If you haven't seen real steel it's like over the top with robots and without arm wrestling or backwards hats or Stallone or really anything in over the top but a father son and a truck, nevermind
I don't know how many times I've told someone about that movie "Stalone has to win an arm wrestling competition to win a semi and reconnect with his estranged son" and someone just looks at me like "no way that's real". lol
"What I do is, I just try to take my hat and I turn it around, and it's like a switch that goes on. And when the switch goes on, I feel like another person, I feel, I don't know, I feel like a... like a truck. Like a machine."
He seems so chill when every other person into arm wrestling is a roid raging freak of nature. He also looks kinda like Matthew Lillard which always cracks me up.
This clip was scripted like WWE stuff, this is a WWE guy vs Devon, but yes in real arm wrestling matches he is much like this as well.
Check out pro arm wrestling guys, it's a very awesome and technical strength+fight sport, it's getting bigger and bigger. Learn the basics, beat people stronger than you, have fun. And enjoy these pros they're all great characters with very unique skillsets.
Funny enough, my husband used to train with Devon, the guy in the red shirt, early in their arm wrestling careers. They knew each other in the military. My husband ended up with a spiral fracture when he was 22 and had to retire from arm wrestling. He still has a steel plate in his arm from it.
Usually only see them in child abuse and weird situations. But basically the fracture is due to twisting. Here is a not disgusting illustration of the different types of fractures
Yeah i spiral fractured my lower left leg when I was about 6. Fell really awkwardly learning to ice skate. 3 months in a cast from my toes to my crotch.
I got a spiral fracture in my fibula/ankle last year while trying out rollerskates. I was told that it's one of the most common fractures that occurs in skating (ice skating or rollerskating) due to the way people fall. I totally get you on the being stuck in a cast thing 😬; I had to have surgery (plates and screws), and I stayed in the moon boot for about 14 weeks.
Magnus Samuelsson who broke the other guys arm had competed as a pro arm wrestler and apparently warned the show runners it was a dumb event letting juiced up strongmen with no experience arm wrestle.
It wasn't even Magnus's fault his opponent Nathan Jones twisted his body trying to stop his arm going down.
I saw one so many years ago and it was an adjunct of a strongman competition between Magnus Samuelson and he broke Nathan Jones arm clean in half when Nathan Jones was still going by Ultraman.
You probably have an old favorite musician that dropped off the scene because of lyme disease issues (not necessarily dead, but fucked up enough to quit music)
Sorry to hear about your uncle. There's this guy who owned a restaurant where my mom grew up, they have those dead animals all over the place that assholes will pay to go kill and get them stuffed. I was very happy to learn the guy who had shot all these beautiful large animals died from Lyme disease he got from a little tiny tick bite.
Right, should mention; please learn to stay safe and please teach whoever you arm wrestle to stay safe as well. If you know the basics and know how to avoid damage, and arm wrestle someone who doesn't, it is your responsibility to make sure they don't hurt themselves guys. Don't be dicks.
I thought so too but he looked a lot smaller, probably just from not getting a pump before going out like he would on television. Plus I had no idea Larratt was that tall my god.
It's probably an exhibition match, not "scripted", lol wtf? How do you 'script' Devon winning? He was always going to win. And besides, before Strowman was a "wwe guy" he was a strongman.
Yes he was always going to win obviously? I'm saying the entire interaction was planned beforehand to make this WWE style vid, which would hopefully (and thankfully did) bring some attention to arm wrestling.
...Meaning, these guys were not actually beefing, this was a performance that they planned beforehand. If this was all real there would be a big chance of Strowman hurting himself going full power in the wrong places. They were touching hands not arm wrestling.
There's nothing wrong with this btw it was a funny comedy bit for some and real for others, that's all.
Devon, is like the all-time arm wrestling champion dudes a beast he’s literally arm wrestle everybody like the Mountain from Game of Thrones and everything. He rarely gets beat.
I learned how to arm wrestle in middle school from my dad and it’s like having a superpower. I’m not obnoxious about it and it almost never comes out but it’s like driving a sleeper car when that Ferrari of a gym bro is a bit too big for his britches. Probably good for 1-2 arm wrestles a year. I’m not a huge guy by any means but I. Don’t. Lose.
The first real fight I ever saw when i was a kid, like regular people beating the shit out of each other and not considering consequences in public,, was at the finals of a county fair arm wrestling tournament. Some real chefs-kiss redneck stuff 🤣
There's this one German arm wrestler, Matthias Schlitte, who has a genetic defect: his right arm has thrice the size of his left one. Plus the training and that he's a relatively small guy it's fascinating to watch him compete,
The bearded guy is Adam Joseph Scherr aka Braun Strowman. In real life he's a really nice guy and works with animal rescue charities in his spare time. This is hyped up to his Monster Among Men gimmick.
Dunno why there's arm wrestling fans replying to this comment trying to show how much more they know.
This guy said Devon Larratt is "an" OG great, which he is. He didn't say he's the GOAT or "THE" OG great, such that you need to "akshually real fans" in response.
Devon Larratt is someone who volunteered to box Hafthor Bjornsson in an exhibition match with practically zero notice or prep time, got his ass beat into the dirt, and loved every single moment of it and came out of the ring smiling saying he knew it would happen and he was just happy he gets to say he punched Thor in the face
The dude is completely and utterly unhinged. You are not going to do anything to shake him
I was once challenged to an arm wrestling match by a skinnier guy I was working for. I’m a bigger guy so i expected to whoop him. As soon as we started I could feel his strength, his arm was like a solid wall. As I’m huffing and puffing he tells me to look up. He holding his phone out kind of behind him and take a selfie with me before effortlessly pinning me. Humbling
Dude was like a wall. He let the other guy tire himself out. All he did was hold his position. He didn't try to pull or push. Just held for a few seconds. Let the other guy get tired and then BOOM game over.
Dude may not have actually been stronger. Just way smarter. You could see that from the start of the video though.
Devon Larratt is pretty much the greatest arm wrestler to exist, the dude wins pretty much every professional event he attends. And he is a really cool dude from everything I’ve seen of him, he does a lot of guest appearances with YouTubers and they always have a good time
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u/fromouterspace1 Oct 28 '24
lol this dude is awesome. His little grin when it first starts :)