Bob Menery is ready to fight.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the social media influencer and podcaster takes on former NFL quarterback and Heisman trophy winner Johnny Manziel in the main event of Brand Risk 14, at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas. The event is the latest effort from Adin Ross\u2019 influencer MMA organization, and also features several other high-profile fights, including a battle between former NBA stars Michael Beasley and Lance Stephenson, among others.<\/p>\n
Menery and Manziel have a long-standing beef, dating back to when Menery owned a team Manziel played on in the Fan Controlled Football league, and tensions mounted between the two. Now, they\u2019re set to finally settle them, and Menery is brimming with confidence, issuing a final warning to Manziel on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love you so much,\u201d Menery said. \u201cYou\u2019re one of my best friends. I\u2019ve made you so much money. I want to go easy on you, but I can\u2019t. I can\u2019t. I can\u2019t go easy on you. But I love you. You\u2019re a good kid. I love Johnny. He\u2019s one of my best buddies, but I\u2019m going to probably f*cking kill him at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neither Menery nor Manziel has any combat sports experience, though Manziel at least does have high-level athletic experience, winning the Heisman Trophy in 2012, and then getting drafted in the first round by the Cleveland Browns. Manziel played two years in the NFL before leaving the league and bouncing around other football leagues. And Menery does allow that Manziel\u2019s athletic past does present one real challenge for him in their fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany things could happen,\u201d Menery said. \u201cI think that every situation I\u2019ve ever gone through in my head \u2014 because I take this extremely serious \u2014 any situation I\u2019ve gone through in my head, I\u2019ve not seen one way that I\u2019ll ever lose. But if I ever get his with a \u2014 he\u2019s got one motion. He can throw a football down the field, really hard. He\u2019s got that motion. That means you\u2019ve got a good overhand right. You avoid that, you\u2019re good.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy final prediction is one of us will be going to the hospital. 1000 percent, somebody will be at to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brand Risk 14 goes down Saturday night at 11 p.m. ET on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Menery is ready to fight. On Saturday, the social media influencer and podcaster takes on former NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-688579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}