I can't explain why Dorian is better using pics & videos ?? I've explained until I'm blue in the face why Dorian was better using pics and it fell on deaf ears it I explained my opinion on exactly why he would beat Coleman but you wont accept it , fine its an opinion , but you insist on clinging to this notion that because you like certain pictures & videos then thats is concrete proof its not , its your fucking opinion thats he is better and nothing more , I've resigned to the fact that I couldn't change your mind and thats okay for you to keep on with your nonsense that pics & videos prove your point of veiw is pathetic it no more proves your point then the pics I posted but thats the difference between you and I , I can admit this and bias prevents you from doing the same.
There are several problems:
a) Your criteria for "better".
Muscle size is a major element that you
always overlook.
Ronnie's muscles are larger, and there is no room for debate in this regard.
Even Ronnie's weaknesses (whether real or perceived) are larger than Dorian's strengths (examples: calves, forearms, triceps). I'm not saying sheer muscle mass alone can win a contest, but it is a much larger aspect of modern bodybuilding than you or suckmymuscle care to admit.
Ronnie's symmetry is 100% better than Dorian's.
Ronnie's left was a mirror image of his right in 2003.
Yates? His quadriceps were not uniform, his biceps were grossly asymmetrical (tear and pre-tear). His chest was not symmetrical due to a genetic sternocostal aberration. His rectus abdominis muscles did not line up perfectly from left to right like Ronnie's. Hell, even his traps were lopsided (left trap was higher), his left lat was wider, etc.
From top to bottom: Ronnie was wider (delts, lats) and his
waist was thinner. Hence, a significantly better V-taper. Couple that with the sickest quad sweep in the history of bodybuilding, and Ronnie has a better X-frame than Dorian (who lacked quadsweep).
Calves to quadricep size differential is Ronnie's only symmetrical weakness from top to bottom.
Dorian, on the otherhand, on top of an inferior V-taper and X-frame, had insufficient hamstrings & glute development to match his
then incomparable back width and thickness. This lead to a sorely underwhelming lower-body in every pose from the rear, and from the waist down is 1/2 the body. Dorian's arms were underdeveloped relative to the girth of his torso. Dorian's delt/pec tie-ins are underwhelming, whereas they are standouts on Coleman.
I'm sorry. Ronnie's arms do NOT overpower his deltoids. You keep raising this argument and its foolish. Nobody agrees with you in this regard and every piece of visual evidence beyond 1998 contradicts your assessment. Your argument that his upper arms overpower his forearms is equally foolish. Coleman's forearms are larger, and the individual muscles have more separation, than Dorian's, yet you claim a perfectly normal and acceptable taper in the muscle belly is a weakness. That is a complete value judgment and an IFBB official's assessment would contain no provision for something so minor and subjective.
Ronnie's detail is better. This is quite clear based on the pictures and videos thus far.
Even the pictures YOU post in Dorian's defense testify to his lack of detail.
Face it. All you have is "dryness". I have said it once, and I will say it again, the sole purpose of coming in dry is to showcase muscular and vascular detail. Does Dorian have vascularity? None (with the sole exception of unattractive vessels snaking around his small biceps). Does Dorian have striations? Few. (None on his quadriceps or triceps, not enough on his glutes or chest to match Ronnie). So he comes in dry, yet only to further prove that Ronnie has better detail!
So you have "explained" why you
think Dorian is better over the past 180 pages.
You are clearly wrong. Your opinions do not accord with IFBB policy. You and suckmymuscle really need to start your own federation where you can apply this clusterf*cked, subjective criteria. Hell, why don't you make calves and dryness the sole criteria?? This debate is not entirely opinion because the IFBB does have concrete standards, standards that happen to favor Ronnie to an overwhelming degree.