Life as Canada's Beer Guzzling, Arm Wrestling Internet Troll

A “street legend” at the crossroads of his life.

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Meet Evan “Bad Company” Bourgoin, Canada’s beer-guzzling, arm-wrestling internet troll. Bourgoin is a champion arm wrestler on the local Canadian circuit caught at a crossroads in his life: does he continue forward chasing a professional arm wrestling career or does he call it quits to focus on providing more for his family. In the latest installment of Vice Sports’ Street Legends series, we follow Evan from his day job to his title-defending match at a local sports bar in Ontario.

Check out the previous episode of Street Legends here for a look an aging Canadian streetball legend taking his last shot at the NBA.

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