I know that many armwrestlers already saw the videos. But the videos with English names were removed from YouTube. I found the videos with Japanese names (HD quality), and below the videos you can see some info about the athletes.
GIANT KILLING 2 – Armwrestling Tournament,
30 December 2012, Japan.
As expected by all armwrestlers, Yoshinobu Kanai was the clear winner 🙂 :
腕相撲 世界一決定戦 準々決勝～決勝 2012/12/30 (Google Translate: 2012/12/30 – Final quarterfinal playoff wrestling world)
” Bob Sapp beats Mark Hunt and Alistair Overeem in Japan, arm wrestling
A Japanese television show put together a celebrity arm wrestling tournament that included sumo wrestlers, kickboxers, Sakuraba, Alistair Overeem, Bob Sapp, Mark Hunt, Melvin Manhoef, and more.
The winner of the tournament then had to face Yoshinobu Kanai, who was the world arm wrestling champion at 176 in 1999, when he was 100 pounds lighter.
Asashoryu, 321 pounds, the most famous sumo star of the past decade, beat 182-pound rugby star Daisuke Ohata.
Koki Kameda, 116 pounds, Japan’s most famous boxer, beat 139-pound Naoya Tsukuhara, a member of the Japan’s 2004 gold medal winning gymnastics team.
Kazushi Sakuraba, 187 pounds, beat Kazuhiro Kiyohara, 45, a 250-pound former Japanese baseball star who was considered the toughest guy in baseball during his career.
Mark Hunt, 301 pounds beat sumotori Go Ei Do.
Bob Sapp beat 202-pound comedian Bobby Ologun.
334-pound sumo, Sho Ten Ro, one of the rising stars in that sport, beat a 212-pound football star, Kenzo Waku.
38-year-old sumo Kyoku Ten Ho, 6-3 ½ and 353 pounds beat Semmy Schilt, at 6-11 ½ and 292 pounds.
Overeem next beat Asashoryu which they pushed as K-1 world champion vs. Sumo grand champion.
Kameda put down Sakuraba, whose arm appeared burned out from his previous fight in what they pushed as boxing vs. pro wrestling.
Sapp next beat Hunt quickly in what they promoted as pro wrestling vs. UFC.
Sho Ten Ro beat Kyoku Ten Ho.
Overeem vs. Kameda. While Overeem won, probably easily, Kameda put up a fight and Overeem when it was over said he was shocked at how a guy that small could be that strong.
Sapp beat Sho Ten Ro.
Sapp vs. former world champion Yoshinobu Kanai was the last match. ”
For the first time since cyclist Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from elite competition by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, he sits down for a no-holds-barred interview, with Oprah. For years, he’s denied that he used banned substances to enhance his cycling performance. Will he finally come clean? Find out now.
Watch Part 2 of Oprah’s interview with Lance Armstrong on Friday, January 18, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on OWN. The interview will be simultaneously streamed LIVE worldwide on Oprah.com.
At the end of this next video, Lance Armstrong says that he was a bully with all the people who accused him of doping:
UPDATE: For me the saddest part is that Lance Armstrong abused his power and money to sue people who accused him, he was a bully like he said it:
” Allegations about Armstrong’s involvement with drugs come from at least this far back. Steve Swart, team-mate of Armstrong’s on Motorola, said that Armstrong was the central figure in encouraging riders to dope. His claims were published in two books, and Armstrong sued after their publication: He dropped one lawsuit in France, and had another dismissed, being slightly more successful when obtaining a judgement in England after a newspaper there printed an excerpt about it. But where the books were published, in France, Armstrong never had a case – it was not proven the books were lying. ”
Source:cavalierfc.tumblr.com (if you read the article, you’ll see that this started way back in the 1993 year)
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UPDATE 2: This video was made 2 days before the interview with Oprah… From here it results that Lance Armstrong was forced to admit by the evidences against him and his team, and it was already too late, he did it when he had no other option:
Lance Armstrong might return millions in sponsorship
Tue Jan 15 2013
Travis Tygart, chief executive of the U.S. Anti Doping Agency, says he’s not surprised Lance Armstrong may be moving closer to admitting performance enhancing drug use.
Vazgen Soghoyan at LA Fitness Expo Tournament 2013
Published on Jan 20, 2013
Armwrestling Tournament at Los Angeles Fitness Expo 2013. Vazgen Soghoyan wins 165 lbs and 200 lbs right hand classes, takes 2nd in 165lbs left hand class.
Vazgen Soghoyan at LA Fitness Expo Tournament 2013
John Brzenk, Richard Lupkes, Don Underwood, Devon Larratt, Ron Bath, Tom Nelson, Jerry Cadorette, Johnny “Iceman” Walker, Andrew “Cobra” Rhodes, Todd Hutchings, Allen Fisher, Cleve Dean, Krasimir Kostadinov, Tim Bresnan, Michael Todd, Christian Binnie, Marcio Barboza, Denis Cyplenkov, Dave Patton, and others are in this video:
Description: January 26, 2013 at 19:00 in the restaurant “Neva” for the first time on earth will be the Kama one of the highlights of the Russian armsportu – stage professional tournament “UralArm”
Recall that the tournament was originally started in 2007 in Yekaterinburg, and rightfully gained fame spectacular sporting event. Competitions are conducted according to the rules shestiraundovyh fights Armfight, during which he met three pairs of athletes representing the three weight categories.
Dear friends, the first pair is defined in the upcoming tournament UralArm January 26. Absolute champion of the Perm region of his left hand, Ivan Supporters will fight European champion, twice champion of Russia Yevgeny Kriulinym. The fight will take place on the left hand.
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Declare a second pair in the tournament UralArm January 26 in Perm. three-time champion of Russia among universities, the absolute champion of the Ural Federal District Alexei Akimov against the absolute champion of the Cup of the Urals, the Ural Federal District champion Zaur Paizulayeva. The fight will take place in the right hands.
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So, the third pair! Russian Champion, 4-time European champion, two-time world champion Alexander Kovalchuk ZMS against two-time champion of Russia, two-times European champion, two-time world champion Sergey Pisarkova weathering. The fight will take place in the right hands.
Russian armwrestler Evgeniy Khrychkin has just been certified on the No. 3 Captains of Crush® Gripper and as impressive as this accomplishment is, it might only mark the his first step in the grip-strength world: Evgeniy told IronMind that he closed a Captains of Crush No. 3 gripper the first time he tried it!
In terms of strength sports, Evgeniy Khrychin is primarily an armwrestler, but he had just been certified on the No. 3 Captains of Crush Gripper, establishing his world-class grip strength. IronMind® | Photo courtesy.
How’s this for talent: Evgeniy told IronMind that he’s never really trained his grip specifically, but is going to start now and the 31-year old Master of Sport in armwrestling has his eye on certifying on the Captains of Crush No. 3.5 gripper.
Evgeniy is 187 cm tall (about 6’ 1-1/2”) and weighs 105 kg (about 231 lb.). A telecommunication manager by profession, his hobbies include snowboarding, bicycling and photography, as well as armwrestling.
Once again, IronMind would like to thank IronMind’s official referee on this attempt, Alexei Ovsiannikov, and Oleg Chernov, from AerRus, for all his liaison work related to this attempt.
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