Tai Tuivasa is known to UFC fans as the hard-drinking, hard-hitting cult hero who owns a brewery and whips beer out of his shoes after a win, and has now branched out into producing another recreational drug.
The heavyweight knockout artist owns Sydney beer business Drink West with NRL superstar Nathan Cleary and Octagon star turned professional boxer Tyson Pedro and is trying to get a piece of the lucrative legal marijuana trade in United States.
Nicknamed ‘Bam Bam’ due to his all-or-nothing fighting style, he revealed his new business, Bambambudz, in an Instagram post late on Thursday.
Tai Tuivasa posed with huge bags of marijuana while launching his new cannabis business on Instagram on Thursday.
Nicknamed ‘Bam Bam’ because of his all-or-nothing fighting style, Tuivasa (centre) owns a brewery in western Sydney with football superstar Nathan Cleary (front, second from right), and the couple He teams up with music star Shannon Noll (holding microphone) to advertise his beer.
The 120kg wrestler posed for photos while holding three huge bags of marijuana and doing a double V in victory in front of a greenhouse full of cannabis plants in the post, which also showed a look at workers preparing the product for sale. distribution.
He added the caption ‘COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU’, with the company selling the weed in US states that have legalized its use, such as Colorado, California, Illinois and New York.
The US legal marijuana market was valued at $15 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow strongly.
According to Bambambudz’s Instagram page, the company will also soon sell “high-quality products” and open dispensaries in Thailand, where cannabis was legalized in 2022 before the government pledged to restrict its use for medical purposes in 2023.
Tuivasa poses in front of a greenhouse full of cannabis that his company will sell in the lucrative American market
Tuivasa, Pedro and Cleary’s brewing business took off in 2022, with their lager announced as the official beer of UFC Australia.
Drink West beer unashamedly celebrates its Western Sydney heritage, which is a big part of Tuivasa life.
‘I represent the West, I represent the Houso children, that is my testament. “Try it, you win or lose,” Tuivasa told Daily Mail Australia shortly after the brewery opened.
‘We represent normal people, normal workers. I’m a normal idiot. Of course I’m famous, but if you’re stupid with me, I’ll slap you in the mouth.
Drink West launched with a hilarious advert featuring Tuivasa, his partner and fellow UFC fighter Tyson Pedro and Penrith Panthers captain Nathan Cleary singing Shannon Noll’s iconic anthem What About Me.
Bambambudz also plans to sell cannabis and open dispensaries in Thailand
Tuivasa (pictured left in training) has knocked out 13 opponents in spectacular fashion on his way to a 14-7 MMA record.
Tuivasa and Pedro, who admitted they come from families of singers, wowed the audience with their flutes, but it was Cleary’s horrible voice that stole the show.
‘The producers were telling us to sing over Nathan to cover his voice, and we were like, “No, fuck it, turn it up!” It was really funny, he was in the ad,” Tyson said.
Tuivasa was the “genius” behind the commercial, which ultimately sees Noll burst through a crowd of merchants and locals singing his version of the Moving Pictures classic.
‘I’m pretty good at the marketing side. Shannon Noll is from Condobolin, that’s where my family is from. It’s the best song too, it’s Australian fun,” she said.
‘I came out with that song, it resonates. It’s a fucking Australian song, it’s a beer song. If you’re in the pub and that comes on, everyone’s singing.