you guys are on drugs if you think shawn was better than dex.
i watched shawn throughout his entire career and his weaknesses were what killed him onstage. This BS about the competition is retard talk.
side by side, pose by pose, forget the era, Dex smashes Ray.
Dex's FDB is the best going around, and arguably the best EVER. In that pose Shawn looked the worst against his contemporaries with his flat, lifeless biceps and flattened out triceps. His chest disappeared also in that pose, and his legs were blocky. The only area he beat Dex in that pose was his calves, and they were high, but reasonably developed. His mid section was soft in that pose also whereas Dex's is etched in stone and tighter. Dex's arms jump out like cartoons and his quads are sweepy, massive, and hard.
Rear DB shawn makes up some ground as he had great detail from top to bottom and great balance in that pose, with incredible dryness, BUT he has nowhere near the mass of Dex in that pose particularly in the lats, traps, and those cartoon arms. Then we have Ray's blocky legs again..amnd the same calf argument.
Side triceps is a good pose for Ray and its neck and neck as Ray looks good but the size advantage with the tight waist and sweeping (not blocky) quads gives Dex the edge).
Rear lat spread- again Ray's size lets him down. Its a well balanced pose but the mass v Dex is a big problem here. Dex kills him in this pose.
Front Abs and Thigh Dex's size and striated midsection just destroys Ray's otherwise excellent form which is again horribly ruined by his blocky legs (they are very thick up top and dont sweep into thick mass half way down then taper wildy into his knee- they just are thick and massive like concrete blocks).
Front lat spread is all Dexters. Again possibly no one has ever had a better front lat spread. His pecs appear huge , waist tiny and ripped, with curvy, cartoon arms and thick sweeping legs. Ray's is one where his peds flatten out, his lack of arm size is obvious, his midsection is ok, but there is those blocky legs again and he doesnt have that accentuated V taper and shrink wrapped waist- or the mass and depth that Dex has.
Most muscular. Shawn has his signature pose that makes him look good. It somewhat covers over where his blocky legs link to his waist, and he hoilds it to give his pecs an appearance of thickness that isnt there usually, and he has gnarly arms in that pose. Dex's MM doesnt do him justice and its the one pose where he appears to have lack of pec thickness. I think its the way he holds it.
Standing relaxed there is no comparison. Dex looks like a marvel comic book super hero whilst Ray could be any one of the guys from the late 80s to early 90s and in fact looks larger below the waist than above it.
So for me, Dex...easily..
Ray was good, but Ray wasnt better than Levrone- at all, nor Labrada, nor Haney, Yates, Coleman, Jay, Heath and even Martinez. Dex is better than all of those guys except for Coleman in his prime.
