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Wimp2Warrior charges ~$2,200 to turn you into an MMA fighter
Sam describes paying ~$2,200 for the cohort-based 20-week Wimp2Warrior program that takes a person off the street and schedules them an MMA fight at the end. The Australia-launched company raised $8M and pays elite coaches (John Kavanagh, Daniel Cormier) to promote it.
$2K
Price for the 20-week Wimp2Warrior program · USD
“They take just you off the street, you give them $2,200, and I think you get like 100 classes or 50 classes. What did I write? So, so it's a 20-week program.”
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Wimp2Warrior: an asset-light, licensed 'rite of passage' fight program
Shaan breaks down the Wimp2Warrior business: it licenses a 'turn an average Joe into an amateur fighter' program to gyms as a customer-acquisition engine, supplying brand, marketing, and star athletes while the gym operates. He calls it a far better model than Tough Mudder or Spartan Race because those carry a ton of operational overhead.
“It's better than Tough Mudder, better than Spartan Race, better than all those because they take on a ton of operational overhead. They're a traveling circus. And so I like this model a lot better.”
Steal thisLicense a turnkey transformational program to existing operators as a lead-gen engine — keep it asset-light and let them do the work while you own brand and marketing.