I saw Milos a couple times in his prime on stage and have to admit I was always very impressed.
He had anough sheer mass to be impressive, yet retianed the rare flow and shape that made his a classic physique. His posing was always smooth and polished.
I will never understand why pros like Milos don't do better in the Olympia in recent years.
I think the answer is relatively simple. People, particularly paying fans, want to see freaky physiques. Milos looked great but he was not freakish.
In their own way Coleman, Nasser, Fux, Dorian, Ferrigno, even G. Kovacs and Roland Cziurlock all looked freakish. That is what fans want to see and that is what judges will reward. Obviously, being freaky isn’t the only thing that matters but nothing could kill body building more quickly than to have a series of smaller familiar physiques gracing the stage from one year to the next. People want to see something they haven’t seen before. Often that means being bigger.
At the lower levels, size shape and symmetry rule the day, but at the higher levels the freak factor becomes a bigger variable. Whether it is right or wrong is moot; it is what it is. Freaky, by the way, is not just about size. It can also be conditioning (Kai Green, for example). Milos was good, but freaky? No. Not by today's standards and not even by the standard of the early to mid 90's.
Compare these physiques... which one is freakier? Granted they are different poses... but still.
