Lee Labrada said Dorian looked like a "side of beef" with zero cuts. Vince Taylor thought Dorian only placed well due to racism, "they always need to mix in a little cream at the top".
Racism? With Haney beating (and usually clobbering) everyone in sight, including Yates? If my math is correct, at least two-thirds of the Sandows belong to black men. (Haney, Oliva, Coleman, Jackson, Rhoden, Heath, Curry, Dickerson).
Yates won in 1992 because he was basically a white Lee Haney.
I guess Taylor is complaining because the two times he placed 3rd at the Olympia, a white guy beat him (Labrada, 1989; Yates, 1991). He also lost his Masters O to a white guy (Youngblood) who he defeated the previous year.
You're right. Same complaints with each new generation.
Which is not to say someone like Dorian can't have been better than someone like Ramy.
Yates could do that, mainly because (prior to his injuries) his physique was in better proportion vs. Ellsbiay's overdeveloped legs.
Guys in the 70s looked likey hadn't even been dieting if compared to guys today. Everone was soft like a babies ass with fat and pretty bloofy, mushy looking muscle. Just look at Pumping Iron for proof.
That was the standard at the time. Guys, like the "Iron Guru" Vince Gironda actually got marked down for showing too ripped. Franco Columbu claimed that once happened to him, too.
But, I wouldn't call them mushy. You can see striations on those guys. Check out Waller backstage at the Universe during
Pumping Iron. And the scene where he's with Schwarzenegger (after doing cable crossovers) in Gold's Gym.
"It's like a roadmap back there....with fingers all over it!", Waller says, as the Oak hits a rear double-bicep shot.
Being super-ripped (especially with a sunken face) was a sign of unhealthiness. So, guys who showed up shredded got penalized for it. Arnold and the crew were already seen as freakish, as it was.
Did they even train legs? Ever heard of squats, Arnold and Frank? 
If someone here posted these legs shots they would be ridiculed to no end.
As long as the legs are proportioned to the rest of the body, they're fine. Arnold loved squatting (no doubt, you've seen the
Pumping Iron footage or read about he and his friends, driving to the woods with a truckload of weights and doing marathon squat routines).
