Bully Beatdown is an American reality television series created by Mark Burnett that aired on MTV.
[2][3][4] In each episode, show host Jason "Mayhem" Miller challenged bullies to fight against a professional mixed martial artist for a chance to win $10,000.
If the bully managed to submit or knock out the martial artist at any time, they won a $5000 bonus.
[8] The first segment involved Mayhem revealing a video featuring the victims describing their bullying situation and asking for help.
Once the professional fighter had entered the cage, the audience would be shown a short segment explaining the rules.
The bully would begin the round with $5,000, and would loses $1,000 every time they were forced to tap out (with the lost money going to the victims).
The bully wins $5,000 if they can survive the entire 3 minutes, but does not get any money if they quit or get KO'd or the referee stops the fight.
After this the bully would be brought in to the cage and the rest of the episode would proceed in the same manner as in the previous season.
It has been suggested that Bully Beatdown is largely staged and that in most cases "the bully/victim combo had never even met prior to the taping of each episode".