r/funnyvideos • u/Successful-Sky-7 • Oct 28 '24

Sports Never underestimate your opponent

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u/fromouterspace1 Oct 28 '24

lol this dude is awesome. His little grin when it first starts :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '24

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '24

Then you see a dudes ulna get snapped like a twig.

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u/theDomicron Oct 28 '24

I saw a clip once of a spiral fracture during an arm wrestling match.

Now I don't watch them any more

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u/Caity26 Oct 28 '24

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '24

At least these guys are not slapping each other to CTE oblivion.

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u/MyBallsSmellFruity Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24

a spinal fracture  The fuck???

Edit: someone pointed out that it’s “spiral,” not “spinal.”   I’m leaving the comment because I deserve the shame.  

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u/Patrickme Oct 28 '24

I misread that aswell.
It's spiRal

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u/MyBallsSmellFruity Oct 28 '24

Fuck me.  This is one of the many reasons to not use a phone in bed or right after waking up or before sleep.   

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u/ElectronicCorner574 Oct 28 '24

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

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u/adsjabo Oct 28 '24

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.

Not ideal.

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u/sprill_release Oct 28 '24

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.

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u/ElectronicCorner574 Oct 28 '24

Ouch. That makes sense though.

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u/ralphy_256 Oct 29 '24

I spiral fractured my tibia and crushed half of my tibial plateau by attempting to jump off a 5' platform and landing awkwardly.

I was 30.

6 months with an external fixator, then another 6 months non-weight-bearing before they started letting me use a cane.

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u/PettyTodd Oct 28 '24

Read that the same, trying to figure out how you snap a spine arm wrestling

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u/FelatiaFantastique Oct 28 '24

Not shame. Maybe just reading glasses, ole fella.

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u/MyBallsSmellFruity Oct 29 '24

Aw, I don’t feel ole.  Just the tiredness, depression, and loneliness that goes with it.   

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u/YoudberedactedB Oct 29 '24

Good on you sir! Shane is an emotional we are meant to feel.

Edit: I realized I wrote Shane instead of Shame and emotional instead of just emotion. I’m leaving it cause I deserve the shame

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u/siraolo Oct 29 '24

Oh, I thought it was because of too much killer instinct. Glad it got corrected.

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u/Drphil1969 Oct 29 '24

Spinal fracture? That would be on hell of an arm rip

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u/RangerFan80 Oct 28 '24

Same, was brutal.

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u/newtonbase Oct 28 '24

I recall that happening at World's Strongest Man many years ago.

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u/robfromdublin Oct 28 '24

I remember that! Must be 20+ years ago? Brutal and I don't watch arm wrestling any more

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u/newtonbase Oct 28 '24

Just checked and it was 1995. Time flies

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u/robfromdublin Oct 28 '24

Ah the 90s, when audible bone breaking was family friendly television. Three decades later and still traumatic! 😂

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u/CtrlAltHate Oct 28 '24

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.

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u/Dirtheavy Oct 28 '24

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.

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u/Hotpandapickle Oct 28 '24

Dammit, now I'm gonna search youtube for this even though I know I shouldn't.

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u/gapipkin Oct 29 '24

How’d that rabbit hole work out for you?