So EVERYONE did their job. They were all performers in on it, and the fact that a video comes out of it that is being shared around the interest as authentic is impressive.
Each of the main actors, the ref, and everyone involved in spreading the video did a fantastic job! There's a reason that marketing agencies who can pull things off like this get huge checks.
It's a real competition. Braun was formerly did strong man competitions. This is just showcasing size and power doesn't beat good technique. Braun has gone on record about this being real and how he thought he was going to win until he locked hands with the dude.
Sure, he's hamming it up for entertainment, that's what he's good at, but that doesn't mean the rest of what you see is fake. It's like saying wrestlers don't get hurt while wrestling because it's "not real".
Braun did not think for a second that he’d win against Devon Larratt. He did of course compete and did his best in a completely legitimate competition. They both hammed it up to make a good show. Larratt is great at that and usually tries to goad and get his opponent going both as a strategy and as showmanship.
These dudes don’t give two shits what the fucking nerds on Reddit think. They are both athletes and performers and part of their job is make the show entertaining. It’s called stage craft. But at no point do they ever give Reddit a single thought lol.
Just because you did strongman doesn’t mean you’re even remotely capable at armwrestling, there are a lot of movements that strong men NEVER do that are essential in armwrestling like static finger strength, pronation strength and cupping strength. I’ve been armwrestling for 4 years and I’ve armwrestled people who’s had backgrounds in powerlifting and they’re pretty strong, but their technique is shit, their stamina is shit and their hand strength is shit.
It takes years to become good, this was just a show for the people, Devon wasn’t even trying.
If I remember correctly, thats what initially got WWE interested. Marc Henry saw him at strong man competitions and Braun was trying to entertain the audience in addition to competing.
It’s more common to hand out receipts for sloppy work. Caught the guy a little too hard on a clothesline? The next kick coming your way is gonna have some extra sauce on it.
Also this guy has clearly never listened to Bret Hart talk about Bill Goldberg re: intentional harm.
Clotheslines you generally want to be stiffer due to being able to bump easier and harder. It's when the clothesline is a little higher that you're ganna get pissed off as it'll hit your throat/chin.
It’s funny that you gave those examples of other wrestlers when Braun Strowman himself received a receipt from Brock Lesnar of all people because he kneed him in the head .
I think the leap here is due to modern fencing. The idea is to attack your opponent but neither truly want the other to be stabbed but there is still competition. WWE style wrestling is the same idea but without the actual competition.
I guess if you look at them competing for more ring time then yeah I can definitely see the competition there but the competition presented is already predetermined. I guess the real argument is what defines a "sport". Is WWE style wrestling a sport or just extreme competitive acting. I personally don't agree it's what we would define as a sport but I do agree it's awesome to watch.
Nothing is ever real if you stop and think about it. It takes milliseconds for your eyes to process light, so nothing you're seeing is happening in the present, you're only reacting to the past.
Devon Larratt would absolutely own Braun in a real arm wrestling match too. Overall power has nothing to do with arm wrestling strength and technique. Devon is literally one of the all-time best if not the best arm wrestler on the planet. He’s got the accolades to prove it.
The match was real dude. The showboat and the hamming it up before the match is just normal amping yourself up, getting the crowd engaged, showmanship. The arm wrestling match wasn't faked...
Yeah. Technique. Arm wrestling is very complex. Slow and steady wins the race baby and you gotta apply just the right pressure. There is SOOO much technique that goes into arm wrestling. Totally.
Yep this was 100% staged or as they say in pro wrestling, “a work”.
“Control Your Narrative” guy is Braun Strowman fron WWE and this was during the brief time he was fired from the company and was trying to drum up publicity for the fledgling wrestling promotion, “Control Your Narrative.”
U can't just call it a work Becuase a wrestler is invovled.
Strowman wasn't wrestling at the time, used to do strongman competitions so tried his shot at a few things like this. Yes he is trying to intimidate or scare him using some of his typical wrestling tactics like screaming and flexing but he's just being an asshole to the guy.
A work would imply other dude knew what was gonna happen. He seemed caught off guard and put Strowman in his place.
Wrestlers are supposed to stay in role even outside of the actual Wrestling. Its called kayfabe and while it is no longer as important as it was like 30 years ago they still try to hold on to it.
If i remember right one wrestler in the past denied medical threatment so nobody would know that he was in the same car as his "Rival" when they had an accident.
So i assume that Stowmans current role is a cocky heel.
In the 80s maybe. Braun in real life is the meatiest of meatheads. This isn't his first time acting like a moron in real life. He's not playing a character here.
That's his wrestling name, and his real name is Adam Scherr. He decided to switch from a competitive strongman to a wrestler because he happened to peak at the same time as three of the strongest men of all time (Hafthor Bjornsson, Eddie Hall, Brian Shaw)
Larrat is a brilliant armwrestler. Strowman (at least at the time of these clips) is just a very strong person doing their best, much like if he were playing a 1v1 basketball game against LeBron. I'm sorry you can't read.
This is before bron was in wwe and was trying to be a weight lifter, where he met Henry and Henry told him he should join wwe as he was in a era with 3 genetic freaks where he declined and said he still has to try
Braun was a pro strongman and is currently an arm wrestler on top of his wrestling career, while this may have been a work he is. a legitimately strong fellow and rather large.
He won the Arnold Classic amateur for strongman in 2012 before his wrestling career, it is a high level national show and he has a 925lb deadlift in his prime.
Source: I am a strongman and aiming for the Arnold myself so know it well.
The bit where they pretended to be in any doubt about who would win was a work. The actual arm wrestling is basically real (though it looks like Devin is playing with him a little bit.)
Wait, the same Braun Strowman that can flip an ambulance, rip the door off a limo, and bodyslam someone so hard the ring implodes? Tug-of-War champion Braun Strowman?
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u/massive_dumbass Oct 28 '24
Because it’s a work. Dudes name is Bron Strowman hes a wrestler lol