Why is it that, when it comes to the Olympia, you have to be on one of two extremes? Either you have to win the title multiple times, or you have to some oh-so-close (i.e. 2nd place)-but-no-cigar multple times (Wheeler, Levrone, Gaspari, Ray).
But, if you just win it once, you get little or no props (i.e. Bannout, Dickerson, Jackson).
Dexter was royally screwed over both this year and last year.
As for your question, I wish I knew how to answer it but the only thing that comes to mind at the moment is that
bodybuilding competition is weird. It really is.
Take Dickerson for example. The guy competed successfully in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He won titles in all of the major organisations. Was one of the most professional athletes ever, one of the best posers ever, had one of the most classically balanced physiques in the sport, dominated the professional ranks in the early eighties, and yet despite all of this, he is considered to be a nobody by most current fans.
As a sport, bodybuilding really doesn't know how to tap into its own history. It seems to instead spend most of its time jerking off to whatever it is that it imagines itself to be in its mirror.
Bodybuilding is weird...
