Will Rustam Babayev return to armwrestling? 09:00 03/03/2015 I would love to see him making a great comeback shake the armwrestling world for some more years. As far as I know he will be allowed to pull Malaysia WAF of course only if he returns. Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. I find this subject as an important one for our sport. Rustam has been the most successful light middle weight puller in the history. First time I ever saw him was 2000 Europeans in Istanbul. He was a junior champion who also pulled seniors and took second to Russian Valery Goussov. Rustam was undefeated till the final but lost twice in the final. In fact when I won 1999 Europeans in Hungary he was a junior puller as I later saw him in the videos of the competetion when he was watching my matches against Tsakhilov. He was 17 then. It was 2001 WAF and I went there when I was very ill. There I saw the Ukranian puller Bogdan Borisenko who took 2-nd to me in 1999 Europeans. In 2001 EAC he won