Congratulations to Sandra Bullock who has beaten some of the best competitors on the planet to become World Arm-Wrestling Champion.
The accolade is particularly impressive as she had to defeat Dave ‘Arm-bastard’ Stanley, the undefeated world arm-wrestling champion for the past four years.
“I’ve always loved arm-wrestling,” said the Blind Side star.
“When I was a kid, it was all I wanted to be. I was a junior champion and up until I was 12, it was my whole life. But, I needed to be sensible, the chances of making it as a professional arm-wrestler in the eighties were a million-to-one, so I gave up my dream and settled on being a Hollywood megastar instead.”
However, the arm-wrestling bug had bitten deep and throughout her successful, Oscar-winning career, she couldn’t shake her dream and in early 2016 she took a break from Hollywood and returned to the tiny, back-street arm-wrestling gym she’d spent so much time in as a little girl.
“It was tough at first, I mean, it had been 40 years since I’d last bucked biceps,” she laughed
“But, you know, I had a twelve-year-old girl in me that wanted this more than anything. I couldn’t let her down.”
Sandra Bullock’s achievement comes hot on the heels of Russell Crowe being crowned World Pac-Man champion and throws into sharp relief the disappointing performance of Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson in the recent World domino-toppling championship.
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