The pitch
What walked into the Den
Markham's Battle Sports arrived on Dragons' Den Canada in season 11 with a pitch built around padded-weapon combat and live-action battle games.
Tim Cheung, Steve Shew and Jimmy Cheung put a number on the table: $150,000 for a 10 percent slice, which implied a $1.5 million valuation for a business still finding its footing.
After the show
What happened next
What the Dragons decided that night is not something CBC ever published, and we found no news report or interview that settles it, so the deal column here stays honestly blank.
The brand itself is very much alive. Independent listings on TripAdvisor and Yelp show Battle Sports running rage rooms across Toronto, Markham and Richmond Hill with reviews continuing into 2025 and 2026, so the concept clearly outlasted the taping even if the investment question remains open.
Our read
The Hub verdict
Trading 10 percent for six figures pins a seven-figure tag on a business that, at the time, was mostly an idea about padded weapons. The more interesting number is what the company became: rage rooms in three Ontario cities, a pivot the original pitch never hinted at. We would want an aired clip or a founder interview before writing any deal into the record, and because the current status leans on outside review sites rather than a clean own-site checkout, we treat the survival story as verified and the investment question as open.
Ask math solid, deal unconfirmed, business survived as rage rooms
Worth knowing: We could confirm the business is trading through third-party review sites, but its own homepage mixed in unrelated promotional content, so we stopped short of linking it as a clean storefront.
