Despite wildly negative reception since its genesis, UFC President Dana White’s Power Slap League continues to keep on keeping on. Getting booted off cable television didn’t kill the concept, and White continues to tell anyone who will listen that the alleged sport is a massive success that’s crushing the ratings game.
Fans, meanwhile, are in active revolt against the continuous Power Slap promotion. UFC social media accounts are constantly advertising slap fighting, sometimes more than the actual UFC events themselves! Thus far, however, the two have otherwise remained separate products.
That’s going to change tomorrow morning. According to Fan Sided’s Amy Kaplan, slap Heavyweights Nate “The Buffalo Soldier” Burnard and Stevie Ray Payne will face off during the early morning UFC 290 weigh-ins ceremony. The match is expected to conclude the event, meaning at least the dehydrated fighters won’t have to delay their fluids because of slap silliness.
Predictably, the replies to this news revealed a great deal of anger amongst the UFC fan base:
Dana is never gonna let power slap die.
They’re getting desperate for fans.
Say slap league is not doing well without saying slap league is doing well.
Why is Dana pushing this nonsense so much?
If Slap is thriving as much as Dana claims it is, he wouldn’t have to attach it to the UFC name. Keep it separate. Nobody cares about this s—t.
This is so f—king embarrassing.
Perfect time for a bathroom break.
As for the actual UFC 290 event, which will feature closed fists and athletes allowed to defend themselves, the action will go down this Saturday (July 8, 2023) from inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two titles are on the line, as Alexander Volkanovski will seek to defend his Featherweight crown opposite interim king Yair Rodriguez, and Flyweight champion Brandon Moreno seeks to avenge his earlier losses to submission ace Alexandre Pantoja.
I don’t know what kind of blackmail someone has on Dana to make him go all in with this slapfight shit, or maybe his various illnesses over the years have legit fucked his brain up, but it’s gotta stop.
Nobody sees it as a real sport. Dana can’t simultaneously support this stupid bullshit while looking down on bare knuckle boxing. It’s like a child molester looking down on a shoplifter. Why ruin the excellent legacy he’s built?
You guys are shitting on this but it’s smart… this is what slap fighting is… a sideshow. This is exactly where it belongs. 10 mins of entertainment in a venue that’s 80% empty because people haven’t arrived or are taking a break and getting food or taking a piss.
I think he figured it out… it’s not a standalone thing. I could see slap fighting doing these side shows in lots of places. In intermissions, breaks, pre shows in all sorts of events. It makes sense.
Brilliant imo. The only way to salvage this shitshow.
Ridiculous Cross Promo /
Brilliant. This will save the sport.
High Dana
HI Dana
Slap crAp is pure garbage Ive never met anyone who has watched more than 5 minutes of it.It ,makes BKFC look classy.
bare knuckle as trashy as it is is 100x more of a sport than slap crap
Which is exactly why this makes sense. People will watch their 5 mins then move on.
Than whats the point ?
Entertainment…
Have you been to UFC they’re actually really bad at entertaining the crowd outside of the fights. They have so much down time and they don’t do anything with it.
They should bring this in.
Roh Boi
Nobody Watching anything Dana…please do not group power crap with mma it’s an utter embarrassment
I’m not sure which is worse for the broadcast, the embarrassing power slap stunt, or that piss poor “magician” that shoved the bottle in his jacket
Power Slap isn’t for me but this is accurate.
I still fuck with Slap. It’s entertaining and better than most crap on TV. If I’m all caught up on MMA I’ll tune in