The entire audience wanted Gunter to win, not Levrone.
Dwarfing Ronnie:Gunther actually won the 2002 Show of Strength. Ronnie got 2nd, Cormier 3rd.
Gunter was a victim of his own hype. After he won the fans' hearts and the SOS in 2002 the magazines billed him as being Ronnie's biggest threat, but he never was able to bring the same package as in 2002. By 2005 he was pretty much finished.
No one can argue, this was the sickest physique on that stage that evening. And top 5 posing routine of all times!
He had literally no abs.
Far from perfect, but Schlierkamp nailed is conditioning at the 2002 Olympia
Levrone looked much better in '01. I really liked the package he brought that year
is that Ray in street clothes? He let himself go to pudgy shit in less than a year.
If gunter didn't have a blocky waist he would've been one of the greatest ever