U ALL R SMOKIN CRACK.......bodybuilding these days is waaaaaaay better than the 1980's era..we have bigger,thicker and more mass monsters than ever before...the 80's bodybuilding had those small as bodies wich by todays standrad r more or less a normal physiue..bodybuilding has progressed alot and from the beginning to the end this sport will and always b dominated by the bigger guy wat so ever..the increase in the weight of the bodybuilders both during onseason and offseason..we r seeing more and more shredded and at the same time bigger physiues than ever before..how can we not see 275lb ripped jay cutler or 280lbs ripped coleman and markus ruhl who have enough aesthetics to with their mass..i think so bodybuilding has progressed alot..and also the great dorian yates who introduced the mass trend is credited the most..without yates there would have been no mass freaks....
And what was Lee Haney, chopped liver?
When bodybuilding pundits make lists about "mass monsters" and a separate one about aesthetic bodybuilders, Haney usually ends up in BOTH categories. That's why he's called the "Awesome One". He can be massive and freaky WITHOUT LOOKING as if he's six months pregnant.
Markus Ruhl looks like a big block, with all the aesthetics of a dump truck, which might explain why he often loses to bodybuilders much smaller than he is (i.e. Melvin Anthony, Darrem Charles, etc.). Jay Cutler is pushing it, as well.
As for Coleman, many people will argue that Coleman's all-time best shape was in 2001, when he won the Arnold Classic. They'll get no argument from me. Size, symmetry, proportion, aesthetics, definition.....it's all there.
