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Lou Ferrigno
Lou Ferrigno is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1971–1994.
About
Louis Jude Ferrigno Sr. is an American actor and retired professional bodybuilder. He won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in the documentary film Pumping Iron (1977). As an actor, he is best known for his title role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk (1977–1982) and vocally reprising the role in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations. He has also appeared in European-produced fantasy-adventures such as Hercules (1983) and Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989), and as himself in the sitcom The King of Queens and the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man.
Championship record
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 Lou Ferrigno.
Mr. Olympia
4Appearances
0Titles
2Top 3
All contests on record
9Contests
1Wins
7Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Lou Ferrigno, 9 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Lou Ferrigno competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Olympia - Masters | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Robby Robinson |
| 1993 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | Dorian Yates |
| 1992 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #12 | Dorian Yates |
| 1975 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #3 | – |
| 1975 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 1974 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #2 | – |
| 1974 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 1972 | Pro Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Bill Grant |
| 1971 | Pro Mr America | Division not recorded (Teen) | #1 | Winner |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Lou Ferrigno that source is MuscleMemory. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. That archive no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name here and not offered as a link.
Every professional season
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1971
- Olympia Debut
- 1974
- Last Contest
- 1994
Lou Ferrigno at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 2 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1975 | 3 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1992 | 12 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
| 1993 | 10 | Men's Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Lou Ferrigno 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.
31.7FFMI
30.8Normalised FFMI
134thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Erin Banks, at 31.1.
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 Lou Ferrigno sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Mr International | Division not recorded (Tall) | #1 |
| 1974 | Universe | Division not recorded (Tall) | #1 |
| 1973 | Mr America | Division not recorded (Tall) | #1 |
| 1973 | Universe | Division not recorded (Tall) | #1 |
| 1972 | Mr Universe | Division not recorded (Tall) | #2 |
| 1971 | Teen Mr America | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #4 |
| 1971 | Teen Mr America | Division not recorded (Most Muscular) | #5 |
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Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Lou Ferrigno finished ahead of Ed Corney 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.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 9 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.
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