I stand corrected and you are right, there was a possibility Haney could have improved, unlikely after 8 olympias and givan the already dramatic improvements he made from 90 to 91), however still possible and any improvements on Haney`s behalf would have bested Yates in 92 I suppose.
Well, remember that Haney's improvements from 90-91 were a result of removing the drug test.
And people always talk about, "Oh, Haney was so young when he retired; if he kept training, took X, Y and Z, I bet he could have ... "
Setting aside the fact that's all idle speculation, Haney -- JUST LIKE DORIAN AND RONNIE -- had probably maxed out his frame and would never as look good beyond about the 255ish mark. Dozzer was best at 255-260, tops. Ronnie was golden at as "little" as 244 at the ASC, 248 for the '98 Olympia and 254ish at the '99 Olympia. Haney was arguably at his best in the '86 grand prix shows and '91 Olympia, weighing anywhere between ~238 and 247 IIRC.
Lee had plenty of time to "grow" between 1986 and 1991. Oddly enough, in the pictures I've seen, he looked more impressive at the earlier show. Did he just sit around and jerk off for all of those years, or what?
Bullshit. He'd pushed his frame as far as his lifting, genetics and medicine chest would allow.
And I don't buy this nonsense about Dorian et al. having access to fancy drugs, peptides and/or megadosing where Lee didn't. Lee got out of the game early because he was sick of abusing his system with tons upon tons of shit. (Ever heard that Lee REALLY loved Anadrol? From what I gather, it's true
.) And yes, he knew how to use gH. To my knowledge, the only thing he did not do is fuck about with insulin, and that's what took our Dorians, Ronnies, Ruehls and such and made them into 270 lb. ogres.
I'm with Rob Schuh's opinion from way back: Dorian would have whipped Lee in '92, but Lee never would've done the show because he knew he probably couldn't win. He gave it his all to end on a positive note and knew trying to improve on that would not only likely make him sick, he'd lose anyway.