Please scroll down and read what it is written after the rankings, in order to understand how the rankings work and to see the changelog.

UPDATE (12 December 2019): The rankings were updated, considering the RESULTS: ZLOTY TUR 2019, TOP 8 VENDETTA 2019 VIDEOS. Krasimir Kostadinov moved up above Dmitry Silaev in the left hand rankings. Alex Kurdecha and Kydyrgaly Ongarbaev moved up above Rustam Babayev in the right hand rankings.

LEFT HAND: BEST ARMWRESTLERS	RIGHT HAND: BEST ARMWRESTLERS
1. Levan Saginashvili, GEO 🇬🇪	1. Levan Saginashvili, GEO 🇬🇪
2. Vitaly Laletin, RUS 🇷🇺	2. Michael Todd, USA 🇺🇸
3. Devon Larratt, CAN 🇨🇦	3. Vitaly Laletin, RUS 🇷🇺
4. Krasimir Kostadinov, BUL 🇧🇬	4. Devon Larratt, CAN 🇨🇦
5. Dmitry Silaev, RUS 🇷🇺	5. Jerry Cadorette, USA 🇺🇸
6. Travis Bagent, USA 🇺🇸	6. Dave Chaffee, USA 🇺🇸
7. Georgy Dzeranov, KAZ 🇰🇿	7. Dmitry Trubin, KAZ 🇰🇿
8. Evgeny Prudnik, UKR 🇺🇦	8. Evgeny Prudnik, UKR 🇺🇦
9. Yordan Tsonev, BUL 🇧🇬	9. Genadi Kvikvinia, GEO 🇬🇪
10. Kody Merritt, USA 🇺🇸	9. Tim Bresnan, USA 🇺🇸
11. Sasho Andreev, BUL 🇧🇬	11. Kydyrgaly Ongarbaev, KAZ 🇰🇿
12. Alex Kurdecha, POL 🇵🇱	12. Alex Kurdecha, POL 🇵🇱
13. Arif Ertem, TUR 🇹🇷	13. Rustam Babayev, UKR 🇺🇦
14. Ruslan Maltcev, RUS 🇷🇺	14. Oguzhan Kocak, TUR 🇹🇷
15. Davit Madoyan, ARM 🇦🇲	15. Yordan Tsonev, BUL 🇧🇬

How the rankings work:

These rankings are a mean of 5 different rankings (from 5 voters). Each voter makes his own rankings list. The position of each armwrestler in each list is important because it is used to make a mean.

       Current voters (26 November 2019): Josh Handeland, Kevin Wolf, Constantin Mihai, Alper Cosar, Leonardo Melo (in no particular order). Scroll down to see the conditions to become a voter.

 

We are still looking for voters, these are the conditions to become a voter in these rankings:

1. You should be following the sport of armwrestling for at least 4-5 years, and other armwrestlers should know you;

2. You should have knowledge of the results from the big armwrestling events, which change the rankings;

3. You should be accepted as voter by the current voters.

Why these new rankings ? After I saw what happened in the WORLD ARMWRESTLING RANKINGS by Votes (where many votes were… not objective), I realized two things: 1. Patriotism is not just a simple word for some voters 🙂 ; 2. The rankings should be made by armwrestlers who really follow this sport and have knowledge about it.

THESE RANKINGS ARE SUBJECTIVE. We have a chat group where voters discuss about the armwrestling events. Although all voters watch the same matches they often have very different opinions about what happened there. One example: the recent left hand matches between Oleg Zhokh vs. Andrey Pushkar – LVIV OPEN CUP 2018 – some voters believed that Pushkar didn’t do his best, they were not convinced that Oleg deserves to be no. 1 yet… There are different opinions regarding the rankings all the time, therefore I believe it is impossible to have objective rankings.

TENNIS HAS GOOD RANKINGS. In tennis there is absolutely no way to go fast at the top of the rankings. If a tennis player comes back after a break of 1 year, even if he wins a Grand Slam tournament (which means many tough matches with top players) he doesn’t become number 1. It is a very slow process, you have to compete and win a lot of matches in well ranked tournaments to get enough points, in order to get at the top of the rankings. If we would try to apply a similar points system in armwrestling then Denis Cyplenkov, who now competes only once in 2 years in Vendettas, would never enter the top 20 rankings even if he wins each time.

CONCLUSION. We only have subjective rankings, but considering that some armwrestlers don’t compete too much, making a points system in armwrestling would not look good for some top armwrestlers.

Changelog:

26 November 2019: Denis Cyplenkov was removed from the left arm rankings, because he didn’t compete for more than 1 year, see ► RESULTS: ZLOTY TUR 2018, ARMFIGHT #50 VENDETTA ALL STARS. Denis Cyplenkov didn’t compete with right arm since 22 July 2016, see ► RESULTS: ARMFIGHT #46 VENDETTA ALL STARS, LAS VEGAS, PHOTOS

The rankings were updated, considering the results of WAL 504, WAL 506, TOP 8 STAGE 2 2019, WORLDARM 2019 and other important armwrestling events which change the rankings. In the left arm rankings there is a tie: Krasimir Kostadinov and Georgy Dzeranov are both on 6th place. And in the right arm rankings there is also a tie: Genadi Kvikvinia and Tim Bresnan are both on 9th place.

26 July 2019: The rankings were updated, considering the results of WAL 504. Although it’s only one change (Devon Larratt went above Dave Chaffee in the rankings), there was an intense debate between the voters in the ARMWRESTLING RANKINGS chat group, where we discuss about rankings and events…

We even lost a voter (he left) because he strongly disagreed with King’s move and believed we shouldn’t accept the results of events where it is allowed… Even though not all voters agree with King’s move, it was agreed by the majority that we should accept the results from WAL…

Armwrestlers know what to expect when they compete in WAL events… If they agree with the rules and what is allowed there, we also have to accept the results and include them in the rankings, whether we like it or not…

01 July 2019: The rankings were updated, considering: 1. EUROARM 2019, 2. WAL 503, 3. WAL 502, 4. WAL 501

In the left arm rankings Evgeny Prudnik and Alex Kurdecha have the same number of points therefore they are both on 8th place, Oleh Danilov and Grigory Orekhov have the same number of points therefore they are both on 10th place.

In the right arm rankings Evgeny Prudnik and Devon Larratt have the same number of points therefore are both on 7th place, Rustam Babayev and Todd Hutchings have the same number of points, therefore they are both on 9th place

15 April 2019: The rankings were updated, considering: 1 RESULTS: TOP 8 VENDETTA 2019, Kuching, Malaysia │ 2. RESULTS: Russian Armwrestling Championship 2019 │3. RESULTS: WORLD ELITE ARMWRESTLING 2018

Removed (-):
1. Salavat Kadyrov – left hand – he was in the left hand rankings but he took only 3rd place with left hand at ► RESULTS: Russian Armwrestling Championship 2019
2. Giorgi Tsvetkov – right hand ► List of doping cases in Armwrestling

Added (+):
1. Grigory Orekhov – left hand – 1st place with left arm in the MEN 110 + kg ► RESULTS: Russian Armwrestling Championship 2019
2. Gadzimurad Omarov – left hand – 2nd place with left arm before Grigorii Liashchuk in the MEN 110 + kg ► RESULTS: Russian Armwrestling Championship 2019
3. Kydyrgali Ongarbaev – right hand – won the vendetta vs Alex Kurdecha ► RESULTS: TOP 8 VENDETTA 2019, Kuching, Malaysia
4. Petro Marharint – right hand – winner ► RESULTS: WORLD ELITE ARMWRESTLING 2018

01 December 2018: Unfortunately, we had to remove Andrey Pushkar and Oleg Zhokh from the rankings ► Donations for the families of Andrey Pushkar and Oleg Zhokh.

Denis Cyplenkov was added in the left hand rankings (I made a poll about this 2 months ago ► POLL: If Denis Cyplenkov wins ARMFIGHT 50, should he be included in the armwrestling rankings ?).

Levan Saginashvili is now no.1 with both arms because of what happened at WORLDARM 2018 (◄ click to see the results) and at ZLOTY TUR 2018, ARMFIGHT #50 VENDETTA ALL STARS (◄ click to see the results), 2018 MOLDOVA ARMWRESTLING OPEN CUP 2 (◄ click to see the results).

In the right arm rankings there is a tie: Michael Todd and Genadi Kvikvinia are both on 4th place. On 13th place right hand there is a bigger tie:  Revaz Lutidze, Grigorii Liashchuk and Georgi Tsvetkov are all on the same 13th place because they have the same number of points. If you want to understand why ties happen, scroll down and read below the rankings.

24 September 2018: The rankings were updated, considering what happened at  WAL 406, 2018 MOLDOVA ARMWRESTLING OPEN CUP 2, ARMFIGHT #48 Vendetta and more. Below the rankings I added the reasoning/explanations from a voter for his rankings. For the first time we have a tie: Dmitry Trubin and Andrey Pushkar have the same number of points, they both are on 2nd place in the right hand rankings. We now only show Top 15 instead of Top 20.

11 July 2018: Dmitry Trubin was removed from the left hand rankings after what happened at ZG STRONG 2018. Viacheslav Sharagovich was the first one who almost pinned Trubin with left hand, he got him tired. Next Trubin lost with Manuel Battaglia, won 2 matches and lost with Markus Liebminger – this was his last match with left hand (watch the matches here ►  ZG STRONG 2018). Viacheslav Sharagovich, Manuel Battaglia and Markus Liebminger were not in the top 20 therefore Dmitry Trubin was removed from the top 20 left hand rankings to reflect the current state of his left arm. All other armwrestlers moved one position up.

04 December 2017: The rankings were updated, considering what happened at ARMFIGHT #48 Vendetta and at Zloty Tur 2017, See ► RESULTS: ARMFIGHT #48 VENDETTA ALL STARS and ► RESULTS: Zloty Tur 2017 World Cup

03 July 2018: THE RANKINGS WERE UPDATED CONSIDERING WHAT HAPPENED AT EuroArm 2018, LVIV OPEN CUP 2018, WAL events and in other armwrestling events. Ermes Gasparini was removed because he didn’t compete for more than 1 year. Other armwrestlers were removed and some were added.

21 September 2017: The rankings were updated considering what happened at WorldArm 2017, See ► RESULTS: WORLDARM 2017: 39th World Armwrestling Championships 2017 (WAF). This time only 4 voters voted, therefore some changes were made all over the rankings.

25 July 2017: Denis Cyplenkov was removed from the right hand rankings, because he competed last time on 22 July 2016 ► RESULTS: ARMFIGHT #46 VENDETTA ALL STARS, LAS VEGAS, PHOTOS

All armwrestlers who were below Cyplenkov moved one place up. We only show top 20, but the voters vote using a bigger list of armwrestlers.

09 July 2017: The rankings were updated considering what happened at WAL 2017 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS and at ZG STRONG 2017 WORLD ARMWRESTLING CUP.

02 June 2017: New additions: Sasho Andreev, Evgeny Prudnik – left hand; Vitaly Laletin, Sasho Andreev, Evgeny Prudnik – right hand. Some armwrestlers were removed because they didn’t compete for more than 1 year.

10 April 2017: We have 3 new voters: Giorgi Chochia (Georgia), Constantin Mihai (Romania), Ryan Bowen (Australia). Side by side rankings from all the voters (in no particular order) were added.

26 July 2016: Denis Cyplenkov was added to the rankings and other changes were made in the right hand rankings considering the RESULTS: ARMFIGHT #46 VENDETTA ALL STARS, LAS VEGAS, PHOTOS. We have a new voter: Alejandro De Gyves – he is pulling for about 20 years, and he makes the rankings in Mexico.

01 July 2016: In these rankings was taken into consideration the fact that Travis Bagent won over Dave Chaffee (right hand) at WAL Las Vegas 2016 finals.

These rankings will be updated often – after any armwrestling event which change the rankings.

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Other rankings / ratings you should check out:

 

1. Engin Terzi’s rankings ► PAL RANKING

 

2. ► Armwrestling Rating List by Oleg Stepanov

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