Olivier ”livb112” Busquet will put up $120,000 while JC Alvarado will risk $150,000 on the fight, the match will take place at the Foxwoods casino as part of a World Series of Fighting event.
There were several fighting prop bets proposed this year amongst poker players but in the end none of those actually happened. Doug ”WCGRider” Polk was set to battle David ”Doc” Sands but they could’nt agree on the terms, Polk wanted to fight for $100,000 after a six month training period, while Sands wanted to fight right away for $500,000.
Thanks to JC Alvarado and Olivier Busquet we wont be left without a ”poker fight”, the pros announced their terms on Twitter a couple of days ago.
”Big news: @olivierbusquet and I have agreed to an MMA fight. My 150k to his 120k, he weighs in at 187.5, I weigh in at 165. #letsdothis”
Busquet confirmed the bet and said the fight will take place at the Foxwoods casino, the exact date has not been decided yet.
A lot of poker players are already talking about side bets and it’s likely that the fight will be live streamed online.
Check out some of the earlier poker player fights (Lex ”RasZi” Veldhuis vs. Bertrand ”ElkY” Grospellier and Theo Jorgensen vs. Gus Hansen) below.
ElkY vs RasZi
Jorgensen vs. Hansen