Devon Larratt

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Larratt's interest in armwrestling began in the early teens. After joining the Canadian Special Forces at the age of 21, where he served for 16 years, Larratt still managed to train and compete, and credits the experience gained at different military bases as a large part of his success.[3] In 2013, Larratt underwent surgery on his right arm and elbow, forcing him to compete left-handed only. He underwent the same surgery on his left elbow in 2016, but was able to recover much faster, being able to win the World Armwrestling League (WAL) with that arm in the same year.[4]

Larratt is notable for defeating, in 2008, legendary armwrestler John Brzenk.[5] He is also the first armwrestler to gain world championship titles in both right and left hand at the same time. In 2015, Larratt won the WAL Left-Arm Heavyweight (196–225 lb) title. He also took third place in the Right-Arm.[6] In 2016, Larratt successfully defended his WAL Left-Arm title, and also won the WAL Right-Arm Heavyweight championship claiming two "hammers".[7] In 2017 he repeated this result by winning the WAL Championships again, in both the Right-Arm Heavyweight and Left-Arm Heavyweight categories.[8] In 2018 he lost the WAL Championship Right-Arm Super Heavyweights final against Michael Todd. Later that year, during Armfight 50, he lost a left-hand match-up against Denis Cyplenkov 0–6. Devon Larratt currently weighs 268 lb going into his match up against Dave Chaffee, which Larratt won 3–1. In 2019, Larratt arm wrestled Wagner Bortolato (Brazilian professional armwrestler) at WAL 506, convincingly winning 3-1 (in a best out of 5 format).[9] During the event Larratt weighed in at an all time heaviest 277 lb.