Kentucky Dirty takes home the Golden Bicep

Kentucky Dirty wins the race... er, match!
Power housing through her first two bouts against CoCo the Killer Clown and The Ohio Hacksaw, The Kentucky Dirty didn't even break a sweat!
In the finals, she kept up the stride as she went head to head with Boudica, eventually putting her to the axe as well.





Congratulations Kentucky Dirty! We'll see you again at the D/CLAW championships in June, when the winners of all our prior matches come back to duke it out once more to determine who D/CLAW will send to the Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers championship over the summer.

But what about the other winner of the night? That's right, the biggest winner from last night's match was the American Legion, Post 8. Through last night's betting and door fees, D/CLAW collected more than $5,000 for the legion.

Meet the Wrestlers: Bo Shemoth

A direct descent of the ancient British warrior (a fierce DCLAW competitor) Queen Boudica and fathered by a Jotunn, Bo Shemoth’s veins run green with superhuman power and a strong thread of insanity. Bo Shemoth’s insatiable appetite for conquest makes her a formidable opponent when she can be coaxed back to reality and forced to the wrestling table. Some say her strength is imbued in her hair; they are wrong. Others say it’s the Spider Venom she drinks; wrong again. She’s just mad.
If by chance Bo Shemoth squares off against her mother Boudica at the DCLAW match Dec. 3, watch out. It'll be a fearsome brawl.

Meet the Wrestlers: Capitol Punishment

Capitol Punishment is a former cop turned vigilante bounty hunter. Kicked off the force after receiving one to many complaints about using excessive force, she puts her unique training to use to bring bad boys & girls to justice.
Known to bend the law until it cries "Uncle," Capitol Punishment always gets the job done. She's considered armed & dangerous folks, so wrestlers pitted against her on Dec. 3 better pray that they're never at her mercy... she has none.

Meet the Wrestlers: CoCo the Killer Clown

Coco the Killer Clown was born in a Pennsylvania Carny village to a freakshow mother and a trapeze father. At an early age she had a penchant for comedy and clowns but after being fired from a cannon by a malicious midget and regaining consciousness in the House of Horrors she turned mercurial. She wants badly to become a happy clown but a dark side weighs her down.
See which clown triumphs on Dec. 3, the good or the evil.

Meet the Wrestlers: Kentucky Dirty

Ravaged with gambling debt and disgraced from her family’s good name, The Kentucky Dirty had to abandon her debutant lifestyle at the racetracks and pick up some side work of more nefarious means. Whereas a few short years ago she could be found in the Grandstand sipping mint juleps and wearing the latest Southern fashions with the likes of DCLAW champion Scarlett O'Scara, now she spends her nights in honky tonks betting Simulcast with dirty lotto cards and sipping bad whiskey.
Pay attention to where Kentucky places her bets Dec. 3, as she's been known to rig a match or two in her day.

Meet the Wresters: Ms. T. Dynamite

Ms. T. Dynamite was born in a coal fire to the family of blacksmiths and grease monkeys. She was molded in iron , tweaked by MOPAR and then covered in trees branches by her my mother to keep her soft. Growing up, she pounded hot iron, held lamps over engines in sub-zero temperatures and trained to work on her fire power. Tools and gunpowder are her talent. Don't be surprised by her soft demeanor and tiny size on Dec. 3. The most powerful Dynamite often comes in the smallest packages!

Meet the Wrestlers: Jillotine

How will Madame Jillotine punish the competition on Dec. 3? It will be quick - but it will not be painless. She has perfected an execution style arm-wrestling technique made popular during the French Revolution. All who challenge her are sentenced to an armful of vengeance. Spectators delight in her mercilessness. Be prepared for the Reign of Terror and take heed of the Madame's decree, "Off with their arms!"

Meet the Wrestlers: Ohio Hacksaw

The illegitimate daughter of Jim Duggan and a lump of molten steel, The Ohio Hacksaw was sent down a river in a basket and raised by a clan of giant beavers along the banks of the Tuscarawas. The beaver clan helped the Hacksaw hone her innate ability to destroy. Now, her primal training over, and she is compelled to bring her skills to humankind. She is driven by a need to compete and a consumption born of her early abandonment, or maybe just a beaver's urge to hack everything. She’s had Ohio, and it was good, but now she desires more.
On Dec. 3, she's bringing the Ohio to our nation’s capital and tearing it apart.

Meet the Wrestlers: Boudica

Boudica was a fierce warrior who killed tens of thousands of Roman soldiers to save her tribal land, Iceni in Southern Britain. In 60AD, the Romans were pillaging Britain. After her husband Prasutagus died, Nero baulked at a Queen leading the Iceni tribal land and showed force by flogging her and raping her daughters. Boudica vowed revenge and led the Iceni people and other native tribes into multiple victories over the Romans. Boudica means victorious and on Dec. 3, that's exactly what she intends to be!

DCLAW meet up Nov. 10

Have you been to a DCLAW match and been wowed by the biceps on those gals? Would you like to learn more about DC's league of Lady Arm Wrestlers? Even wrestle yourself?
Then stop by DCLAW's happy hour at Solly's on Thursday.
DCLAW's current cast of characters will be meeting to discuss some of our past bouts and brainstorming new ideas for future events. So if you've felt the arm wrestling bug biting you but haven't acted on it yet, be sure to stop by and introduce yourself.
There may even be impromptu wrestling as we get geared up for our next bout, Dec. 3.

The deets:
What: DCLAW meet up
When: Thursday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Solly's U Street Tavern
11th and U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
Why: Cause it's fun!

Media clips from Oct. 22 match

Both the Washington Post and the Prince George's County Gazette covered our last match at the Community Forklift warehouse!
The Post included photos throughout the event but the Gazette caught the final match between Eve of Destruction and Spanish ARMada!

Meet the Wrestlers: Aussie Osbourne

Aussie Osbourne is an Australian singer-songwriter, whose arm-wrestling career has overshadowed her vocal talents for decades. Aussie has dominated the competition on the
daunting Pacific Rim circuit and has recently landed in North America. Word is Aussie had to skip country to escape pending competitor cruelty charges which stemmed from an incident at the always contentious OZ –Kiwi Smackdown Challenge when an enraged Aussie tried to bite the head off one of her Kiwi competitors. Watch out for Aussie - Don't be fooled by the big hair: her bite is worse than her bark - and that is saying something!

Meet the Wrestlers: Spanish ARMada

Spanish ARMada hails from Miami, Florida by way of Madrid, Spain. Never content with her current conquests, she has roamed the high seas preying upon those who would dare to challenge her. She combines state-of-the-art flamenco moves with ancient bullfighting techniques as she sinks her opponents, one by floundering one. Watch out, because if she doesn't get to keep what she claims, she might just break your arm off.

Meet the Wrestlers: Ohio Hacksaw

An illegitimate daughter of “Hacksaw Jim Duggan”, The Ohio Hacksaw was sent down a river in a basket only to be raised by a clan of giant beavers on the banks of the Tuscarawas. The beaver clan, being nature’s most hack, helped The Ohio Hacksaw hone her innate ability to destroy. Eventually she was compelled to bring her skills to the society of humankind.
Whatever drives her, a need to compete, a consumption borne of her early abandonment, or just a beaver's urge to hack everything, arm wrestle she must. She’s had Ohio, and it was good. But she desires more. So she’s brought the Ohio to the nation’s capitol.

Meet the Wrestlers: Nouveau Biche

Nouveau Biche was born with a plastic spork in her mouth but quickly snatched the silver spoon from a nearby infant, launching a life-long quest for privilege. Feared less for her skills with a tennis racket or golf club than her penchant for wielding them, Ms. Biche is accustomed to victory. If you see her cruising the mean streets of Bethesda in her Hummer, steer clear. She's likely enraged by the need to pay TWO parking meters, and the only thing she's not good at is controlling her temper.

Meet the Wrestlers: Motown Mama

Motown Mama was born the palest soul sister ever to emerge from The Motor City, back in the day when cars were all American and only American made ― real automobiles― 20 feet long and pressed from three tons of 16-gauge steel; clad in bright, hard-enameled two-tone colors, festooned in gleaming chrome. Motown Mama's momma was none other than Rosie the Riveter (or was it Rosie the Ravager?), and her daddy was scandalously rumored to be old John Henry, himself.
"Mo" worked her way up the assembly line at GM's historic Flint, Michigan plant, where she first called attention to her astonishing musculature by pushing completed truck chassis, two at a time, across the factory floor. She really rose to notoriety when she strong-armed her way to becoming the first woman union boss of the United Auto Workers. In 1954, Motown Mama filed suit against her employers on the grounds that GM had blatantly copied her personal physique when a few years earlier they had introduced the fashionable and highly successful twin-bullet front end. By 1956, the suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of damages, plus an additional stipulation that GM would also add increasingly exaggerated tail-fins to the back ends of their vehicles to help diminish any visual similarity. Motown Mama always asserted her right to dignity.

Meet the Wrestlers: Long Arm of the Law

Born in the Wild Wild West, The Long Arm of the Law is a stickler for the straight and narrow and is willing to throw down to show just how law-abiding she is.  She has come to the East Coast to bring some law and order to DCLAW and she thinks the golden bicep will look mighty pretty next to her shiny silver sheriff’s badge.

Meet the Wrestlers: Eve of Destruction

Contrary to popular myth, Eve was not conceived out of some lame man's rib. Rather, she was the result of a contained nuclear explosion set off during the height of the Manhattan Project.
But Eve wanted to use her powers for good. Refusing to be a weapon for the US Government, she fought her way out of Los Alamos and traveled the world for decades before settling in Washington, DC. Along the way she picked up a love of punk music, new wave feminism and french fries.
Just beware, this chemical reactor has a hatred of lame pick-up lines. Utter a lame "Wow, you're tall," and she burst you like an atom bomb.

Meet the Wrestlers: Bellatrix LeStrong

Best not to be near the jail when this prison dame makes a break.
Known for her wild-eyed stare and wilder hair, she who cannot be tamed is back. Bellatrix LeStrong has escaped.
LeStrong, leader of the infamous Death Beaters, leaves only destruction in her wake.
Often spotted bench-pressing fellow inmates in the yard, LeStrong was finally placed in solitary confinement after a guard was pulled from her room one piece at a time. Prison officials have no explanation for her escape, saying only that the bars to her cell were removed, as if by magic.

Seeking lady arm wrestlers

DCLAW is now seeking interested wrestlers for our upcoming October 22 match. Perspective lady wrestlers will need an fearsome alter ego, entourage of at least three members to provide support to their wrestler throughout the match, and some strong biceps and triceps.
Anyone interested in wrestling can send an email with your wrestler's alter ego bio to DClawleague@gmail.com.