Honky tonk stud Riley Green doesn't just break ladies' hearts; he breaks burly dudes' limbs in arm-wrestling matches.
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Yeah, that's right. The "Different 'Round Here" singer once channeled Sly Stallone in 1987's arm-wrestling saga, Over the Top, dispatching multiple takers in a match of brute strength.
Green even sent one of the hapless arm-wrestlers straight to the hospital.
According to Taste of Country, it all went down some time back at the Flora-Bama club at the fabled Florida/Alabama state line.
"I mean, it was years ago; I was playing at the Flora-Bama, and I came on the stage, and some guy was like, 'Let's arm wrestle.' I was like, 'That's weird,'" the 37-year-old recalled to Taste of Country's Evan Paul back in 2024.
While many celebrities would recoil at the thought of touching a fan, let alone arm-wrestling them, Riley Green was more than game.
Green claims he made short work of the fan, effortlessly defeating him in his arm-wrestling challenge. However, it didn't stop there. Green said other misguided men attempted to beat the testosterone-fueled "I Wish Grandpas Never Died" singer. He recalled beating two or three more would-be arm-wrestling champs.
Gluttons for punishment, the Flora-Bama-based fans wouldn't throw in the towel.
"They're like, 'We're gonna go find somebody,' and they bring this like 40-year-old dude; he's like, 'Bring it up with the big guy,'" Green told Taste of Country.
However, their champion would prove no match for Green.
Riley Green Recounts Sending Fan to Hospital After Brutal Arm-Wrestling Match
Not only did Green defeat the boss-level arm-wrestler, but he also severely injured him. Footage of the fateful moment still exists, with Green gleefully posting it on TikTok several years back. The video ends with a somewhat graphic moment that his challenger's arm buckles in a direction it's not meant to...
@rileyduckman Throwback to that one time I broke a guys arm at the #florabama #overthetop #armwrestling #ouch #sports #countrymusic ? original sound - Riley Green
In the video, you see the man's arm flop about, clearly injured.
"Mayhem," Green recalled of the moments following the harrowing match. "He had, like his arm, laid over on the table, and an ambulance came and got him. I felt horrible about it."
That said, it didn't stop the country star from celebrating his merciless victory.
Green remembers his buddies carrying him out of the club as though it were the climactic moment in Rudy. He also admitted he felt like "the coolest guy ever."
Enquiring minds want to know... was the tatted up, burly man he defeated a fan of his country crooning?
"I don't know. Not anymore," he told Taste of Country, doing his best Patrick Swayze in Road House impersonation.
