*Can't* be a superstar with Yates mediocre arms & delts, overall blockiness & lack of aesthetics. Can't have a great most muscular with weak arms and average delts! It's man against boy. Does everyone conveniently forget none other than Schwarzenegger's disparaging remarks about Yates when Yates was competing?
I have a feeling most or all who like Yates just happen to be white. Just a coincidence, of course!
It's a matter of identifying with one of your own. Anyone who likes Yates would have trouble putting him ahead of someone else who was seriously flawed-Haney. They're so similar-all torso, very high muscle quality & density, robbed of greatness by the absence of arms and in Haney's case, legs, in Yates case, overall powerlifter blockiness and lack of flow or aesthetics.
At their best:Yates & Coleman have comparable lats-Yates with more density, Coleman with more size - a draw:
Advantages:Yates: density/dryness
calves
That's IT..
New standards in powerlifter hips & butt.
Mediocre arms-tris look ok in only that *one* side shot, not in any other shot
Mediocre delts (Nasser's yet another who blows out Yates on arms & delts, check those pics)
Coleman:
Everything else: TAPER
OVERALL MUSCLE VOLUME (not even close)
ARMS (not even close bis or tris on any criteria-the difference between superstar & ok)
DELTS
THIGHS
CHEST
CONCLUSION:Ron's a superstar in the pantheon of greats alongside Oliva & Schwarzenegger. Exactly why Yates admits he would lose, he knows it,
has the class to admit it. He beat Coleman sure-Zane once beat Schwarzenegger when he was coming up, who cares now, other than Yates groupies?
Yates joins Haney in the "good but seriously flawed" B-level, ahead of Chris Dickerson & Franco Columbu. Tiny arms & delts and overall blockiness will *never* equal superstar,
period. If Haney or Yates had great arms, they move up to a different neighborhood!
Here's an embarassing reminder-excellent density, *PUNY* arm & delt size = *cannot* win back or front double bi shots or most muscular.. I cringe on his behalf for those arms!