Dorian is bigger , harder , drier and more detailed especially from the back and he has better balance & proportion and couple that with posing & presentation and Ronnie 2001 will look small next to Dorian
bigger? Maybe. Dorian was 10 lbs heavier which is not much. Ronnie's smaller joints and narrower waist give the illusion of added size compared to Dorian's blocky structure.
John Hansen, 2x Mr. Natural Universe and Mr. Natural Olympia"With his incredible thickness and muscle shape, Coleman doesn't need to weigh over 260 pounds on stage to look big. When he won the Arnold Classic last year, Ronnie only weighed 247 pounds but he looked like he weighed 20 pounds heavier."
Dexter Jackson – Getbig Interview 2004“I am not the gossip type. I let them do all the talking, and I let my physique back my talking up. I know Craig Titus was saying something like he knows that Lee Priest is 200 pounds, I’m 220 pounds, and he is 250 pounds, and all this shit, but what Craig does not realize is that his 250 pounds is not like Ronnie Coleman’s 250 pounds. See what I am saying? I think I have proven to everyone that size doesn't matter. You don't look at Craig and say 'whoa, that’s a big dude’. You might say that about Ronnie or Jay at 250, but not Craig.”
Peter McGough – Flex Magazine, August 2005"Personally, the best physique I ever saw onstage was Ronnie's at the 2001 Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic. He was cut, full, trim in the waist and a monster (proving that when you're supersharp, you look superbig) at 247 pounds. Ronnie sporting that look would, in my opinion, be unbeatable."
While I’m on record as saying that the best physique I ever saw was Ronnie’s at the 2001 Arnold, he was never drier or harder than Dorian. In fact now that – 14 years after it happened – I recently for the first time saw the video of Dorian posing before the 1993 Olympia I have cause to rethink. I’m now not sure that Ronnie at 245 pounds would beat Dorian at 269 pounds. At a bigger bodyweight I think Ronnie would look soft next to an in-shape rock-hard Dorian.
On the subject of conditioning, no-one did it better than Dorian. He achieved a hardness and dryness (without losing fullness) that nobody has ever matched. In the flesh he looked even harder than he did in photos. It was like a statue made of granite was standing in front of you.
show me where Peter McGough explicitly says 01 ASC Ronnie never matched Dorian's conditioning. He only says nobody achieved the same level of hardness and dryness. Furthermore, since you believe what Peter says, then you concede that he's right about Ronnie having the best back of all-time.
Peter McGough - Flex, December 2006"The best back ever lacked its eye-popping detail and fullness." (in reference to Ronnie at the 06 Mr. Olympia)
