It was a great moment for me to win this tournament and put me on the armwrestling map so to speak. That day I beat Dot Jones twice, I did not know or hear of Dot before this tournament but I was very intimitated by her size and her personality.Apparently Dot took a stick and hit herself on the shoulders repeatedly with it and her manager slapped her numerous times in the face before their match. “Rick Zumwalt was paid 10,000.00USD just to shave his head for the film. It may have  been just the heavy weight truckers class that qualified or an overall. Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. We said "hello" and got to talking arm wrestling and he mentioned he was pulling in the middleweight Truckers division . Starting in Canada with contests in Toronto and Edmonton, the competition moved to Israel (Tel Aviv), Holland, Germany, France (Paris), Great Britain (Manchester) and Japan (Tokyo). Ultimate Armwrestling (Las Vegas) Results (2004-2006)

He returns to the tournament with a much tighter focus and advances to the final match against Bull Hurley, who has remained the undefeated world champion for five years.

A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans. When I arrived at the Las Vegas Hilton July, 1986 I was cutting through the pool area and there on a lounge chair was Bert Whitfield and a few of his entourage. It knew it was a huge win for my career as a puller and I was overjoyed. Baarbe, who is from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and about 10 years older than me,is a massive, burly man with a big pushed-out belly and huge, powerful hands. All-Niagara Armwrestling Championships Results (2002) Just watch on Arm TV some of the rare footage of the actual tournament and you can put your self in the atmosphere somewhat; it's something we have never seen or will  again.I met up with Johnny Walker a bit later and we talked for a little while. This was a real issue: because John Brzenk worked for   Delta airlines, he could make it to all the events, and he did go to all of them.

Although Stallone was a writer and had final cut on the film, Sillphant said " "I don't anticipate any problem whatsoever. They decided that female action figures were not big sellers so they scrapped mine. World's Wristwrestling Championship - Part 2: 1962-1969 In the 80s and 90s, product placement. Beginning with the first qualifier in Beverly Hills in August 1985, the competition lasted a year, moved the length and breadth of North America and included qualifying events in Europe, Israel and Japan. There have been statements made like "we want to have as much product placement as Over The Top did".Stallone's final match in the film was done on the .

"It's an action love story with the emphasis on action," Silliphant says. EAF European Championships Results (2010-2019) Rodney works mostly by appointment, while Bruce is walk-in only. The Champion Armwrestler vs. the Champion Powerlifter ‘I was getting on the elevator at Cannon,’ Lori recalls, ‘and Meneham saw me. But arm wrestlers do come from every walk of life.``You see doctors, lawyers and architects at tournaments as well as laborers. Each winner would receive $10,000, a chance to appear in the movie, and a trip to Las Vegas to compete in the international finals against the world’s best arm wrestlers.
The tournament was being initiated for Sylvester Stallone’s upcoming movie called Over the Top, about an underdog arm wrestler. Armwrestling Matches in the Cradle of Strongmen Marvin thought between 500-700 arm wrestlers would be competing and entering. EAF European Championships Results (2000-2009) Although an armwrestler could enter as many of these qualifying events as he or she could get to, they could only qualify once. SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy built his legacy in the game as a bullpen maestro, a strategy expert and a gutsy decision-maker who never did seem to … I entered into the 196-238 pound weight class at 227 pounds, making me one of the bigger competitors and an early favorite to win the tournament.My first grapples were against good competitors, but I still ended up easily making it to the finals. Over The Top was the biggest event in armwrestling history. They gave Chuck a standing ovation for about 5 minutes.” “John Brzenk won in the Truckers Class in the finals. EAF European Championships Results (1991-1999)

I recently remembered seeing this film when I was much younger and liking it.