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Head-to-head record

Lee Haney vs Mike Christian

Lee Haney
Lee Haney
6 0
6 head-to-head meetings
Mike Christian
Mike Christian
Athlete A
Lee Haney
Lee Haney
United States Men's Open Bodybuilding
Athlete B
Mike Christian
Mike Christian
United States Men's Physique
6 Shared Contests
1985 First Meeting
1990 Last Meeting
Query-derived Compiled from contest-result records and cached for performance; community flags are reviewed before any change. Updated September 21, 2026

Lee Haney vs Mike Christian head-to-head record and every decided contest between them on record.

Our full story on Lee Haney: Lee Haney – Complete Profile: Height, Weight, Biography.

Meetings
6
Lee Haney
6 ahead
Mike Christian
0 ahead
Span
1985–1990
At the Olympia
Lee Haney 5–0 Mike Christian in 5

In 6 meetings, Lee Haney finished ahead of Mike Christian 6 times to 0, including 5 at the Mr. Olympia.

Every contest Lee Haney and Mike Christian both entered

Year Contest Division Lee Haney Mike Christian Winner
1990 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 #4 Lee Haney
1989 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 #6 Lee Haney
1987 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 #4 Lee Haney
1987 Grand Prix Germany (2) Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 #4 Lee Haney
1986 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 #3 Lee Haney
1985 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 #5 Lee Haney

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. Lee Haney and Mike Christian meet that test 6 times. For scale, this database holds 23 recorded results for Lee Haney and 41 for Mike Christian across their full careers. Counted from the contest record as of September 21, 2026.

Lee Haney and Mike Christian 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.

Lee Haney reached his competitive peak from 1984 to 1991 (8 years), winning 8 Olympia titles in Men's Open Bodybuilding.

Mike Christian reached his competitive peak from 1979 to 1980, one of his strongest stretches (20% win rate across 5 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.

Mike Christian, beyond the scoreline

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

1984 is the amateur peak: the heavyweight class at both the Nationals and the World Amateur Championships. The professional record follows in 1988 and 1989 with the Grand Prix US Pro, the World Pro Championships, and the Grand Prix in Germany and Spain.

His Olympia record is five appearances between 1985 and 1990, with third in 1986 and fourth in 1987 and 1990.

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.