41 Facts About Devon Larratt

Devon Larratt was born on 24 April 1975 and is a Canadian professional armwrestler, content creator, and a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Devon Larratt is the most popular arm wrestler of all time and has helped popularize the sport to a wider audience.

Devon Larratt joined the Canadian Armed Forces at the age of 21, where he served with Joint Task Force 2 for sixteen years.

Devon Larratt achieved the rank of master corporal, and was deployed seven times to Afghanistan, where he was wounded in action.

Devon Larratt entered his first international competition, competing at WAF Worlds event in Japan, where he defeated Krister Jonsson and lost to John Brzenk.

In 2000, Devon Larratt won the Ontario Provincial Championships in the left and right handed in his category.

Devon Larratt placed first at the Canadian Nationals in right handed and second in left handed.

In 2001, Devon Larratt won the Ontario Provincial Championship in the left and right handed and won the Canadian Nationals in left handed and right handed.

In 2004, Devon Larratt dominated the Central Ontario Championships, but lost a super match in Chehalis, Washington against John Brzenk.

Devon Larratt has stated that this was his favorite match, "for a number of reasons", but mostly because of the difficulties and stressors of combat, and the uncertainty of returning to a "normal life".

Devon Larratt was shot, and took shrapnel to the hand while deployed to Afghanistan.

In 2010, Devon Larratt defeated former Arnold Classic champion and number one contender, Don Underwood, to retain the right-hand title.

In 2011, Devon Larratt beat "Monster" Michael Todd and Christophe Ladu.

In 2013, Devon Larratt beat Oleh Zhokh, Wilton Brock, and Eric Woelfel at Ultimate Armwrestling League 4 to retain his left hand heavyweight title.

Devon Larratt underwent a similar procedure on his left elbow in 2016, but was able to recover much faster, returning to win the WAL championship in the same year.

Later in 2015, Devon Larratt defeated Ron Bath left handed and right handed at WAL Southern Regionals.

Devon Larratt won the WAL Championships left-hand heavyweight title after Marcio Barboza withdrew.

In 2016, Devon Larratt defeated Matt Mask left handed and right handed at WAL Northern Regionals.

Devon Larratt returned to peak form, successfully defending his left-hand title against Matt Mask and winning the WAL right-hand title against top contenders Marcio Barboza and Ron Bath.

In 2017, Devon Larratt retained the WAL right-hand and left-hand heavyweight titles by defeating perennial rival Matt Mask.

Devon Larratt defended his right-hand legacy hammer against a challenge from "Big Frank" Budelewski at Buffalo Fitness Expo 2017, the event had a charitable aspect to it, and left hand hammer against Zhao Zi Rui of China at the Super Armwrestling League in a supermatch.

At WAL 406, Devon Larratt lost the right-hand championship to Michael Todd.

In March 2021, at BAL 204, Devon Larratt defeated Janek Kwias in a supermatch.

On May 28,2021, less than five months after recovering from deep vein thrombosis, Devon Larratt agreed to meet Michael Todd at King of the Table in Dubai for the right-hand heavyweight title.

Devon Larratt was impressive throughout the match, controlling the hand and wrist of John Brzenk in three of the four rounds; when Brzenk did manage to take the hand and wrist in round 1, Devon Larratt was able to stop the drive and make the necessary tactical adjustments.

Devon Larratt, who had no previous boxing experience, trained for the match at Tristar Gym, owned by Firas Zahabi.

The match took place in Dubai, on September 18,2021, where Devon Larratt lost to Bjornsson by technical knockout.

Devon Larratt landed an early right hook on Bjornsson, but Bjornsson dominated the rest of the fight with superior foot work and a hard jab.

Devon Larratt participated in this match because Prudnik's scheduled opponent had to withdraw due to injury.

Devon Larratt decided that he would return to the Super-Heavyweight class due to lack of competition among the Heavyweights.

Immediately after the Genadi match, Devon Larratt traveled to the UK for Arm Wars Dark Card 2.

However, the legitimacy of this match has been called into question by Espey because it was part of a tournament, Espey only had a few days notice that the match was taking place, and Devon Larratt allegedly forfeited matches so that he could face Espey.

The forfeited matches would have not only made Devon Larratt more rested than Espey for their match, but it would allow Devon Larratt's opponents that got wins by forfeit to move on in the tournament without earning it.

Devon Larratt was scheduled to face Genadi Kvikvinia on this date in a rematch, but Genadi suffered a serious bicep injury while training.

Devon Larratt would start the year competing on the left hand at the Arm Wars The Gathering II event in Las Vegas.

Also, Devon Larratt approached Shaw's corner to trash talk after Round 2, which resulted in Devon Larratt wrestling with one of Shaw's cornermen.

Devon Larratt is known as both an extremely versatile and enduring armwrestler.

Devon Larratt has one of the sport's highest table IQs, and can execute any move whether it be a hook, toproll, press, king's move, king's hook, or any variation thereof.

Since 2003, Devon Larratt has been married to Jodi Larratt, an actress and former armwrestler; together, they have three children.

Devon Larratt generally eats pancakes while training for super-matches, and these humorous pancake videos have subsequently inspired a comical and entertaining storyline within the arm wrestling community, whereby other armwrestlers discuss and adopt Devon Larratt's "pancake diet".

Devon Larratt is the owner of Armbet, a mobile matchmaking and betting application for arm wrestling.