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East vs. West 17: Results And Commentary
Great matchups, but the lackluster audio and visual presentation highlights key issues with armwrestling coverage in 2025 With Devon Larratt, John Brzenk, and Dave Chaffee headlining what appeared to be an excellent East vs. West tournament, the outcome presented lackluster audio and visual coverage that still plagues modern amrwrestling. East Vs. West 17: Where, When,…
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East Vs. West 16: Full Card & Expectations — Updated With Results
Dynamite Armwrestling Matches Return February 15th, 2025 For The Massive International Armwrestling Tournament **(Scroll to the bottom of this page for match results)** This year, East Vs. West 16 makes its debut on February 15th, 2025 marking another consortium of outstanding armwrestling bouts with electric matchups. This international armwrestling tournament is held at the The…
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Armwrestling Is Back: Brian Shaw Vs. Eddie Hall At King Of The Table 13
The Electric Match Concluded With Brian Shaw As The Clear Winner Over An Insanely Powerful Eddie Hall Armwrestling came back on December 14th, 2024 in full force. Brian Shaw and Eddie Hall battled on December 14th, 2024 in a best of 7 format at King of the Table 13 in Atlantic City. Brian Shaw and…
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Evgeny “The Phantom” Prudnik
The Phantom Of Kiev Is One Of The Top 3 Best Left-Handed Armwrestlers In The World Evgeny Prudnik is a man of the arts. He is a master of many trades, including singing, dancing, and acting. However, don’t let his gregarious nature fool you—he is a diabolical armwrestling with the strength of a gorilla in…
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Oleg “The Ukrainian Mutant” Zhokh
A Phenomenal Armwrestler With A One-Of-A-Kind Gift. Born with congenital hypertrophy, he was born with an astounding left arm made perfect for the armwrestling table. He is not to be confused with Hellboy, AKA Matthias Schlitte! Oleg Zhokh Stats: Nickname: The Ukrainian Mutant Age: 31 (born October 13, 1992) Height: 6’0″ (182.88 cm) Weight: 172…
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Alex Kurdecha
Massive Armwrestling Size And Strength Plus A Big Heart—A Phenomenal Athlete In The Sport Ukrainian-born Alex Kurdecha has been an athlete his entire life. Before his return to armwrestling in 2017, the well-rounded sportsman was a track and field athlete, swimmer, and even dappled in American football for fun! Alex Kurdecha Stats: Nickname: To Be…
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Jerry “Big Daddy” Cadorette
The Big Pressing Behemoth Is A Formidable Professional At The Armwrestling Table Jerry Cadorette is one of the most potent users of the armwrestling press technique. If he isn’t pushing some of the best car dealership sales in North America, you can find him pressing the competition into oblivion at the table. Jerry Cadorette Stats:…
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Davit (David) Dadikyan
The Armenian Armwrestler Is Reserved, Humble, And Talks With His Arms Davit (David) Dadikyan has immense arm strength and has become a bit controversial in the sport due to his ability to draw out matches to the absolute limit—even if he won’t win. While some might not like his style, his raw arm strength is…
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Jeff “Popeye” Dabe
The Original Armwrestling Popeye With The Most Insane Arms Yes, that photo is real. Jeff Dabe is the real-life Wreck-It Ralph. The man was built for armwrestling. Interestingly enough, he claims his arm size is not due to a genetic defect or gigantism. Jeff Dabe is simply a man molded for the sport! Jeff Dabe…
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Matthias “Hellboy” Schlitte
The Real One Big Arm Armwrestler Who Looks Like A Comic Book Character Not to be confused with the infamous pumpkin armwrestling training method, Matthias Schlitte is the real-life Hellboy. Born with a rare genetic disorder, the German athlete has immense strength and impeccable technique Matthias Schlitte Stats: Nickname: Hellboy Age: 37 (Born April 2,…
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Travis “The Beast” Bagent
An Armwrestling Cowboy From Charlestown, WV, The Beast Is An American Armwrestling Monster And Icon Gaining his nickname, “The Beast,” from an international tournament, Travis Bagent uses his immense size and strength to pull opponents across the table. Travis Bagent Stats: Nickname: The Beast Age: 48 (Born March 10, 1976) Height: 6’ 3” (190.5 cm)…
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Aleksandr “Schoolboy” Beziazykov
The Kid Is Electric And Could Rip Your Arm Off In An Armwrestling Match Looks can be deceiving…The young-looking armwrestler has outrageous armwrestling technique and strength to match it. Discover how Schoolboy takes you to the classroom and teaches you to be humble! Aleksandr Beziazykov Stats: Nickname: Schoolboy Age: 26 Height: 6’ 4” (195 cm)…
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Denis “Chernobyl” Cyplenkov
This Guy Looks Like He Was Made In A Lab Like The Winter Solder… In 2018, Denis Cyplenkov was the first massive opponent Devon Larratt armwrestled against and lost. While a few health scares have caused him to focus more on cutting weight, the Russian mass monster holds critical acclaim in the industry. Denis Cyplenkov…
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Matt “Wildhorse” Mask
He’s Like Armwrestling A Kangaroo With Rabies With The Technical Skill And Strength Of John Brzenk Is it a bird? A plane? That Chimpanzee from 28 Days Later racing out of a cage? No sir, that’s just Matt Mask. The champion of the Berserker persona, Matt Mask is a legend in the sport and a…
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Allen “Mr. Intensity” Fisher
Built Like A Rock Climber And As Strong As A Gorilla With Forearms Bigger Than Your Legs. An all-time GOAT, Allen Fisher worked with the tools his was given to develop an impressive armwrestling career. Allen Fisher Stats: Nickname: “Mr. Intensity” Age: 69 Height: 5’10″ (178 cm) Weight: 165 lbs (75 kg) Place of Origin:…
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John “The Perfect Storm” Brzenk
So Nasty At Armwrestling, They Made A Sylvester Stallone Movie About Him The god father of armwrestling, John Brzenk got his own semi-autobiographical movie called Over The Top with Sylvester Stallone playing the famed armwrestler. He is known for crushing opponents twice his size in matches. At his prime, his inside hooking technique was one…
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Artyom “Steel” Morozov
The Kazakhstan Armwrestling Has 23 Inch Biceps And Is Also Known As “The Terminator” This rising armwrestling champion is soon to become one of the best at the table. Artyom Morozov Stats: Nickname: “Steel” or “Terminator” Age: 26 Height: 6’4″ (195 cm) Weight: 287 lbs (130 kg) Place of Origin: Kazakhstan, Europe Occupation: Armwrestler Arch…
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Levan “Georgian Hulk” Saginashvili
Currently, The Outrageously Strong Armwrestler Is The Best Right-Handed Competitor In The World… A powerful mass monster, Levan is currently the best right-handed champion in the world. Levan Saginashvili Stats: Nickname: “The Georgian Hulk” Age: 35 (Born September 18, 1988) Height: 6’3″ (191 cm) Weight: 392 lbs (178 kg) Place of Origin: Georgia, Europe Occupation:…
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Ermes “The Gladiator” Gasparini
An Italian Competitor Who Has Earned His Nickname In Battle At The Armwrestling Table The Italian gladiator is one of the best right-handed athletes and sits at a strong #3. Ermes Gasparini Stats: Nickname: “The Gladiator” Age: 30 Height: 6’2″ (188 cm) Weight: 265 lbs (130 kg) Place of Origin: Verona, Italy Occupation: Marble Quarry…
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Devon “No Limits” Larratt
Arguably The Greatest Armwrestler And Showman Of All Time From Canadian Special Forces hero to global armwrestling champion, Devon Larratt has set the bar to a place you and I can never reach. As a champion of inside and outside armwrestling techniques, he has few weaknesses. Devon Larratt’s Net Worth Devon Larratt gets a special…
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Michael “Monster” Todd
Insane Size, Strength, And Technique With A Perfect Nickname Michael Todd, a Little Rock, Arkansas native, has been competing since he was a teenager. He found his calling at the county fair during his senior year of high school. Since then, he has been hooked on armwrestling! Michael Todd Stats: Nickname: “Monster” Age: 51 (Born…
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Eddie “The Beast” hall
A Retired Strongman, Eddie Hall Has Left A Monstrous Impact On Strongmen Sports In 2016, Edward Stephen Hall (Eddie Hall) lifted himself past all expectations and shook the world with a (at the time) astonishing 1,102 lbs deadlift world record in 2016. For our overseas friends, that’s an insane 500 kg deadlift. While the 36-year-old…
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Why Armwrestling Struggles To Grow And How It Could Reach Bigger And Better Audiences
I remember the first time I stumbled upon armwrestling, and I want every potential fan out there to do the same… Armwrestling is a magnanimous sport filled with positive vibes and an eclectic group of talented athletes. Some of these athletes sport Muhammad Ali-levels of showmanship, with a level of trash talk both hysterical and…
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Current Armwrestling Rankings 2024
Grip Gladiators Covers The Top Armwrestlers By Left And Right Hand If you want to know the best armwrestlers in the world based on hand specialty, we have sorted them for you below! International Armwrestling Rankings Rank Left-Hand Best Armwrestlers Right-Hand Best Armwrestlers 1 Artyom Morozov, KAZ 🇰🇿 Levan Saginashvili, GEO 🇬🇪 2 Alizhan Muratov,…
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How To Develop Pronation For Armwrestling
This Strength Is The Key To Winning An Armwrestling Match Armwrestlers focus on maxing their real-life RPG stats into one tech tree: pronation. Pronation is the overhand grip that you would use to grip a bar for a pullup, or the static grip you would have on a bucket to raise it in front of…
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The Armwrestlers With One Big Arm
This Question Gets Asked A Lot So It’s A Good Idea To Clear Things Up Armwrestling fans always look for the “armwrestler with one big arm.” However, many do not know that there are two of them! One carries the true “Hellboy” nickname, while the other has his own unique moniker. The Original Hellboy Matthias…
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Is Armwrestling A Sport?
You Bet It Is. And You Are Missing Out By Not Watching It. Armwrestling is a niche sport that does not get the recognition it deserves. If an activity against competition causes you to break bones, sweat, and go to failure with your muscles, you are looking at the foundations of a real sport. While…
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What Is Shaw Training In Armwrestling?
He Is Widely Regarded As One Of The Greatest Strength Athletes Of Our Generation How exactly is Brian Shaw entering the world stage as a new, hulk-like competitor for armwrestling? The 6’8″ 430 lbs behemoth of a strongman is now applying his knowledge of strongman lifting and exercise science to the realm of table battles…
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Armwrestling Training: How To Armwrestle Yourself
While Technically Speaking, It Is Impossible To Armwrestle Yourself, There Are Methods To Train At Home By Matching Your Strength While turning both arms towards each other to armwrestle yourself is not possible, there are ways to bring a match inside your home with the right training spirit! Items You Need To Have To Armwrestle…
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Where You Can Find Cheap Equipment, Gear, And Free Weights For Armwrestling
No Links Here, Just Facts For Finding The Best Pre-Used Equipment For Armwrestling In Your Neighborhood! Armwrestling, by nature, is a rough and rugged sport. If you are using brand-new weights and equipment to get better, you are doing it wrong and missing out on all of the fun. Today, I will give you a…
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Long Head Bicep Exercises For Bigger Arms And Armwrestling Strength
The Long Head Of The Bicep Is One Of The Most Powerful Muscles In Your Arm The biceps get its “bi” prefix from the two heads that form the strength and aesthetics of these potent arm muscles. However, the long head is the more dominant force in armwrestling, and using new and unique training methods…
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Become Captain Ahab With A Bicep Harpoon: How To Use The Armwrestling High Hook
An Expert Armwrestling Move That Can Change Your Match’s Outcome Captain Ahab, are you here at last? Strap in and put your elbows on the table because today we will go over the high hook. This move is an inside, closed-grip armwrestling technique with some serious pros and benefits…and a handful of unfortunate cons. What…
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An Armwrestling Training Regimen: A Template To Follow
Feel Free To Modulate This Exercise Routine As Much As You Like Let’s get you fired up for armwrestling training with a simple template for a regimen that will help you get stronger. We will break this up into a metaphorical modality, where each link in your kinetic chain must be strengthened to become unbreakable.…
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Inside Vs. Outside Armwrestling Techniques
Not The Same As Open Vs. Closed Gripping Techniques—While Related, It Is Important To Know The Difference And How It All Hooks Together! While open and closed techniques are related to inside and outside armwrestling, there are key differences that need to be highlighted. If you can understand what stances, grips, positioning and techniques are…
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What Are Open And Closed Armwrestling Techniques?
Open Vs. Closed Armwrestling Techniques: The Power Of Hand Positioning Armwrestlers usually specialize in two types of armwrestling hand positions and grips to armwrestle: Open and closed. Today, we will cover all the open and closed armwrestling techniques so you can begin to deploy them in your next match. Perhaps, you will find a style…
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The King’s Move: What Is It And Is It Legal?
This Is Quite Possibly The Most Controversial Technique In Armwrestling I promise you, the King’s Move is not a competition to see who can get their whole body under the table. However, it is one of the most controversial and hated techniques ever used in an armwrestling match. What Is The King’s Move? The King’s…
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The Armwrestling Press: The Pushing Armwrestling Technique
Only The Biggest And The Baddest Can Use This Finishing Move You will hear me all the time on this blog say, “Never rotate and push/press an opponent.” Well, there is actually one technique where you can do this: the press. The armwrestling press, or lever press, is a closed armwrestling technique reserved for the biggest…
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Want To Build Insane Biceps? Try Armwrestling.
The Secret Sauce To Bigger Arms Lies In A Niche Sport. Every time you look on the internet for secrets to bigger arms, every blog, trainer, and YouTube video tells you, “Do ‘X’ reps of this exercise, and in six weeks, you will put an inch on your biceps!“ The truth is that muscles grow…
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Executing Proper Technique For Armwrestling
It Is Critical To Armwrestle Correctly To Win A Match And Protect Against Possible Injury Proper armwrestling technique is twofold: It allows you to be more effective with your armwrestling strength, and it can protect you against injury. Let’s break down the key components of a proper armwrestling technique to keep you strong and healthy!…
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The Only Valuable Push-Up For Armwrestling
What Kinds Of Push-ups Can You Do For Armwrestling? I hate to break this to you, but armwrestling is a pulling sport. Unfortunately, push-ups are not going to help your armwrestling technique a lot. However, there is one particular type of push-up that might be beneficial to a particular type of armwrestling technique. The Diamond…
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Can Rock Climbing Train You For Armwrestling?
This Thought Has Crossed My Mind A Multitude Of Times—It’s Time We Look At This Method Rippling back muscles, insane grip strength, outrageous forearm endurance—I’m not describing an armwrestler, but a rock climber. It’s time we took a look at whether rock climbing and bouldering and translatable to armwrestling! Personal Foreward As an athlete myself,…
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How Much Grip Strength Does It Take To Crush A Hand?
If You Could Crush A Hand While You Were Armwrestling You Would Win Every Match… Imagine having Superman-like strength when it came to shaking hands. Now imagine that strength translated to armwrestling. You would win every time if you could crush an opponent’s hand with your grip. How Much Force Would It Take? Bones crush…
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Hand Size: How Much Does It Matter In Armwrestling?
The Crazy Cool Part About This? It Is Not As Much As You Think! If you have smaller hands than most behemoth armwrestlers, I wouldn’t worry too much. The sport accounts for hand size differences in a multitude of ways. While hand size is a genetic factor and big hands mean you could be a…
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Shooting Pains And Throbbing Biceps: What Is Going On With Your Arm Post-Armwrestling?
You Know A Sport Is Real By The Ability To Get Injured Competing In It While I do not outright agree with Devon Larratt’s philosophy of, “if I didn’t get injured competing, I wasn’t pushing myself hard enough,” there is some merit to pushing yourself and adding intensity to your armwrestling regimen. However, and most…
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What Are The Main Weight Classes In Professional Armwrestling?
Let’s Go Over What Typical Weight Classes And Top Athletes Look Like In These Categories If you were a full-grown adult armwrestling a toddler, would that be fair? Armwrestling requires weight classes because at the professional level, being massive can seriously increase your chances of winning against a much lighter opponent. For instance, you can…
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Armwrestling Is Not In The Olympics, But It Should Be.
If golf is in the Olympics, armwrestling deserves a chance too. You heard me, and I am here to make the case that armwrestling should be included in the Olympics as an engaging and challenging sport. For starters, winning a match requires blood, sweat, and tears. To advance the argument, there is the simple fact…
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The Personas Armwrestlers Use To Get Into Their Competitions Heads
Mind Games Can Be Quite Effective At The Table: Let’s Have Some Fun With This Piece How much will the power of mind games come into armwrestling? It can be quite a significant factor, especially if you are neck-and-neck with the competition. Let’s explore some of the most hilariously named armwrestling personas coined by the…
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Oleg Petrenko, Ukrainian Armwrestler, Becomes A World Armwrestling Champion
A New Champion Has Risen To The Top Of East Vs. West: Oleg Petrenko Oleg Petrenko, 28-year-old armwrestling champion, took center stage at the East vs. West 13 League Competition in Istanbul on July 6th, 2024. Born and raised in Ternopil, Ukraine, the talented armwrestling athlete is now the current 105kg, right-hand champion (light-heavyweight, 230lbs+…
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The Biggest Armwrestler To Ever Battle: Levan Saginashvili
Aptly Named “The Georgian Hulk” Due To His Superhuman, Mutant Strength, Size, And Technique Levan Saginashvili is 6′ 3″, 392lbs, and 35 years old. In summary, he is a god-like monster of armwrestling. Certain sports out there attract a certain kind of athlete due to the nature of the sport—like how basketball players are tall…
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The Armwrestling Equation: Is Armwrestling Strength Or Technique?
You Want The Truth. Here It is. I won’t keep you waiting: the answer is that armwrestling needs both. However, it’s important we break down what strength and technique bring to the table. Also, it’s important to touch on how much each matters at the beginner, intermediate, and expert levels. The stronger truth is that…
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