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A 6-foot-4, 250-pound teenager is rewriting what a champion is supposed to look like on the arm wrestling table.

Aleksandr Beziazykov, better known in the sport by his nickname “Schoolboy,” turned 18 in July 2019 and already had a highlight reel that most grown men in the sport can’t match. The Russian, born July 22, 2000, in Arsenyev, Primorsky Krai, built his frame and his technique under the eye of his older brother, Alex Toproll, and by mid-2019 he was pulling down arms belonging to opponents twice his age across Russia, the United States, Malaysia and South Korea. ARMWRESTLING TV’s compilation video “18 YEARS OLD ARM WRESTLING CHAMPION” strings together those wins into one reel — and it’s easy to see why it went viral.

• Beziazykov stands 6 feet 4 inches (195 cm) and weighs around 250 pounds, a frame he built starting training at age 13 and entering competition a year later.
• He relies primarily on the toproll and hook, using rapid hand control, back pressure and pronation to break down opponents’ grips before pinning them.
• The ARMWRESTLING TV compilation documents his tournament wins and open-challenge matches across Russia, the United States, Malaysia and South Korea through mid-2019.

The Brothers Behind the Table

Beziazykov’s rise didn’t happen in a vacuum. His older brother, known in the sport as Alex Toproll, coached him from the start and has been the one filming and posting his matches through the ARMWRESTLING TV channel. That brother-coach setup is part of why the footage has the feel of a running documentary rather than a one-off viral clip — match after match, tournament after tournament, building toward the “18 years old” milestone the latest video is named for.

Toproll and Hook: The Technical Package

What separates Schoolboy from a lot of big, strong teenagers is that he doesn’t just win on size. His game is built around the toproll and the hook, two of arm wrestling’s core techniques, and he executes them with a speed of hand control that veteran pullers aren’t ready for. He gets to back pressure and pronation early, takes away his opponent’s wrist before the opponent even registers he’s lost it, and finishes the pin fast. Against powerlifters and experienced arm wrestlers who outweigh or out-age him, that technical edge — not just his frame — is what keeps ending matches in seconds.

Standing 6’4″ and roughly 250 pounds at 18, with a toproll fast enough to catch grown powerlifters off guard — that’s the pitch that turned “Schoolboy” into a name outside Russia.

An International Résumé Before 19

By the time this compilation dropped, Beziazykov had already competed on four different continents’ worth of mats — tournaments and open challenges in Russia, the United States, Malaysia and South Korea. That’s an unusually broad footprint for a competitor who was still a teenager, and it’s a big part of why the ARMWRESTLING TV footage plays less like a local highlight reel and more like the case for a future world-level puller. Fans of viral prodigy stories in other combat disciplines will recognize the pattern — the kind of early, wide-ranging dominance that either fizzles or turns into a real career, the same tension that’s driven scrutiny of claims across martial arts more broadly in recent years.

A Teenager Among Veterans

Part of the draw of the “Schoolboy” clips is the visual mismatch: a kid who looks like he should be in a high school hallway locking hands with men twice his age and, often, twice his tournament experience. It’s the same instinct that makes any viral story about a teenager doing something no one expects travel fast online — except here it’s repeatable, match after match, tournament after tournament, not a one-time moment.

The description on the video promises “more to come,” and given Beziazykov’s age, his brother’s coaching, and the pace at which he’s already stacked wins across four countries, that’s not an idle line. The next tournament footage out of the Beziazykov camp is the one worth watching for — whoever draws Schoolboy across the table next is the one who has to solve the toproll first.