*** Official Sherdog Power Slap Discussion ***Power Slap 16 Friday Oct 24 @ 12pm EST (Stream Post #7,792)

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

It is officially time for Dana to retire. He is completely out of touch with reality and he is damaging the brand.

For real. I would really like him to go away now.

 

[Chaotic Progressor]

Power Slap will never be as big as the Ball Kicking Championship, that’s where the real money is.

Lmaoo. Thas the funny thing, as stupid as power slap is... all sports can kind of be reduced to the same stupidity. It is the ball kicking championship. How retarded.

The Face Punching game. Face puncher 1 v Face puncher 2 for the World Face Punching Belt.

Thing is though,
I think fighting is far less stupid than soccer etc. and poetic and primal, because we're practicing / using survival skills against each other. To see who the fittest is to survive. It's hard to get realer and more meaningful than that. Wheras kicking a fkn ball in a net with a team of random guys who were born on the same bit of land or uniformed by the same millionaire is p retarded.

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

I wonder if the so-called fans still actually enjoy it if if they have fallen into a sunk-cost fallacy. It's so dumb and repetitive I can't imagine staying entertained, unless you have made it your entire personality and can't admit you liked such a ridiculous dumpster fire.

I have never watched it, can't remember ever before entering a thread about it. But took a peek here on this last page of this thread.

Glad I did, maaan you really summed it up lol.

 

[roganisonly5foot3]

You guys talking trash about it have probably never even given it a chance and actually watched an event. If you had then you would realize how much training the athletes go through to prepare for these events they aren’t just random guys off the street.

Power slap is awesome and it’s here to stay. The numbers don’t lie. Nowadays with how boring the ufc product is if there was a ufc event and a power slap event on at the same time I’d watch power slap no question.

 

[Lepo Lepo]

I swear sometimes he’s retarded.

 

[FlyingDeathKick]

It's 2 people slapping eachother, a lot of the time palm strikes, no dodging allowed, most of the competitors have an IQ somewhere in the ballpark of 40... This is like dumb shit young guys do while drunk, it's not a sport..

 

[mmamxfan]

I wonder if the so-called fans still actually enjoy it if if they have fallen into a sunk-cost fallacy. It's so dumb and repetitive I can't imagine staying entertained, unless you have made it your entire personality and can't admit you liked such a ridiculous dumpster fire.

I sadly find it very entertaining. I'm just in awe that people will voluntarily compete in it and I'm not gonna lie that it's fun to watch. I actually seen/witnessed "Slap Jesus" in South Lake Tahoe right before the first season started outside a brewery. He lived up to his rep. To be fair the UFC has been pretty watered down and boring as of late.

 

[TJ Dillashank]

People are getting stupider to be fair to him.

 

[jk7707]

Guaranteed CTE for 2k a pop. It's Dana's dream. No more paying fighters who might do something as horrible as wrestle, a whopping 12k to fight in the UFC!

 

[David Street]

Dana says that Power Slap will be bigger than the UFC because it's easier to understand and participate in than MMA​

They say the same thing about axe throwing and other easier sports that all can do .. but not fighting back as in slap contests is ridiculous wait your turn is not easy.

 

[Ares Black]

You guys talking trash about it have probably never even given it a chance and actually watched an event. If you had then you would realize how much training the athletes go through to prepare for these events they aren’t just random guys off the street.

Power slap is awesome and it’s here to stay. The numbers don’t lie. Nowadays with how boring the ufc product is if there was a ufc event and a power slap event on at the same time I’d watch power slap no question.

how embarrassing

 

[nostradumbass]

He might be right. It's not like MMA is some high brow activity, and most of the fans just want KOs.

 

[BROWNPRIDE]

We all seen Dana training for power slap on his wife!

 

[Black-Joto]

Pink Goof

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

why do you guys hate it? it's not my cup of tea but i thought everyone wanted fighters to get paid? there's a few former MMA fighters who are getting paid in this that they'd never get in MMA because they're not good.

 

[ryun253]

I'd rather watch a Power Slap 10 second knockout than another Moreno fight

 

[Ares Black]

why do you guys hate it? it's not my cup of tea but i thought everyone wanted fighters to get paid? there's a few former MMA fighters who are getting paid in this that they'd never get in MMA because they're not good.

They are getting paid even less than fighters

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

They are getting paid even less than fighters

then why are they doing powerslap and not still fighting MMA?

 

[roganisonly5foot3]

It's 2 people slapping eachother, a lot of the time palm strikes, no dodging allowed, most of the competitors have an IQ somewhere in the ballpark of 40... This is like dumb shit young guys do while drunk, it's not a sport..

I don’t know why people who have obviously never watched a full event comment on it when they have no idea what they are talking about. These athletes go through such intense training before competing in the sport it arguably takes more talent than mma. The toughness it requires to stand still and absorb a strike is something that you can’t teach and most fighters don’t have that’s why they use so much defense

 

[Ares Black]

then why are they doing powerslap and not still fighting MMA?

I'm not sure if understand the question