon Julian, the best male Lead competition climber in the 21st century with 21 WC victories and two WCH titles, has according to his scorecard done 289 routes 8c and harder, out of which 91 FA's. Although most of them are located in popular crags, many of them are still unrepeated. In fact, some of his most repeated 8c's have been upgraded by others to 9a, like La Bongada and La Reina Mora. The 158 cm tall has also done the FA of La Rambla 9a+. However, all repeaters but Adam Ondra have according to Ramonet done an, at least, one grade easier escape variation. Another example is Mejorando Imagen given 9a by Ramonet and later Ondra said it is possibly harder than First Round First Minute 9b. When it comes to his 8b and 8b+ FA's it is more or less the same story, relatively few repeats, and many upgrade suggestions. All these facts above and that it is a well-known fact in the local community that he is a notorious hard grader, suggest that he is a much better rock climber than his scorecard shows. In the 8a 21st Century ranking, he is #4 but it might be that further upgrades could move him to #2, just behind Adam Ondra? (c)