re: See you in Omaha

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Well I can tell you aren’t a Nutritionist

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Lol. You must be then.
Unless you’re in a total body recomp position and have a ton of bad weight on you and little good weight (muscle), then dropping a significant amount of fat without muscle loss is very difficult.
I’m betting he wasn’t in that position, as he had likely been working out plenty. So he had + good weight and + bad weight.
To lose that kind of weight requires a caloric deficit. To gain muscle, you need a slight caloric surplus.
To continue to workout while in a caloric deficit can retain some muscle, but at the end of the day to nail that perfect calorie intake to metabolic rate ratio to ONLY burn fat and not any muscle is pretty hard. Obviously top notch nutritionist and training staff could get close, but there’s no way in the world that his muscle mass is the same at 235 as it was at 272.
I would bet my paycheck I know more about this than you. I would love to know what a dexa scan or inbody scan would’ve shown at 272 vs 235. I’m sure body fat % is way down, but muscle mass is as well.