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MrBeast Bets $100,000 He Can Beat the World's Best Athletes at Their Own Games

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MrBeast (Jimmy) frames this video as a bet with real stakes: he and his friends Nolan, Tareq and Thea will take on elite performers, including Erling Haaland, Alysa Liu, Hardik Pandya, Caitlin Clark, Gordon Ramsay, Simone Biles and LeBron James. Each challenge puts money on the line. If the star wins, the money usually goes to a charity they choose. If Jimmy's side wins, it often goes to subscribers. Several contests are deliberately tilted, sometimes against the pro and sometimes against Jimmy's team, and a few of the results surprise even the people competing.

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0:23

Erling Haaland: Target Practice for Manchester Fans

The opening challenge pits Jimmy and his friends against Haaland in a shooting contest, with a crowd of Manchester fans, mostly kids, watching. If Haaland wins, $100,000 goes to those fans. Nolan asks whether a win for them would mean taking money from the kids. Jimmy explains that if his team wins, the $100,000 goes to the channel's subscribers. Each side gets three attempts at a bullseye, and whoever ends up closest wins.

The crowd boos Jimmy as he steps up first. His shot is decent, though he admits he got nervous. To even things out, Haaland shoots from much farther back, and his first kick still beats Jimmy's and takes the lead. Nolan announces that he is "the greatest athlete that's ever lived" and then misses the target entirely.

The team turns to trash talk. Someone tells Haaland he is "a TERRIBLE player," and another says Messi would have hit the bullseye by now. Haaland's next attempt falls short of a winning shot, and Jimmy's side celebrates that the heckling worked. They then let Haaland kick once more, so that their last shot would be do-or-die. Haaland goes for power and sends the ball over the target. Tareq takes the final shot and hits the yellow ring, which produces a tie. The prize is split: $50,000 goes to subscribers and Haaland donates the other $50,000.

2:39

Alysa Liu: An Obstacle Race on Ice

Jimmy introduces Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu as the greatest figure skater on the planet. The team can barely stand on the ice. Jimmy asks how to stop spinning, and one teammate jokes that she could beat them skating backwards.

Four bags sit out on the ice, and both sides have to collect all four. Because Liu just won gold, the team gave her obstacles: a limbo, a jump to grab a bag, and then 100 rotations. If she finishes all of that before the team collects its bags, $100,000 goes to a charity of her choice. If the team wins, a random subscriber whose photo is posted nearby gets $100,000.

The group votes Nolan the least athletic, so he goes first, and he is painfully slow. Tareq follows. Liu misses her first attempt at the jump. The team had hung that bag very high, and Jimmy says he can't tell whether she is taking it easy or they simply put it out of reach. She gets it on a later try and starts her 100 spins while Jimmy is still struggling forward and unable to stop. The spin count shouted from the sidelines gets confused, and someone admits to losing count. Thea runs the final leg and the team wins by a narrow margin.

Jimmy jokes that the contest was "completely equal," then acknowledges they made it extremely hard for her and gives her $50,000 for charity anyway. Liu chooses UN Women, saying that "sport belongs to all of us."

Hardik Pandya: Baseball Instead of Cricket

Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya comes next, with CarryMinati, described as India's most-subscribed channel, cheering him on. Jimmy says Americans don't play cricket, so he challenged Pandya to baseball, the sport he played in high school. The first player to hit three balls out of the stadium wins $100,000.

Jimmy hits his first ball out. Pandya says he has never hit a baseball before, and he misses his first swing. Jimmy says "you can't be good at everything." Pandya adjusts quickly and starts launching balls. Jimmy reaches two home runs but fails to get the third. Pandya then hits his final one out of the stadium to win, and CarryMinati shouts that "you don't mess with Indian players." Pandya splits the money between dogs in need and underprivileged kids.

Caitlin Clark: A Half-Court Shootout With a Rising Pot

Jimmy challenges basketball star Caitlin Clark to a shootout. The first person to make a half-court shot wins $50,000. Clark can first shoot three-pointers, and each one she makes adds $10,000 to the pot. She says she feels confident because she watched the team's warm-up and saw "a lotta air balls."

She makes her first three right away. Then she predicts Jimmy won't even hit the rim on his first half-court attempt, and he doesn't. She keeps making threes from the wing and the corner. Meanwhile Nolan sends one shot over the backboard, and the team marvels that she barely pauses between shots. Once she reaches $40,000 in threes, she moves to half court, where a make would be worth $90,000. She misses, and the team is relieved.

The back-and-forth continues. Nolan stages a dramatic walk-up that the others call "aura farming," then airballs. The team gets closer with a shot that nearly drops, but Clark makes her half-court shot first. She gives the money to the Caitlin Clark Foundation, which she says supports young boys and girls in achieving their dreams.

Gordon Ramsay: Three Cooks Against One Chef

Jimmy calls Gordon Ramsay "the greatest cooking athlete" and sets up a $100,000 cook-off judged by three young "professional judges." The judges pick the dishes: pasta, a burger and breakfast. Ramsay has to cook all three alone within an hour. Each team member only has to cook one, which Jimmy argues should offset Ramsay being "a million times better." He also calls this the one contest they can actually win.

Jimmy takes the burger, Nolan takes breakfast, and the teammate on pasta admits he has no idea how to make it, so he follows Ramsay's own cookbook. Ramsay makes a cheese sauce for the pasta, buttermilk pancakes, and a chocolate sauce. The team notes he is cooking three dishes faster than they are cooking three together, and Ramsay remarks that he sees a lot of measuring but not much cooking.

Jimmy tries a distraction. He asks Ramsay so many questions about his smash-burger patties that Ramsay says it is the tenth question about his "meatballs." While Jimmy debates which bun to use, Tareq tries to interfere at Ramsay's station. Ramsay turns around, catches him, and throws him out. Later Ramsay tells Jimmy his patties should be as thin as "the size of your BRAIN." Jimmy then performs the "idiot sandwich" meme on cue. Near the end, Ramsay is finished early and appears to be napping while the team scrambles in the final seconds.

The judging is chaotic. On pasta, the judge picks one dish, and Jimmy points out that the judge keeps going back to eat the other. On breakfast, the judge rates both pancakes 8 out of 10. When asked to pick one, the judge rejects the version with raspberries and blueberries, saying they had already said they didn't like those fruits; the team had understood the opposite. The burger is declared the deciding dish for the whole competition. The judge gives one burger 10 out of 10, and someone points out a burnt fry. The team protests the final pick ("you said it was burnt!"), and the win goes to Ramsay. He gives the $100,000 to Feeding Britain, which he says supports kids who don't get fed during the holidays.

Simone Biles: Balance Beams 100 Feet Up

Jimmy introduces Simone Biles as the greatest gymnast ever and says she has won seven gold medals, more than any gymnast in history. This time everyone works together, because, Jimmy says, she would obviously beat them. The setup is four balance beams 100 feet in the air, each narrower than the last, with more charity money for each successful crossing.

Tareq goes first for $25,000. Biles tells him to keep his hands on his hips if he can. He fights the wind, makes it across, and calls it the scariest thing he has ever done. Nolan takes the next, narrower beam by crawling, and the video jokes that he finishes "20 minutes later." His crossing brings the total to $75,000.

The next crosser, wearing a safety harness, takes on a four-inch beam worth $75,000. Biles advises putting weight on the front of the foot. He makes it across, and teammates say he looks like he's in an action movie. He credits her advice, and the total reaches $150,000.

Biles takes the final beam herself. It is 1.5 inches wide, which Jimmy says is less than half the width she normally competes on, and it is worth another $100,000. She explains that she chose Friends of the Children, a nonprofit serving foster kids and the foster community, because she was a foster kid herself. She crosses steadily, and Jimmy admits he didn't think she would make it. The total comes to $250,000.

20:41

LeBron James: The Unreleased One-on-One

The finale features LeBron James, introduced as the NBA's all-time leading scorer and "the final boss of final bosses." Jimmy explains that while filming a separate video in which they granted 100 wishes, he challenged James to a contest he had never shown before. Both would shoot threes for one minute, and if James made more, Jimmy would donate $100,000 to the LeBron James Family Foundation.

Jimmy misses his warm-up shot, and when he asks the onlookers who will win, nobody backs him. Once the clock starts, Jimmy makes several threes, and at one point his ball knocks James's shot into the basket. The result is extremely close. Jimmy says he "coulda tied LeBron," calls that "actually crazy," and jokes that he should buy a lottery ticket. James wins by one. Jimmy promises to show proof of the $100,000 donation on screen, and James thanks him.

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