Gossip Column: Doug Polk Puts $200K on the Line Against Bill Perkins in a Prop Bet to Lose 50% Body Fat in One Year

It’s prop bets season again! And the ‘king of calling people out on Twitter’ aka Doug Polk, got the ball rolling by coming out with one of the first prob bets we`ve seen this year. On February 10, he tweeted about getting a Dexa scan (an imaging test that measures bone density) and mentioned he was “looking for action” to “lose 1/3rd of my body fat in a year.”

Getting a Dexa scan for the first time tomorrow. Just stagnated with fitness progress and looking to get back on the grind.

Looking for action on myself to lose 1/3rd my body fat in a year.

Can either bet against me or happy to do a bet with someone looking for the same.

— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) February 9, 2022

Entrepreneur and poker enthusiast Bill Perkins, a health buff himself and a prop bet extraordinaire, had his own terms and conditions for Polk.

That’s fairly easy to do. So you’d have to lay odds. What’s app me for a challenging structure for example, I just dropped 4.4% in 30 days as part of my strength to get to 9% BF. Very painful tho

— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) February 10, 2022

The duo seemed to have come to an agreement since a day later, Polk announced he had officially started his one-year bet against Perkins. Polk needs to lose half of his body fat by February 10, 2023, or pony up $200,000 to Perkins.

I have officially started a 1 year bet against @bp22. 1 year to lose half of my body fat. I just got my dexa scan and I came in @ 27.7% bf.

Feb 10th 2023 I must be < 13.85% BF

We bet $200,000

The Journey begins.

(Bill encouraged me to post a before photo, posted below)

— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) February 10, 2022

On Perkins’ encouragement, Polk even posted an image of himself at his current weight and promised to share a Dexa update every month.

Every month will have a new dexa update.

— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) February 10, 2022

While the general notion is that losing body fat isn’t easy, most people who commented on Polk’s tweet believed he would achieve the goal in less than a year. In fact, even Perkins thinks it’ll be “super easy” for Polk.

Barring injury you’re a stone lock. Could get it done comfortably in under 6 months

— TonyDunstTV (@tonydunsttv) February 10, 2022

Should be super easy

— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) February 10, 2022

Went from 33 to 14ish during pullup bet, should be trivial

— Max Silver (@max_silver) February 10, 2022

I’ll take Doug’s side if anyone wants to bet

— Ryan Riess (@RyanRiess1) February 10, 2022

Polk even put up a poll asking his followers whether he would win the fitness bet. The majority of the people voted he would.

Will I win my fitness bet?

(1 year to go from 28% to 14% bf)

— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) February 11, 2022

All the best to Polk!