News Joe Rogan: UFC, Dana White 'f*cked up' picking slap fighting over kickboxing

[Stump]

Normal people fights. I've been saying it. Get normal people who legitimately don't like each other and put them in a cage and fight and the winner gets bragging rights and $4K.

People will not only watch it to soak in the story behind why 2 people dislike each other but there will be a line around the block in Vegas at the UFC HW to sign up.

Sort of like the idea, but I think you'd get 8/10 snoozers. Youd combine two guys with sloppy, shitty technique and no athleticism, combined with bright lights and anxiety about losing in front of the crowd. People who clam up, blow their cardio loads in 20 seconds.

 

[JakePaulMMA]

Don't forget bullriding

And slap fighting.

 

[Pompey Junglist]

Sort of like the idea, but I think you'd get 8/10 snoozers. Youd combine two guys with sloppy, shitty technique and no athleticism, combined with bright lights and anxiety about losing in front of the crowd. People who clam up, blow their cardio loads in 20 seconds.

You've basically described why it would be so irresistibly compelling .

 

[Ares Black]

Power Slap is such ridiculous cringe bullshit

 

[PabloMEX]

KB with mma gloves is legit. It's pretty much MMA without the dry humping, which is what the casuals want anyways.

 

[Kal-El]

I never understood why kickboxing doesn't sell when every drunk casual fan wishes the UFC would be kickboxing ?

Especially back in the day, every I event I went to there would be a sea of boos every time the fight went to the ground.

They don't even want kickboxing, they want first round finishes every fight with people throwing wild haymakers. They may as well go and watch streetbeefs or something

 

[Poirierfan]

Dana has always had the worst ideas, it's just that his 2 rich friends were there to stop Dana from acting on it.

 

[Captain Herb]

 

[shunyata]

Yep. One is taking over now that UFC is all just cage humpers

4 oz glove Muay Thai is awesome.

 

[Legendary]

Dana could never admit that someone has a good idea

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

Power Slap was only created so that if you search Dana White slap power slap comes up and not him slapping his wife, why else would they have promoted it more then UFC 284 which had Volk VS Islam

 

[NoStoneUnturned]

Retire power slap and WMMA. Spend that money on kick boxers. Insert kickboxing within the cage into the WMMA slots during UFC events. Earth will then morph back into a sphere as nature intended and we won't have to worry about falling off this mfer anymore.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Kickboxing doesn't and has never sold in the US for whatever reason.

I'm not suggesting powerslap does either though.

 

[joy2day]

It's gold for dana since he gets billions of views while only paying the contestants 2k

I think you hit on it there. Dana saw better returns coming from cheap trash than actually paying real athletes for a legit competition. Barf.

 

[mahavishnunj]

MMA only got accepted due to the LGBTQ community who considered it a form of gay sex but just with a different ending.

How does MMA end?

 

[Elvis.]

Slap fighting is a bag of shit and Dana being involved with it is an embarrassment to martial arts

 

[wildbulls]

Kickboxing has this weird stigma in the west where everyone thinks its a room filled with middle aged women punching and kicking the air for exercise. I think Dana & Co could probably market an exciting product like Rizin by just inserting kickboxing fights into regular UFC events and it'll probably do very good.

 

[DougieJones]

 

[Kal-El]

Kickboxing doesn't and has never sold in the US for whatever reason.

I'm not suggesting powerslap does either though.

This. People on here always get over excited. Kickboxing already exists, there's a whole subforum for it on this web page with maybe a quarter of the traffic.

 

[AmonTobin]

There is no self-defence in powerslap.
Watching powerslap is also indefensible.