Stone Cold Killer wins the 2012 Ear Pulling contest with ease, a breakdown
What Happened
This 2019 Jomboy upload steps outside baseball entirely and breaks down footage from the Inuit ear pulling championships, a traditional cold-weather endurance contest. Two competitors loop a waxed string around one ear each, then lean back and pull until one person quits from the pain. The video tracks one composed competitor, dubbed the 'Stone Cold Killer,' who dresses like he's headed to an office job and quietly dismantles the bracket. Opponents grimace, cry, and bleed while he stays expressionless on his way to the title.
Why This Matters
The ear pull is a real event in Arctic Winter Games and similar Inuit and Yupik competitions, rooted in teaching kids to tolerate the hardship of life in extreme cold. There's no trick to it. You endure or you tap out, and the string can split the skin, which is why blood on the rope shows up more than once here. The appeal of this clip has nothing to do with sports knowledge. It's the contrast between the brutal mechanic and the calm, business-casual winner who looks ready to grab his reading glasses and head back to work. Jomboy leaned into 'Fun Sport Friday' to spotlight events most fans never see, and this one became his single most-viewed breakdown, proof that the format travels well beyond a pitch-tipping or umpire argument.
At 24.1M views it ranks first out of 1,583 Jomboy breakdowns, the top 0.1% of the entire catalog and his most-watched video ever.
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Full Transcript
Click timestamps to jump to that momentit is fun sport friday and we're going to the inuit ear pulling championships
nice victory here next check out this next guy stone cold killer wax string
around both ears just sitting in the igloo wondering how are we going to pass
time they say the goal of this oh i won is to
just uh endure pain that's the entire goal of the sport see who can endure
pain got a lot of this guy he looks like he's crying already he's oh
my god oh my god oh he won but i think his ear lost oh
my god this guy's a silent killer holy shit he just snapped that that dude's
ear is bleeding that dude's ear is bleeding now look at the blood oh my
god stone cold killer on the right oh oh yeah you're bleeding dude your ear's
bleeding okay good game you beat me yeah my ear's bleeding i endured pain okay
here we go so they say that you know the life is tough inuit life's
tough so they gotta teach their kids to endure pain so this is a game
they played seems fucking nuts here we go stone cold killer oh snaps
that guy that sends blue shirt to the loser's bracket here's the loser's bracket oh
my god oh my god oh my god his face and his ear are so
scrunched the whole dude's life is scrunched other guy wins but did he because he's
crying it's all about enduring pain oh my god ah nice quick victory there
some tears that had to hurt but he moves on now he's gonna face blue
shirt and the winner of this gets to face that killer in the championship oh
my god blue shirt loses round one we got tears in the
eyes we got oh blue shirt wins round two rubber match blue shirt gets it
all the pain the other dude endured for nothing but now he's got to face
the stone cold killer he's stone cold killer says hey man you're bleeding on the
rope just get that blood out of here beats him two in a row this
guy showed up in jeans a collared shirt and a vest he's gonna walk over
to the table and put on his reading glasses and say okay yeah i'm the
world champion ear puller i gotta go back to my day job though thanks for
having me see ya what is going on here