Considering there are only 2 side poses in the mandatories and 1 side pose in the symmetry round, I'd say Ronnie has Dorian beat in taper. Ronnie has a narrower waist and the same lat width. So his superior taper is evident in all front and back poses.
Wrong. In the relaxed round, a bodybuilder is evaluated from all angles, to measure overrall muscularity and symmetry. My contention is that Dorian only loses to Ronnie from the front. They turn to the sides, and Ronnie's distended gut makes him lose flat out. He turns to that back and his taper is equivalent to Dorian's.
So my argument is that Dorian actually had better taper from the sides while standing relaxed, and better
overrall taper, because his gut distension adds so much to his total waist size. You just get a tape and then measure their waistlines and you'll see that Dorian actually had less
total waist than the 2003 Ronnie. Why? Because his gut was distended, and that adds size to the waist. Try to understand this: Ronnie only had better taper than Dorian from
one angle in
one pose.
That's when he's standing relaxed from the front.
In total, Dorian had better taper: standing relaxed from the sides, in the side triceps, side chest, abs-and-thigh, front lat spread. That's one out of three angles while standing relxed and four mandatories!
Your mistake is in assuming that Dorian would lose in taper from the front in the mandatories. Wrong! He'd win the in taper in the three front mandatories, including the front double biceps, because taper here is a function of the lats and not the delts. Your second mistake is saying that Dorian would "only" win from one angle in the relaxed round. There are only three!
That's front, side and back, and Dorian wins from the sides and ties from the back! This means that Ronnie had
worst overrall taper than Dorian in the relaxed round. He only wins one out of three angles where taper is evaluated, loses one and ties one.
Get the taper measurer and you'll see that Dorian's
total waist was smaller than Ronnie's.
In conclusion: Dorian has better overrall taper than the 2003 Ronnie because the distended gut makes Coleman's
total waist bigger. This, combined with Dorian's less symmetrical flaws, makes him win the relaxed round symmetry-wise. Ronnie wins in overrall muscularity. So the relaxed round could go either way. Regardless, Dorian has a better combination of muscularity and symmetry in four of the mandatories and ties one - the side chest, where Ronnie has bigger pecs and vastus lateralis, but no calves and his gut distension is visible in the upper part where the gut is not covered by the hands. What's left? Conditioning. Now the 1998/9 Ronnie had more separations overrall than Dorian, but this is not the case for the 2003 Ronnie. Add to that Dorian's hardness makes Ronnie look soft, and it's obvious to see who would be the most conditioned man.
Check out the bottom pics and you'll see that Dorian had
better taper than Ronnie
overrall while standing relaxed and added to his muscularity in certain poses, would make him win four or five of the mandatories. NeoSeminole, I have
owned yet again, and will continue to do so en absurdum. The only question here is if you'll be able to surpass Pumpster for the record of who got owned more times in this thread by me.
SUCKMYMUSCLE
P.s: Check the first pic, where Dorian is doing a side triceps shot. That's called a flat stomach, NeoSemen!
