Zane deserved each olympia win...just my opinion
And you're entitled to it. However, the "sport" is rife with questionable decisions, and there was never any recourse as it's a privately run, commercial business.
If you look at an old thread i made on this board about the 78 and 79 olympias, you'll see that in '79 Robinson and Callendar were in better condition than Zane, and far bigger.
I mention this because the stock excuse for Zane's wins was always that Robinson wasn't in shape, which the '79 video disproves.
Obviously there are rampant politics in this "sport". A previous Olympia winner did in fact tell me that Weider wanted good spokesmen as the winner, which would be fair if the judging criteria considered this.
I believe that this factor and some others were the reason for Robinson never winning (not particularly articulate or polite) and Fox losing to Samir-the '83 video confirms that Fox was more cut than Samir, bigger and had better balance. I don't believe for a minute that that posing makes up for all of those advantages or that Samir's posing was that much better than Fox's either. There's more to it than that.