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Head-to-head record

Arash Rahbar vs Danny Hester

Arash Rahbar
Arash Rahbar
4 1
5 head-to-head meetings
Danny Hester
Danny Hester
Athlete A
Arash Rahbar
Arash Rahbar
United States Men's Classic Physique
Athlete B
Danny Hester
Danny Hester
United States Men's Classic Physique
5 Shared Contests
2016 First Meeting
2019 Last Meeting
Query-derived Compiled from contest-result records and cached for performance; community flags are reviewed before any change. Updated September 21, 2026

Arash Rahbar vs Danny Hester head-to-head record and every decided contest between them on record.

Meetings
5
Arash Rahbar
4 ahead
Danny Hester
1 ahead
Span
2016–2019
At the Olympia
Arash Rahbar 3–1 Danny Hester in 4

In 5 meetings, Arash Rahbar finished ahead of Danny Hester 4 times to 1, including 4 at the Classic Physique Olympia.

Every contest Arash Rahbar and Danny Hester both entered

Year Contest Division Arash Rahbar Danny Hester Winner
2019 Mr. Olympia Men's Classic Physique #8 #12 Arash Rahbar
2018 Mr. Olympia Men's Classic Physique #5 #12 Arash Rahbar
2018 Arnold Classic Men's Classic Physique #2 #4 Arash Rahbar
2017 Mr. Olympia Men's Classic Physique #4 #5 Arash Rahbar
2016 Mr. Olympia Men's Classic Physique #2 #1 Danny Hester

How this is counted: a meeting is one contest where both athletes were judged in the same division. Standing on the same stage in different divisions is not a meeting, because the two were never scored against each other. Arash Rahbar and Danny Hester meet that test 5 times. For scale, this database holds 13 recorded results for Arash Rahbar and 25 for Danny Hester across their full careers. Counted from the contest record as of September 21, 2026.

Arash Rahbar and Danny Hester at their peak

Peak window = the athlete's Olympia-title years where available, otherwise their best-placement years. Derived from recorded contest results. It is a span of years, not a rating.

Arash Rahbar reached his competitive peak from 2014 to 2015, one of his strongest stretches (25% win rate across 4 contests in the window).

Danny Hester reached his competitive peak from 2016 to 2016, winning 1 Olympia title in Men's Classic Physique.

Score these two prime windows against each other on Prime vs Prime, where Olympia dominance is weighted for the size of the field each athlete beat.

Danny Hester, beyond the scoreline

The part of this matchup a results table cannot hold, written by hand rather than derived from the record.

Classic Physique was introduced in 2016 as a division for competitors built along older lines, lighter and more proportioned than the modern open class. Hester had been competing in exactly that shape since 1992, which is why a man in his late forties beat a field of competitors half his age to the inaugural title.

He won the MuscleContest Pro in the same season, then finished fifth at the 2017 Olympia and twelfth in 2018 and 2019 as the division filled with younger competitors built specifically for it.

Attribute Tug-of-War

Each bar splits a metric by each athlete's share of their combined total. A centered bar means they are level.

Career Overlap Timeline

Each bar runs from an athlete's first recorded contest to their last, so the stretch where the two bars cross is the period both were competing. The marks on the bars are the years they met in the same division, one mark per year however many times they met in it. Careers that never cross can still be read against each other on career totals; they just cannot produce a head-to-head record.

Shared Contest

Career Stats Comparison

These are career-long figures, drawn from the results we hold for each athlete rather than only the contests the two shared, which is why a pair who never met still has something to compare. Where the two differ, the row marks the stronger figure: the higher number, except on Career Start and Best Placement, where the lower one is better and takes the mark. A row the two are level on marks neither.

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Method

This page counts finishing positions

Every figure here comes from where each athlete placed in the contest record. Judging sheets and point spreads are not in the database, so a comparison tells you who finished higher on the night. It does not tell you by how much, or how close the call was.

  • A head-to-head result needs both athletes at the same contest in the same division. Two athletes on the same stage in different divisions were never judged against each other, so that show is not counted as a meeting.
  • Only contests both athletes actually entered can be settled here. Careers that never overlapped produce a side-by-side record and no head-to-head, because there is nothing to count.
  • Career totals cover the results we hold. A missing regional or amateur show lowers a total; it never invents one.
  • A shared placement is left as a tie. It is reported separately rather than split between the two athletes.