I almost chose an image of this person also.
Then I thought about using one of the fire jugglers on stilts. In the end I went with something completely different.
Like the processing you did on this one. The title is bang on also. Only have 9 images above this one.
The conversion is over done - the blotchy blacks against the whites just aren't effective. If the shadows and highlights had been handled better, this would have been a Top Five contender.