New league in Dubai - Cano, Bartolo and Others

[packs]

Saw this article today about a new league forming in Dubai with several prominent ex players as owners: Barry Larkin, King Felix, Ryan Howard, Adrien Beltre and Mariano Rivera.

Robinson Cano, Bartolo Colon, Didi Gregorious, and Pablo Sandoval headline players drafted into it. Seems like it’ll be a mix of senior league to start but I wonder what it’ll turn into, or maybe just stay that way:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-united-league

[Shoeless Moe]

Peanuts, popcorn & beheadings.

Sounds like a blast....literally.

[bnorth]

Dubai is throwing silly money at a ton of current and former big names in many sports. The "group" putting a lot of it on is worth around 350 Billion. Yes B as in billion. For comparison a million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.

They are putting on a MMA tournament with a supposed $300 million in total prize money. For the freak show part of the event they got 3 former Worlds Strongest Men winners and a bodybuilder/actor to fight each other.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Dubai is throwing silly money at a ton of current and former big names in many sports. The "group" putting a lot of it on is worth around 350 Billion. Yes B as in billion. For comparison a million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.

They are putting on a MMA tournament with a supposed $300 million in total prize money. For the freak show part of the event they got 3 former Worlds Strongest Men winners and a bodybuilder/actor to fight each other.

Ben, do you have a link to that MMA tournament, I'm not seeing it.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Ben, do you have a link to that MMA tournament, I'm not seeing it.

Weirdly it has been confirmed by a couple of the athletes but there is still very little out there about it. It is supposed to be February 17th. I messed up and this event is in Qatar and not Dubia. But pretty much the same thing/place.

All I know is 3 strongmen and 1 bodybuilder/actor doing MMA is going to be an absolute shit show at best.
https://www.finisherschampionship.com/

[Shoeless Moe]

Thanks for the link. I may need to see this. Does sound interesting, but yah could be a trainwreck.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Weirdly it has been confirmed by a couple of the athletes but there is still very little out there about it. It is supposed to be February 17th. I messed up and this event is in Qatar and not Dubia. But pretty much the same thing/place.

All I know is 3 strongmen and 1 bodybuilder/actor doing MMA is going to be an absolute shit show at best.
https://www.finisherschampionship.com/

Could be a refreshing return to the early days when it was the tough guy fights.

Here's competitior 172, he has 10 years studying something nobody has ever heard of, 5'5" and 150lbs
And the challenger, a 50 year old guy who "won" a barfight back when he was 20, never shut up about it, and his friends basically forced him to sign up. He's 6'5" and claims 300.

The bells rings, and .... a few swings and misses by both then OUCH, that's going to hurt tomorrow... funny stuff