Oct 21, 2007 ~ World Amateur Championships/:0:

[Kurt Howgate]

!!! R E S U L T S !!!
2007 WORLD AMATUER ARM WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Date: Sunday October 21, 2007
Place: Buena Park, California
Held in conjunction with Buena Park Silverado Days
Sponsor: Buena Park Noon Lions Club
Promoter: USAWA / Randy Sampias
Announcer: Randy Sampias
Sign-ups & Score Keeper: Cay Sampias
Referees: Bob Eazor, Harold Ryden

30th Annual World Amatuer Arm Wrestling Championships 2007!
What a tournament!...too bad if you missed this event! It was fantastic!
First of all, I want to say thank you to all the competitors and spectators for their patience and
understanding when the wind...I MEAN WIND came up and delayed the start....everyone
pitched in and helped relocate to another area of the park, and the tournament was underway!
Special Note of Thanks to All the Seasoned Veteran Pullers that came out to support the event
What a gathering! John Woolsey, Bruce Way, Allan Fisher, Les Zolman, Bob Eazor, Clay Rozencranz!
what a nostalgic bunch! all these guys are icons in the sport and I really enjoyed seeing them again!

Right hand Bantam division, was easily one of the most exciting brackets with Jonny Sarhanis
putting Victor Torres in the losers bracket in the quarter finals! But you had to see it! Check results!
Mens Right Hand Bantam 154- Under Mens Left Hand Bantam
1st Victor Torres, CA 1st Victor Torres, CA
2nd Jonny Sarhanis, CA 2nd Chris "Red Night" , CA (first timer)
3rd David Duong, CA (first timer)

Right hand Light division was definately a crowd pleaser! The Armenian Team came ready to compete!
These guys really trained hard and it showed! There was an impressive amount of promising newcomers!
Mens Right Hand light 155 - 176 Mens Left Hand Light
1st Adam Aghasaryan, Armenia (undefeated) 1st Adam Aghasaryan, Armenia (undefeated)
2nd Jamie Shelton, Ca 2nd Arthur Bakmoutzhyan, Russia
3rd Dannie Holocker, CA 3rd Erik Pasin, CA (first timer)

Right hand middle division had the crowd going crazy with the unexpected upset wins!
Mens Right Hand Middle 177 - 198 Mens Left Hand Middle
1st Richard Smith, CA (undefeated) 1st Dave Hall, CA (undefeated)
2nd Robert Campbell, CA 2nd Soro Mouradian, CA
3rd Soro Mouradian, CA 3rd Robert Campbell, CA

Right hand Light Heavy division was Awesome! Once again the Armenian Team showed that training
pays off!
Mens Right hand Light Heavy 199 - 220 Mens Left Hand Light Heavy
1st Chris K , Armenia (undefeated) 1st Scott Partington, CA (undefeated)
2nd Scott Partington, CA 2nd Chris K , Armenia
3rd Erik Pasin, CA 3rd Dave Hall ,CA

Right hand heavy division was almost a show stopper with a newcomer making his way through an
impressive field of competitors to take 3rd. Staraga from Florida, stated early on, he's not going to settle for
anything less than first!
Mens Right hand Heavy 221 - 242 Mens Left Hand Heavy
1st Casey Sparaga, FL (undefeated) 1st Casey Sparaga, FL (undefeated)
2nd Tom Sorbie, CA 2nd Chris K , Armenia
3rd Albert Vilamontez, CA

Right hand super heavy weight division was packed with big guys with some unbelievable upsets!
Mark Clay from Colorado and Ed Shelton from CA met in quarter final rounds, Shelton put McClary in losers
bracket in the first round! Clay was undefeated heading into the finals! McClary upset Shelton and stayed
alive to take on Clay....Hit him hard off the top and gave Clay his first loss....see results! McClary stepped
up in weight to compete! what an impressive display of technique and stamina!
Mens Right hand Super Heavy 243 - Over Mens Left hand Super Heavy
1st Mark Clay, CO 1st Don McClary, CA (undefeated)
2nd Don McClary, CA 2nd Bill Nelson, OH
3rd Ed Shelton, CA

Womens open division had several surprizes and as always a real crowd pleaser!. First time competitor
Charyn Holocker from CA went undefeated, taking 1st place. She later disclosed that she's related to
arm wrestling Icon.....Clay Rosencranz!
Womens Open Division 146 - Over
1st Charyn Holicker, CA
2nd Brie Way, CA
3rd Sarah Sampias, CA
The tournament was a blast! spectators and competitors both had a great time inspite of the wind!
Hope to see everyone again next year!
Thank you again to USA and WAF for their continued support......A big thanks to Gary Roberts with ARM TV
for helping take the sport to a new and exciting level!
Yours in Arm Wrestling
Randy Sampias

[Justin Kaufman]

This looked like a good tournament!!!


I have one question to anyone who might want to answer it.

How many times can you compete in this tournament and win, then still be eligible to pull this tournament?

From what I saw a few of the pullers at this tournament I would consider pretty solid Pros. This seems like there should be a cut off of years competing or if you've won open meets or something. I mean, to quote one puller "I've won 20 times (I'm assuming his world titles are this tournament)" Come on, am I the only one that thinks that's strange.

[Elaine Blik]

Justin, I have always understood that you can pull this "Amateur" event as long as you have not won or placed in an event offering cash prizes, or if you have, that you don't accept the cash award...

[Justin Kaufman]

Thanks Elaine, that makes sense. I guess I don't under why you would keep coming back after you had won it already, ya know.