Olivier Busquet seeking $100K+ MMA fight

Pete - Friday, September 25, 2015, Written by- Friday, September 25, 2015, Live poker

Following on from the disappointing collapse of the proposed $500,000 wager between Doug ‘WCGRider’ Polk and Davic ‘Doc’ Sands last month, Olivier Busquet has now taken it upon himself to bring the poker community an actual six-figure prop bet fight in 2015.

The New Yorker, who’s accrued nearly $8 million on the live tournament circuit to date, took to his Twitter account earlier this week to publicise his interest in stepping into the ring; he cited “motivation to train” as his primary incentive for the wager:

Looking for MMA training motivation - trying to gauge interest in 6 figure fight from anyone in poker community.....

— Olivier Busquet (@olivierbusquet) September 23, 2015

We aren’t going to jump the gun too early again, but the likes of MMA beast Terrence Chan, the aforementioned Sands - who fancied himself immediately ready to take on Polk only weeks ago – the iron footed Lex Veldhuis, and JC Alvarado have already been highlighted as potential opponents. The latter in Alvarado actually confirmed his interest on Twitter:

@olivierbusquet I haven't trained seriously all year, but I'm interested. Lmk. — JC Alvarado (@JCAlvarado1) September 23, 2015

However, as of yet there have been no updates from Busquet – or any of the potentially interested parties - on any progress that may have been made toward them stepping into the Octagon, but we’ll be sure to bring you more on any further developments in the coming weeks.