Kai Greene is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States. Kai Greene has a verified height of 5'8" (173 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 267 lb (121 kg).
3x Arnold Classic
Kai Greene
Kai Greene is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1996–2016.
Across 38 recorded contest results, Kai Greene has 18 first-place finishes (a 47.4% win rate), including 3× Arnold Classic titles.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 38 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.
Kai Greene, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5'8" (173 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 267 lb (121 kg). He was born in Brooklyn on July 12, 1975 and is 51 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 38
- Wins
- 18
- Win Rate
- 47.4%
- Career
- 1996–2016
- Height
- 5'8" (173 cm)
- Weight
- 267 lb (121 kg)
- Age
- 51
- Division
- Men's Open Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Arnold Classic Titles
- 3
- Verified
- Sources
- 30
Every season on record
Peak Year 2016 (3 wins)
Measured against Kai Greene’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
- Pro Debut
- 1996
- Olympia Debut
- 2009
- Last Contest
- 2016
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 2010 | 7 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 2011 | 3 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 2012 | 2 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 2013 | 2 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 2014 | 2 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
About
Leslie Kai Greene is an American professional bodybuilder, actor, and artist. Nicknamed "The Predator" and "The People's Champ", he is known for his leg development and artistic posing routines. He came second in the 2012, 2013, and 2014 editions of the IFBB's Mr. Olympia competition and won the Arnold Classic competition in 2009, 2010, and 2016. He was known for his rivalry with Phil Heath. He is often regarded as one of the best bodybuilders to have never won a Mr. Olympia. He has not competed since 2016, though he never formally announced his retirement.
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 Kai Greene, amateur shows included.
Mr. Olympia
Arnold Classic
All contests on record
How Kai Greene 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 Brandon Curry, at 38.2.
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 Kai Greene sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
All results
Every contest result on record for Kai Greene, 38 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 Kai Greene competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2016 | Arnold Classic Australia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2016 | Arnold Classic Brasil | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2014 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Phil Heath |
| 2013 | Arnold Classic Europe | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | – |
| 2013 | IFBB EVL Prague Pro | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2013 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Phil Heath |
| 2013 | Prague Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2012 | IFBB Sheru Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Phil Heath |
| 2012 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Phil Heath |
| 2011 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Phil Heath |
| 2011 | New York Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2011 | Sheru Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Phil Heath |
| 2010 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2010 | Grand Prix Australia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2010 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #7 | Jay Cutler |
| 2009 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2009 | Grand Prix Australia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2009 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 | Jay Cutler |
| 2008 | Arnold Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Dexter Jackson |
| 2008 | New York Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2007 | Colorado Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2007 | Keystone Pro Classic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Dennis Wolf |
| 2007 | New York Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Branch Warren |
| 2006 | Colorado Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #14 | Phil Heath |
| 2006 | Ironman Pro Invitational | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Lee Priest |
| 2006 | New York Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Unplaced | Phil Heath |
| 2005 | New York Pro Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #14 | Darrem Charles |
| 2004 | Team Universe Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1999 | New Jersey Suburban Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1999 | Team Universe Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1999 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | Paco Bautista |
| 1998 | Team Universe Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Skip LaCour |
| 1997 | Atlantic States Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Carlos Aldebot |
| 1997 | Blue Thunder | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | New York Amateur Grand Prix | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | Team Universe Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Robert Washington |
| 1996 | Pro Natural World | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
Showing 15 of 38 recorded results.
Showing 15 of 18 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Kai Greene 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.
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Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 12 meetings, Phil Heath finished ahead of Kai Greene 10 times to 2.
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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