I have to say that ND's most recent post above was excellent and well written!! To me, however, Dorian's higher waist-to-shoulder ratio really give Ronnie the edge to me. Coupled with Ronnie's superior muscularity.
The same intensity which made Dorian also broke him. Same for Ronnie, albeit to a lesser degree and over a longer period of time.
Here's where you're mistaken and get
owned. Ronnie does have a better shoulder-to-waist ration than Dorian, but how would this affect the judging? Only when they're both standing relzed from the front. In all other ways, Dorian actually has
better taper than Ronnie. Start the mandatories, and Dorian has a better taper in the abs-and-thigh, the front lat spread, the side triceps and the side chest - because there is such as thing as bad taper from the sides: it's called gut distension.
In the relaxed round, Ronnie wins in taper from the front and ties from the back, but loses from the sides. All things considered, Dorian's
overrall taper is a sgood as Ronnie's: the waist of both is about the same all-around. So, Dorian has equivalent overrall taper and better taper in more mandatories. Game over.
Ronnie does have greater muscularity than Dorian in his 2003 version, but this does not mean that he would be able to defeat Dorian. Consider that a gut distension is the worst possible symmetrical liability - because it can be seen from the sides and from the front and the midsection is the center of the body - and Ronnie has it. There goes 50% of the judging scores to Dorian. Ronnie win sin overrall muscularity, but Dorian still holds his own in the side triceps, abs-and-thighs, front lat spread and back double biceps - because, although thicker than Dorian, Ronnie's back in 2003 didn't have the separations and hardness of Dorian's and looked soft. Add to that Ronnie's huge glutes and lack of calves ruins these two mandatories from a symmetrty perspective, and Dorian wins the back double biceps - and the biceps are not very important here, since most of their mass is only visible from the front. The rear lat spread cdould go either way: equivalent lat width, but Ronnie has better taper. Dorian, conversely, has the symmetrical advantages of smller glutes. Add to that Dorian overrall conditioning was better and made Ronnie's muscles look soft,
Dorian could definitely defeat the 2003 Coleman at an unbiased contest.
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