Men wrist wrestle in Miller Beer Company Georgia Wrist Wrestling Championship tournament. A pig farmer, Cleve Dean, the heavy weight champion from Georgia is interviewed saying he loves it.
Reporter: Glozier, Cindy
Luther Cleve Dean (born 15 December 1953) was a professional armwrestler from a town called Pavo in Georgia, USA. He died on 10 May 2011 at the age of 58.
Life and Career
Growing up on the farm, raising hogs and harvesting cotton and tobacco, certainly created a work ethic in addition to the sheer strength we see in many pictures and KZitem videos. Cleve may physically have been "larger than life" but he had the personality to match and enjoyed traveling and people. Cleve enjoyed 10 straight years as the World Champion Arm Wrestler and competed in the Worlds Strongest Man in 1979 and 1980. He was able to travel all over the US, to Sweden, Italy, and Japan. He admitted that he liked the attention and talking to people. Across the board, fellow athletes and fans throw out words like "amiable" and "family man."
Cleve was set apart from other armwrestlers by his brute, farm-raised strength. Young Cleve wasn't strong from hours in the gym but manual labor. Many news articles of the day described how he could "pick up a full-grown hog under each arm." In 1980, he did explain to People Magazine that he felt he owed his strength and skill to growing up on his father's hog farm. "When you farm like us,” he says, “you use all your muscles.” In 1985, the LA Times reported that "sometimes just for fun he would pick up the rear end of his 7 ton John Deere."
Reports vary a bit, but at nearly 6 ft 7 inches and competing at weights ranging from 300 plus to around 450 lbs, he was hard to miss. Uniquely, Cleve could pull right or left-handed. Reports have his hands measuring 8.5 to 10 inches from his palm to the tip of his 3rd finger, 6 inches wide and wearing a size 20 ring on his ring finger.
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.
In the early years other names were used to describe the same sport, including arm turning, arm twisting, twisting wrists, wrist turning and wrist wrestling.
History
Current knowledge of the history of arm wrestling is based on written and pictorial evidentiary sources, and arm wrestling may have existed in any number of ancient or medieval cultures that did not record it. The most popular claims claim that it was practiced in ancient Egypt or ancient Greece, while not necessarily implausible, are founded on misinterpretation of sources (confusing references to wrestling with the arms or images of wrestling with the hands or of dancing for arm wrestling).[1]
Arm wrestling (Japanese: 腕相撲, romanized: udezumō; formerly known as "wrist wrestling" in this context in English, the literal translation of the Japanese) is known to have been widely practiced by the Edo period of Japan, depicted in art from as early as the 1700s, and recorded in writing as early as the eighth century in the Kojiki. Illustrations unambiguously demonstrate this was the same as modern arm wrestling. It is likely that the modern popularity of arm wrestling comes from the Japanese treatment of the sport.[1]
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