Joe Rogan

So he's to a certain degree built for it.

But masterful technician.

No.

Isn't that wild?

That's crazy.

No, he's not.

That's a former Russian champion, Zaur.

Actually, no, Zaur might be Georgian.

He might have been Russian at this time, but he's a Georgian.

Yeah.

Yeah, John's technique was way above everybody's.

Way, way above everybody's.

Uh, I remember coming up, like I had heard about John Brzenk for years before I ever saw him because, you know, it's pre-internet, right?

John Brzenk like silently ruled the arm wrestling world for decades, you know, pre-internet, pre, pre, uh, pre all this stuff.

And yeah, and he went around the world beating all the monsters, all the, and this is who I actually got the world title from.

So I beat John in 2008 for the world title.

And it looks very different now, you know, like so before, so I was probably the last of the small super heavyweights.

If you call me small, like I'm bigger than John, but not by a lot, not by a lot.

See, Denis Saplankov on the left, that guy's a really famous arm wrestler.

He was one of the guys who really raised the level.