Dana White Gets Slap Fighting Approved as Actual Nevada Sport
It’s non just for the Three Stooges anymore. Slap fighting is now an actual licensed thing inwards Nevada. The in vogue(p) combat sports stake from Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was sanctioned as a sportsman past the Sagebrush State Athletic Commission (NAC) at its most recent public meeting.
UFC testament reportedly set in motion Dana White’s Power Slap League with inaugural matches before the year’s end.
Slap fighting is exactly what it sounds like. Two combatants, standing within arm’s arrive at of to each one other, occupy turns striking their opponents inward the face with an unresolved hand. The case is won when 1 slapper either gives upwards or loses consciousness. (Spotters rearwards each slapper inwards instance the latter happens.)
The commission’s balloting came after a pitch shot from UFC chief byplay officer Hunter Campbell, who is constituent of an investment aggroup that owns the league along with White, onetime UFC owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, UFC ownership radical Endeavor, and TV producer Craig Piligian.
“We’ve spent the last-place year sort of beta testing this inwards a controlled environs to really mental test and escort the dynamical of how this would map as an genuine conference and tangible sport,” Joseph Campbell said, according to mmajunkie.usatoday.com, which bust the story. “What we’ve found is that this is in reality a acquirement summercater that the participants, who are at a high up tear down inward this, are skilled athletes in. They train. They’re inwards ripe shape. They have it seriously, not dissimilar with what you insure inwards MMA and boxing.”
The aggroup plans to lead off holding Dana White’s Power Slap League events at the UFC Apex inwards Las Vegas starting Nov. 11, 2022. Initial events will follow held behindhand closed doors. But Campbell said plans are to eventually opened them upward to the paying public.
How UFC Convinced Nevada
No slapping was required to convince the NAC. Joseph Campbell simply argued for a want for the res publica to regularize a sportsman that’s growing inwards popularity, in time occurs primarily inward warehouses with modified fighter aircraft safety and matchmaking integrity. He stated that under UFC control, smack flighting would follow based on a rule band similar to MMA fighting – including no more striking to the dorsum of the top dog or eye-gouging. Additionally, it would get similar medical requirements, free weight classes, and matchmaking.
The full operation reportedly took 13 minutes, including Campbell’s pitch. In fact, NAC chairman Stephen Cloobeck called picture he watched of the slap fighting beta-testing “highly entertaining,” and praised the involvement of “professionals who know what they’re doing.”
Campbell told the NAC a deal is being finalized with “a major electronic network partner” to broadcast events.