Shocking! Bully Beatdown is fake

I knew there was something fishy about MTV's Bully Beatdown.

The news comes from MMA TKO. 

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.

Well this explains a lot.

My first big qualm with the show was that money was being exchanged for a fight. Shouldn't the state athletic commission should be involved and what commission in their right mind will allow an untrained amateur to fight or spar with a professional for money? Well, maybe Texas. 

The fact that the stuntmen are guaranteed money to fight further means that there must be some level of commission involvement, right?

But are we really surprised that a show on MTV is staged?