The only reason the 98 Olympia was close was because Ronnie was overlooked in the first round. He scored 17, Flex 5 and Nasser was 10 I think.
Ronnie then got straight 5's for 3 rounds and Flex got straight 10's. So it was 35 to 32 but Ronnie won 3 rounds with straight firsts.
Also Ronnie's waist seemed to be small enough in 2005, he just needed to keep coming in around 260 and it would have been fine but he didn't diet down far enough in later years.