Ronnie's a sore loser.
He was in 2002 at the SOS when he lost to Gunther too , but you have to put yourself in his mindset , in order to be the best you have to convince yourself you are the best and he was the best a winners mindset , Flex had second doubts about winning in 1998 and sabotaged his efforts ( according to him ) because he didn't feel like he deserved to win
Ronnie got complacent and slacked off a little 2001/2002 with Jay , Gunther and to an extent Kevin and these got got close but 100% on Ronnie was untouchable compared to these guys , Ronnie got motivated in 03 and crushed them all