This contest will host its tenth version in 2025.
Final up to date on January eleventh, 2025
Since its inception in 2015, the Arnold Basic Males’s Physique contest has been a hallowed battleground for the division’s prime stars. Six athletes have raised the trophy as its champion all through the last decade it has existed. Three of these males have additionally gone on to win the Olympia title.
The 2025 version of the Arnold Basic Males’s Physique will happen on the weekend of Feb. 28 by means of March 1, 2025, in its traditional residence of Columbus, OH. Earlier than we crown the 2025 champion, here’s a look again on the previous winners of this prestigious occasion:
Arnold Basic Males’s Physique Champions
- Sadik Hadzovic (2015)
- Brandon Hendrickson (2016)
- Ryan Terry (2017)
- Andre Ferguson (2018 – 2020)
- Erin Banks (2022 – 2023)
- Diogo Montenegro (2024)
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Sadik Hadzovic (2015)
The inaugural competitors was held in 2015 on the Arnold Expo, and Sadik Hadzovic would go away the stage as its first champion. Hadzovic held off Jason Poston and Anton Antinov, who completed second and third, to win. 2013 Males’s Physique Olympia champion Mark Anthony completed this occasion in fifth place.
- Sadik Hadzovic
- Jason Poston
- Anton Antinov
Brandon Hendrickson (2016)
Lots of the division’s followers felt that Brandon Hendrickson was a rising star, however he was not anticipated to win the 2016 version of the Arnold Males’s Physique contest. He had different plans and would go away Columbus with the trophy. In 2018, Hendrickson went on to win the Males’s Physique Olympia to turn out to be the primary man to have gained each championships. He sits with three Olympia titles as of 2025.
- Brandon Hendrickson
- George Brown
- Jason Poston
Ryan Terry (2017)
Ryan Terry was the third man to safe the Arnold and Olympia titles. He achieved the primary half of that feat in 2017 over a aggressive subject that included Hendrickson and Andre Ferguson, who took the runner-up spot. It will be six years earlier than Terry took the Olympia title again to the UK. He repeated as Olympia champion in 2024.
- Ryan Terry
- Andre Ferguson
- Brandon Hendrickson
Andre Ferguson (2018-20)
As soon as Ferguson acquired a maintain of the Arnold title a 12 months later, he would maintain onto it till 2020. As of 2024, he’s the one three-time champion within the competitors’s historical past. His last victory got here at first of the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the Males’s Physique contest being omitted from the Arnold Basic in 2021.
2018
- Andre Ferguson
- Raymont Edmonds
- Brandon Hendrickson
2019
- Andre Ferguson
- Raymont Edmonds
- Kyron Holden
2020
- Andre Ferguson
- Brandon Hendrickson
- Steven Cao
Erin Banks (2022-23)
Erin Banks is the second of the three males to win the Arnold and Olympia, however he was the one man to win each in the identical calendar 12 months. He dominated the Arnold stage at first of the 2022 season, then secured the Olympia title that very same season.
Banks joined Ferguson within the repeat winners membership by scoring his second straight Arnold win in 2023. Nonetheless, Terry would defeat Banks on the Olympia stage that 12 months.
2022
- Erin Banks
- Emanuel Hunter
- Diogo Montenegro
2023
- Erin Banks
- Diogo Montenegro
- Emanuel Hunter
Diogo Montenegro (2024)
Diogo Montenegro had completed within the prime three on the Arnold stage in 2022 and 2023. He lastly claimed gold in 2024 by defeating runner-up Vinicius Mateus Vieira Lima and third-place finisher Kyron Holden. He would miss the 2024 Olympia, which implies the followers missed the matchup between him and Terry.
- Diogo Montenegro
- Vinicius Mateus Vieira Lima
- Kyron Holden
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