Once again all you fall on is someone elses statement to provide your baseless argument.
Do youhonestly agree with that. That having a torn arm doesnt at all detract from your physique or affect your symmetry?
Come ND stop the nonsense.
If dorian is so much more than back and calves then please enlighten us, but don't bother listing stuff thats already been proved incorrect and false earlier in this thread.
That includes triceps, forearms, abs, delts, chest, quads which were all mediocre by top pro level with countless superior examples existing at the time.
Did I ever claim it didn't detract from his physique? no . I said it didn't matter to the judges and it did detract from his phsyique in the front double bicep shot and thats about it .
Dorian is more than just calves & a back , his forerarms are in fact among the best , his triceps were fantastic , his whole midsection for a guy his weight was great , his chest was pretty damn good , people give him garbage about his chest and its not warranted his chest doesn't get flat and disappear like Ronnies in the front double biceps shot and his sidechest shot is great , the rest of his parts while NOT spectacular were good enough and the accumulation of all of his parts made for one
great wholeThis is what a lot of people fail to comprehend , while he didn't have the greatest quads his ab-thigh was great , while he didn't have the best taper his front & rear latspreads were great , he didn't have the best arms yet his sidetriceps shot was amazing , while some guys had better chests his sidechest shot was great , couple him owning most of the mandatory poses with his combo of size & density and extreme dryness and his great ability to properly present his phsyique to its finest and there you have the reasons he was unstopable
Dorian always had an edge on his competition , Flex Wheeler was hit or miss in 93 he was sharp but the victim of to many contests and his conditioning couldn't match Dorians , Paul Dillett guy was and is probably the most purely genetically gifted bodybuilder ever but with the exception of his major weakness and Dorian's major strenght his back , couple that with Pauls less than perfect posing and lack of Yates-type dryness and thats why he always lost, Levrone was hit or miss another guy who had the ability to be Mr Olympia yet never managed to pull it together , in the begining of his career his back wasn't as great and he improved it but not to the level of Dorian same with his conditioning , when Kevin got big he lost his sharpness , when he was smaller he lost his fullness and this hurt him. Shawn Ray was never going to beat Dorian , he could perhaps match Dorian on conditioning but he was at some times over 50lbs lighter and Shawn looked it at times , structually he's narrow and it was obvious when he did the latspreads and ab-thigh , while and excellent overall bodybuilder it was at this time a big mans game , Haney was 250lbs , Yates as big as 270lbs , Ronnie as big as 296lbs , the last Mr Olympia weighing close to what Shawn did was Samir Bannout in 1983. being 5'7" hurt him next to guys 5'11" and over . Nasser could match Yates from the front but couldn't from the side or back . Lee Labrada awesome bodybuilder like Shawn Ray.
So in the end Dorian managed to edge out all of his competitors in one or more total aspects , remember there is more to bodybuilding than having the biggest & best muscles , Dorian just met more of the judging criteria than his contemporaries and thats why he was a pure winner .
