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In true pro wrestling style, Hulk Hogan was defeated by Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Friday morning in an arm wrestling match that had an ending that could only be believed in a writers’ room.

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“The only reason he beat me is because he’s younger,” Hogan, 60, said of the 44-year-old mayor, who the former wrestling champ nicknamed “Fantastic Ford.”

“It was like wrestling a friggin’ grizzly bear,” Ford said of the 302-pound wrestler, who is known to refer to his biceps as “24-inch pythons.”

It didn’t seem like much of a fair fight when they sized each other up prior to their promotional match for Toronto’s massively popular Fan Expo. One man stood at 6’7 and had biceps that seemed to go for days. The other wore a suit and was Rob Ford.

At 308 pounds, the mayor had a six-pound advantage.