there's a really good video recently on Valuetainment about Dorian Yates and they're
talking about how Flex never seen Dorian as beatable now that's actually taken
out of context as far as the politics of bodybuilding is concerned that's
certainly true but from a competitive aspect it actually wasn't the case and
I'm going to show you some proof in this video and explain exactly what was going
on there
I remember Flex Wheeler once said he says I never saw Dorian as beatable so
bodybuilding in itself is an interesting thing I mean there's some people that
consider it a sport you know it's definitely a competition it's kind of
more like a beauty pageant to be honest there's subjectivity involved in sports
you pretty much know if somebody want or lost I mean this is even the
bodybuilding is even worse than the UFC fights because there's subjectivity
involved as well when you see scorecards you know maybe two of the three judges
seeing the fight what would be considered the right way or is that
their judge it the way he scored the fight it doesn't even look like he was
watching the road the same fight so bodybuilding even takes that aspect to
to a larger extreme because in the eye of the judge who's to really say who
looks better at the end of the day now there are certain things to keep in mind
you know body body aside it sometimes it's obvious when you could look at the
conditioning of a bodybuilder the size the symmetry etc but when it comes down
to posing routine I think that's a little easier to judge and even
something like that the beauty of Flex is posing they still gave Dorian that
but not there I mean that's just something that you know at a certain
point you just can't win due to the not not just the subjectivity
about the politics bodybuilding going further into that you got a bear in mind
that what what makes the mr. Olympia so special it kind of ties back into what
makes anything so special and that has to do with with the rarity of it you
know if something's valuable there's just less of it to begin with think
about gold for example compared to sand at the
beach Gold is valuable because it's rare so mr. Olympia there's a good reason why
you don't have a new mr. Olympia every year now obviously sometimes you'll have
a champion that's dominant for a really good reason and then other times not so
much and there there are examples in the history of the mr. Olympia where that
certainly has been the case so again kind of tying back into that that's why
it's not uncommon to see a mr. I ran for three years five years seven
years etc in fact any new competitor in the Olympia they're just not going to
win if it's the first Olympia competition even if they deserve to win
in in fact in 1993 I think Flex actually did deserve to win but he got second
which is great the tragic thing is he was unable to compete the following year
1994 due to a car accident and that's really the year that what I considered
when they would have let him win deserving or not it would have been
possible to win in that year in my opinion now I'm gonna actually do a full
mr. Olympia video in the future but just to break it down the first competition
was in 1965 and up until just recently 2019 the Lippe has been around for fifty
five years and in that time there have literally only been 15 champions so if
you break down the math the average champion would have reigned 3.6 years in
there should have actually in my opinion been less than 15 champions it was the
early 80s where bodybuilding was in an interesting direction where it really
didn't know where it wanted to go and you'd have a different Olympia champion
every year in the early 80s now when Arnold came back in 1980 I'll be back I
you know everybody loves Arnold I don't necessarily think he deserved a win if
you just go buy a bodybuilding perspective but he's Arnold so yeah you
gotta kind of give him the win and again that's where the politics come into play
so mr. Olympia is who've actually lost Sergio Olivia in 1970 loss to Arnold
samir lost in 1984 after winning in 1983 Ronnie Coleman lost in 2006 Jay Cutler
lost in 2008 to Dexter Jackson of course Phil Heath lost in 2018 to Shawn Rhoden
but all the other reasons why the reigning mr. Olympia did not continue to
win is usually he retired or just did not compete for various reasons for
example Franco Columbu in 1976 the reason why he didn't win in 1977 is
because he had a horrible injury and couldn't actually compete in 77
he didn't compete in 78 or 79 either or 80 but he would be back in 1981 and
again this controversy comes into play as far as him winning in 81 but you see
a common theme here you know the mr. Olympia reigns for a
certain duration of time I mean look at Yeats near the end of his career he's
still getting perfect scores on symmetry after an injury when you he basically
didn't have a bicep left in one of his arms he was winning with a perfect score
and I was a little still younger than this but Kevin Levrone and and Shawn
Ray were more aware and vocalist like listen okay if you want to what a
perfect score and you have no injuries and then you have a injury that you can
see that's not perfect anymore and then we have another torn muscle how is that
still perfect so as me and Kevin and and Shawn were kind of more I guess pleased in
to watch close you know and we're better expressiveness of ourselves or whatever
we knew that he wasn't so how can you beat us in posing when you're not noted
to be a better poser than us and we look at the score at the end of the day is 5
5 5 5 that's perfect I'm like wow so honest for me I just didn't say nothing
I'd always just say hey listen man you know what I'm going for a second and
trying to hold everybody else off that was my way of saying I know it's gonna
happen I just can't do anything about it and me and Dorian got along great other
than Shawn Ray and Dorian and Kevin and Dorian didn't get along at all so I
didn't really want to be disrespectful for something that this man had no control over
if they're allowing things that happen why am I gonna go and shit
on his parade that's not cool you know that's not respectful you know so I
would just try to take it to him on stage I'm trying to beat him but I understood
what was going to happen so taking that into consideration if bodybuilding was
I don't know if I want to someone choose a word fare or let's just say completely
subjective you can't score somebody with perfect symmetry if in fact after an
injury they no longer have perfect symmetry so how could they get the same
exact score prior to the injury and then after the injury they wanted mr. Olympia
to remain Dorian Yates and don't get me wrong, Dorian Yates was a great Mr.
Olympia he came in brought a brought a new era of size had granite-like
conditioning so he deserved to win a lot of these years but I don't necessarily
think he deserved to win all these years especially 97 when he would actually out
beat Nasser who came in second place who had definitely far superior look
conditioning and everything else so anyway that's what Flex Wheeler really
meant when he said he thought that Dorian was unbeatable context is really
important anytime you read a quote or your quote from somebody so hopefully
that shoves a little more light on everything but anyway let me know in the
comments section do you think he could have actually legitimately beat Dorian
Yates during Dorian's era or could Shawn Ray or Nasser El Sonbaty, even Kevin Levrone
beaten Dorian Yates or was it really just politics involved
that during down such a long run with that said my own personal opinion I
certainly do think Dorian deserve to win several of those mr. Olympia titles but
maybe not necessarily every single one that he did won anyway let me know in
the comments section if you liked the video please give me a thumbs up and
I'll be sure to do more of these bodybuilding type videos in the future
thanks for watching