John Brzenk: a biography of the American arrester

John Brzenk (his nickname Professor) – professional armwrestler from the United States of America, 26 times champion of the world. He played in the championship of the UAL (Ultimate Armwrestling League) in the heavyweight division on his right hand. His last triumph was at the 2015 world Championships in the heavyweight division. John Brzenk is the record of the "Guinness”, where he was awarded the title of “the Greatest armwrestler of all time”. For the knowledge of a large number of techniques of struggle and the possession was nicknamed the Professor. His physical abilities amaze the human mind. It defies logic! After all, as a man of medium size may be stronger than the six-foot 150-pound athletes? Armwrestler himself claims that his power is genetic influence.

Physical characteristics John Brzenk

• Height and weight: 185 cm, 95-105 pounds.
• Bicep and forearm: 43 and 41 cm, respectively.

Biography

Born July 15, 1964 in sandy (Utah, United States of America). His father was the referee of the wrestling, so he was familiar with this sport since childhood. He was larger and more powerful among their peers: at the age of five he could easily raise over a school Desk and to practice with her. Being in eighth grade, he accidentally broke the hand of the friend of dad's, when I hugged him at the meeting. At 16 years of age, John Brzenk took part in his first tournament, who later won. During performances the young guy was given the nickname Giant crusher for its ability to defeat opponents twice his size. Then young John killed outright the whole audience. All cried and rejoiced, when they saw 16-year-old ‘thump’ experienced athletes heavyweights.

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The largest and The heaviest opponent he faced John and won, weighed in at 660 pounds, equivalent to nearly 300 pounds. In his career Brzenk lost only twice – canadian Devon Lerato and Russian Alexey Voyevoda. These lesions occurred only at the end of his career, when John has already reached sports of old age.

Athletic achievements

His first international title “world champion" sports arm wrestling (Junior) he won in 1983, when he was 18 years old. Then the young American fought in the weight category up to 82 kg. Took first place in the tournament Over the Top in 1986. This tournament was funded by the company «Wariner, Brazzers”. In view of this, the new champion became the prototype of the character Lincoln Hawk in the movie called “Struggling” (original title Over The Top) with the participation of Sylvester Stallone. The company also “Warner Brazzers” highlighted the prize for the winner – Volvo Semi Track (exactly the same story with the award of the prize was in the movie “Struggling”), which John Brzenk exchanged for the coveted Chevrolet Corvette.

John Brzenk won four world Championships in the heavyweight division until 1994, and earned the nickname Superman for the same capacity as before-to defeat huge enemies. In 1995, he participated in the world championship in the Middleweight division. Of course, such a tournament for John was the easiest exercise.

In Addition to wrestling John works in the aircraft company as an engineer. According to him, here he little work physically, so his hands are all resting.

Meetings with famous armwrestlers

John Brzenk is an armwrestling champion in the League PAL. Also, American athlete participates in tournaments, the organizer of which is Igor Mazurenko. In 2004, the Professor has managed to win the internal struggle with Taras by Imaginem (total score 4-2), in 2005 in the fight with Alexey Semerenko won 5-1 in 2006 "humiliated" Andrey Pushkar 6-0 shutout in 2007 to "punish" ion Oncescu (5-1). In 2009, an uncompromising beat Denis Cyplenkov from Russia with a score of 5-1.

In 2008, John suffered the first defeat in his career. He lost to canadian Devon Larrau with the infamous score of 6-0. The second defeat happened in 2010 in the fight with the Russian athlete Arsen by Lileeva – the score 2-3.

Hands armwrestlers from the above list was much more than John himself Brzenk. For example, the circumference of the bicep of Denis Cyplenkov is 60 centimeters. However modest 43 cm John are able to win.

Age is not a hindrance

John Brzenk is the Victor of the tournament «"Nemiroff" – world gold tour”, which is held in Poland under the auspices of the Federation PAL. In this championship, John is the undisputed winner from 2006 to 2009. Fought American in the weight category up to 95 kg (and also in absolute weight). In 2010 at the same tournament, John has performed in over 95 pounds and took third place, behind professionals such as Russian Denis Tsyplenkov and Ukrainian Andrey Pushkar. In four years “three of a pedestal” again repeated in the Moscow tournament A1 Russian Open armwrestling (July 2014). American again took third place in absolute weight category, losing only to the gunner and Tsyplenkova. At the time of the tournament John was already fifty years old!Occupied third place in that age – this is a phenomenal result.

In August of the same year John Brzenk again reminded the world who is the Professor, when the American tournament PAL became a champion on two hands. By this act he proved that he is a professional in his field and that fifty years of age - not a hindrance to your goals.

Without PR

Sport for John has always been the meaning of life. He began to start wrestling from the age of 15 and has been for over 35 years does not change its tradition. He didn't come here for a huge cheque of one million United States dollars just to compete with strong opponents. American never able to and never thought about doing PR. Consequently, the maximum payout for the tournament was 80 thousand dollars. Agree, it's worthless and ungrateful money for the 26-time world champion. But John still. He has a favorite work, and sport is just another vocational hobby.