More competitive than the 90's???

[htown_don]

If this era of bodybuilders like Cedric. Lionel, rhoden and all these new younger guys reach the level they can......will this era of bodybuilding have more talent than the 90's?????

[JanesLastResort]

Very few of todays pros would hold their own next to shawn ray, wheeler etc., but if we look at todays era of bodybuilding a lot more pros excell in this sport than back in the day.

Then again there are lots of long forgotten pros from the 90's that were good at the time, but ended up vanishing and i'm sure the same thing will happen to most of todays guys. So yeah, it looks like there's more talent today than back then, but if we took a closer look i think the numbers of talented pros would be roughly the same.

[cbezz]

Very few of todays pros would hold their own next to shawn ray, wheeler etc., but if we look at todays era of bodybuilding a lot more pros excell in this sport than back in the day.

Then again there are lots of long forgotten pros from the 90's that were good at the time, but ended up vanishing and i'm sure the same thing will happen to most of todays guys. So yeah, it looks like there's more talent today than back then, but if we took a closer look i think the numbers of talented pros would be [i]roughly[/] the same.

I rekon this is probably about the truth....

Coz we're living in the present we're well aware of all the guys as they're having good showings.

But we may forget some of the depth of the past.

I rekon they're probably pretty similar in quality.

I think guys generally nowadays are probably bigger, but I do think conditioning was better in the 90s. It's just the difference of stuff used between the eras and also the difference in the way the judging results end up.

[htown_don]

Very few of todays pros would hold their own next to shawn ray, wheeler etc., but if we look at todays era of bodybuilding a lot more pros excell in this sport than back in the day.

[i]roughly[/] the same.

I believe this as well....but im talking "if" they reached there full potential. the height and structure on some of these guys; seem like the sky is the limit for them


ofcourse its up to them to take it to that other level

[Terminator84]

If great Pros like Aaron Baker ,Paul Dillet, Thierry Pastel, Benfatto, Clairmonte, and many more could never make a serious damage and never make it to the top, tells you how great was the 90s.

[Iceman1981]

if this era of bodybuilders like cedric. Lionel, rhoden and all these new younger guys reach the level they can......will this era of bodybuilding have more talent than the 90's?????

nope

[Ajthemeso]

i think it's quality over quantity. we might have more talent these days. but are they better? i don't think so.

[spamy]

In the 90s: best 202 bber: Shawn Ray
Today: Kevin English, Flex Lewis and Dave Henry

Ray>>> all of them

In the 90's AC winners: Flex, Levrone, Nasser, Francois, V. Taylor, Ray
Today: Branch 2x AC winner (possibly 3 if he would compete next year) and top Olympian, with Wolf as a runner-up

Oh, and the 90s had Dorian and Ronnie as the top guys...

[JanesLastResort]

i think it's quality over quantity. we might have more talent these days. but are they better? i don't think so.

Yes, i think this is mostly true.

[DREADLIFT]

The 90's generation was so much more competitive than nowdays, it's not even a contest.

The top tier of that era would just eat any-one of the new guys for their breakfast :
Ronnie, Dorian, Nasser, Flex, Levrone, Ray, Jean-Pierre Fux, Aaron Baker, Lee Priest, Chris Cormier, Paul Dillet, Mike Matarazzo, Tom Prince, Benaziza, etc..

The mere number of them having to suffer carrer ending health issues ( and death for some of them ), is proof that they went beyond the ultimate frontier of what was
reasonably possible to achieve such level of mass and dryness.

[jld010]

aaah, how is this even a contest, dudes were like superstars back then, there was this vibe, this feeling towards the whole bodybuilding scene back then.

[SupaaJ]

aaah, how is this even a contest, dudes were like superstars back then, there was this vibe, this feeling towards the whole bodybuilding scene back then.

Now it's like any national level show is who has the least amount of terrible looking bodyparts. WINNAR!

Then you have the top tier pros, where 1-5 are good in the O and the rest are a CF.

[DavisForman]

Romanticizing the past...

[BartPimpson]

If by 90s we mean Ronnie Coleman, nobody today is that good. Phil and Kai could certainly hang with Levrone and Shawn and Flex though.