He isn’t improving. His legs haven’t grown for years. If anything, they are getting worse.
Not only are they stumpy and out of length proportion to his upper body, they’re poorly shaped. To say nothing of his grotesque lower legs.
And piss-poor chest coupled with a massive midsection …
Dick Nocker isn’t even a reliable asset to the IFBB.
In all my years I have never seen a bodybuilder pull out of an Olympia because of, what amounts to, a minor muscle injury, or let alone because … his physique wasn’t satisfactory (“responding”).
Both body-wise and professionally he has moved out of top contention.