Welcome to my site. This site is about the Minnesota Muscle Armwrestling Team, located in Minneapolis and Rochester, Minnesota. Anybody in Minnesota looking to start competing in armwrestling tournament can come to any of out practices any time, or if you just want to try armwrestling and see what it's like feel free to come check it out! Armwrestling News Flash: The 190 lbs.Pro Invititational MegaMatch will be taking place this Saturday, February 13th, at the New Mexico State championships. For more info, visit www.northeastboard.com. Minnesota Muscle News: Toproll Open Season 2009: Josh 0-2, Yosef 0-2, John Grant 0-4. Toproll Open Season 2010: Josh Handeland 2-2 left (2nd!), 2-2 right (3rd) o-165 lbs., John Grant 2-2 right and left 220's (0-2 right supers), Yosef Chalbi 2-2 right and left (4th place) 185 lbs. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunKWtACGM8&feature=player_embedded Yosef Chalbi, Missouri State Champion!!!!! Yosef took 1st in the right hand 176 lbs. class at Missouri States on December 5th out of 8 competitors. He also takes 3rd left handed. Josh Handeland takes 2nd left handed (behind Jeremy Plaster) and 4th right handed. Adam Kruger wins the 199+ left hand novice class and gets 2nd (to Matt Lively, who he holds for a couple seconds) in the 243+ left hand open class (while weighing 250 fully dressed). Right handed he lost to Lively and then fouled out in a long match with 165 lbs. Unified National Champion Shawn Dempsey. Video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi8IK2ayWlQ Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTcLxLJg948 Part 2 The Minnesota Muscle Wristwrestling Team gets 2nd place at the 2009 WNWWA World Wristwrestling Championships (5 teams,winning team had 20+ competitors)! With only 4 teammates, the MN Muscle won 8 Golds, 1 Silver, and 2 Bronzen. Josh Handeland wins his first Wristwrestling World Titles in the Flyweight class (155 lbs.) right and left handed! Jason Bauer wins the 16 year old World Title and gets 3rd left handed in the adult 125 lbs. weight class! Yosef gets a run of bad luck in the 175 lbs. right hand class and has a 2 and a half minute WAR with Sam Rucker (Master World Champ - Yosef wins). Left handed Yosef takes 3rd. DAVE BAUER WINS 5 GOLDS and 1 SILVER! Golds left handed in the 116, 125, and 141 lbs. weight class, right hand 116 and 125 lbs. class - Silver in right hand 141 lbs. class. He won his 14th World Title in the 116 right hand class and his 9th title left hand in the 116 class.  Josh Handeland wins the 165 lbs. ROTN Medal Class right and left beating rival Scott Harris with both hands (Scott takes 2nd). Yosef gets 2nd right and left in the 198 lbs. medal class. John Grant and Adam Kruger pull the 199+ medal class, which was stacked, and although neither of them place top 3 they both win at least 1 match with each arm.  LEAVING FOR THE ROTN AT 12:30 TOMORROW (FRIDAY OCTOBER 9TH)!!! From Minnesota: Josh Handeland 165 medal class right and left, Yosef Chalbi 198 medal class right and left, John Grant and Adam Kruger 199+ medal class right and left........ and our professional MN representative, Marty O'Neil in the 198 PRO RULER OF THE NATION CASH CLASS!!! Hopefully we all get medals... and I think Marty definitely has a chance at winning money though the classes are loaded, in the 198 right hand class they are paying down to 8th place because it is the most stacked. Will most likely have to update the United States Rankings next week and also MIDWEST rankings will be added! Josh wins the Minnesota State Championships left handed in the 0-176 lbs. weight class, Yosef wins right handed in the 0-176 lbs. weight class! Marty O'Neil wins the 220 and 221+ right hand class and the 199+ left hand class. Newcomer Adam Kruger (been to 3 local tournaments and 1 practice) impresses everybody, beating Jerry Remer right and left handed, and placing 2nd place right handed in the super heaviest behind Marty, but he beat Trapper Saltzman (3rd), he also smashed John Grant and Tim Lewis. Looks like he has a LOT of potential. Erin Meyer easily wins the 132 lbs. and 176 lbs. weight classes.  September 19th, 2009: Yosef Chalbi wins the 176 lbs. right and left hand open classes at the Whistle Stop Days Armwrestling Championships! Nobody even slowed him down, his hit was strong and he looked very powerful. Josh Handeland won the 176 novice class and got 2nd behind Yosef in the left hand open class. September 5th, 2009: New team member? Adam Kruger attended 3 local tournaments in Minnesota, driving as far as an hour and a half to get to them, and beat everybody, including John Grant, in the 210+ class. He did all this with the worst stance and technique imaginable. On September 5th he attended practice and it really seemed like he will stick with armwrestling. Once he comes to a few practice, gets his technique down, and starts to develop tendon strength, he'll be a force to reckon with! He weighs 240 lbs. August 22nd, 2009 Josh Handeland wins the South Dakota State Armwrestling Championships left handed in the 0-154 lbs. division! Marty O'Neil comes out of a 5 year retirement for this tournament and takes an honorable 2nd place right and left handed in the 220 lbs. weight division, putting up a good fight against one of the best 198 lbs. armwrestlers in the USA, Sonny Larson. Yosef Chalbi takes a respectable 3rd place left handed in the 187 lbs. weight class.  Older news: August 15th, 2009 Yosef Chalbi wins the Canton Days Off Armwrestling Championships right and left in the 180 lbs. weight class, beating Brandon Hareldson right handed, who takes 2nd. Josh Handeland wins the 160 lbs. weight class left handed, beating Brandon who takes 2nd, but Josh takes 2nd to Brandon right handed. Josh also takes 2nd to Yosef left handed in the next class up, the 180 lbs. weight class. A few girls, who declare Josh and Yosef professional armwrestlers after watching them beat Brandon, get their pictures taken with the two of them. August 8th, 2009 Richard Lupkes of Worthington, Minnesota, loses his Heavyweight Toproll Belt to Ron Bath. Although Richard puts up a good fight against Ron, Ron is just too powerful and he takes Rich's arm to the pad 3-0. Rich will be getting surgery on his back, where he reptured a disk, hopefully the surgery goes well so he can be back to smashing arms at the table soon!  Video can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL4-wukFNUg In the tournament, Josh Handeland surprises everybody, including himself, and takes 2nd place left handed in the 0-154 lbs. left hand class, behind Jeremy Plaster, who Josh holds for a few seconds. |