So, this is now a thing, courtesy of Justin Bieber:
“I wanna challenge Tom Cruise to fight in the octagon. Tom if you dont take this fight your scared and you will never live it down. Who is willing to put on the fight? @danawhite ?”
Rules:
6 months to prepare - this is happening Christmas Day, as a gift to all of us.
No weapons - just pure hand-to-hand. Gloves, cups, etc, are fine.
If you wish to explore different styles… like you think Tom would… cruise… to a win in MMA, but Justin might win a boxing match… that’s fine too. But the poll is pretty binary.
Yeah, I was going to mention Cruise’s age, too. I mean, there are some 56-year-olds who can beat some 20somethings in a fight, so we can’t rule it out, but we have no particular reason to expect that this is one of them.
Cruise may be older but I would wager he is in much better physical condition. Watch Mission Impossible: Fallout - Cruise did all the stunts. Has Bieber ever thrown a punch, real or pretend?
I did vote Bieber, but one point in Cruise’s favor is that Bieber is the one who issued the challenge. There’s a negative correlation between the sort of person who issues such challenges and the sort of person who actually wins them.
This may be somewhat mitigated by the strong possibility that Bieber’s challenge was intended as a joke.
That’s what I was going to reference. Cruise has got to be in great shape from all those action flicks, and I would think a passing familiarity with martial arts, again from training for those type of scenes. Yes that’s no comparison to actual combat training, yet would be a step above Beiber I would think. Given those advantages I think Cruise would want to go for a quick bout, within the next month, don’t give Bieber 6 months to prepare.
Look, I know this is all hypothetical. It has to be. I mean if it wasn’t and with the government and the world running the way they are, I’d start to think I was in a coma-induced nightmarish Hell otherwise.
That said, I’m going to spoiler box my response just so it doesn’t detract from the ‘fun’ of the game, Ok? Just skip past it, it won’t affect betting results or odds.
I realize that this answer is boring… but… must I choose? Couldn’t I just point and laugh instead…?
Think of it… two people who make their living off of their faces trying to pound the flesh on each other’s faces into cheap ribeye steak?
The jobs of entire production companies in the balance? At least one bloodied loser being dragged away at the end screaming (in a voice breaking like a 14 year old going through puberty) “I’m gonna Sue you! I’m gonna Sue you…!”
I mean, I may watch a train wreck, but I won’t bet on it.
