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(http://www.bodybuilding-pics.com/45/images/Aaron_Baker_photo126.jpg)
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In that pic id say hes getting his ass handed to him
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I'd say Flex has more pleasing arms and abs, other dude is jacked on everything else
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damn thick chest, triceps n calves on Baker there...and his back was one of the best out there
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Not particularly.
But Flex sees to have forgotten to flex his chest or something because it looks weak ??? And the quads could be a little more separated.
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What ever happened to aaron baker anyways? I think he was very underrated
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Joining the WBF,fucked Aaron Baker from getting his just due.
Dude should have won a ton of contests....he was freaky in a good way.
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There were a couple of shows I had baker over flex.
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He was no slouch when he turned around either.
(http://www.schwarzenegger.it/mro/baker/ab43.jpg)
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(http://www.bodybuilding-pics.com/45/images/Aaron_Baker_photo126.jpg)
I was at that show. thought for sure baker would have won it. I worked out with him the next day at gold's gym venice. nice guy
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I was at that show. thought for sure baker would have won it. I worked out with him the next day at gold's gym venice. nice guy
Rik,you always got the shaft just like Baker did.
Were you ever in the WBF? ;)
It`s not a bad thing to lose,but to just get fucking robbed sucks after all that hard work.
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(http://celebpictu.com/images/aaron-baker-10.jpg)
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(http://muscletime.com/index.php?view=image&format=raw&type=img&id=39858&option=com_joomgallery&Itemid=202)
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Not particularly.
But Flex sees to have forgotten to flex his chest or something because it looks weak ??? And the quads could be a little more separated.
Flex had Dexter's torso with Dillet's arms that's why chest looks weak.
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Aaron had a great physique, very underrated.
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Rik,you always got the shaft just like Baker did.
Were you ever in the WBF? ;)
It`s not a bad thing to lose,but to just get fucking robbed sucks after all that hard work.
they musta thought I was. :)
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baker was a freak of nature in person. he's what you'd imagine flex would look like if he had a thicker back/torso.
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Not particularly.
But Flex sees to have forgotten to flex his chest or something because it looks weak ??? And the quads could be a little more separated.
1995..the yr before he broke his neck. It's damn wonder he even competed.
Hard to say, Flex would win contests on his shape alone. They are almost neck and neck. Aaron has a sick chest compared to Flex. Darren Charles and Lee Priest were at that show as well.
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I was at that show. thought for sure baker would have won it. I worked out with him the next day at gold's gym venice. nice guy
On one of the Battle For Olympias he was training arms (with Robby Robinson) and he seems to train super slow, like focusing I the contraction. Did he do that while you trained with him on whatever bodypart he trained?
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On one of the Battle For Olympias he was training arms (with Robby Robinson) and he seems to train super slow, like focusing I the contraction. Did he do that while you trained with him on whatever bodypart he trained?
it was the day after the show, and they had just pulled the hammer strength bicep machine off the delivery truck. I guess I should say we worked 'in' together rather than worked out together. I do recall him focusing on the peak contraction quite strongly tho.
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(http://www.bodybuilding-pics.com/45/images/Aaron_Baker_photo126.jpg)
Flex wins this pose pretty easily, in my eyes.
Smaller joints at the shoulder/bicep tie-in, and at the elbows, make his arms look more dramatic and pleasing. Also, he has a better balance between biceps and triceps size.
His waistline is more pleasingly put together, with popping abs. Meanwhile, Bakers midsection is straight up and down (as opposed to tapering down to the hips like Wheeler), and the abs flatten out rather than pop. He's also slightly wider in the waist than Flex.
Baker looks like he doesn't have a neck, which throws off his proportions (it's just how he's posing).
Flex also shows superior serratus separation.
Some have pointed out that Baker's chest is superior in this pose. I counter that his chest over-dominates his upper body in the pose, which throws off his proportions in the shot. It's too dominant. For example, Arnold had the best chest development in his day, but his pecs did not dominate his upper body the way Baker's does. This is why Arnolds pose is so much more pleasing, whereas with Baker, there's just something "off" about how his chest is posed in the shot. It is certainly dramatic and one-of-a-kind, but it is not as proportionate as Flex.
Finally, the lats from the front. This, I have to give to Baker. He just plain beats Flex hands down here. In my opinion, both men have such incredible upper size and shape that their lats cannot be "too big". Kind of the way Dorian's lats were never too big in this pose. It's nigh impossible for lats to look too big in this pose, if width and thickness are balanced. In this case, Flex has acceptable width, yet lacks the thickness that makes Baker so much more dramatic and v-tapered.
All told, Flex's upper body dominates Baker's in this pose, even though he loses on front lat width and thickness. Not in terms of size...far from it. But in terms of proportion and separation, it does. Both are quite symmetrical in the upper body, with a slight edge to Baker.
Baker's lower body beats Flex's, but it's not as dramatic a beat-down as to what Flex does on the upper body. Baker's calves/quads flare more dramatically from the knee than Flex, but it's not like Flex sucks ass here. Baker does have better quad sweep and separation though.
But then, this isn't a leg pose. Judges try to judge the whole body, but it always will be an "upper body" pose.
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Kia Greene is an imitation of Aaraon Baker , Aaraon Baker was doing gay shit on stage way before kai came along with his white towel
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"Wayne Dimilia stuck me in the back and wouldn't even call me out along with other WBF champs suffering in the line up such as Arron baker, Mike Quinn, Garry Strydom, Mike Christian to name a few. We all looked at each other during pre Judging and knew we were suffering the wrath from defecting from the IFBB in 1990. "
-Eddie Robinson
http://www.criticalbench.com/Eddie-Robinson.htm (http://www.criticalbench.com/Eddie-Robinson.htm)
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Flex wins this pose pretty easily, in my eyes.
Smaller joints at the shoulder/bicep tie-in, and at the elbows, make his arms look more dramatic and pleasing. Also, he has a better balance between biceps and triceps size.
His waistline is more pleasingly put together, with popping abs. Meanwhile, Bakers midsection is straight up and down (as opposed to tapering down to the hips like Wheeler), and the abs flatten out rather than pop. He's also slightly wider in the waist than Flex.
Baker looks like he doesn't have a neck, which throws off his proportions (it's just how he's posing).
Flex also shows superior serratus separation.
Some have pointed out that Baker's chest is superior in this pose. I counter that his chest over-dominates his upper body in the pose, which throws off his proportions in the shot. It's too dominant. For example, Arnold had the best chest development in his day, but his pecs did not dominate his upper body the way Baker's does. This is why Arnolds pose is so much more pleasing, whereas with Baker, there's just something "off" about how his chest is posed in the shot. It is certainly dramatic and one-of-a-kind, but it is not as proportionate as Flex.
Finally, the lats from the front. This, I have to give to Baker. He just plain beats Flex hands down here. In my opinion, both men have such incredible upper size and shape that their lats cannot be "too big". Kind of the way Dorian's lats were never too big in this pose. It's nigh impossible for lats to look too big in this pose, if width and thickness are balanced. In this case, Flex has acceptable width, yet lacks the thickness that makes Baker so much more dramatic and v-tapered.
All told, Flex's upper body dominates Baker's in this pose, even though he loses on front lat width and thickness. Not in terms of size...far from it. But in terms of proportion and separation, it does. Both are quite symmetrical in the upper body, with a slight edge to Baker.
Baker's lower body beats Flex's, but it's not as dramatic a beat-down as to what Flex does on the upper body. Baker's calves/quads flare more dramatically from the knee than Flex, but it's not like Flex sucks ass here. Baker does have better quad sweep and separation though.
But then, this isn't a leg pose. Judges try to judge the whole body, but it always will be an "upper body" pose.
The reason why Aaron's chest looks odd is because both are doing the FDB pose slightly different. Aaron's abs are stretched out, which means he has is slightly curved back, lats flared out, and his chest is flexed like it would in a FLS. Which is why it looks like he has no neck. Flex is doing the FDB pose like he normally does it, and is flexing his abs.
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they musta thought I was. :)
Bastards. ;)
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Baker had more muscle, but if you just step back a couple feet and look at the picture from some distance, you can clearly see that Flex has nicer flow and bellies.
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Honestly think Flex looks better but how the fuck does Baker have that chest thickness in that pose?
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Baker had more muscle, but if you just step back a couple feet and look at the picture from some distance, you can clearly see that Flex has nicer flow and bellies.
Flow and bellies don't mean shit otherwise flex, levrone, Cormier, ray, would have all won Olympias in which they didn't
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Aaron's legs stand out too. Separation & hardness edge over Flex.
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Aaron Baker looking magnificent
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Flex looking sharp
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Baker was ripped off so badly in his career.
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Aaron is thicker but Flex is more aesthetically pleasing. No homo. I chose Flex.
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(http://www.bodybuilding-pics.com/45/images/Aaron_Baker_photo57.jpg)
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(http://www.bodybuilding-pics.com/45/images/Aaron_Baker_photo149.jpg)
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Baker is a nice guy with a funny voice
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My 2nd favorite homasexual next to OneMoreRep
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Aaron is a good gay.
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Aaron is a good gay.
You're quite the oil painting yourself my friend.
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baker always was underrated. a shame
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Baker is a nice guy with a funny voice
It was funny when he used to play this heel on a black wrestling league TV show. He was slimmed down, but he would play this guy who "ran things".
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yes baker is the real batman that never was.
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Baker was a real mans man.
A guy not afraid of any gay stigmas associated with daisy dukes, construction boots, stringer tanks and fanny packs.
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He had the world by it's calves.
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Chris Cormier once said that he would see Aaron Baker around town ... In the off-season at 280LBS. Chris said that it was difficult to try to understand how Aaron wasn't Mr Olympia.
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Aaron is thicker but Flex is more aesthetically pleasing. No homo. I chose Flex.
You only had to say no homo if you chose Baker. :D
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Chris Cormier once said that he would see Aaron Baker around town ... In the off-season at 280LBS. Chris said that it was difficult to try to understand how Aaron wasn't Mr Olympia.
Because the powers that be didn't want a black Batman. You couldn't eff with comic book continuity like that back then.
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Joining the WBF,fucked Aaron Baker from getting his just due.
Dude should have won a ton of contests....he was freaky in a good way.
i agree with u wes, baker was awesome
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Interesting question.
How would a paying public view a re-boot of the Batman series, on the silver screen, were it to star an african american as Batman/Bruce Wayne?
For example, if Don Cheadle put on 25lbs of muscle? I like his acting chops in an attempt to pull off grisled vigilante. Could he pull it off to the tune of $500MM in gross?
They would have to rewrite his whole story all over. Unless they did some type of alternate universe story.
Now, when batman's back was broken he was nursed back to health by a black female doctor, and I believe they had a short romance.
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Because the powers that be didn't want a black Batman. You couldn't eff with comic book continuity like that back then.
I would like to see the 1995 Pro Ironman version of Aaron Baker compared with the 1995 Mr Olympia version of Dorian Yates. That would be interesting.
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I would like to see the 1995 Pro Ironman version of Aaron Baker compared with the 1995 Mr Olympia version of Dorian Yates phil heath. That would be interesting.
:o