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‘The Mountain’ from ‘Game of Thrones’ gets dominated in arm wrestling match against man half his size

James Dator
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.

Hafthor Bjornsson is EASILY one of the baddest dudes on the planet. He’s 6’9, 419 pounds of pure refined fury. The Icelandic strongman is the reigning Europe’s strongest man, a perennial podium finisher in the World’s Strongest Man contest and perhaps best known as “The Mountain” in Game of Thrones, where he is the scariest man in Westeros. Over the weekend he met his match.

Meet Devon Larratt. He’s a former member of the Canadian Special Forces turned professional arm wrestler. At 225 pounds he might give up almost 200 to “The Mountain,” but any arm wrestler will tell you that it’s all in the technique. Right-handed, left-handed -- it didn’t matter, he won easily both times.

The last time we saw Gregor Clegane grimace like this he’d been hit with manticore venom.

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