Then why didn't Lee continue on to get 10 Olympia wins ??
The record was seven and he got eight, pure and simple.
And yes Lee had a great physique & is Vastly underrated- that said he Knew Dorian was improving rapidly
& wasn't going to beat him the next year - He retired while still at the Top. Smart move.
Yates looked almost exactly the same in 1992 as he did in 1991, basically a white version of Haney. Thus, with Haney gone, the Shadow took the title.
It was a very smart move. Even if Haney managed to win the next year he never would have come close to Yates after "the transformation."
You talk as if Haney couldn't have made similar improvements. It's not as if Haney was 10 years older than Yates. They're just three years apart.
Yates would have had to be somewhat bigger than Haney to beat him. At the same size, Haney gets the better of Yates, due to shape and aesthetics.