SXSW 2009 Film Trailer: Pulling John

Pulling John is the universal story of a champion, who after 25 years of success is now burdened with the inevitable transformation of aging. John Brzenk, the legendary armwrestler, who works as an airline mechanic by day must decide whether to leave the sport he was raised on or wait to be defeated by 2 up and coming titans. Voevoda from Russia, Bagent from West Virginia and Yoshi from Tokyo are the colorful characters who have been raised on the legend of John Brzenk. These men define themselves by not becoming champions but by defeating the legend that is known as Brzenk.

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[Kadagis7000]

VOEVODA 1#

[redskins3724]

Whenever Bagent gets beat I feel good, I can't stand the way he relies on his "EARLY" starts to win!

[djdogjuam]

Bagent doesn't have a lick of humility in him. He does when he loses, but who the fuck doesn't? In the scene before the Zloty Tur he's talking trash about "I'm gonna look at him and go 'AAARGH' " and all this shit. What a cunt. Alexey is a real admirable guy, much respect to him.

[NOTguineapigeon]

@marcumm Even when John lost he was still top 2 if not still the best, because remember he suffered a injury right before his last match, and that was probably the reason he lost.

[LordDeathspit]

I wonder if Voevoda left arm wrestling because the only two goals he had in the sport were achieved on one day? Avenged his loss to Bagent and beat Brezenk.

[Fstar15]

i never thought a Documentary about arm wrestling would keep me interested for more than an hour, this is a great film.

[marcumm]

JOhn Brzenk is a freakin legend! Greatest of all time! Every king has to eventually give up his crown to younger men like Voevoda and Devon though. Thats just the way of sports. I sure wich Voevoda would have stuck around longer.

[marcumm]

@Kadagis7000 For 1 year.

[Actraiser1]

This is seriously one of the best sports movies I've ever seen

[karemarta]

denis cyplenkov the beast

[HenGlinz]

@stalli0n90 utter imbecil... get off the thesaurus u turd

how the fuck shud i kno who wud win, ones the world strongest man with 24 inch pythons curling 315 pounds for reps

other one is a russian faggot (like yourself i assume)

[q8altair12]

voevoda all the way if he continued in arm wrestling he would own that fagg devon who is too afraid to go to nemiroff and proof his the best over cyplenkov and pushkar and arsen not just travis who is a lefty or old randle or bresnan or even an old brzenk he need to proof him self but lucky him voevoda is retired or he would fuck his ass :)