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Shawn makes a lot of good points. Id take his physique over Dorians any day.
However, Shawn refused to follow the "size trend", and thats why he never became Mr. Olympia.
If you cant beat them, join them... Simple as that.
People constantly retype this nonsense ' Shawn refused to follow the size trend ', and it's not accurate , Shawn was a mass-monster just on a smaller scale , he just didn't have the height. Compare him to a guy of similar height like Lee Labrada who was give-or-take an inch shorter , Lee competed at 190lbs , Shaw was 205 and as high as 215lbs , that's as much as a 25lb weight difference !!!
Shawn was a mass monster but he was 5'7" if he was 5'11" he would have been 250