- Justin Bieber better rethink this. - (laughs) That's about how I was too.
- Please, Tom Cruise, don't go for it!
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- (FBE) Today, we're reacting to something that was all started
because of a recent tweet shared by pop star Justin Bieber.
- Okay, I know who he is. - Oh yeah. He's a trouble maker.
(laughs) - Oh, is this the Tom--
"I can beat the crap out of Tom Cruise"?
- "I wanna challenge Tom Cruise to fight in the octagon.
Tom, if you don't take this fight, you're scared
and you will never live it down."
- "Who is willing to put on the fight? @danawhite?"
I wouldn't wanna get in a fight with Tom Cruise.
He's in great shape. - I think Justin Bieber
would get his ass kicked bad. Justin Bieber better rethink this.
- When did the two of them run in together?
Tom Cruise, I mean, you know, he's up either in the studio
or in the Scientology bin. - In the first place,
Tom Cruise is a lot older than he is, so it's--
you know, (chuckles) it would be unfair.
- He's a lot younger than Tom Cruise,
but Tom Cruise is fit. (chuckles) So yeah, I wouldn't challenge him
if I was Justin Bieber. Tom seems to be an athletic type
of person and he's got old man strength.
You know, us old guys, we got tricks,
we got strength, and we're sneaky,
and we don't tend to-- so, I think it would be
a real mistake. - Tom, he knows a little bit
of karate stuff. I think he trained for Mission Impossible,
and he's very physically fit, you know, for his age.
- Look at how many people liked it. And look how it was retweeted. Wow.
Well, it obviously served the purpose
of getting everyone talking, didn't it?
- (FBE) So, we have more to show you in a bit,
but in this tweet, Justin Bieber is challenging
actor Tom Cruise to a UFC mixed martial arts fight
and asking the UFC president, Dana White, to organize it.
- Yeah. Come on. You don't take on someone
that's visibly... in better shape and probably works out
more than you do. I'd fight with Bieber,
but I wouldn't fight with Tom Cruise.
- (FBE) Perhaps the ridiculousness and randomness of this tweet
caused it to go viral, so we have some of the internet's reactions
to this tweet. - Oh, that'll be interesting.
Let's see where their brains are flowing.
- "Justin Bieber has challenged Tom Cruise to a fight.
Please, Tom Cruise, send this to him." - (Grossman) And I will rain down
an ungodly [bleep] firestorm upon you. You're gonna have to call
the [bleep] United Nations and get a [bleep] binding resolution
to keep me from [bleep] destroying you.
- This is Tom Cruise? - (Grossman) I am talking
scorched earth, [bleep]. - (laughs) That's Matthew.
- (Grossman) I will [bleep] you up!
- (chuckles) Tropic Thunder. I really enjoyed that movie.
And I really enjoyed that cameo. I thought that was really insane.
- I remember when he showed up in that movie and everybody was like,
"Oh my god. It's Tom Cruise. That's so cool." (chuckles)
- I hope that's the reaction to Justin, you know,
because he's gonna mess him up. (laughs)
Bam! - "Tom Cruise after hearing
that Justin Bieber wants to fight."
- (man laughing) - (chuckles)
That's about how I was too. - That's me.
- (laughs) I have the same reaction as this guy.
What was he thinking of?
You know, he's got nothing better to do?
- That's a summary right there. Just fall down on the floor and laugh.
- Maybe he doesn't even know about it.
Maybe he's in his Scientology tower, not reading tweets.
- "At some point tonight, Tom Cruise's agent will have
to call Tom Cruise and tell him that Justin Bieber has
challenged him to a fight. This is an actual conversation
that will happen." Maybe Tom called Justin personally
and said, "Hey, listen, Bieber, it ain't gonna go."
- I guess he's not going to respond.
He probably thinks it's ridiculous. - That's a pretty bizarre thing
for an agent to have to relate that information.
- They must have started laughing and laughing.
I would like to have heard Cruise's real answer.
- I don't think anybody should take Justin seriously
on this thing, you know? I mean, it's a good laugh.
It's almost like a publicity stunt. - You know how many movies
Tom Cruise has been in? Mission Impossible
and all this kind of stuff. Justin better rethink this,
'cause it's so easy for Tom to just say, "Yeah, sure, let's fight"
and just whoop his ass real quick.
- "You wanna control Cruise in this match?
One, don't fight him on a couch. He can be bouncy." (chuckles)
"Two, make sure you're fighting the actual Tom Cruise,
because he's king of the impossible rubber mask reveal."
- "Three, if he slides into the octagon in Wayfarers
and undies, go for his parents' Porsche."
(laughs) Oh, bless you, Kevin Smith. He's so funny. That's great.
- That's a reference to his first movie.
- Boy, they covered, like, his whole career there,
going way back. - This can't be Kevin Smith,
the real Kevin Smith. - (FBE) It is.
- It is?! - That's Kevin Smith. Brilliant.
Absolutely. I mean, he's just making a game of it,
and tying it all together.
- (FBE) Justin Bieber's tweet has even spawned a small trend
of its own, but before we explain that,
a member of our FBE SuperFam, Queen Little Mermaid,
wanted to ask the elders, what do you think
the age difference is between Tom Cruise and Justin Bieber?
- I'd say at least 20 to 25 years. - 32.
- I would say close to 30 years.
- (FBE) So, their age difference actually inspired this next trend.
- Okay. "Justin Bieber is 25. Tom Cruise is 56." Okay! Okay.
"Challenge an actor 31 years older than you to a fight.
I will go first." - "Sam Waterston, you're a punk
and due for an ass beating. Name the place."
- I'm agreeing with him, 100%. - I like him. He's a very good actor,
Sam Waterston. - That's who Bieber should fight.
I still think Sam would beat him too.
- "I went to Uncle Google to see which 31-years-older-than-me actor
I would challenge to a fight. And the first result was Jackie Chan.
So, I took it at the internet telling me to chill out already."
Okay! Exactly. You got checked. - Actually, Jackie Chan and Tom Cruise,
that would be a good fight. - That would be very bad
to mess around with Mr. Jackie Chan. - Good idea. Don't go fighting
or challenging Jackie Chan. Oh my god. He's still in great shape.
- Oh! So, this is a whole thing. It's like, let's find someone
31 years older than me. If there's that much reaction to it,
and it's been retweeted and liked that much, then you go, "Oh,
maybe I can jump on that bandwagon and get some numbers going."
- "I regret to inform you that Keanu Reeves
is 31 years older than me and is now going to kick my ass."
Keanu Reeves does 98% of his John Wick stuff.
He's dangerous. - Yeah, Keanu would beat everybody.
He wouldn't even have to touch them. He would just win.
- I think that's wishful thinking on Olive Rae's part
that Keanu Reeves is gonna kick their ass.
Too nice of a guy. That's what they say.
- Ah, this is a lot of fun, you know, the way they're going
back and forth, you know, with different folks.
- "Okay, Justin Bieber challenged Tom Cruise to a steel cage match,
so the thing on Twitter now is to challenge someone 30 years older.
I'd challenge Betty White, but I suspect she'd kick my butt."
Betty White's well up in her 90s. - (FBE) She's 97.
- Oh, she's 97 now. What older celebrity
is gonna take that up and-- you know, maybe John Wayne
if he was still alive, would've taken it up,
'cause he was so macho. - Smart enough to know
that Betty might kick his butt. She probably could talk you down.
She could probably explain to you why you wouldn't wanna mess with her.
- I study empty-hand combat. I wouldn't wanna do that to anybody,
but someone 31 years older than me? I think I'd whoop their ass.
- Is Olivia de Havilland still alive? The movie star.
She's a movie star, guys, from the golden age.
- (FBE) She is still alive, and she's 103 years old.
- Okay, Olivia! I'm gonna challenge you.
And I adore you. - (FBE) A few weeks ago,
Justin Bieber was asked about this initial tweet,
and if he was actually gonna fight Tom Cruise.
And so, we have a clip of what he said.
- Oh, boy. - (reporter) It's for real, though?
Tom Cruise, you gonna fight? - (Justin) Nah, I was just--
- (reporter) You guys are good friends, though, right?
- (Justin) I was just playin' around. - Pfft!
- (reporter) But you guys are good friends?
- (Justin) Tom? - (reporter) Yeah.
- (Justin) I don't know him.
But he's tight. - (reporter) You don't know him
personally? Yeah, he's good, man.
- (Justin) The story is, I had seen an interview of him,
and it was just on my mind. I don't know why I thought about...
- He picked the wrong guy. (chuckles) - (Justin) It was just a random tweet.
I do that stuff sometimes just to spark some [bleep].
- (chuckles) Just so cruel. - (Justin) I'm pretty sure Tom
would... - (reporter) Sure he got a good laugh
out of it? - (Justin) Would...
- Kick your ass? Say it. (chuckles) - (Justin) I think he'd probably
whoop my ass in a fight. - (laughs)
- (Justin) I think he'd probably whoop my ass in a fight.
- I'm glad he woke up, (chuckles) 'cause he was dreaming big time.
- Just 'cause somebody's on your mind, why would the first thing
you go to is fight him? Like, "Let's go have a beer together"
or something. - These guys may know of each other
in a professional way, like each other's body of work,
whatever, but it was just goofing around,
and it's not a big thing. - (FBE) On June 20th, 2019,
TMZ published a story stating that their were more updates
to the fight and that it was looking like it might actually happen.
- Really? - (FBE) So, we have a clip of that
to show you now. - Oh dear g-- okay, bring it on.
- (reporter) Justin Bieber fans, your dreams are gonna come true.
- (reporter 2) Or Tom Cruise fans, you too.
- Whoa. - (reporter 2) We found out
about a secret phone call... - Ohhh, of course they would.
- (reporter 2) And the phone call was made by one of
the most powerful guys in Hollywood. His name is Ari Emanuel, and he is...
- There's money to be made here. - (reporter 2) He is the co-CEO
of the William Morris Endeavor Agency...
- That's a big agency. All right. - (reporter 2) He called Scooter Braun,
who is Justin's manager. - They have to do it for charity.
- (reporter 2) Before he said, "I'm down with the fight,"
he conferenced in Dana White from UFC obviously.
- (reporter) Yes, president of UFC. - Pay per view. (laughs)
- (reporter 2) ...three of them talked, and Ari said that he wants this fight
to happen. Then Scooter said,
"Justin is down with this fight. If Tom wants to do it,
Justin will do it."
- Whoa. - (reporter 2) And Dana said,
"I'm 100% in, putting this fight up."
- And what did Tom say? - Please, Tom Cruise,
don't go for it! Those men just wanna make more money!
And it's big, and it's publicity, and it's hilarious,
and you don't need to be doing it.
- (FBE) So, before we dive into questions, we have
one last image to show you. - Okay.
Oh. (laughs) "Tom, The Missile."
- See, Justin looks tougher there 'cause of the tattoos and everything
and the look on his face. - Look at the weight difference.
I'm not even looking at the age, 'cause age is only a number.
- (FBE) Who do you got to win by looking at this?
- If I was gonna bet, I'd bet on Tom. Hands down.
- Oh, Tom Cruise would win. - I think Tom would win.
- He wins in tattoos for sure. Justin does.
I'd still go with Tom Cruise. - My money's on Tom Cruise
if he were to do it. - I would say Tom Cruise.
- Bieber might be thinking it's funny.
Tom's like, "I'm not letting some 25-year old kick my butt."
- I would pick Tom Cruise. - I'd like to see age get respect.
So... I'll take Tom.
- (FBE) Fun fact, did you know that Justin Bieber has actually
trained with boxer Floyd Mayweather? - Ooh.
- (FBE) Does that change your opinion at all?
- No. Tom Cruise has trained with the best.
- I just can't see him beating Tom.
He is the missile. I mean, he just would hone in
on Justin and boom. - (FBE) So, celebrity boxing matches
aren't really anything new. But in the past, we've mainly seen
this with lesser known celebrities, versus these celebrities
that some would consider to be A-list. - Right. Yeah.
- (FBE) So, what are your thoughts on celebrities fighting each other?
- Well, I think if they do it where no one gets hurt,
I think it's fine. If you're a fan of, say, Tom Cruise,
you want him to win. If you're a fan of Justin Bieber,
you want him to win. That's entertainment.
- I could absolutely care less about it.
I wouldn't watch it. There's got to be money in there,
or, damn, I wouldn't even be saying anything.
- I think trained fighters should fight each other.
Their body and their face and all that is part of their art form
and should not be risked. - Unless they're fighters,
I think it's ridiculous. What we're looking at here
is a way to get some kind of media action,
some kind of notice out there. - It sets a bad example
for younger people that you can't discuss
instead of hit someone. And it's just stupid.
Fighting doesn't show intelligence. - It's more of a spectacle.
And people are kind of obsessed with celebrity culture anyway
and everything that they're doing. So, if fighting is another thing
that they're doing, then they'd wanna watch it.
- I'm not a big proponent of fighting. I think there's other ways
to solve problems. But yeah, for charity, you go--
oh yes, people do anything for charity, and that's okay.
- It's good to generate talks and everything like that.
But at the end, they should look at it as a charity event.
Once you have the charity event, I think you have more support.
It's more fun, you know. I think people
are looking forward to that. - (FBE) So finally,
who is a celebrity that you would like to challenge in the ring?
- (laughs) Oh, me? No one. At my age? No, there's no celebrity
I'd like to challenge. - You don't wanna fight.
Ask any great sensei, martial artist. It's not about the fighting.
- I'd wanna fight with somebody fun
that would make it into something funny.
Jimmy Fallon. - Ronda Rousey.
Yeah, I would challenge here. - Cory Booker, I think.
I wanna knock the [bleep] out of him, you know? (laughs)
He just talks so much smack. - Can I challenge a celebrity
to a different kind of fight? Could we have a bake off?
Martha Stewart, sure, 'cause she's a really good baker.
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- Thanks for watching. Gotta go training.
- Hi, guys. JC here, producer at FBE.
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