Michael Ballard Net Worth 2024

What is Michael Ballard’s net worth?

Michael Ballard is an American bar proprietor and motorcyclist who has a net worth $10 million. Michael Ballard might be most well-known for being the proprietor of the Full Throttle Saloon, which is the self-described “world’s largest biker bar.” A actuality TV collection that adopted the present, “Full Throttle Saloon,” aired six seasons totally on truTV.

Early Life

Michael Ballard was born in 1965 in Trimble, Tennessee. Growing up in Trimble, Michael was a little bit of a hell raiser. He was so mischievous that the native police gave Michael the nickname “Little Al Capone“. Ballard developed a ardour for bars and liquor at a really early age. When he was simply 12 years outdated he started sneaking via the again door of the city’s largest bar the Silver Dollar Cafe.

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Full Throttle Saloon

He finally settled down a bit, and started his skilled profession within the mobile phone enterprise. He took a visit to Sturgis, South Dakota within the late 90s, and subsequently determined to promote his firm, Cellular Plus.

Something about Sturgis referred to as to him, and Ballard used the cash from the sale of his enterprise to buy 30 acres of land.

He proceeded to construct an enormous indoor/outside bar and recreation facility. The advanced, which he named Full Throttle Saloon, options a number of eating places, a tattoo parlor, shops, two phases for performances, a wrestling ring, a zipper line course, a burn-out pit, 200 cabins, and parking to accommodate everybody.

Full Throttle Saloon is open from March to mid-November. In August, in the course of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, the ability hosts as many as 20,000 folks per evening, and goes via as many as two tractor trailers price of beer every night. In order to be sure that there are sufficient provides to offer food and drinks for the bikers who congregate at Full Throttle in the course of the Rally days, all distributors ship their items between 3 am and solar up.  The highway is just too clogged with bikers for the vans to get by some other time of the day.

Full Throttle has change into the most important biker bar on the earth, and is understood for attracting a variety of ages, kinds, and personalities.  Anyone is welcome there so long as they’re of age, and the bar attracts common blue-collar employees, as a lot because it attracts bikers.  Michael Ballard was initially centered on merely maintaining the large bar afloat.  Running a multi-use facility like Full Throttle Saloon is tough work and costly.  The facility is just viable for 7-9 months a yr, so it’s important that he make cash in the course of the excessive season of July and August.

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Reality Show

In 2009, he was approached by truTV.  The community expressed an curiosity in following the every day operations of his biker bar, they usually started creating a collection across the bar.  The actuality present debuted on November 10, 2009.

The collection, which ran from 2009 to 2015, adopted Michael Ballard as he struggled to maintain the bar profitable and fiscally-sound throughout its shortened season, by which upwards of 300,000 folks go via its doorways.

The present additionally options Michael Ballard’s girlfriend Angie Carlson who works because the bar’s Marketing Director. Angie leads a crew of women referred to as the “Flaunt Dancers” who carry out numerous reveals at “Angieland” which is a particular bar inside Full Throttle. Angie’s signature transfer is to sit down on a gentleman’s head throughout her dance.

After attaining success with the Full Throttle Saloon, Michael returned to Trimble in 2013 to launch a moonshine distillery referred to as “Michael Ballard’s Full Throttle S’loonshine”. The liquor can be distributed nationally and the distillery has already change into a preferred vacationer vacation spot.