Flex was the reason I started following bodybuilding. I liked Dorian's work ethic and Shawn Ray's business accueman and attitude towards bodybuilding. I never could connect to Arnold as important as he is to bodybuilding. I knew him as an action hero and when I looked as his physique it was in the 90s and it was outdone by all the greats in the 90s so I never really appreciated him. I do now though. Lee Haney is my favorite overall now because overall as bodybuilder and a man he's been a consumate professional, and incredible representative of what it's is to be man and a bodybuilder in a "sport" full of narcissism.