Without a criteria of some sort it'd be a futile and aimless task deciding on any bodybuilder's ranking amongst other bodybuilders.
Criterias could fall into the following categories for example:
1. Mass/muscular development
2. Muscle definition
3. Muscle proportion
4. Muscle symmetry
5. Posing.
We can expand on the above criterias by giving each criteria its very own definition before thinking of a particular bodybuilder, or bodybuilders that may fit that particular criteria or criterias. Now you see how easier it has become once you know what you're looking for!
To give an example here; the first criteria for me lets me think of the Fox as one of the pioneers of what it means to be a mass monster. Fast forward 10 years from 1983 to 1993, and we now see ourselves looking at a blond giant of a man from Great Britain instead of a black man from Great Britain. And on we go...
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