Arizona state championships join EVW 24 supermatch weekend in Chandler
Arizona’s state title night in Chandler was folded into EVW 24, adding seven supermatches and widening the spotlight for the pullers.
The Arizona State Championships were no longer just a state-title stop in Chandler. By folding Arm Sports Entertainment’s 10-year anniversary supermatch card into the EVW 24 Extended Pass, the June 13 weekend added seven more supermatches and turned a regional championship into part of a larger professional showcase.
The program in Chandler, Arizona, gave the state meet a bigger stage without stripping away its local identity. Gold’s Arm listed the Arizona card as part of Arm Sports Entertainment’s June 6, 2026 weekend package and said the collaboration with EVW Sports would bring seven additional supermatches to an already packed event. For athletes, that meant the chance to pull in front of a broader audience tied to one of the sport’s better-known promotional brands. For the promoters, it was a clear signal that a state championship could carry value beyond one night of medals and rankings.
The card itself underscored why the Arizona stop was attractive enough to be bundled into the EVW package. Matches on the list included Jordan Sill vs Allen Ford, Mario Tambakis vs Robbie Topie, Mauia Kolupegi vs Easton McCormick, Josh Eleton vs Curtis Cameron, John Therrien vs Ryan Ballesteros, Kristaps Blumanis vs Joseph Meranto, and Tim Tallmadge vs Brandon Ellessor. That lineup gave Chandler a deep field of recognizable names and created the kind of match-by-match draw that travels well in clips, streams, and promotional recaps.
The scale of the listing suggested the audience was already there. Gold’s Arm said the Arizona Championships page had drawn more than 2,500 views, a useful indicator that the state event had attention before the EVW cross-promotion even expanded the weekend. That kind of interest matters in arm wrestling, where visibility is increasingly built through packaging as much as through the pull itself.
What stood out most was the way the event was framed: not as a standalone state championship, but as a value-added piece of the EVW 24 weekend. A 10-year anniversary card already carried milestone appeal; attaching it to the EVW 24 Extended Pass pushed it toward pro-tier branding and a wider audience funnel. If the model holds, Chandler will look less like a one-off stop and more like a template for how state-level arm wrestling can feed the sport’s next level.
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