wow that picture really says it all...
It saus what? That Coleman's small calves are even more of a liability when compared to Dorian's diamonds, given the size of his hams? That his large, unmanly glutes represent a severe symmetrical liability? That Dorian's lats are a match for Ronnie's in width, despite the fact that Ronnie overweights Dorian by 30 lbs in that pic - Ronnie's lats only appear wider do to his smaller waist?
Try to understand this: the only thing Ronni has on Dorian, in that shot, are hams. And that's a stretch because, although smaller, Dorian's hams were incredibly striated. Dorian's lats are almost as wide as Ronnie's. Check. Dorian's glutes are smaller, which is a good thing symmetry-wise. Check. His trapezius is a match for Ronnie's. Check. So Ronnie might have an advantage in hmastring muscularity, but he's seriously fucked-up symmetry-wise and Dorian still is a match for him in the back department. Check and game over.
Now, why do you obsses over that pic? That's one position in one angle! Dorian and Ronnie spread their lats, and Dorian has comparable width but with the added plus of all the symmetrical advantages I've mentioned. They do the back double biceps, and, although Ronnie might have small advantage in thikcness, Dorian has him on separations.
They turn to the sides, and Ronnie's distended gut makes him lose the side triceps and side chest flat out. Of course, in the case of the side triceps, he'd lose it even with a flat gut.
He does the abs-and-thighs and Dorian has superior taper, better abdominal and serratus separations and comparable lats blows your boy away. Same thing for the front lat spread.
So, Ronnie and Dorian would tie the relaxed round as best because, even if Ronnie wins out in overrall muscularity, the fact that he has a distended gut and more symmetrical flaws than Dorian makes him lose the symmetry round. So, they tie. The judges might give the relaxed round to Ronnie for his advantage in overrall muscularity, but there's as strong as chanve tha they'd make him lose it due to his terrible overrall symmetry - because the gut is visible from the sides and front, and is the focal point of the body.
So what's left? Symmetry and muscularity in the mandatories, as well as conditioning. In this case, Ronnie would win the front double biceps and the back double biceps. That's it. Why? Because the Ronnie has an advantage in biceps - even though they're not that visible from the back - over Dorian in the back double biceps and his back is thicker. So, even thouggh he has no calves and a womanly glutes, he might take it. In the case of the front double biceps, Ronnie's overrall advantage in arm size would be too big too ignore - because most of the biceps is visible here as well as the inner and medial triceps heads, and there's no question that the 2003 Ronnie had significantly bigger arms than Dorian when flexing them fgrom the front.Ronni emight also win the side chest because his pectoralis is thicker as well as his vastus lateralis. But again, some of his gut is visible here and he lacks calves, so the judges might give it to Dorian.
In conclusion: the 2003 Ronnie would either tie or lose the relaxed round to Dorian, and would convincingly win only two mandatories. Dorian might win the relaxed round due to his flat stomach and less symmetrical disproportions from head to toe. He would also win the side triceps, abs-and-thigh, rear lat spread and the front lat spread - because, although Ronnie's lats are a match for Dorian in width, Dorian has a smaller waist, and thus, better taper. The
only mandatory Ronnie would win convincingly would be the front double biceps.
So it all bois down to conditioning. Now, the 1998/9 Ronnie certainly had more separations than Dorian and was quite crisp. The 2003 Ronnie, conversely, looks
soft next to Dorian and has no advantages over Dorian in separations - but still has on striations, which unfortunately are not a part of an objective criteria. So odds are that, at an
unbiased contest, Dorian would defeat the 2003 Ronnie, although I admite the judges still might give him the nod based on greater overrall muscularity alone. Game over and, for the gazillionth time at this thread, I
owned you. The only question remaining is whether you'll break Pumpster's record of who got
owned more times by yours truly.
SUCKMYMUSCLE
