You don't pay attention , it doesn't matter how thin his skin is? this shows you know nothing , Dorian does have striations not as many as Coleman but he isn't devoid , his chest , glutes , lower back , lower lats , intercostales , you're like Hulkster you cling to this notion that because Ronnie has more striations & vasculairty he's a automatic winner !! thats bull
You are a hypocrite. If I overemphasize striations & vascularity, then you equally overemphasize dryness & graininess. What a double standard!
The funny thing is, dryness is meant to exhibit striations and vascularity! (Its like claiming a Kia is a better vehicle than a Bentley because the Kia has a better coat of wax

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Dorian does NOT have a striated chest!! THIS is a striated chest:

Dorian's chest is small, flat as a pancake, and devoid of any/all detail.
Ronnie's detail and condition looks 100% better than dry, detail-less Dorian any day of the week.
Dorian's chest also has a glaring deficiency in the sterno-costal attachment region. Awful.
Dorian's glutes are striated but nowhere near the level that Ronnie's display. You are silly for even mentioned Dorian's glutes in a comparison thread vs. Ronnie. You are just asking for an epic beatdown on that one.
In contest shape: Lower back. Granted. Lower lats. Granted. Intercostals. Granted.
Still ND, that list is pathetic. Just look how small, narrow, and isolated it is. Inexcusable.
And in 1993 at his best his bicep was not torn , pay attention please , and Dorian has nothing to showcase under his thin skin? how about some of the most dense & developed muscle tissue ever packed on a 5'10" frame? how about muscle thickness & seperation ?
Regardless, his biceps were grossly asymmetrical.
Oh God ... "the most dense & developed muscle tissue ever" ... get out of here!
You love that "density" buzzword don't you? You're getting alot of mileage out of it I see.
It wasn't the most developed muscle because it wasn't very large and it wasn't mature. You yourself said his size was not overwhelming, and certainly nowhere, NOWHERE near 2003 Coleman's muscularity, so this general blanket statement has been rendered ineffective by yours truly.
As I requested earlier, please give me an idea of what you consider muscle density to be, and how Dorian's muscle density is superior to Ronnie. I wait with bated breath for this next invention of yours...
And how you got I live in Demark is beyond me
and striations don't win contests ask Andreas Munzer how many Pro contests he won ( zero ) same with Hamdullah Aykutlu !! muscle density , hardness & dryness win contests , among other reasons two of the biggest reasons Dorian won because he was extremely dense & extremely dry , he didn't win because he had an aesthetic body or because he had a great taper
You had a reference to Danish girls in your profile. I really hope for your sake that English isn't your primary language, because your grammar and syntax is very poor, esp. for a grown man.
The fact that you even mention Hamdullah Aykutlu is clearly indicative of the time bubble you live in. Seriously ... you belong at Iron Age, not an objective modern bodybuilding forum.
Dryness does not win contests if there is no detail underneath the skin.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Regardless, dryness is only 1 element of many in a comprehensive 33% of the criteria.
You yourself admit his aesthetics were shit. So stop trying to claim, along with suckmymuscle, that Dorian had better symmetry than Ronnie. You admit his taper is subpar too, yet earlier you argued vehemently that it was better than Ronnie's, despite this ever so simple equation:
Wider lats + Wider delts + Smaller waist = Superior V-taper.
Once again, its clear as day that you don't have the slightest f*cking clue what you mean by "muscle density", but you think you look good when you cite it in Dorian's defense (you don't). If you truly knew what muscle density was, you would know that Ronnie's exceeds Dorian's by light-years.
In fact, I will spell it out for you right now.
Muscle Density is the sheer amount of muscle retained within a specific volume (in this case, the amount of muscle retained within the epimycium). So basically muscle density is no different from muscle fullness, so in otherwords, relative muscularity, and you have admitted repeatedly that this is not Dorian's strength.
You have no right to claim his muscles are dense when his biceps are flat, his deltoids and underwhelming, his back in contest condition is 2dimensional in the back double bicep, his quadriceps are nowhere near as developed and full as Coleman's.
Nothing happens when Dorian strikes a pose. He looks the same flexed as he does relaxed.
Ronnie, on the otherhand, looks like his muscles will rupture the epimycium whenever he hits a pose, particularly his most musculars:

You aren't very bright ND. In the future I am going to call you out on it whenever you cite Dorian's "muscle density" as a strength, because his muscles are not developed to the extent that Ronnie's are. Dorian's quads, hamstrings, and glutes are not nearly as large or full at Ronnie's are, so with the exception of his calves, his lower-body density is utter shit in relation to Coleman. Coleman packs more muscle per unit volume than Dorian, it is that simple.
From the front, Dorian's chest is flat, his deltoids aren't full, his biceps are astoundingly weak.
WHERE IS THIS DENSITY YOU SPEAK OF ND?
Oh wait, its only in his back, the only strength you can justifiably cite in his defense.
Nonetheless, Ronnie's back is wider, his lats and trapezius are far more developed, and Ronnie has more 3 dimensional thickness in the back double bicep.
Congratulations ND! Dorian's lower back is dry AND dense! *golf clap*
The difference in their height doesn't come anywhere close to compensating for their difference in competition weight. Not even close ND. Ronnie Coleman is far more dense, and to argue the contrary clearly demonstrates that you don't even have an elementary understanding of what exactly density entails. I only wish I had addressed this sooner, but nonetheless, I have rendered 100s of pages of your claims to "superior density" worthless. I'm sorry.
Ronnie Coleman may have a lot of volume in 2003 but he's lacks Dorian' density and dryness , Ronnie Coleman was very dry in 98 maybe as dry as Dorian but he lacked Dorian's muscle density , if Coleman 03 stood side by side Yates in 93 you'd be able to tell very qickly who was dry and who wasn't .
Once again, Coleman does not lack Dorian's density, he exceeds it.
For f*ck's sake, learn what the term means. The amount of muscle per unit of volume.
Their height difference was quite negligible, but scale-weight difference was substantial.
Similar size and structure, yet Coleman has more muscle.
As a result, he has more density. You shot yourself in the foot on this one.
DORIAN DOES NOT HAVE SUPERIOR DENSITY. You have no right to continue to make this claim.