9 career wins
Aj Ellison
AJ Ellison is an American IFBB Pro in Men's Physique, born in 1976, who was winning more shows in his late forties than at any earlier point in his career. 22 professional results are on record since 2019.
Known for
The late run. He won the Chicago Pro in 2025 and then took both the Maxfit Classic Pro and the Tampa Pro in 2026, alongside masters titles at 40-plus and 45-plus in the same season. He qualified for the Olympia in 2025.
Early career
He won the World Championships in 2016 and the Masters Nationals in 2019. He stands 180 cm and has competed at 86 kg.
Championship appearances
Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one contest entered (in the years the Olympia also judged weight classes, one appearance can carry two placings), an Olympia title is the overall win in that division, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every professional contest on record for Aj Ellison.
Men's Physique Olympia
All contests on record
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Aj Ellison, 22 in all. The table opens on the first 15 and expands in place from there. Nothing sits on a separate page. Won by names the winner of the division Aj Ellison competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026 Gold’s Gym Classic | Men's Physique | #8 | Rafael Oliveira |
| 2026 | 2026 Gold’s Gym Classic | Men's Physique (Masters 40+) | #3 | Emile Walker |
| 2026 | 2026 Lenda Murray ATL Pro Supershow | Men's Physique | #8 | Corey Morris |
| 2026 | 2026 Maxfit Classic Pro | Men's Physique (Masters 35+) | #1 | Winner |
| 2026 | 2026 Maxfit Classic Pro | Men's Physique (Masters 40+) | #1 | Winner |
| 2026 | 2026 Maxfit Classic Pro | Men's Physique (Masters 45+) | #1 | Winner |
| 2026 | 2026 Maxfit Classic Pro | Men's Physique (Masters 50+) | #1 | Winner |
| 2026 | 2026 Pro Masters World Championships | Men's Physique (Masters 50+) | #1 | Winner |
| 2026 | 2026 Pro Masters World Championships | Men's Physique (Masters 40+) | #2 | Stevelon Dennis |
| 2026 | 2026 Tampa Pro | Men's Physique | #5 | Corey Morris |
| 2026 | 2026 Tampa Pro | Men's Physique (Masters 40+) | #1 | Winner |
| 2026 | 2026 Tampa Pro | Men's Physique (Masters 45+) | #1 | Winner |
| 2026 | 2026 Vancouver Pro/Am & Expo | Men's Physique | #2 | Hossein Karimi |
| 2026 | 2026 Vancouver Pro/Am & Expo | Men's Physique (Masters 40+) | #1 | Winner |
| 2025 | IFBB Chicago Pro | Men's Physique | #1 | Winner |
| 2025 | IFBB Masters Olympia | Men's Physique | #2 | Andre Ferguson |
| 2025 | IFBB Mile High Pro | Men's Physique | #10 | Juan Gomez |
| 2025 | IFBB Republic of Texas Pro | Men's Physique | #7 | Steven Cao |
| 2025 | IFBB Tokyo Pro | Men's Physique | #5 | Junpei Taguchi |
| 2025 | Men's Physique Olympia | Men's Physique | Unplaced | Ryan Terry |
| 2022 | IFBB Vancouver Pro | Men's Physique | #9 | Charjo Grant |
| 2019 | IFBB San Antonio Classic | Men's Physique | #7 | Corey Morris |
Showing 15 of 22 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Aj Ellison those sources are NPC Contests and IFBB Pro League. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable.
Every professional season
Peak Year 2026 (8 wins)
Measured against Aj Ellison’s own seasons, not against the field.
- Pro Debut
- 2019
- First Win
- 2025
- Last Contest
- 2026
How Aj Ellison measures up
Fat-free mass index turns the height and weight on this profile into one number for how much muscle a frame carries, so a shorter competitor is not flattered by a bodyweight comparison. The normalised figure adjusts it again to a standard height, which is the version worth ranking. Both assume the 6% body fat a competitor steps on stage at, because that is the only condition the recorded weight was taken in.
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Ryan Terry, at 25.9.
What this rank is not. This database holds a height and a weight for just 463 athletes, and they are overwhelmingly the ones somebody bothered to measure: 74 of them hold an Olympia title. Almost every competitor on record carries no measurement at all. The pool also mixes every division and era together, from the lightweight women's classes to the open heavyweights, so it ranks size and nothing else. It says where Aj Ellison sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
4 results from amateur shows and other contests this archive does not class as professional. Every total on this page covers the professional career only, so these are listed here but never counted, and they have no contest page.
Show the list
| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Masters Nationals | Men's Classic Physique (Masters 35+ Class C) | #1 |
| 2019 | Masters Nationals | Men's Classic Physique (Masters 40+ Class C) | #1 |
| 2016 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Professional) | #1 |
| 2015 | World Championships | Division not recorded (Professional) | #4 |
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Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Corey Morris finished ahead of Aj Ellison 3 times to 0.
Opponents are ranked by how often they shared a stage and how big the stage was, not by reputation. A meeting is one contest where both competed in the same division and both were placed.
Sources
Contest record and measurements from the Fitness Volt bodybuilding database. The 2026 Maxfit Classic Pro and the 2019 Masters Nationals each appear more than once in the record, reflecting separate class entries at the same event.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 22 professional contest results. It is published only where a career holds at least five, because below that a single placing moves the figure by twenty points or more.

