UFC President Dana White says slap fighting is safer than boxing or MMA because each contestant usually takes only three blows per bout, but some others aren't convinced.
stand rigidly upright with their hands behind their backs, waiting to absorb a brutal slap to the face.
"There’s nothing fun, there’s nothing interesting and there’s nothing sporting," Nowinski said. "They’re trying to dress up a really stupid activity to try to make money."More than 4.8 million people in the United States visit the emergency room each year to be evaluated for a potential brain injury, experts say.
Despite the naysayers, White said he believes slap fighting will follow a similar trajectory to mixed martial arts, which the late Sen. John McCain referred to as "human cockfighting" in 1996, when the UFC didn’t have weight classes or many rules. McCain’s criticism helped force the organization to become more structured, leading to its widespread acceptance.
. White apologized, but has acknowledged it damaged efforts to get the league off the ground. White is no newcomer to controversy: Former UFC fighters Kajan Johnson and Clarence Dollaway filed a lawsuit in 2021 against Endeavor, the organization’s parent company, alleging that UFC takes an inordinate share of the profits.
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