Maybe this is how the UFC got started 14:07 07/12/2012 Arm-wrestling may be a niche sport, but these guys put on a good show Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. Minutes before going on live television early Thursday afternoon, organizers of the Professional Armwrestling League are frantically shuffling through their makeshift arena inside the Crown Bar at the Rio, putting on the final touches to one of their major events of the year. Someone is searching for music (the trendier the better) to play during matches, a referee is being tutored on how to operate the camera that will monitor the action, and television commentators are brushing up on biography information of the nonhousehold name arm-wrestlers. OK, they are all nonhousehold names. The participants, several of whom are European, are curiously wandering through the near-vacant ballroom with their arms wrapped tightly in a towel to stay warm, similar to how a baseball pitcher cares for his arm in the dugout