The CEO That Scammed A Whole Organisation? (Finishers Championship) 

I’m a huge strongman fan and personally have no interest in watching them fight. Im not sure what the draw is for the general public. There was never any chance that strongmen in MMA was going to be attractive enough to warrant the kind of paydays being spoken about.

16 week from the fight and no money, I would've just stopped training and focus on something more important. Because if they can't pay 1 million in time, how they're gonna pay 15million? But that's just me 🤷🏼‍♂️

When a thing seems to be good to be true, well....

The more money involved the less people query it? they just see that big fat cheque!

It was interesting being part of the event. It was nice to imagine to could make a million dollars 16 weeks before the fight. But the date I was suppose to get the deposit came and went and no money went in. 4 weeks out and not a single fight poster was out. Which is a big deal when you are trying to sell a 45,000 seat venue.

Eddie and Brian could get something together , but not for the silly £ s. Eddie & Hafthor never got the big pay day for their fight. I think it is much better for Strongman to stay focused on their sport. Of course £ talks and as Ed said anyone would like to get a chance to secure the future money wise.

The old prince of Nigeria scam is now the Qatar government scam.

It smelled fishy from thr begining but still everybody jumped on it😂

Glad it's over. Brian, Eddie and Hooper have no business in MMA

It's shocking that people actually believed ex-strongmen could earn 20 million for a single fight. This kind of money would be on par with top footballers at top clubs.

I'm glad you've made these videos lads, this BS tournament needed calling out for what it was. Cheers

Shaw classic should have some matches for the title strongest fighter on earth.

From day one anyone with an ounce of common sense knew this was a joke. Now they are all butt hurt, 'shocked' and 'horrified' that's it's not going ahead. It says a lot about them their intelligence, common sense and due diligence TBH. We had a contract - LMAO! Eddie is a shit boxer who was beaten by a less shit boxer and someone was going to pay him $20M to slip n slide with Brian Shaw for a few minutes? Do me a favor! Bottom line all these lads need content for their YT and will do anything to get it. I'll end simply by saying do we think Big Z would fall for this?

I'm a Lithuanian American love child of two strongman greats and I wish to offer Big V & Mariusz Lalas £10m each to fight each other in Croke Park ,Dublin on the 17th March. Who you got winning? I'm just off to find myself some investors and 2 billion social media followers!

I guess you guys called that one correctly! 😂😂 Maybe core sports could put it on. Oh wait, these guys want to get paid 🤣🤣🤣🤣

what’s surprises me the most from all this story is that athletes actually believed in it

Bit of an embarrassment all round really, seems like those who were training seriously for it were blinded by the ridiculous money promised to them

that old saying if its too good to be true it normally is. personally i thought it was all rubbish from the start why would they even offer 20 or 30 mil to each athlete even pro boxing only a handful are getting that kind of money and that's prime time box office fights.

It's not shocking because they were supposed to get their first check 16ish weeks ago.

It seems kinda unlikely it was just this one guy scamming. If the other people believed *any* of the numbers they were throwing out, they are equally responsible for the scam IMO, no one is that stupid.

Now let this be a lesson to every strongman or strongwoman who gets carried away by the prospect of winning life changing money by training for a few months in any kind of fighting they know nothing about. Stick to your own sport, it’s on an upward trend, do whatever you can to make it grow further, the last thing most of us fans want to see is you throwing awkward punches at each other or getting hurt.

I have said this on one of Lozs videos. Why do people care about the finances of other people? No multimillion contract? Tough luck, Im sure both Brian and Eddie will still live a very comfortable life.

Could happen in KSW maybe 🤔

Go talk to Dana white since u have been training so hard brian. See what he ll give u

Love you guys, but please talk more about strongman and less about this stupid fight... i think most of your subscribers would like to hear your opinion about arnolds or about shaw classic events...

Thank you Brothers. God Bless. I hope Eddie is trying to get something like this going. People wanna see it.

Im glad cause Ford might have crushed Brian

If it had been a million, id still had a hard time believing it. I'm sorta glad it didn't happen. It would've been crazy seeing Brian and Martin Ford in a cage.

Eddie should lose 50 lbs or stay clothed. :)

What a clown show. So this gang was supposed to spend their fortune on this event, with no plan to profit on the back end? That's not how business works. You invest in order to profit long term. This would have been charity, if it had been real in the first place. I hope athletes will stick to reputable organizations and people with a good track record going forward. There's a reason why they exist and have an ongoing business.

I mean.. It's kinda hilarious how Eddie and Brian fell for this and used 6 months to prepare for this 😂 Hooper (and Loz) was smart enough to not spend any great amount of time on this because he sensed it could be a scam

I don't want to see active strongmen fight. Retired strongmen.......have at it. I am still of the unfound conspiratorial opinion that the Eddie/Hafthor fight was an attempt to get Shaw a fifth WSM title. (I would never imagine Brian having any knowledge of this plan btw.......though I don't discount it either) Also I don't believe even my own conspiracy theories.....they aren't even theory, mere conjecture.

Thought this was all bullshit from the beginning but didn’t think it was going to be this bad. He’s a con artist who should be locked up

Who told u Qatar is an isolated country they organise the best events and compititions every year

Nice bideo

Mitch got this right, he did stay training for Strongman

Just goes to show, if it's too good to be true, it usually is. Fighters should have gotten some money upfront.

Thanks for this video guys, I was always a bit suspect about the whole set up, and I really hope they are held to account for this bs

OK I know they were promised for a lot of money. But did Bryan Shaw, Eddie hall and the other 2? Did they lose any money at all? And and anybody can tell me how much they lost.

I don't know if there's an interest in seeing these fights. Not from me anyway

A lesson on humility to those involved.

Well said bros

Surely though if they had a contract and it was signed...they are obligated to pay?

It was a fake someone told me the fighters who was fighting were scammed big time they spent flights they couldnt afford

Scams these days are absolutely crazy

Most strongman don't appear to be the smartest tools in the box. I would like to think most Americans would stop treating Brian like he's their genius guru now after this, but, well, they're Americans.😆

Just a phishing scam of sorts……only on a larger more elaborate scale, I mean ffs, surprised they never got offered a renewal of their washing machine warranty as part of their contracts

We're so close to an epic Arnold's and y'all are making videos about this scam ... stop it. Talk about The Arnold's.

I’m surprised they took this seriously in the first place none of them are actual mma fighters that would warrant those type of ppv numbers yes they all have a good following for the sports they do but for someone to pay for a ppv to watch 4 guys which let’s face it have less experience than amateur mma fighters hell I don’t even pay to watch Aj or Tyson fury and I have tnt subscription so get all my ufc “free” anyway! For me they came in with massively over exaggerated figures most of them would have probably been happy with a million or two witch would have been a bit more realistic

I also remember all the bets Eddie had trouble paying people off for his loss to thor Now he's upset at someone not paying him????