This ND answers every question with a question, never answers anything..let's say it again until he gives a real answer..
Quote from: Hulkster on Today at 06:10:47 PM
How ND can claim that Ronnie/Jay was a travesty and then at the same time say that 1994 was okay is unreal.
I've answered the question you just don't like the answer I gave . here is how exactly 2001 was a joke and 1994 wasn't as fucked-up as 2001
2001 - Jay outclasses Ronnie in prejudging and wins both the symmetry & muscularity goes into the nightshow leading the current Mr Olympia by 6 points . now mind you the prejudging is where the contest final placings are actually determined , Shawn Ray said they should do away with the posing rounds because they NEVER effect a contestants final placing and they've long talked about doing this.
So Jay Cutler after the prejudging beat the Mr Olympia at his game NO Mr Olympia winner
ever in the history of the sport went into the nightshow behind by 6 points and still won the show . its unheard of . the nightshow comes and Ronnie knows he's now
losing so somehow he pulls a rabbit out of his hat and wins both the freeposing round & the posedown rounds to " beat " Jay by 4 points.
Ronnie was an extremly lucky bodybuilder on that night he lost the physique portion of the contest and I've seen Ronnie's free posing and it was nothing special or spectacular to warrant him beating Jay for the title but hey thats the way the cookie crumbled a very controversial contest none the less .
1994 - Dorian is off from 1993 big difference , his tan is poor & his stomach has some distension and his left bicep is torn . Dorian easily wins both the symmetry & muscularity rounds with perfect scores. after the prejudging Dorian is clearly in first and Kevin is leading Shawn by 4 points. now into the nightshow Shawn pulled off an amazing posing routine that he used when he won the Nationals awesome routine if you haven't seen it . his routine puts him ahead of Kevin for 2nd place and if I'm not mistaken Dorian didn't get straight firsts in the posing round but he still won them and finished in first .
Now the differece was 1994 was for second place Shawn was very lucky to beat Kevin Levrone and only did so by virtues of his posing. In the physique portion of the contest he was actually trailing Kevin by 4 points , so the main difference is Shawn didn't beat Dorian in both the muscularity & symmetry rounds and then lost by a close margin in the posing rounds to lose by just 4 points according to the judges Dorian was clearly first and the battle was for second place .
Was Shawn the better overall package that night sure. but that doesn't have anything to do with , Lee Labrada was the better overall package than Lee Haney in 1990 and still lost you can't beat the champ on points you have to knock him out and Shawn was lucky to get a TKO on Levrone nevermind knock Dorian out. Shawn was lucky if he was 205lbs in that contest and Dorian was 262lbs thats almost a 60 pound advantage , Shawns good but he's not that good , if Flex Wheeler competed in the condition of the 1993 Olympia he would have stopped Dorian in 94 but not Shawn.
look at these quotes , they sum it up nicely. 2001 was very controversial 1994 wasn't .
quote Flex Jan 1995 " Let it be recorded tthat in the immediate aftermath of the contest , none of his closest rivals even hinted that Yates did not deserve to win . "
quote Shawn Ray Flex Jan 1995 " Tonight I feel I got what I deserved "
quote Flex Jan 1995 " As Yates , Levrone and Ray stood onstage , the reiging champ ( cognizant of 1992 ) told Levrone " Looks like it's you and me again " Mr Olympia got it wrong , and the booing deciblel dwarfed that accorded the Dillet announcement as Kevin Levrone was called out in third "
quote Ironman Jan 1995 " Since he ( Ray ) was trailing Levrone by four points going into round 3 ( posing round ) Shawn was going to have to equal his showing of seven years ago ( Nationals win ) to have a chance of passing Levrone "
quote Ironman Jan 1995 " The battle was between Shawn and Kevin for second "
quote Ironman Jan 1995 former IFBB judge Roger Schwab " Yates is simply in another league. When he turns his back and flexes , he's the only man onstage. "
quote " Shawn Ray in a rout. He was better than ever. Any criticism is a stretch for a reporter to fill space. That such magnificence is litterally crushed by Yates is a sobering thought ."
" In 1994 , he ( Dorian ) was admittedly not at his best , but he was still the best bodybuilder onstage that day. No one not even runner-up Shawn Ray,disagreed with that stance on the night of Yates' threepeat. "