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How fake is Bully Beatdown?

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#1 ·




I knew from the beginning that the show advertised for tough guys to apply and they would be chosen based on some sort of bully mentality towards their friends. I did not find out until a few days ago that not one of the bullies had in fact, ever bullied the actors that have played the part of the victims.


I spoke with a friend that helped with the production of the show and was told that most of the bully/victim combo had never even met prior to the taping of each episode.
Take bully Jon from the last episode with Jake Shields. Last year he was on the Fox TV show Battle of the Bods where Jonathan proclaimed to be a professional stuntman as he judged the bodies of young women. jon-bods

Even though Bully Beatdown is filled with actors the fights are mostly real. The stuntmen do try to fight back against the Pro MMA fighters but their payday comes not from the 10,000 prize money offered up but from the money guaranteed on the contract they signed going into the fight.

I knew that the show was a litte fake but I am disappointed in just how fake it really is.
http://www.mmatko.com/bully-beatdown-using-pro-stuntmen-to-act-part-of-bully/

Discuss.
 
#25 ·
IMO pro-wrestling is fake too, but I'm not sure..
It is fake, the most real i "fights" are the one of the UFC...
^^lol yea i thought that was suspect but hey all MTV shows are fake. Just turn off your brain and be entertained
Yea 99% of "reality" shows on tv are fake so just try to think its real :thumb02:
I thought the show was a neat idea, but I was pretty sure it was going to be scripted, and it obviously is.

If it were real, the 'bullies' would have to be completely retarded. You know you wouldn't get anywhere near 10,000 dollars, you'd be lucky to get 1 or 2 thousand, maybe zero, and that for the privilege of getting publicly humiliated and beaten for 6 minutes. You'd have a pretty hard time finding people to sign up for that if it were real.

Nice idea, but obviously fake.
Yea, i mean 10k its not worth being humiliated on national/international tv...
this is like when you watch amateur porn and you want to believe it is at least somewhat real, and then you recognize the girl from 100 other porns :( I just wanted to suspend my disbelief
lol'd
 
#5 ·
I definitely knew the last episode was bogus, it was just a little too ridiculous. And of course its all scripted. At first I found it entertaining but from now on i'm just going to fast forward to the fights. At least in pro wrestling the guys are actually competing for their jobs. 'you and your kid getting kicked out right before christmas by the big bad bully' come on.. light his house on fire or something.
 
#16 ·
they did this...i forget what it was called (well actually i thought it was called joes versus pros MMA) and yeah they had mma fighters go in against army trainers and other joe-type people who thought they were awesome fighters. i forget who the mma guy was, but it was def one of the more famous guys. as i recall there was no striking; the mma guy just submitted them over and over again. each joe spent 3 minutes in the ring im pretty sure, and usually got submitted about 4 - 8 times in that 3 minutes
 
#12 ·
I thought the show was a neat idea, but I was pretty sure it was going to be scripted, and it obviously is.

If it were real, the 'bullies' would have to be completely retarded. You know you wouldn't get anywhere near 10,000 dollars, you'd be lucky to get 1 or 2 thousand, maybe zero, and that for the privilege of getting publicly humiliated and beaten for 6 minutes. You'd have a pretty hard time finding people to sign up for that if it were real.

Nice idea, but obviously fake.
 
#18 ·
Mayhem himself said it was fake on the UG!!!!!

MayheM

Member Since: 1/1/01
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I have a confession to make.

Bully Beatdown is completely fake. Everyone on it is actors. Everyone involved with the show knows that it is fake and we script pretty much everything that comes out of their mouth. I have not yet got an executive producer credit, or a writer's credit- but I write the bully's dialouge myself. I will be E.P. on season two. That's right, our scripted fake show is suppossedly doing so well done that we will be getting a season two. Makes my stomach hurt that I'm selling this slop. I'm sorry.

The fights are the most complicated portion of the show. The real trick is, hiring stuntmen that are so skilled that they can make it look like we are putting them in 16 oz gloves, headgear and convincingly get beat up by mixed martial artists. We looked high and low, but we found them, and made the show really convincing. Unfortunately, the people on the internet are much too bright to be fooled by this trickery, and have exposed us. This doesn't really affect us too much, because no one cares what a few back alley websites say about our hit MTV show, but I couldn't bear to read the forum with all this shame that I'm carrying around. I'm actually considering turning down the contract to host the next season because of the ridicule that I'm recieving on this board and others.

Again. I'm sorry interwebz. I apologize, sincerely.
:D


(for the slow, his post was sarcastic. The show is not scripted and the fights are real.




EDIT: I WAS WRONG. SHIT IS FAKED! F U MAYHEM!
 
#21 ·
Mayhem himself said it was fake on the UG!!!!!



:D


(for the slow, his post was sarcastic. The show is not scripted and the fights are real.
He was only being sarcastic about caring that people realised it was fake.
He basically said the show is fake, but he doesn't give a crap because it is selling.

Best not to end a post with "and for the slow..." unless you are sure of what you are saying.
 
#20 ·
MTV's "Bully Beatdown" starring Jason "Mayhem" Miller has been a surprise smash hit, and a serious guilty pleasure among serious MMA fans over the last few weeks. As if the poorly-crafted canned lines (seemingly read right off a cue card) weren't obvious enough, MMA TKO is now reporting that MTV hired professional stuntmen to pose as the "bullies" on the show, and in most cases, the "bullies" had never met their "victims" prior to the show:

I spoke with a friend that helped with the production of the show and was told that most of the bully/victim combo had never even met prior to the taping of each episode

Take bully Jon from the last episode with Jake Shields. Last year he was on the Fox TV show Battle of the Bods where Jonathan proclaimed to be a professional stuntman as he judged the bodies of young women.

Even though Bully Beatdown is filled with actors the fights are mostly real. The stuntmen do try to fight back against the Pro MMA fighters but their payday comes not from the 10,000 prize money offered up but from the money guaranteed on the contract they signed going into the fight.
Update: I have been asked for proof that any of these guys are actors. Well here you go:
Ryan Adam Kessman : one of the fighters IMDb Resume. Lists his background Performance Skills: Martial Arts, Stunts. He was even on My name is Earl.


This is an interesting revelation, but it's certainly not the most surprising or earth-shattering bit of news, especially given the scripted nature of many of MTV's "reality" shows such as "The Hills" and various dating shows. Whether or not these guys really are bullies is pretty inconsequential, as they're still apparently actually fighting the MMA fighters. However, bringing in professional stuntmen certainly gives the "bullies" more of an advantage in the fights, and if MTV had used average joes, the beatdowns would probably be much more severe.​
 
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