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17/06/09 - Tim Sylvia wants Bully Beatdown
Former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia would like to appear in the next season of hit MTV show Bully Beatdown.
Sylvia (24-6) wants the show to let him face two of his childhood tormentors. He says he would donate the prize money to charity.
"I was bullied all through high school, where I was never a big guy. I grew and became a big guy. I still have a chip on my shoulder for all those assholes who picked on me and beat me up," he told Fighters Only recently.
As improbable as it seems now, Sylvia says he was "picked on a lot" in school. He also had a traumatic youth due to alcoholism in the family home.
"If everything goes right, I will be on the second season of Bully Beatdown. What I want to pitch to them is, bring in one or two bullies that bullied me, and what I want to do is take the money - the ten or twenty thousand dollars you win - and donate it to charity, I don’t need it," he revealed.
His chosen charities are "Aiming for a Cure, which is the Children’s Miracle Network, and Catch a Dream, which is another one I work with via the hunting industry. Its kids that are terminally ill that are hunting fans... The children to me are the most precious thing out there and for parents it must be the worst thing seeing a child sick."
Asked if he has a couple of names in mind as potential opponents, Sylvia laughed: "Oh yes I do. I have come across them [since school] and I have had them pretty scared."
Bully Beatdown is an American reality television series that airs on MTV. In each episode, bullies are confronted by Jason "Mayhem" Miller and challenged to an upcoming mixed martial arts bout against a professional mixed martial artist for a chance to win $10,000.
Quotes taken from full-length new interview here (really, really long interview!) - http://www.fightersonlymagazine.co.uk/interviews/viewarticle.php?id=2612
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