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INFO: Dave Chaffee Arms Classic II, 13 August 2016
Dave Chaffee vs. Travis Bagent
Tim Bresnan vs. Marcio Barboza
Ryan Clark vs. Quinlan Mendez
Max Maxwell vs. Craig Soubliere
Bart Wood vs. Adis Turcinhodzic
Darryl Baideme vs. Mike Dawson
Storm Chellino vs. Bill Runkle
Fred Dedrick vs. Jason Darienzo
Date: 13 August at 12:00–20:00 in EDT
Location: Presque Isle Downs & Casino – Show Map
8199 Perry Hwy, Erie, Pennsylvania 16509
Don’t miss the highly anticipated return of one of the most elite arm wrestling events in the country, The Dave Chaffee Arms Classic II. This summer’s event will be even BIGGER & BADDER than the first! We are bringing in the TOP pullers in the country and are putting them head to head to find out who the BEST really are! On top of the 8 SUPER MATCHES we are having one of the BIGGEST Pro Tournaments in the country featuring CASH PAYOUTS of $300, $150 and $50 for 1st through 3rd place finishers and an amateur tournament with 1st through 3rd places finishers will be bringing home some BAD ASS hard ware. We aren’t stopping there! The PRO Tournament would not be complete without a KING OF THE TABLE Tournament to see who the king really is! That is right once the Pros are done we are going to put all the class winners head to head in a winner takes all tournament to see who the KING OF THE TABLE really is!
So who wants the CASH, The HARD WARE, The CHAMPIONSHIPS BELT???
Dave Chaffee Arms Classic II Competition Details:
Entry Fee – $35 each arm – All Classes
Pro and Amateur Arm Wrestling Tournament Classes and Awards
Pro Right and Left Hand Classes and Payouts
** 1st place – $300, 2nd – $150, 3rd – $50 for each class**
Light Weight: 0 – 165lbs
Middle Weight: 166lbs – 195lbs
Heavy Weight: 196lbs – 225lbs
Super Heavy Weight: 226lbs +
Amateur Classes both left and right hand
**1st – 3rd place finishers receive serious hard ware to bring home!**
Light Weight: 0 – 165lbs
Middle Weight: 166lbs – 200lbs
Heavy Weight: 201lbs +
Womens Pro
**1st Place pay out $100**
**1st – 3rd Place finishers receive seriouis hard ware**
Light Weight: 0 – 135lbs
Middle Weight: 136lbs +
**King of the Table Winner will earn the coveted
Dave Chaffee Arms Classic Championship Belt**
Check ins:
Friday Night
Real Training and Fitness 6-8pm
– 1596 west 38th st Erie PA 16508
Saturday morning
Presque Isle Downs 10-11:30am
– 8199 Perry Hwy, Erie PA 16509
Amateur Arm Wrestling Tourney starts at noon!
Super Matches at 6 pm!
$2 entry fee for adults. Proceeds to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation! Kids 12 under are free!
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 Craig Soubliere, Alper Cosar and John Brzenk talk about about WAL – World Armwrestling League, Game of Arms.
16:23 Talk about armwrestling training / training methods compared to “ToddZilla” Todd Hutchings, 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 A1 Russian Open 2015. 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 Andrey Pushkar and Dave Chaffee, because they both have very good hand control and they are very strong.
51:35 Alper asked John if he wants a rematch with Devon Larratt and Alexey Voevoda. 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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VIDEOS: 2014 Call For a Brawl – Travis Bagent Armwrestling Tournament
UPDATE: According to Artem Taranenko who was at the event, the armwrestling sparring between Travis Bagent and Chris Chandler took place before the tournament. New videos from Artem Taranenko were added to this article.
Click ► Chris Chandler vs. Karl Stanley ◄ Click
2014 Call For a Brawl – Travis Bagent Armwrestling Tournament!
Travis Bagent 101 on Armwrestling Rules
Source: BeastAesthetics
Click ► Travis Bagent vs. Chris Chandler ◄ Click
Chris Chandler Armwrestling Travis Bagent
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Call for a Brawl,Dec 6
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Me [Artem Taranenko]
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Call for a Brawl,after pulling
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Source: Артем Арэсов
I believe this short armwrestling sparring between Travis Bagent and Chris Chandler took place after before the tournament was over.
UPDATE: According to Artem Taranenko who was at the event, the armwrestling sparring between Travis Bagent and Chris Chandler took place before the tournament.
New videos from Artem Taranenko were added to this article.
Someone asked on youtube why Travis Bagent didn’t compete and the answer came from phillip van deusen: ” he hurt his Rotator cuff 2 days ago Arm-wrestling training “
Brandon Morris ► northeastboard: Dec 6, 2014 – Travis Bagents – Call For A Brawl
Travis Bagents Call for a Brawl
December 6, 2014
Fishlips Waterfront Bar and Grill
610 Glenn Cheek Drive
Cape Canaveral, Florida 32920
Pro & Am
165, 195, 225, 225+
Right and Left
Weigh-ins will be held from 12-4 @
Puzzle Box Academy
450E Merritt Island Causeway
Merritt Island, Fl 32953Come on out and pull with the Beast himself.
If you have any questions text Brandon @
407-431-8780
Click ► Travis Bagent vs. Chris Chandler ◄ Click
INTERVIEWS: Todd Hutchings and Brandon Dye on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio │ 25 August 2014
In the beginning of the show, Craig Soubliere talks with Brandon Dye 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” Todd Hutchings enters the show. He talks about A1 Russian Open 2014, UAL 8 – Ultimate Armwrestling League, WAL Chicago – 23 August 2014 and about the rehab after a tournament.
Because he competed in both, Toddzilla explains what are the differences between UAL – Ultimate Armwrestling League and WAL – World Armwrestling League.
From 24:00 Toddzilla talks about how he started armwrestling and about his background in armwrestling. He started armwrestling in Michigan with Karen Bean and Frank Bean’s organization AAA – American Armsport Association. 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 Bill Ballinger and James Horne 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 John Brzenk, Bob Brown and Kevin Bongard 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. Jordan Sill, Justin Green 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), John Brzenk came there also and they train at Eric Wolfe‘s house. According to Toddzilla Craig Soubliere 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 Shawn Lattimer 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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INTERVIEWS: Devon Larratt, Andrew “Cobra” Rhodes, Craig Tullier, Allen Fisher on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio │ 19 August 2014
Devon Larratt talks about the reasons he joined WAL – World Armwrestling League. Devon also believes in Steve Kaplan – 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 WAL Chicago – 23 August 2014. 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 Josh Handeland. 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 Christian Binnie 3rd top armwrestler in North America after him and Travis Bagent.
Craig Soubliere asked Devon about his decision to enter the 225 lbs class at WAL Chicago – 23 August 2014. 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 Jodi Wood Larratt having a thing for Alexey Voevoda, 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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Andrew “Cobra” Rhodes is the next invite in the show, starting from 25:43 in the recording below. He talks about Travis Bagent being the second time tournament director for WAL with WAL Chicago – 23 August 2014. Cobra also talks about the TV deal with a big network that will hopefully come out in December 2014 for the WAL – World Armwrestling League.
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The next invite to the show is Craig Tullier starting at 35:23 in the recording below.
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Allen Fisher 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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INTERVIEW: Travis Bagent on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio │ 18 August 2014
Travis Bagent talks about WAL Chicago – 23 August 2014, 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:
- 1. Dave Chaffee will compete and probably win the +226 lbs class;
- 2. Devon Larratt will compete in the -225 lbs class (he is currently ~227 lbs, and there are 47 competitors right now in that class);
- 3. Todd Hutchings will compete in the -195 lbs class.
- In the -165 lbs class there will be fighting for the no. 1 spot: Allen Fisher, Geoff “The HaleRaiser” Hale, Janis Amolins, Ethan Fritsche, Luke Kindt.
We also find out from Travis that Steve Kaplan – the CEO and founder of WAL – World Armwrestling League 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 Devon Larratt, Christian Binnie, Craig Soubliere 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. 🙂
This Monday Night’s guest is Travis Bagent and The WAL commission
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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 League, ARM WARS, PAL – 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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RESULTS: UAL 6
Craigand Sara Soubliere – facebook: ” Gold and Silver in my last AM class at UAL 6 today. Didn’t do as good as I wanted to in the Pro class but it was a great experience pulling in 4 classes today. It was great seeing everyone again and great meeting some new friends. I can’t tell you how much I love this sport and how honored and excited I’m to be apart of it. I’m so focused and pumped up to be back to training and I’m going to work even hard to make improvements but for now I’m just going to soak up this whole experience.”
All the results will be added here.
Results for the Super Matches
Marcio Barboza 2 : 1 Richard Lupkes
Rob Vigeant (RVJ) 3 : 2 Brent Rakers
Corey Miller 5 : 0 Jamie Sheldon
Ron Bath 2 : 1 Chris Chandler
Ryan Clark 2 : 1 Michael Vaz
Kevin Bongard 3 : 0 Bill Sinks
Michelle Smart 4 : 1 Tamara Mitts
Source: Spencer Wood ► Armwrestling John – Engin
All the results will be added here.
Marcio Barboza – facebook: ” I won my ultimate matchup against Richard Lupkes at the UAL 6 I want to thank God my family all my friends that pray for me specially my wife. …
Thanks lov u all…. “
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Source ► Jeff Janes – facebook: ” Craigand Sara Soubliere vs. JeffandAndrea Janes. First two pulls I had hand control and he fouled giving me the win. Ref grip, slipped, then straps. As I rotated his hand I dropped and got fouled for “shoulder below in losing position” (lame because I wasn’t trying to hang in a kings move, I was rotating his wrist in a continual motion that was only stopped by the ref even though I saw it several times yesterday) Last go I was gassed and not ready and Craig got the best of me. Until next time. 😉 “
INTERVIEWS: Neil Pickup, Jake Smith, Jamie Sheldon on Arm Wrestling Nation Radio 20 │ 29 September 2013
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.