2008 MR OLYMPIA THE BLADE

Dexter Jackson

Intro

Born: 25th November, 1969

Country: America

Height: 1.68 m

About Dexter Jackson

Dexter Jackson also known as 'The Blade' is an American IFFB professional bodybuilder. He participated in many competitions and the biggest win in his career was the win in 2008 where he beats Jay Cutler for the title and wins his first ever Mr Olympia competition. His first competition was the NPC Southern States Championships in 1992. In that competition he ranked number 3. In 2007 Mr Olympia competition he was at 3rd spot and every body was saying that it was his original position and not go further up from here but in 2008 he shocked every body when he won the Mr Olympia title by beating Jay Cutler. He became only the 12th man to win the title in the history of bodybuilding. 2008 was a great year for Dexter Jackson. He won many competition including:

• Arnold Classic
• Australian Pro Grand Prix VIII
• New Zealand Grand Prix
• Russian Grand Prix
• Mr Olympia

In all the above mentioned competition he secured the first position but in 2009 Mr Olympia he drop down to 3rd place. Dexter is only the 2nd person to win the both Mr Olympia and Masters Olympia title along with Chris Dickerson. Dexter has made a record of wining Arnold classic 5 times more than anyone else in year 2005, 2006, 2013 and 2015. In 2015 Mr Olympia competition he placed 2nd in the absence of Kai Greene. He aged 45 in this year competition which is pretty high for a bodybuilder to compete but still he is in good shape.

This is the image of him standing besides Jay Cutler in 2008 Mr Olympia competition:

By seeing the picture above one can easily say that Jay has more size and muscle maturity as compare to Dexter. And because of this many of you think that 2008 Mr Olympia was not a fair one. The controversy starts from the video of Jay where he said that Dexter did not win the title in 2008, I hand it over to him. 

Dexter featured in many bodybuilding articles and magazines. He also done a shot documentary named ad Dexter Jackson which was released in 2009. At the age of 45 this old man is still number 2 in the business right now.