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John Brzenk on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio (AWNR)

INTERVIEW: John Brzenk on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio, 22 June 2015

I wrote about some key topics, but you should really listen to the great radio show posted below. You can also download it using the link I posted below the blogtalkradio audio player.
In the beginning of the show , Alper Cosar and talk about about , .
16:23 Talk about armwrestling training / training methods compared to “ToddZilla” , nutrition / diet before an armwrestling competition.
30:07 Talk about steroids use and abuse, doping, drug testing. John said he didn’t know anything about steroids until his early 40’s. After that, he has been prescribed some drug by his doctor. He never felt the need to look into doping, and always gave a laugh when people said: you can’t be competitive as armwrestler unless you are juiced up and taking steroids. He had a laugh because he did it (being competitive without taking steroids) for 25 years, he knows it can be done, it is not a necessity to be a good armwrestler.
32:50 Alper Cosar asked John if he sees a correlation between the domination of the Eastern European armwrestlers (of the lower weight classes) and steroid abuse. John replied he believes there are more people interested in armwrestling in Europe right now than are interested in the sport in USA. Most of the good armwrestlers in USA are still the old timers. It is a new sport in Russia, where it was introduced just 20 years ago. John refuses to believe that they have a magic pill.
34:15 Craig Soubliere asked John if he will compete in Nemiroff 2015 / Zloty Tur 2015 this year. John replied that he has no plans to participate in anything associated with PAL. That is because PAL was appalling when John decided to sign with UAL, although John tried very hard to work with both sides UAL / PAL, and make them understand he can do both.
35:21 Craig asked if he will go to . John confirmed that he will go to A1 this year because he had a great time last year. As long as John doesn’t hurt himself at WAL, he is looking forward to at least have a better match with one of the top guys at A1. He feels really good right handed, his shoulder is getting a little better than last year. John said he is looking forward to see a match between and , because they both have very good hand control and they are very strong.
51:35 Alper asked John if he wants a rematch with and . John said he expects to be across the table with Devon in about 2 weeks (at WAL on JULY 4TH 2015 – LAS VEGAS, NEVADA) and he is excited about that. Alexey might be passed his abilities, but he might surprise him because he is a much better armwrestler than he was in 2004 during the making of Pulling John.
John also talks about how he started armwrestling, his brother Bill Brzenk, other hobbies and many other topics, enjoy the show:

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Todd Hutchings and Brandon Dye on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio - 25 August 2014

INTERVIEWS: Todd Hutchings and Brandon Dye on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio │ 25 August 2014

In the beginning of the show,  talks with  who broke his humerus bone via spiral fracture in 2012 and severely injured his radial nerve. If you want to follow Brandon Dye’s arm break and recovery story read these topics from northeastboard: Military Forced Retirement (14 May 2012), Help-Radial Nerve Palsy (30 May 2012), Broke Arm Update (10 July 2012), 2013 IM BACK! (3 January 2013).

Starting at 12:15, “Toddzilla”  enters the show. He talks about  and about the rehab after a tournament.

Because he competed in both, Toddzilla explains what are the differences between  and .

From 24:00 Toddzilla talks about how he started armwrestling and about his background in armwrestling. He started armwrestling in Michigan with  and Frank Bean’s organization . He then spent about a year pulling local bars, local armwrestling tournaments all for trophies and such. And after about a year he got his first taste of what a truly national level puller feels like, when he pulled both  and  in a tournament. Back then his only goal in his life was just to win the Michigan State Championships. James Horne won like 6 classes then and Bill Ballinger won the rest of them, nobody was touching these guys.

Then Todd lost his job, he worked in the automotive industry, and he went to South Carolina for 10 years, and then he started touching the national level pullers and the world level pullers. There was an actual camp that had a dedicated training philosophy, the philosophy that no one else had, it was their own, it was South Carolina style practice and there he learned a lot.

After South Carolina, he spent 5 years in Utah with ,  and  and other armwrestlers from Utah. And according to Toddzilla the most amazing thing about Utah is that even in some small tournaments for people who pull once a year, everybody knows who to armwrestle, to toproll, hook, press.  are there in Utah a lot of really good guys are there, just hovering, according to Todd Hutchings it’s easy to get up to the national level capability in about 5 years, but to make that jump up to the world level, that 5-6% takes years to develop and you never know when it’s gonna happen. There are a lot of armwrestlers in Utah ready to do that.

Now he lost his job again, and he is in Arizona (with a new job),  came there also and they train at ‘s house. According to Toddzilla  has to talk with Eric Wolfe on his Arm Wrestling Nation Radio, because Eric has a garage if anybody ever conceived, thought of, mentioned, drawn or yet to have thought of an armwrestling training contraption machine or device Eric has it. 🙂

From 28:10 Toddzilla talks about his training off the table, because John Brzenk and other armwrestlers are 3,5-4 hours driving away from him in Arizona. His training strategies didn’t really change in his last 14 years. When  started armwrestling after his records from powerlifting, Toddzilla connected with him on linkedin, “which is facebook for nerds” – Toddzilla’s words. 🙂

I wrote only about a small part of the show, there are many other interesting topics, please listen to the recorded show below.

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Travis Bagent on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio - 18 August 2014

INTERVIEWS: Devon Larratt, Andrew “Cobra” Rhodes, Craig Tullier, Allen Fisher on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio │ 19 August 2014

 talks about the reasons he joined . Devon also believes in  – WAL Founder & President, he believes that Steve will gonna make magical things happen in the sport.

Devon also talks about the new format of WAL, which will be tested at . In this new tournament format if you ever duck / lay down, or lose a match you will fight for 3rd and 4th place. There will be 2 pools which will gonna be seeded, the brackets will be seeded by . The 2 pools will be played in the standard double elimination tournament in which you will progress until you got into the semifinal. There you will get 2 guys that are undefeated in each pool on the – A side, and they will have a supermatch from which it will be determined the 1st and the 2nd place.  The armwrestlers from each pool who lost a match but they got to the semifinal in – B side, they will have a supermatch for the 3rd and 4th place.

Devon Larratt talks about his right arm. His right arm is stronger now than he was at WAL Las Vegas, but Devon expects it will be 2 more years until before he can say he is 100%, and he will not remember having surgery. But he is now fully willing to commit 100% to armwrestling as hard as he can in a tournament or in a supermatch, he is past the point where he fears re-injuring himself. He still has some spots where he is not fully comfortable and balanced, but he will get there and it will come a day when he will be again the best armwrestler in the world right handed.

Next Devon talks about VIDEO: Devon Larratt vs. Christian Binnie, +226 lbs LEFT FINAL │ WAL Las Vegas. He considers  3rd top armwrestler in North America after him and .

 asked Devon about his decision to enter the 225 lbs class at . Devon explains that for the last 15 years he ate as much as he could all the time, because he wanted to be as massive and strong as possible. He ate even more before a tournament, he wanted to stop, but he pushed himself. He normally weighs 235 lbs, and after WAL Las Vegas he started eating but not to a point where his guts are ripping apart. Devon made a joke about his wife  having a thing for , because she started to eat raw food and no meat like him. 🙂

Devon still eats meat when he goes out, but in the house they eat raw vegetables all the time, and the weight flew out of him. During this interview Devon said he is already 225 lbs and he noticed no impact on the strength.

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 is the next invite in the show, starting from 25:43 in the recording below. He talks about  being the second time tournament director for WAL with . Cobra also talks about the TV deal with a big network that will hopefully come out in December 2014 for the .

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The next invite to the show is  starting at 35:23 in the recording below.

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 is the next invite in the show, starting from 46:55 in the recording below.

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Please listen to all the recorded show below:

Part 2 of the WAL Crew
Cobra, Craig Tullier, Allen Fisher and Devon Larratt will all be on the show tonight….

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Travis Bagent on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio - 18 August 2014

INTERVIEW: Travis Bagent on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio │ 18 August 2014

 talks about , where Travis will be the tournament director, and about the new format that will be tried out in Chicago.

There are 3 top level athletes that have big changes to win their classes:

We also find out from Travis that  – the CEO and founder of  turned out TV deals that seemed amazing for Travis, but the fact is that Steve is in for the right TV deal for WAL, he is working super hard at it and it’s only a matter of time before there will be announced the entire ramification for the 2015 year.

Craig Soubliere asked Travis if the one match (out of 5) he lost with Chop at VIDEOS: Travis Bagent vs. Matt “Chop” Bertrand │16 August 2014 was for real or if it was acting. Travis said that it was for real because Chop is the second best armwrestler in North America, he can beat  and anyone else in North America except for Travis Bagent. 🙂

For the ones asking if Travis Bagent is acting, Travis said that he is acting everyday of his life, he is acting like him. 🙂

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Devon Larratt on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 14 March 2014

INTERVIEW: Devon Larratt on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio │ 14 March 2014

Devon Larratt talks about the 2014 Australian Tour, armwrestling training, rehab after injury, tendonitis and other armwrestling topics.

Devon said he is learning to armwrestle all over again with his right arm, because he is still recovering after the injury and the surgery he had at the right elbow. His right arm doesn’t feel like it is the same arm it was before, at practice other armwrestlers told him his arm feels like Swiss cheese – “it definitely has some holes, but there’s still some cheese there” :). He still has a lot of mental barriers that he has to break down for the right arm. He believes it will be a time span of years until he will be able to say his right arm it is where it was before (2010 or so). But Devon doesn’t plan to stop pulling, and he imagines that his right arm will evolve into a different thing, something good.

Devon Larratt said his left arm feels Mega, the left arm never ever felt better in his entire armwrestling career. He calls it the “new right”. He wants to pull an event with his left arm. He wants to pull (left arm) Denis Cyplenkov, Christian Binnie, Wagner Bortolato. Devon asked any promoter to call him if he wants to set it up.

Devon says he loves Game of Arms, and the fact that the show will make people (non-armwrestlers) like armwrestling as they fall in love with the storyline. And only after that people will be ready to be introduced to big armwrestling leagues like UAL – Ultimate Armwrestling LeagueARM WARSPAL – Professional Armwrestling League.

Craig Soubliere asked Devon if something even came close to anything with a big armwrestling league. Devon replied that he doesn’t want to be restricted at this time, and this is why he hesitated to sign with Robert Drenk and Bill Collins from the UAL – Ultimate Armwrestling League, although he loves what they are doing. Devon said he tried to get Denis Cyplenkov with the help of Neil Pickup from ARM WARS, or with the help of PAL – Professional Armwrestling League, but it didn’t work out yet.

Devon said that although there is a lot of talk about the Top 16 tournament, his honest opinion is that he doesn’t even feel that it will happen.

Devon said he doesn’t have anything 100% concrete planned yet, but admitted it his fault as well because he is hard to be nailed down sometimes. To forget the frustration of not being able to get on a major armwrestling event, he tries to stay focused on the reason he came into this sport: because he enjoys armwrestling, he didn’t came to be paid, he didn’t came to be famous. He is cool with pooling into his garage until 75, if there’s all it is. 🙂 But he certainly want to do more.

Next Devon talks about the Ottawa High Hookers – which became a very strong armwrestling team has became and the fact that some of them will have Super Matches at 2014 MIKE GOULD CLASSIC.

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Neil Pickup, Jake Smith, Jamie Sheldon

INTERVIEWS: Neil Pickup, Jake Smith, Jamie Sheldon on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 20 │ 29 September 2013

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Episode # 20

On Arm Wrestling Nation Radio this Sunday Sept 29th at 8 pm E.S.T my guest will be Neil Pickup live from Vegas at Arm Wars. UAL puller’s Jake Smith and Jamie Sheldon will also be joining me for this jammed packed show.

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INTERVIEWS Justin Bishop and Ron Bath on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 19 - 22 September 2013

INTERVIEWS: Robert Drenk, Ron Bath and Justin Bishop on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 19 │ 22 September 2013

Justin Bishop and Ron Bath on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 19 - 22 September 2013
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Starting from 15:10,  enters the show as a special guest and talks about the big plans of the , telling that it will be mind-blowing. Robert Drenk also explains what UAL signed pullers can do, and talks about the affiliated organizations.
Starting from 28:14,  enters the show and talks about regaining his motivation after singing with the UAL. Ron says he respects , and maybe he would try another supermatch with him. Next he talks about how he started armwrestling. Short discussion about NUTRITION. One of his all time favorites is , interesting story about him, and about how Ron started armwrestling. Ron would like a rematch with , because he had 220 lb. (100 kg) when he lost to him, and now he weighs 235 lb. (106.5 kg).
Starting from 60:00,  enters the show. Discussion about the impression he made at  asked him how does it feel to be no. 4 in the WORLD ARMWRESTLING RANKINGS. They talk about his matches with . Justin tells his story, how he started armwrestling and how he trains now.
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Episode 19

On Arm Wrestling Nation Radio this Sunday Sept 22nd at 8 pm E.S.T my guest will be Justin Bishop and  Ron Bath. 

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Rob Vigeant Jr. and Bob Brown on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 18

INTERVIEWS: Rob Vigeant Jr. and Bob Brown on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 18 │ 15 September 2013

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EPISODE #18

On Arm Wrestling Nation Radio this Sunday Sept 15 at 8 pm E.S.T my guest will be Rob Vigeant jr and World Champion Bob Brown

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This year,  won a bronze and gold medal at the :
MASTER MEN LEFT 80 KG MASTER MEN RIGHT 80 KG
1. POWERS KEITH. USA 1. BROWN BOB. USA
2. ONDER DURSUN. TURKEY 2. ANDREY MALAKHOV. RUSSIA
3. BROWN BOB. USA 3. NAKIELSKI JAKUB. SWITZERLAND
4. HEUSE OLIVIER. BELGIUM 4. BOYRAZ YILMAZ. TURKEY
5. PEDRO GARCIA D L TORRE JUAN. SPAIN 5. SQUIRE GORD. CANADA
6. NISHIOKA KIYOTAKA. JAPAN 6. FAULCONER CLAYTON. CANADA
7. BACK STAFFAN. SWEDEN 7. ERMANNO MARANGON. ITALY
8. CEDERLOF FREDRIC. SWEDEN 8. SABADOTTO FLAVIO. ITALY
9. FAULCONER CLAYTON. CANADA 9. HEUSE OLIVIER. BELGIUM
10. SQUIRE GORD. CANADA 10. BACK STAFFAN. SWEDEN
11. BOYRAZ YILMAZ. TURKEY 11. OLEG TRISHKIN. RUSSIA
12. NAKIELSKI JAKUB. SWITZERLAND 12. CEDERLOF FREDRIC. SWEDEN
13. OLEG TRISHKIN. RUSSIA 13. AKAN BINALI. TURKEY
14. SABADOTTO FLAVIO. ITALY 14. PEDRO GARCIA D L TORRE JUAN. SPAIN
15. ITO KAZUYA. JAPAN 15. COLOM GREGORY. FRANCE
16. MITCHELL PAUL. UNITED KINGDOM 16. NISHIOKA KIYOTAKA. JAPAN
17. GIRARD PASCAL. SWITZERLAND 17. ITO KAZUYA. JAPAN
18. MITCHELL PAUL. UNITED KINGDOM
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Dave Chaffee - Triple Crown winner 2012

INTERVIEW: Dave Chaffee on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 17 │ 13 September 2013

Dave Chaffee - Triple Crown winner 2012 │ Photo Source: Heather Chaffee
Dave Chaffee – Triple Crown winner 2012 │ Photo Source: Heather Chaffee
From 25:00 in the show, Dave Chaffee announced that he will be attending , because he was contacted by  who made him an offer that he couldn’t refuse. Dave Chaffee wants to get his revenge from  because of what happened at Arnold Classic 2011 (see the video below). Dave also wants to beat many other great armwrestlers: .
From 31:30 Dave says that most of his career his weight was about 250 – 255 lb. (113 – 116kg), and sometimes would cut to 242 lb. (110kg). But right now, training for , he is 270 – 275 lb.  (122 – 125kg) – as strong as he’s ever been. He will try to keep this weight, maybe even gain some few pounds. He feels pretty good at this weight.
Dave Chaffee is a prison guard, he works at Erie County Prison.
From North America, Dave Chaffee wants to pull  and .

EPISODE #17

Special Edition of Arm Wrestling Nation Radio this Friday Sept 13 at 5pm E.S.T my guest will be Dave Chaffee.

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Denis Cyplenkov – Dave Chaffee semi final Arnold Classic 2011

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Allen Ford - Marcio Barboza

INTERVIEWS: Allen Ford, Marcio Barboza on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 16 │08 September 2013

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EPISODE #16

On Arm Wrestling Nation Radio this Sunday Sept 8 at 8pm E.S.T my guest will be Allen Ford and Marcio Barboza.

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” EPISODE #16

On Arm Wrestling Nation Radio Sunday night my guests were Allen Ford and Marcio Barboza It was great show and both guys had great stories to shared it’s really amazing what both of these two have been through to get to where they are today in this sport of arm wrestling.
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Marcio Barboza was contracted by The UAL, see ► The UAL contracted athletes – The names of the armwrestlers │31 August 2013 ◄