Nick Walker is preparing to return to the Arnold Classic after the prize money increase.
The plan to increase prize money in bodybuilding will likely persuade competitors to take the stage more often. We saw that to a degree during the 2024 Arnold Classic when the prize was set at $300,000. Now, it will be half a million dollars in 2025. This is enough to convince former champion Nick Walker to return to the stage in Columbus.
This year, Hadi Choopan was crowned champion at the Arnold Classic. Moments after he received his award, Arnold Schwarzenegger shared the incredible news that the prize for next year will be raised to $500,000. During a recent episode of The Mutant & The Mouth, Walker was asked if he would consider doing the Arnold after the Olympia again.
“Abso-f*cking-lutely. $500k says otherwise. I’m all in on that. As soon as he said that, no joke, I looked at Matt and said ‘we ready?’ and he said ‘let’s do it.'”
The Arnold Classic continues to improve and challenge the Olympia. Walker is a fan of the competition and hopes to see this happen in other shows as well.
Nick Walker: “I Would Like To Do All The Arnolds”
Walker was a spectator this year in Columbus but plans to take the stage again.
“It was cool to kind of be a spectator for a little bit. I don’t wanna do it again. I wanna compete in it.”
Not only does Walker want to return to Columbus, he has aspirations of traveling to the other shows as well.
“Honestly bro, I would like at some point to do all the Arnolds. Ohio, Brazil, and UK I believe. I just think for me, to put that in stone, it would just be a day by day. Make sure the body feels good, everything is rolling like it needs to. But I would like to do all of them.”
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Walker quickly rose to the top of the Men’s Open division in a relatively short amount of time. This includes winning the New York Pro during his rookie year. In 2021, he was crowned champion of the Arnold Classic before hitting the Olympia. He has two top-five finishes in each of the last two years and was a hopeful for this year as well.
Nick Walker will take the stage once again at the New York Pro this year. He will look to become a two-time champion of the event and will go all out, as usual.
“I’m going all out. I don’t ever like going to a show, whatever show I do, I go all out no matter what. I’ll go all out for this. I’m gonna go all out for the Olympia and I’m gonna go all out for the Arnold.”
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