wsup ice cold...
i agree bodybuilding isnt about individual parts... but a combination of parts
...which is why i think yates should never have beaten shawn flex kevin or paul...
the whole yates reign was based on one bodypart...
i cant think of a top 10 bber in that era who didnt have a better overall better build than dorian
what a lot of people fail to understand is... its not all about bodyweight.. its how much you look like u weigh..
what if u didnt know how much dorian weighed...or paul weighed.. how do the look like the wigh that is key...
look at wheeler.. 230.... 220 and his arms DWARVED dorians....its all about muscle insertons and shape... not oh i weigh 300 anybody can say i weigh this or that bbers lie about it all the time...
its all about how u carry the weight...
and dorians 260 or whatever look like crap compared to flex's 230
did dorian have better arms than
kevin shawn priest dillet.. no
did he have a better chest? no
better abs? no
better delts? no
better back yes...
true, but no one matched dorian's size AND conditioning.
that's why he won.
sure, lots of guys have better bodyparts and looked better in some poses.
but once every angle, every pose, etc. matched with dorian's unmatched density and conditioning, that's why he won.
there used to be a posedown clip on youtube from 95 and his density and conditioning were clearly apparent, much more so than pictures.
at first, i only saw dorian on film, and that's what i remember - not the pictures.
its been noted by some writers that some guys look better on film than pictures and vice versa.
dorian was unique in that his strengths were unusual and his weaknesses were the strengths of guys in the past - big biceps etc.
for instance, you find a better bber from head to toe in the side tricep pose - every bodypart included - even compared to other guys who delts, chest, etc. look better in other poses.
this pic is a perfect example.
paul and kevin may have some individual parts that are better, but overall yates is better - he has more density and condition. for some reason, the judges found that to be an unbeatable combo.
also, if guys like paul, kevin, etc. who were fairly equal in size to dorian, would have had to come in much smaller to match dorian's conditioning.