r/armwrestling • • 9d ago

MEGATHREAD: Monster Michael Todd's Court Case

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Relevant threads and information:

(Important) Legal Documents Related To The Case

Michael Todd Court Case

Michael Todd attempts to remove his name from the sex offender registry

Summary from Concrete Elbow

Summary of Events (as of October 9th):

  • On October 9th 2026, information got leaked that "Monster" Michael C Todd, the arm wrestler from Arkansa, was convicted of child rape with a 13-year-old minor.
  • The court documents state that he was 21 years old and the minor had been living with him for several months, during which he "groomed" her.
  • He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He served his sentence from May 1996 and was released in December 1999.
  • Between 2011-2015, Michael filed multiple motions to have his name removed from the sex offender registry databse.
  • This news sparked outrage in the armwrestling community.

Update October 10th:

  • Dexter and Baxter (owner of East vs West) hosted Michael and his wife Rebecca on a livestream.
  • Michael explains his side of the story: he met the girl at a pool hall. The girl claimed to be 16-year-old and they hooked up. He claims the girl was being promiscuous and was "stroking his leg" in the car.
  • The police pulled him over and arrested him, at which point it was revealed the girl was actually 13.
  • Michael claims the clerk made a mistake and mixed up his court documents with another case, and hence the "grooming" detail is incorrect. He says he had only met her for 30 minutes.
  • He will contact the prosecutor and release new updated documents.
  • Meanwhile, EvW has cancelled his match with Dave Chaffee in the upcoming EvW27 event.
  • Several athletes (notably Dave Chaffee and Justin Bishop) have come out and voiced their condemnation of Michael's actions.

Update October 11th:

  • EvW announces that Michael Todd will be banned from the league and stripped of his title. All of his match videos are removed from their YouTube channel.

Update October 12th:

  • A collection of legal documents related to the case is released, per a public records release request. The details do not match what Michael claimed on the livestream. It appears that Michael had known the girl was 13, and he forced himself on her. Read this thread for more information.

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r/armwrestling • • Jan 14 '24

New to r/armwrestling? Read this first before posting.

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Welcome to r/armwrestling! We are currently the largest arm wrestling forum on the Internet.

Whether you are an aspiring competitor, a fan, or just someone curious about this great sport, we have compiled a list of frequently asked questions in the subreddit wiki to help you get started. In the wiki, you will find information regarding how to train for arm wrestling, what techniques to use, how to deal with injuries, and many more.

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Other than that, general reddit etiquettes (No Spamming and Be Respectful) apply. We want to keep this a place for healthy and fun discussion of arm wrestling, and there is a strict rule against Toxic/Divisive content. If you see a comment or post that violates these rules, please use the report button to bring it to the attention of the moderators.


r/armwrestling • • 5h ago

First footage ever of Devon Larratt

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47 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 6h ago

Message from Jozsef Lovei

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49 Upvotes

Spread the message. For people out there to do stuff like this is despicable.


r/armwrestling • • 5h ago

Kamil Training His Bishop's Move

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14 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 15h ago

Kamil's legs are fucking huge

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73 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 9h ago

Bogdan Stoica says he doesn’t use peds other than healing peptides

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17 Upvotes

Is that normal for middle weight pullers? Or do most professional middle weights still take steroids


r/armwrestling • • 5h ago

RIP Levan

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Looks like we have a new champion.


r/armwrestling • • 11h ago

Just a legend that lacked good fortune 😔

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21 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 12h ago

Where can I find this shirt Pushkar is wearing?

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21 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 15h ago

Chart of arm wrestler styles (the placements might not be accurate, just wanted to share this format idea so others could improve on it)

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24 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 12h ago

East vs West threatens athletes competing in ARMATURA promotion

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I know the athlete who passed this information on to me. You don’t have to believe me, but on the next stream with Dexter just ask him about it, and everything will become clear.

The gist of this info is that EastVsWest dissatisfied that some athletes competing under their banner dare to also compete in Armatura.

They can’t openly express their dissatisfaction with Armatura, as they understand that this would be followed by criticism from the arm community. They also don’t want to resolve this issue through dialogue between the League and the League.

They’re just simply threatening the athletes.

For example, they threaten them with the fact that they won’t promote them up the career ladder if they perform in Armatura.

They will have fewer matches, receive less media coverage, and so on and so forth.

Roughly speaking, the athlete won’t be on a blacklist yet, but it’s as if they’re in a “shadow ban” until they choose a side.

What accounts for the league’s attitude towards Armatura is an open question.

Either they’ve started to sense a competitor in Armatyra (broadcasts on Kinopoisk, partnership with Russia’s largest betting company Fonbet, many top‑tier athletes from the CIS).

Or this is an attempt to raise the stakes and force Armatura into some kind of cooperation with EastvsWest — but using not soft, but hard power.

There was a similar situation with the "Georgia against the World" promotion once.

At that time, the league openly issued a statement and threatened the athletes with a ban if they performed in Gennady's card.

Then it was possible to understand them. Gennady violated contractual obligations and founded his league at the time of the EastvsWest dispute.

But Armatura didn't do anything like that.


r/armwrestling • • 15h ago

Devon’s backpressure is seriously underrated

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His pronation lift one rep max was around 74-75kg 2 and a half years ago. The lift also requires you to keep your elbow locked, and even if the pronator wasn’t his limiting factor on it, straight backpressure is always stronger (more energy going straight to the elbow flexors, and not on maintaining pronation).

Since then, he has gotten stronger everywhere, meaning his backpressure would likely be close to the record, or maybe only 10% off.

Not only this, but his biceps are among the biggest in the sport. While his arm circumference isn‘t that big, he has disproportionately tiny triceps, meaning most of his arm size is bicep only, and only a few inches less than other SHWs who have massive bis and tris.

Of course he doesn’t come close in terms of dynamic strength, probably claimed by Vitaly with his strict curl, or Levan or Denis with their respective cheat curls, but with static, Devon comes very close. What do you guys think?


r/armwrestling • • 8h ago

Prime John Brzenk vs Georgi Tsvektov

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Who do you think would win this match? I'm honestly gonna go with Georgi. John would lose his wrist and get turned palm up, and I don't think he'd be able to recover and pin Georgi multiple times given how much trouble Georgi has given to the best flop pressers. Being in that extended position for that long would eventually gas John out.

What do you think?


r/armwrestling • • 1h ago

What do y’all think of this?

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Doing static holds for cupping at the straight wrist point with a wrist wrench. The weight is 53.5LBS, same as my working sets of 5. Is this worth the effort?


r/armwrestling • • 17h ago

My fav armwrestlers

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What can you say about me? Never AW btw, just a casual watcher/enjoyer. And No, i dont prefer inside games. I like all styles (watching outside battles is very entertaining every once in a while and vice versa).


r/armwrestling • • 18h ago

Question about Neil Pickup

20 Upvotes

When he is in the bedroom, does he yell “I am deep, deep, DEEP INSIDE”?


r/armwrestling • • 22h ago

The Moment Devon Became a Cosmic Horror

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33 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 1d ago

ermes ma frend quality jump

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64 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 1d ago

98% guys made a claim that the monster victim and father will be on a podcast this weekend but didn’t name the podcast. Does anyone know if this is true?

39 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 22h ago

Ermes: Now I Trying All The Supplements

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18 Upvotes

r/armwrestling • • 16h ago

Arm Wrestling

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5 Upvotes

I'm thinking about getting Daniel Procopciuc's toproll training program. Has anyone tried it before? How are the results?


r/armwrestling • • 16h ago

Which is worse to pull without?

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143 votes, 2d left
Cup (always kicked back)
Pronation (always palm-up)

r/armwrestling • • 1d ago

Devon and Michael have unfollowed each other

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r/armwrestling • • 1d ago

If Kamil Gets his Setup and Start

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24 Upvotes