For the arcade game, see Arm Wrestling (video game).
Arm wrestling
Two people with their arms in a starting position, elbows down with hands locked together
Players
2
Skills
Strength, endurance, technique, resistance
Arm wrestling (also spelled armwrestling) is a sport with two opponents who face each other with their bent elbows placed on a table and hands firmly gripped, who then attempt to force the opponent's hand down to the table top ("pin" them). The sport is often casually used to demonstrate the stronger person between two or more people. Arm wrestling is an ancient sport that was revived in the 1950s in the United States. In September 1962, the first world wrestling championship was held in Petaluma, California, as this wrestling was called (literally, “wrist wrestling”).
In the early years[when?] other names were used to describe the same sport, including arm turning, arm twisting, twisting wrists, wrist turning and wrist wrestling.
wrestling with the arms or images of wrestling with the hands or of dancing for armwrestling). Modern-day practices and depictions of armwrestling have...
in armwrestling began as an early teenager. Larratt's first opponent was his grandmother, a farmworker, who claimed to be "the best arm-wrestling woman...
mid-teens. With kettlebell lifting's decline, Denis transitioned to armwrestling under coach Moiseyev. This new path led him to junior championships...
widely regarded as the strongest arm-wrestler in history. After winning the 2013 World Police and Fire Games arm-wrestling gold medal in Belfast, he was...
Larratt in 2008, both of whom are considered legendary armwrestlers. Aside from armwrestling, John works as a mechanic at Delta Air Lines. He says the...
elbow in an arm wrestling match and stopped competing. In 2012, at the age of 48, he returned to the sport, wrestling only with his left arm and becoming...
World Armwrestling Championships is the main armwrestling championship in the World. It is organized by the World Armwrestling Federation, founded in...
2011) was an American farmer and armwrestler. Times, Dean PolingThe Valdosta Daily (May 11, 2011). "Arm-wrestling legend Cleve Dean passes". Valdosta...
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competitions. Wrestler AJ Styles uses this as a submission finisher move, calling it the Calf Killer in New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Impact Wrestling and the...
the Nebraska vs. Illinois football game, Whitney was challenged to an armwrestling match by an Army veteran and Nebraska Army National Guard member, John...
become an athlete. In 2003, Pushkar won in the heavyweight division of armwrestling competition where he took his first world championship medal. On November...
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this wrestling was called (literally, “wrist wrestling”). Armwrestling is a popular pastime in India, with India having a professional armwrestling competition...
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professional wrestling, that can sometimes be used to set up an opponent for a hold or for a throw. There are a wide variety of strikes in pro wrestling, and...
Japan Pro-Wrestling about becoming a professional wrestler, but he turned it down initially. In addition to his professional armwrestling career, Norton...
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