re: Over the Top (1987) - Stallone arm-wrestling movie

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It's also great that they keep billing Lincoln Hawk as being from "the trucker category" or whatever. Like truckers get their own category in huge arm wrestling tournaments.

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There actually was a world wide over the top tournament held over a years time that culminated in the finals match in Las Vegas. It was done to tie into the movie.

And yes, it was split into divisions, and one of them was the truckers/teamsters division, and was won by the godfather of arm wrestling, John breznk. A lot of footage was used from the actual tournament, including when the one guy gets his arm broken.

Read this article. Really long but great read and explains a lot.

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P.S. as you will read in the article, the actor who played bull hurley was an actual good arm wrestler who made the actual over the top tournament.

Finally, Screw it, let’s get pumped

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