Danny Padilla vs Roger Walker
Danny Padilla 
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Danny Padilla vs Roger Walker head-to-head record and every decided contest between them on record.
- Meetings
- 4
- Danny Padilla
- 2 ahead
- Roger Walker
- 2 ahead
- Span
- 1978–1982
- At the Olympia
- Danny Padilla 2–2 Roger Walker in 4
In 4 meetings, including 4 at the Mr. Olympia, Danny Padilla and Roger Walker are dead even, finishing ahead 2 times apiece.
Every contest Danny Padilla and Roger Walker both entered
| Year | Contest | Division | Danny Padilla | Roger Walker | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #12 | #16 | Danny Padilla |
| 1981 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #5 | #10 | Danny Padilla |
| 1980 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #10 | #6 | Roger Walker |
| 1978 | Mr. Olympia | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #6 | #5 | Roger Walker |
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. Danny Padilla and Roger Walker meet that test 4 times. For scale, this database holds 27 professional results for Danny Padilla and 11 for Roger Walker across their full careers. Counted from the contest record as of October 5, 2026.
Danny Padilla and Roger Walker 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.
Danny Padilla reached his competitive peak from 1974 to 1976, one of his strongest stretches (33% win rate across 6 contests in the window).
Roger Walker reached his competitive peak from 1972 to 1974, his strongest placement years on record (33% win rate across 3 contests in the window).
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 Padilla and Roger Walker, beyond the scoreline
The part of this matchup a results table cannot hold, written by hand rather than derived from the record.
Danny Padilla
The nickname is the record in three words. At his height he beat competitors a foot taller, taking the Mr America short class in 1976, the Mr America and Universe lightweight classes in 1977, and USA vs the World in 1978.
He placed third at the 1978 Mr. Olympia and fifth in 1979 and 1981, competing in the open division against men who outweighed him by fifty pounds.
Roger Walker
Six consecutive Mr. Olympia appearances from 1977 to 1982, with fourth in 1977, fifth in 1978 and third in 1979. Very few competitors from outside the United States were in that lineup at all in those years.
The amateur record is short and strong: Mr Australia in 1973, the Asian Amateur Championships tall class in 1975 and the Universe heavyweight class in 1976, with a runner-up finish at the Universe the year before.
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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.
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Career Stats Comparison
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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 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.