Stop being melodramatic ' he's a child compared to 98 ' 
from 98 to 99 he improved but not to the extreme Dorian did from 92 to 93 thats visual evidence of a drastic change. and the rationalisation is from 1996/97 to 1998 there is NO other major physical advantage other than conditioning from 1998 to 1999 there is an eight pound size advantage which is more noticable vs 96/97-98 however when you factor in Ronnie's inability in 98 to convincingly beat Flex , a man Dorian dominated every time they met its very easy to grasp that 1998 Ronnie isn't beating Dorian 1993.
Again you take everything as being literal. For once please try and resist. "Child" - do you ever exhibit flexibility in the use of a word. When did i ever suggest ronnies transformation, which you, despite visual evidence to the contrary, deny, was ever comparable to the one dorian achieved from 92 and 93?
The mind boggles how you 've managed to muster the arrogance to sit there and deny the incredibly obvious differences in his physique between 97 and 98/99.
I think its time you accept whats staring you in the face.
You sound like you're rehashing some MD article . Ronnie did NOT take the game to a ' new level ' in 1998 or 1999. Dorian was 257lbs ripped a LONG time before Ronnie or anyone else . Ronnie like the resr were scrambling to play catch-up for years. Ronnie presented a multitude of different packages all worse than the previous ones , he started off great in 98/99 and past the 01 ASC he went downhill fast. onviouslt he did bring the game to a new level in 03 with his combo of size/conditioning and gut .
Several incorrect points here.
1. That dorian was 257lbs "ripped" has no relevance to what ronnie presented which i need'nt mention since its been repeated ad infinitum throughout the last 300 pages. Conditioning, detail, vascularity, seperation, balance, muscularity and mass which when we consider them all together with equal importance, no man has ever presented each quality to the same degree as ronnie. Bbers may have been bigger, or more ripped or "grainier" and balanced but no man has ever exhibited all these qualities like ronnie.
2. Yes people were playing catch up to dorian in terms of replicating his blend of size and conditioning but guess what, now that level has been surpassed just as the times achieved in the 100m have progressively become faster.
3. Ronnie certainly hasn't gone all downhill since 98 and 99 as you suggest. Which of his renditions is superior may come down to personal preference but i think we can all agree that he dropped in 2000, surpassed that condition at the ASC 01 the following year only to get worse that very same year and continue the slide until 2003 where he presented a physique far superior to the previous 2 Mr O's, then got worse in 2004 then better in 2005 which incidently was superior to 2001 and 2002.
And Ronnie 1998/99 is NOT physically superior to Dorian 1993 in reguards to muscular bulk/balance development/musuclar density and conditioning , 2003 he had the edge in muscular bulk and maybe muscular density ( maybe ) but he was still behind Yates in terms of balanced development and conditioning. and the overwhelming majority of you believe Ronnie is so much better so somehow this means you're right? lol great logic ( Hulkster ) who is the overwhelming majority? Hulkster , you , pumpster , Fenix and Neoseminole ? man talk about crunching numbers lol
1998 Ronnie gets beat by 93 yates in terms of and conditioning but balance he exceeds yates i'm afraid. Mass is debatable; on the scales dorian is the winner however ronnie appears just as large if not larger tha yates due to his smaller joints. Its all illusion of course but this fact somewhat renders yates mass advantage moot.
Its interesting how you avoid using criteria that ronnie clearly has the edge in such as separation, detail and aesthetics.
pssst because he's white lol and he beat his black heros . 
On a side note and not from this thread, i'd appreciate if you stop insinuating that i dislike yates simply because he is white. I myself am caucasion of mixed origin and am certainly not a racist.
