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Jose Raymond is a Men's 212 Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Jose Raymond has a verified height of 5'4" (163 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 200 lb (91 kg).

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1x Arnold Classic

Jose Raymond

GenderMale
Pro Card2015
Born1975
StatusRetired
High confidence 70 recorded results, Historical/community source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?

Jose Raymond, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'4" (163 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 200 lb (91 kg). He was born on July 1, 1975 and is 51 years old.

Career Record

Total Results
70
Wins
24
Win Rate
34.3%
Career
1993–2018
Height
5'4" (163 cm)
Weight
200 lb (91 kg)
Age
51
Country
United States
Arnold Classic Titles
1
Verified
Sources
31

Jose Raymond spent sixteen years as an amateur, then ten more finishing near the top of the 212 division without ever winning it. He took the Arnold Classic 212 title in 2015 and was Olympia runner-up the same year, at 40. In a division defined by a weight cap, he was the competitor everyone else was measured against.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 70 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

1993 to 2018 shown · 70 results on record

Peak Year 2013 (4 wins)

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

1993
1994
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2007
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
1993
Olympia Debut
2009
Peak Year
2013
Last Contest
2018

Known for

Raymond stood 5 feet 4 inches and carried a density that made the 212 limit look like it had been written around him. The nickname, the Boston Mass, covered both halves of that: where he came from, and how much muscle he could hold at a capped weight.

His Olympia record in the division is the case for him. Sixth in 2009, fourth in 2010, then third, fourth, fourth, third, second, third, third and fifth. Ten appearances, nine of them in the top five, and never the one result he was there for.

Early career

He won his first recorded contest as a teenager, taking the teenage lightweight class at the 1993 New England Championships. What followed was one of the longest amateur runs in our database. He won the lightweights at the 2000 USA Championships and again at the 2001 Nationals, moved up and took the welterweight titles at the 2005 Nationals, USA Championships and Team Universe in a single year, then won both the Nationals and the USA Championships middleweight classes in 2007.

He turned professional in 2009 and placed sixth at the Olympia in his first season. The wins came steadily after that: the New York Pro in 2011 and 2013, the Toronto Pro in 2013, the Europa Phoenix and the New Zealand Pro in 2014, the Prague Pro in 2015, the Dominican Republic Pro in 2018.

2015 was the year it nearly landed. He won the Arnold Classic 212 in March and finished second at the Olympia in September, the closest he came.

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 Jose Raymond, amateur shows included.

212 Olympia

10Appearances
0Titles
5Top 3

Arnold Classic

5Appearances
1Titles
3Top 3

All contests on record

70Contests
24Wins
51Top 3
Physique benchmark

How Jose Raymond 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.

32.3FFMI
33.4Normalised FFMI
78thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Phil Heath, at 33.7.

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 Jose Raymond sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Jose Raymond, 70 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 Jose Raymond competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2018 Arnold Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #5 Kamal Elgargni
2018 Dominican Republic Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2018 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #5 Flex Lewis
2017 Arnold Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Ahmad Hamad Ashkanani
2017 Asia Grand Prix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2017 Asia Grand Prix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2017 IFBB Ferrigno Legacy Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Brandon Curry
2017 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2016 Arnold Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Hidetada Yamagishi
2016 Korean Grand Prix Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Flex Lewis
2016 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2015 Arnold Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2015 IFBB Europa Phoenix Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Lukáš Osladil
2015 IFBB EVLS Prague Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2015 Korean Grand Prix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Flex Lewis
2015 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Flex Lewis
2015 Prague Pro Championships Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2014 Arnold Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #5 Flex Lewis
2014 EVLS Prague Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2014 EVLS Prague Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2014 IFBB Europa Phoenix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2014 IFBB Europa Phoenix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2014 Korean Grand Prix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Flex Lewis
2014 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2014 New Zealand Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2013 Europa Phoenix Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #7 David Henry
2013 Europa Phoenix Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #7 David Henry
2013 IFBB New York Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2013 IFBB New York Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2013 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #4 Flex Lewis
2013 Toronto Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2013 Toronto Pro Supershow Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2012 IFBB British Grand Prix Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Flex Lewis
2012 IFBB Sheru Classic Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 David Henry
2012 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #4 Flex Lewis
2012 New York Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Kevin English
2012 New York Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Kevin English
2011 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Kevin English
2011 New York Pro Championships Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2010 Battle of Champions Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2010 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #4 Kevin English
2010 New York Pro Championships Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Kevin English
2010 Orlando Show of Champions Men's 212 Bodybuilding #3 Dwayne Haugabrook
2010 Sacramento Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Richard Jackson
2010 Tampa Pro Championships Men's 212 Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2009 Atlantic City Pro Men's 212 Bodybuilding #2 Flex Lewis
2009 Europa Supershow Men's 212 Bodybuilding #9 Richard Jackson
2009 212 Olympia Men's 212 Bodybuilding #6 Kevin English
2009 New York Pro Championships Men's 212 Bodybuilding #8 Kevin English
2007 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2007 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2005 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2005 Team Universe Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2005 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2005 World Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Andrej Mozolani
2004 Team Universe Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2003 Nationals Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Jimmy Canyon
2003 Team Universe Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Chris Faildo
2002 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Stan McQuay
2001 Nationals Other Divisions #1 Winner
2001 Team Universe Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Richard Jackson
2001 USA Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Patrick Matsuda
2000 Team Universe Championships Other Divisions #2 Derik Farnsworth
2000 USA Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner
1999 Musclemania Other Divisions #1 Winner
1999 Team Universe Championships Other Divisions #2 Derik Farnsworth
1998 Musclemania Other Divisions #5 Hisashi Kamisawa
1998 Team Universe Championships Other Divisions #11 Richard Jackson
1994 Teen Nationals Other Divisions #2 John Ingram
1993 New England Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner

Showing 15 of 70 recorded results. Showing all 70 recorded results.

Showing 15 of 24 recorded results. Showing all 24 recorded results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Jose Raymond 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

Raymond competed for the last time at the 2018 Olympia and retired with an Arnold Classic title, an Olympia silver and a long list of class wins across three weight divisions.

Few competitors have held a place that high in the 212 for that long. Ten consecutive Olympia appearances in one division is the part of the record that is hardest to repeat, and it is the part a table of placings shows best.

Sources

Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 1993 to 2018.

One caution about the table below: several of his 2012 to 2017 professional appearances are stored twice, once under a "212" division label and once under an older weight-class label, so a single contest can show as two rows.

In 24 meetings, Jose Raymond and David Henry are dead even, finishing ahead 12 times apiece.

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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