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Branch Warren is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Branch Warren has a verified height of 5'6" (168 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 245 lb (111 kg).

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2x Arnold Classic

Branch Warren

GenderMale
Pro Card2009
Born1975
StatusRetired
High confidence 43 recorded results, Official/primary source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?

Branch Warren, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'6" (168 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 245 lb (111 kg). He was born on February 28, 1975 and is 51 years old.

Career Record

Total Results
43
Wins
13
Win Rate
30.2%
Career
1992–2016
Height
5'6" (168 cm)
Weight
245 lb (111 kg)
Age
51
Country
United States
Arnold Classic Titles
2
Verified
Sources
36

Branch Warren won the Arnold Classic in 2011 and 2012 and was runner-up at the Mr. Olympia in 2009. He competed for twenty-four years.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 43 recorded 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.

Every season on record

1992 to 2016 shown · 43 results on record

Peak Year 2005 (2 wins)

Measured against Branch Warren’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →

1992
1993
1999
2000
2001
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1992
Olympia Debut
2005
Last Contest
2016
Branch Warren Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 2005 and placed 8. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
2005 8 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2006 12 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2008 5 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2009 2 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2010 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2012 5 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2013 9 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2014 6 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2015 6 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

Known for

Back-to-back Arnold Classic titles in 2011 and 2012, with runner-up finishes there in 2006 and 2015 and thirds in 2009 and 2010. Six Arnold podiums in ten years.

At the Olympia he was second in 2009 and third in 2010, the closest he came, across nine appearances.

Early career

He won the Teen Mr America short class in 1992 at seventeen and the Teen Nationals in 1993, then took the heavyweights at the 2001 Nationals to turn professional.

The professional wins run from the Europa Supershow and Charlotte Pro in 2005 through the New York Pro in 2007 and the British Grand Prix in 2011 to the Europa Atlantic City Pro in 2015.

Championship record

Where the titles came from

Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one recorded placing at that series, a title is a first place, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every contest on record for Branch Warren, amateur shows included.

Mr. Olympia

9Appearances
0Titles
2Top 3

Arnold Classic

11Appearances
2Titles
7Top 3

All contests on record

43Contests
13Wins
25Top 3
Physique benchmark

How Branch Warren 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.

37.0FFMI
37.7Normalised FFMI
14thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Ronnie Coleman, at 37.8.

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: 73 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 Branch Warren sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Branch Warren, 43 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 Branch Warren competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2016 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Kai Greene
2016 Levrone Classic Poland Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Cedric McMillan
2015 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Dexter Jackson
2015 Arnold Classic Australia Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Dexter Jackson
2015 Europa Atlantic City Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2015 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Phil Heath
2014 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Dennis Wolf
2014 Australia Pro Grand Prix Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Shawn Rhoden
2014 Europa Dallas Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2014 IFBB Europa Super Show Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2014 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Phil Heath
2013 IFBB EVL Prague Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Kai Greene
2013 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #9 Phil Heath
2013 Prague Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Kai Greene
2012 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2012 Grand Prix Australia Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2012 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Phil Heath
2011 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2011 British Grand Prix Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2010 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Kai Greene
2010 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Jay Cutler
2009 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Kai Greene
2009 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Jay Cutler
2008 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Dexter Jackson
2008 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Dexter Jackson
2007 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Victor Martinez
2007 Colorado Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Kai Greene
2007 Keystone Pro Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Dennis Wolf
2007 New York Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2006 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Dexter Jackson
2006 Grand Prix Australia Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Ronny Rockel
2006 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #12 Jay Cutler
2006 San Francisco Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Gustavo Badell
2005 Charlotte Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2005 Europa Supershow Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2005 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Ronnie Coleman
2004 Night of Champions Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Melvin Anthony
2004 Show of Strength Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Victor Martinez
2001 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2000 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Tevita Aholelei
1999 Junior Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Joshua Beach
1993 Teen Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
1992 Teen Mr America Other Divisions #1 Winner

Showing 15 of 43 recorded results. Showing all 43 recorded results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Branch Warren those sources are MuscleMemory and NPC Contests. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. MuscleMemory is the exception: the archive we recorded those older shows from no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name and not offered as a link.

Legacy

Warren competed against Jay Cutler, Dexter Jackson and Phil Heath at their peaks and beat all of them at an Arnold Classic. The Olympia never came, which is the case with most of that generation.

Sources

Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1992 to 2016.

Some contests appear twice in the table below because one result was recorded under two division labels. They are single contests.

In 18 meetings, Dexter Jackson finished ahead of Branch Warren 13 times to 5.

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.

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