Jose Raymond, a bodybuilder from the United States, stands 5’4″ (163 cm) tall and competed at a contest weight of around 200 lb (91 kg). He was born on July 1, 1975 and is 51 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 41
- Wins
- 11
- Win Rate
- 26.8%
- Career
- 2009–2018
- Height
- 5’4″ (163 cm)
- Weight
- 200 lb (91 kg)
- Age
- 51
- Arnold Classic Titles
- 1
- Verified
- Sources
- 31
Jose Raymond spent sixteen years as an amateur, then ten more finishing near the top of the 212 division without ever winning it. He took the Arnold Classic 212 title in 2015 and was Olympia runner-up the same year, at 40. In a division defined by a weight cap, he was the competitor everyone else was measured against.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 41 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.
Every professional season
Peak Year
2013 (3 wins)
Measured against Jose Raymond’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 2009
- First Win
- 2010
- Peak Year
- 2013
- Last Contest
- 2018
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2010 | 4 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2011 | 3 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2012 | 4 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2013 | 4 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2014 | 3 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2015 | 2 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2016 | 3 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2017 | 3 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2018 | 5 | Men’s 212 Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Known for
Raymond stood 5 feet 4 inches and carried a density that made the 212 limit look like it had been written around him. The nickname, the Boston Mass, covered both halves of that: where he came from, and how much muscle he could hold at a capped weight.
His Olympia record in the division is the case for him. Sixth in 2009, fourth in 2010, then third, fourth, fourth, third, second, third, third and fifth. Ten appearances, nine of them in the top five, and never the one result he was there for.
Early career
He won his first recorded contest as a teenager, taking the teenage lightweight class at the 1993 New England Championships. What followed was one of the longest amateur runs in our database. He won the lightweights at the 2000 USA Championships and again at the 2001 Nationals, moved up and took the welterweight titles at the 2005 Nationals, USA Championships and Team Universe in a single year, then won both the Nationals and the USA Championships middleweight classes in 2007.
He turned professional in 2009 and placed sixth at the Olympia in his first season. The wins came steadily after that: the New York Pro in 2011 and 2013, the Toronto Pro in 2013, the Europa Phoenix and the New Zealand Pro in 2014, the Prague Pro in 2015, the Dominican Republic Pro in 2018.
2015 was the year it nearly landed. He won the Arnold Classic 212 in March and finished second at the Olympia in September, the closest he came.
Championship record
Where the titles came from
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 Jose Raymond.
212 Olympia
10Appearances
0Titles
5Top 3
Arnold Classic
5Appearances
1Title
3Top 3
All contests on record
41Contests
11Wins
29Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Jose Raymond 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.
32.3FFMI
33.4Normalised FFMI
78thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Phil Heath, at 33.7.
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 Jose Raymond sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Jose Raymond, 41 in all. The table opens on the first 15 and expands in place from there. Nothing sits on a separate page. Won by names the winner of the division Jose Raymond competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
Showing 15 of 41 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Jose Raymond those sources are NPC Contests and MuscleMemory. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. MuscleMemory is the exception: the archive we recorded those older shows from no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name and not offered as a link.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
23 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.
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Legacy
Raymond competed for the last time at the 2018 Olympia and retired with an Arnold Classic title, an Olympia silver and a long list of class wins across three weight divisions.
Few competitors have held a place that high in the 212 for that long. Ten consecutive Olympia appearances in one division is the part of the record that is hardest to repeat, and it is the part a table of placings shows best.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 1993 to 2018.
One caution about the table below: several of his 2012 to 2017 professional appearances are stored twice, once under a “212” division label and once under an older weight-class label, so a single contest can show as two rows.
In 22 meetings, Jose Raymond and David Henry are dead even, finishing ahead 11 times apiece.
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.
