Back to Parker, you said that Cormier deserved to beat Cutler but didn't because he has a bad rep and may have been a woman beater, but there are stories of Dexter beating his wife before and he won the Olympia. Also stories of Wheeler acting violent to women (he got 5 years probation in one instance), and of course the grapefruit sexer Kai yet that didn't stop him from winning it. Bannout even won the Olympia even though he had domestic violence issues for many years. Samir once even choked Joe Weider in his office and knocked out a British judge after the British Grand Prix which got him a "lifetime" suspension at the time that was later lifted. When you see these types of instances not holding back some pros from their victories, yet other obvious joke-decisions (like 94 NOC and 97 Olympia), it looks like judges pick and choose depending on numerous factors that are not always clear to outsiders - Nasser has seconded this as well.
Manion once said to Ronnie Coleman during a guest posing at his yearly Pittsburgh (May) show where Ronnie was guest posing for free, that he had to return to the stage (he had gone backstage after just one minute of guest posing) otherwise Manion threatened to Ronnie that he would not win the next upcoming Mr. Olympia! Ronnie was told this directly by Manion who went backstage to give him that message personally. Ronnie hurried up and went back onstage and guest posed for many more minutes.
Simply BS to assume there are no factors beyond one's physique alone that influence judging decisions!
Cormier's incident happened about a yr after the OJ incident. Flex or Musclemag even ran a article comparing the two. Ahmo was a prominant figure model, and far more prettier than Nicole Brown Simpson (and Ahmo is rumored to be a cokehead). Then you have CC's drug habit (nubain and rec drugs) that was getting bad. Cutler was coming along at a time where he was being propped up as the "savior", because Gunter was failing at it. If you look at 2002,03,04 Arnold's you'll see that Culter didn't deserve any wins. And when they turned their backs, who Cormier had him beat by miles.
Dex's issues, were almost a decade after CC's, and CC's was at time time when that type of incident involving BM/WW would have been put under a manifying glass. I think there were judges that remember that, and also see CC as some type of pimp/thug with his cornrows, smirk, and tats.
Wheeler's situation was tha he apparently had threatened his brother's girlfriend about his brother going to jail...Basically victim/witness intimidation. Which there are charges for. Now I do agree that judges tend to pick and choose. But less face it, as Mattazzo had said, "Flex looks like he was hand painted by God", this was in regards to his 1993 conditioning and shape. He just "looks" aesthetically better, and at the end of the day, the judges will pick what maybe most pleasing to the eye, with the required amount of musculature and conditioning. Unfortunatedly Nasser was the odd man out, and Milos was even more so. Imagine having that physique but somehow you cannot develop arms to match it.
Also, for Flex's 1997 vid, "Mass Construction" he did chest, and for his 1993 vid he did chest. Remember, Flex was 5'9-5'10 and 215-230 at his best in contest, he was not by any means a mass monster. Because he had tiny joints and small waist, he gave the illusion of size---size which he didn't have.
