XSportNews rankings update keeps Levan Saginashvili and Devon Larratt on top

Levan Saginashvili and Devon Larratt still sit where arm wrestling fans expect them to sit, at the center of the sport’s right-hand conversation, but XSportNews’s latest update also shows how much of the hierarchy is being driven by fresh results rather than reputation alone. On the left side, Vitaly Laletin and Alizhan Muratov lead the board, while Artyom Morozov’s presence near the top of both lists underscores how narrow the gap remains among the elite.

The June 8 update was built with East vs West 24 results in mind and used XSportNews’s one-year rule, a filter it has applied since 2017 to remove athletes who have gone more than a year without competing. That policy already erased Ermes Gasparini and Zaur Paizulaev on May 20, 2026, before the latest rankings snapshot landed. The numbers that followed show a sport balancing competitive form with brand gravity: on the right hand, Saginashvili is first with 5985 points, Larratt is second with 5840, and Morozov is third with 5656. On the left hand, Laletin leads with 5945, Muratov is second with 5825, and Morozov again lands third with 5656.

Recent supermatches made the update feel less theoretical than usual. At East vs West 24 in Little Rock, Arkansas, Morozov beat Ermes Gasparini 4-1 on the right arm in the co-main event, while Riekerd Bornman shut out Muratov 3-0 on the right arm. Those results matter because Muratov remains second on the left-hand rankings even after failing to deliver on the right, and Gasparini, once a major right-hand name, has now been removed from the active board entirely. The message is clear: the rankings reward names that keep showing up, and punish long absences.

The top of the sport still has a familiar shape because the biggest names still carry the biggest wins. East vs West lists Levan Saginashvili as the right-arm super heavyweight world champion and Vitalii Laletin as the left-arm super heavyweight world champion, while Larratt sits behind Saginashvili on the right-hand list and Muratov trails Laletin on the left. XSportNews also frames Saginashvili as a seven-time World Armwrestling Championship winner and notes that he returned from a wrist injury to beat Larratt on April 20, 2024. That history is part competitive record, part commercial engine, and it explains why Levan and Devon remain the gravitational center even as Morozov, Muratov, and Laletin keep forcing the sport’s hierarchy to stay honest.