On Sunday, Canadian pop star Justin Bieber decided to pick a fight with actor Tom Cruise.
Bieber’s tweet has more than 43,000 retweets just days later, but nothing has been said from Cruise’s camp to make this fight possibly happen.
I wanna challenge Tom Cruise to fight in the octagon. Tom if you dont take this fight your scared and you will never live it down. Who is willing to put on the fight? @danawhite ?
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) June 10, 2019
The two don’t seem to be the perfect match in terms of age, as Cruise has more than 30 years of experience on the Canadian.
Two instructors at Momentum Martial Arts in Saskatoon have differing opinions on who would win the fantasy fight.
“Tom Cruise. Number one, he has old-man strength. Number two, he’s fearless,” head instructor Kris Kembel said. “The mental aspect plays very heavily into fighting, and if the guy’s willing to hang off of a plane at 20,000 feet for a movie, I don’t think he’s going to be too afraid of Justin Bieber punching him in the face.”
Although Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu coach Josh Millares agreed with Kembel’s position on “old-man strength,” he had a different idea on who would win the battle.
“Justin Bieber’s youth and speed will take over old-man strength,” Millares said. “I’ve seen video of Justin Bieber hitting the pads on the Internet. I haven’t seen Tom Cruise hitting the pads.”
Although the two didn’t agree when it came to who would win, they said they’d enjoy seeing more fights between celebrities.
They also said their answers might change if the two met in a boxing ring rather than the octagon.
Kembel said that it would come down to a simple task that the two could both do going into the one-on-one matchup.
“Train before you take a fight,” he said.