Devon Larratt
Canadian professional arm wrestler and former Canadian Armed Forces special forces soldier
Devon Larratt (Canadian professional arm wrestler and former Canadian Armed Forces special forces soldier) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Arm wrestling, Levan Saginashvili, Performance-enhancing drugs.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Arm wrestling
Larratt argues that balance is overrated for an athlete trying to win a single right-handed world title.
“I think balance is a nice concept for some imaginary world that you live in”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:34:25
Larratt values arm wrestling as a low-cost fight sport that can be practised for a lifetime.
“arm wrestling is one of those fight sports that has super low cost. We don't punch each other in the head”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 23:47
Larratt says his high-repetition, light-weight training functions as healing rather than extra workload.
“The high rep training heals me. It heals me. A lot of people are like, oh, that's a lot of work”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 19:30
Larratt argues the key technical nuance of arm wrestling is forcing the opponent to hold on to you rather than relying on grip.
“the real technical nuance of the sport is to try and make the other person hold on to you”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 11:17
Larratt says his loss of elbow range can be turned to his advantage, which he calls weaponized arthritis.
“Anyways, it doesn't affect me in the sport. I actually, I call it weaponized arthritis”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 3:58
Levan Saginashvili
- Prediction · due Oct 2027
Larratt says he is scheduled to face Saginashvili again in about 16 months.
“I'm going to face that guy, LeVon, in like 16 months”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:39
Larratt contends his own training is more precise than Saginashvili's heavier, sledgehammer approach.
“But egotistically and arrogantly, I'm going to say that my training is more precise than his”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 58:06
Larratt says Levan Saginashvili has not been beaten since 2017 and has dominated the field.
“LeVon, nobody has beat this guy since 2017. He has absolutely flattened the field, okay?”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 54:44
Performance-enhancing drugs
Larratt says East vs West has no drug testing, whereas the government-linked World Armwrestling Federation does test.
“At East versus West, there's not, okay? So it's F1, you know, everything goes, but”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:17:01
Larratt says he supports tested sport but also believes in open competition that lets everyone play.
“I'm a big believer in tested sport. You know, I think that that's wonderful”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 44:03
East vs West (arm wrestling)
Larratt says top arm wrestlers now earn a healthy six-figure income without needing side jobs.
“you definitely don't need a side job. You definitely don't. Um, and you're, and you're, you're probably definitely making a healthy, a healthy six figures”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:16:16
Larratt says COVID destroyed the old leagues while social media boosted arm wrestling, leading to East vs West becoming the sport's premier promotion.
“East versus West came along and now we're everything. UFC, we're like the UFC of arm wrestling now”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:14:21
Exorcism
Larratt relays that a close fellow soldier was reportedly possessed, spoke in tongues, and underwent an exorcism by a military padre.
“he got possessed by a demon he started speaking in tongues. He knew everything about everybody he could speak different languages”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 2:36:41
Kandahar Giant
Larratt recounts seeing through optics an Afghan warlord he estimated at around eight feet tall.
“I think he was eight foot something. It's embarrassing”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 2:29:39
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Larratt says he overcame fear of parachuting by repeatedly watching parachute failures to desensitize himself.
“But what I did was I used to watch parachute fails. Over and over and over and over and over”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 2:23:41
Joint Task Force 2
Larratt says he spent 16 of his 20 military years in JTF2 and left largely because of arm wrestling's public visibility.
“I was with a unit called JTF2 for 16 out of my 20 years”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 2:09:08
Predictions
1 pending
- Prediction · due Oct 2027
Larratt says he is scheduled to face Saginashvili again in about 16 months.
“I'm going to face that guy, LeVon, in like 16 months”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2510 - Devon Larratt (Jun 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:39 · Levan Saginashvili
Appearances
#2510 - Devon LarrattThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 5, 2026 · 2 h 49 min
Joe Rogan talks with arm wrestler Devon Larratt about training at 51, Levan Saginashvili, the sport's history, his JTF2 career, and war stories.
Often appears with
- Joe Rogan · 1 shared episode