In younger days:
That pic was from his “return” in the early ‘90s. He just wanted one more go on the gas. Competition wasn’t the goal. Good thing, too. Tom would’ve gotten smashed worse than Levrone. As well, he wasn’t anywhere near his biggest.
The first time I met him I was shocked how puny he was.
My theory is, the over abundance of test-derived drugs they use acts like a dam to an ever-increasing lake of catabolic hormones and estrogenic compounds. When they come off, as Platz did, and are actually OFF, the dam’s burst and, as another says, the pendulum swings the other way.