who looked better?
Oh yeah, Padilla.
Obviously you're the type that doesnt disagree with placings and if someone wins they must be the best.
Generally, the competitor who is awarded the title, in doing so, is deemed to be the best. You act as if this is an alien concept.
Anyone can arbitrarily throw out names of those bodybuilders they favor without providing a basis for that opinion. Whether you agree with, or even comprehend IFBB judging guidelines, that is the basis by which contests are determined. The champion is the competitor who best meets this criteria.
Not some capricious and baseless, "I just think he looks better", mentality. If that were the preferred method of judging, the subjectivity of the sport would be exponentially greater than what it already is.
I find it extremely ironic, that in several instances where it is pointed out that an injustice occurred in someone not defeating Yates, it often involves a bodybuilder who failed to defeat most anyone else. I greatly admire Danny Padilla's physique, but his defeating Dorian was not within the realm of possibility.