I’m glad Thor stopped at 501; he’s right, there was no point, just the potential for injury and/or derailing his training for WSM later in the year.
Thor showed he could do more. Save it for the next WUS/Rogue sponsored competition; bank another 100K LOL.
“I just care about the sport”
“It could open Pandora’s box”
“When will these garage records end??”
“Thor’s an asshole”
“Eddie’s an asshole”
Eddie’s a talker, but he definitely puts himself out there.
The event got canceled, but apparently Eddie was scheduled to take on this guy in a WAL armwrestling event:
Devon Laratt, one of the all time greats, basically very nicely and in a roundabout way (he’s Canadian lol) said that Eddie got in over his head, and that he would hope RVJ would beat Eddie w/o breaking his arm (a la the famous Magnusson strongman victory over the crazy giant dude). (You have to read between the lines a little.)
DAMN.
that is all.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why so many strongmen grow up to become pro-wrestlers.
There’s a video somewhere or Thor arm wrestling Devon and Devon wins pretty easy. Doubt Eddie would fair better.
Nathan “Megaman” Jones. Roughly the height and weight of Thor IIRC, but probably a little lighter.
Devon basically let Thor know that Thor was unable to move Devon’s arm at all. Then he let Thor go. Apparently (I’m just parroting these armwrestlers, I’ve never done it) you get into positions in a match where your arm can get broken -then you either shift to a possibly lesser position, or you “give up” and lose. Amateur armwrestlers w/o the experience don’t know this, and it’s up to the pro armwrestler to win “easy”, or just keep going the same way and break the guy’s arm.
That’s what Magnus Magnusson (a former armwrestler) did to Nate Jones in the heat of the competition, and Magnus knew he should’ve known better, which is why he apologized.
Magnus Samuelsson actually. Who was 6’-5 or so himself. He didn’t want to break the arm, but Jones just pushed through. Not a good event to mix pro’s and guys that have never wresteld past a bar with their buddies.
Thanks for the correction. And I watched that “live” too, duh.
Everybody’s name seemed to Magnus for a while. I know Magnue ver Magnussen, I never met Samuelsson (But by all acounts he was a dick starting the day he managed to win WSM in a field of guys with food poisoning from the hotel)
Going totally off topic, but this guy definitely deserves the exposure; plus, Arnold’s in it!:
Regardless congrats to Thor. He made that look easy. Didn’t even need carted off to avoid the rest of the competition either 
It’s weird seeing Larratt be famous in the states now as I grew up during the Brzenk era where he was the golden standard here.
Granted I don’t watch “traditional” sports so my ideas might be a tad skewed, but nonetheless.
Another aside, can anyone please explain to me how pulling a WR deadlift out of competition hurts the sport but doing a celebrity boxing match (where neither athlete has reason to be boxing in the first place) doesn’t hurt either sport at all?
Its currently trending top 10 on twitter GLOBALLY, -IMO thats good for all strength sports
400 pound dudes who don’t know how to fight punching each other? What could possibly go wrong?
Here’s a fun documentary about pro-wrestlers dropping the key fob and throwing down.
You take that back! Hawaiian pizza is the best!
Kalle Beck has a good suggestion for the winner to fight Pudzinowski. I like this idea.
