Disfigured, Mutilated and Dead | The Turbulent History of Slap Fighting
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- čas přidán 8. 04. 2023
- Hey there guys, I have always been slightly fascinated by this bizarre sport so I decided to make a video on it. It took a while to research, but Slap fighting/slap competitions are still very much in their infancy. It originally began in Russia, but it's hard to properly pinpoint a time. Slap fighters tend to range from ordinary people to bodybuilders, MMA fighters and boxers. If you enjoy this video/style of content, please give it a like as it helps me out a bunch and allows the youtube algorithm to push the video to more viewers- cheers!
Also the background song is by my dad- Richard George Marsland on Spotfiy, so check him out if you like!
Hey guys, if you enjoyed this, please check out my Slap Fighting Iceberg video! I think you'll find it both entertaining and interesting. Link: czcams.com/video/WHzeouFDS64/video.html
Totally agree
Very solid work;
Airtight narration;
Concise; succinct; informative;
Good video... but if you honestly think Dana White being 'power - slapped' by his wife (and tap -slapping back) was 'irony' and not a cynical publicity stunt (which conveniently garnered worldwide publicity before the shows launch ; ) then you're naive...
Wait for him to reveal how 'clever' he is in his autobiography.
This is Natural Selection happening in front of our eyes. Please let them wipe each other out of existence, do not interrupt: let's just laugh 🤫
@@beejj6190even if that was true, it clearly didn't work as he expected because the show was cancelled, innit? 🤭
More like he, in the end, saw it wasn't that good of an idea and tried to pull out at the last moment, so he set himself up with the couple fight thing to get himself "cancelled" by WB, otherwise he would be mocked for chickening his way out.
He already gets criticized for being the CEO for the biggest MMA company, sport already seen normies as modern gladiator fights: I think he doesn't want more bad press.
Letting someone hit you as hard as they can in the face is a really, really terrible idea. Letting them do it over and over again is just idiotic.
Tell traffickers. U meninist chauvinist p9g.
so tell me what you think about boxing and UFC then
@darthrevan2081 , it's not something I would do competitively, but either would be better than letting someone hit you in the face as hard as they can repeatedly. At least in the UFC, the ref will stop the fight of you stop defending yourself.
@@darthrevan2081 not the same at all. There you can defend yourself. Slap fighting is just dumb.
@FleshToDust , I don't disagree. I've always avoided fights as much as possible. I have a temper and don't want to start down a road I can't back out of.
You know you messed up horribly in life when you've entered professional slap fights.
Yeah, I really don’t picture professional people participating in this sport.
Ah but what about professional ass slap fights?!
@@hitoseijuro5673 imagine walking away from a bout with disfigured cheeks, great loss to society 😥
russians
@@karrenliuk i aint gonna do that bro,i wont shit 180 degrees from my ass
I can't imagine that this will ever become truly large.
Not because its dangerous, but because its simply too boring in the long run.
According to Dana it's the most watched sport in the US besting all other sports combined 😂😂😂😂😂😂 what a ridiculous statement
My boyfriend and I watched a couple of power slaps and yea it’s extremely boring. Plus, every contestant they interview gives the same answers (i.e they’re doing it for their children/families) and while the intent isn’t wrong…do they really want their families to see them get slapped? It’s a little embarrassing 😅
@@ComaLies225 yea usually a 2 hour long event is actually like 10mins of highlights. The action isn't like a big ufc fight where it's hype af. I have no clue who any of these people are and there are no stakes in slap fighting.
2.6 million CZcams followers. I'm in the rabbit hole. I just don't understand how this is a thing.
It's the sport version of watching paint dry--and that's in a world where bowling and darts exists. At least in those two sports, the outcome isn't the same every time.
They took the motto "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" and made it into a competition.
Second place gets brain damage but first place is already drooling on their tits
It's men, so are you really that surprised? Most of them are on the short bus anyway when it comes to intelligence...
Problem is they're intentionally using palm-heel strikes and aiming for the jawline. This is a knockout strike, not a stinging five finger slap on the cheeks.
My thoughts exactly. Ottoman slaps gained a reputation for a reason
yeah
Forill doh yahmsayin
Gen Z is so weird
@@shadyganley8877
Using palms should be instant disqualification
The thing is, they aren’t slapping. They’re palm striking, which is basically a punch. It was popular in mma back in the Frank Shamrock, Royce Gracie, Dan Severn days. So these guys are just taking undefended blunt force trauma to the head. I can not believe it’s allowed to happen.
It was used in MMA back in the days, because some promotions would have rules that you can’t strike with a closed fist. Particularly the Pancrase promotion from Japan
Rules for the sport will still being developed, and some Japanese promotions were a mix of pro wrestling and MMA, so they had some hybrid rules and worked fights even
@@Day-ZDuke yeah it was essentially American pro wrestling but real lol. I love watching those old fights. They aren’t as technical but that bother matter to me. Those mf’s threw down.
I've said this a while ago in a reaction/color commentary video of Chiseled Adonis about this. If it was actually a regular slap using only your hand and fingers rather than the base of the hand, it wouldn't be as bad - well, it would probably lead to more swelling and bleeding but it wouldn't be as dangerous to the brain a palm strike to the chin can be.
@@SamBrickell No, it shouldn't be allowed. It's like saying we're going to allow hitting each other in the head with a baseball bat as a "sport." You know someone's going to do it, and they should be jailed as murderers, even if someone agrees to be hit in the head with a baseball bat.
Old school! How about Igor Vovchancyn knocking dudes out with ridge-hand strikes?
Slap fighting. It's like a sport where you strip away every aspect except the brain trauma
Ha ha, perfectly said -- thank you! 😊
Nah, it's just russian. Dear leader Pootler was a grandmaster in his/her youth.
Slap contests are so dumb.
1. You are not allowed to defend yourself
2. A lot of these guys will develop CTE
3. IT IS NOT A REAL SPORT!!!
Unless it is two unlikable influencers slapping each other nonstop, I am not interested.
I agree with your “unless” …. Wonder if we’re thinking of the same 2 dudes? ✌🏼🤣👍🏼
@@alexdasliebe5391well I hope you're thinking of Logan Paul and bloody KSI
1st rule of a combat sport is defend yourself at all times
I think the confusion and disconnect of popularity growth is because of CZcams streamers such as moistcritikal aka Charlie as well as a few with gigantic audience and mostly consists of kids. That's what's crazy about this the majority of the is 21 and under. Which is fine I'm not saying they can't watch what they like but I just think a lot of it is manufactured marketing. Moistcritikal has a giant following and he covers the sport. But he is also a video game channel and a Yu-Gi-Oh card opening channel. Amongst other things it's not just that. But there are tons of twitch streamers and review it. I mean it is what it is and you can't really place your opinion on a population that is so absorbed into their phone, the point where it's like all the people who donate money on twitch, this is their new heros and no matter how stupid, they still want to be like them. There's just a whole legitimate reason why this is gaining popularity, it's just that it is so interesting The divide between the MMA and boxing community, to all the CZcamsrs and twitch streamers with a younger audience who have very good marketing. But this is the reason for the rapid expansion. I mean it's kind of like a generational divide.
Think this is why Charlie stopped covering it. But yeah the reality is it a no skill "sport" for idiots.
You winning is basically dependant on how long can your brain retain consciousness, there is no player skill like other sport.
@@Vffhndsercchi Err Charlie always renounced that sport and would satirically comment about how stupid it is, if the kiddies want to interpret that in a different light then that's all on you my guy.
@@Mrknifeskill Did you miss the parts where he says things like "this is so stupid" or "Kids don't try this at home"
He watches it in amazement that people are literally reverting to neanderthal levels of brain activity.
He's also mentioned that most contact sports in the modern times have all been focused around avoiding being hit, not the other way around.
It's like watching a trainwreck, sometimes you can't help yourself.
go tell these dummies
It’s not a sport it’s a competition of who can take the most brain damage. People need to realize that a single instance of losing consciousness means permanent brain injury.
It's a lose lose too.. The winner is just someone who can take 1 more slap than the loser.
Not quite true. Simply losing consciousness doesn't cause injury it is what caused you to lose consciousness as well as if you are breathing whilst unconscious.
Obviously this slap thing is a problem there, but if you fall unconscious due to drinking for example, that doesn't always lead to a brain injury.
@@Maca68 🤦♂️
@@Maca68 🤦♂️
@@shadyganley8877 well what about what I said is dumb?
If you take a blow to the head and fall unconscious, it's the blow to the head that's caused the damage, not falling unconscious
If you pass-out due to being blind drunk, simply being unconscious is not doing any damage to you
The guys training to powerslap made me laugh so hard
In school we used to play “shot for shot” punching each other in the shoulder until someone gave up. It got bad. Raises, swelling etc. Still a terrible idea but it maintains the concept of this slap stuff while sparring your noggin.
Only simple swelling isn’t much of a deal, swelling in your brain and cte is lol
We called it lick for lick. (No diddy)
We did bloody knuckles. Just punching each others fist. Never seen a big injury only blood knuckles on the rare occasion.
We played quarters. Where we would fling quarters along the table while the opponent had their knuckles face down. No idea why we did that. We broke skin, had scars, bled all the time. Boys are weird.
The most important thing in combat sports is too avoid damage as possible, but these guys are doing the opposite thing
Huss, buddy, you are awful at Halo 3
@@Vffhndsercchi what halo XD, do u mean valorant 😂
@@HUSS_BOSS DANG I was way wrong hahahaha! There is a professional Halo player named Huss. It was a total shot in the dark lmao
@@HUSS_BOSS Sometimes you gotta take shot at the top dogs to get noticed from a one vs match lmao
@@Vffhndsercchi 🤯
Poor Chris Rock. He didn't even know he was in a slap fight until it was too late. He should have paid attention during training.
It was completely set up. Crazy how so many of you fall for stunts like this so easily.
Fake as fuck
@@kyleconnor2759 Ah yes, these two mega stars were more than happy to tarnish their reputations and careers forever to (checks notes) fool Kyle?
@@NuyoricanJoseph funny you used the ridiculously played out little checks notes bit every NPC keeps doing. Was just mentioning to someone how big of a fucking loser you have to be to still be doing that hahahaha
@@NuyoricanJoseph you didn’t even do it right btw. Might want to … check your notes. Fucking loser haha
Play stupid games,win stupid prizes.
Omg stfu with that overused phrase.
Another wealthy developer of an IP says to the consumer, "If you dont like it dont buy it" and so nobody bought it.
Lost a lot of respect for Schwarzenegger - half for promoting this sport, half for teaming up with Logan Paul.
I guess he's out of age to know Logan's internet presence, but still huge L to his team for not checking who they're dealing with
You think Logan Paul is worse than the people they dealt with in Hollywood? Logan Paul is a Saint compared
@@ScootsMcPoot So you try to launder someone's image by pointing to something else you think is worse? Which I'm guessing is 90% conspiracy theory. Sounds like you're on the same level as this 'hollywood' you're talking about.
Schwarzenegger: "F--- your freedom," when asked about people who want to retain their freedom of choice from experimental COVID shots. Him, Stern and Gene Simmons.....GONE! No longer a fixture in my life.
@@jimbrothers1883 "Look, peasants! You can get it at the gas station! Isn't our government so good and caring!?"
The biggest problem with this "sport", leaving aside the CTE concerns (which are real) is how much of an advantage whoever goes first has. Whoever goes second has to withstand his opponents' biggest shot before even having a chance of his own. So it isn't just unnecesarily dangerous and devoid of skill but also very poorly planned and unfair.
the participants know that its stupid and unfair but we live in a wicked world where the only argument for every attrocitiy is: but well i only try to feed myself and make money. LOL OMEGATRÜFFEL im sure at latest after the first fight they know its a stupid sport that is unfair. but the muniz. and there are a loooooot of people drinking alkohol watching adult movies and stuff instead of learning how to produce something valuable or deliver a good service. so theyre choice of making a living narrows to the entertainment of the wicked ones.
You are very right. The one who slaps first always has a bigger chance of winning
yeah dude the TBI/Concussion and CTE risks are HUGE dude.
Not to mention the ridiculous weigth differences in many of those face offs
Imagine they slap together, what will happen?
We're officially back to victorian era freak shows
Y'all remember that movie Idiocracy? Well, we're here
President Comacho would never have allowed it.
Imagine becoming permanently disfigured and possibly going broke over a slap contest.
Hundreds of people will suffer serious permanent damage before this stupid activity stops due to everyone becoming bored with it. It's a tragic and pointless exercise in unfunny. Which is why, of course, Jake Paul is involved.
Who was permanently disfigured?
@@joshcantrell8397 You didn't even watch the video, did you?
@@scott8323you’re an idiot don’t believe everything you see on the internet. That man became the champion that night. It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my life. You don’t know how hard it hit me. He never gave up because he knew even thought it was extremely dangerous and could ruin or end his life he found a way to prove himself to the world and he was faced with a man it seemed would crush his dreams and he refused to move as if he would die being slapped and eventually his monstrous opponent either got too frustrated or felt bad or got so sick of getting slapped and the constant pain it seemed the man would never give up and would return every single slap there was no point.
But the fact that it’s not a movie or anything it’s a real young man that values his life and his body but he’s too strong for his own good.
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Crazy how long MMA took to be legalized but this shit just goes straight to main stream!
And mma had to adjust to make the sport safer. When it first started it was free for all with few rules and was banned in most states
Different morals, different generations, different era. Reminds me of how the Greeks had boxing, wrestling, and pankration (which is basically MMA) and then the Romans turned those sports into Gladiator arenas as they became more degenerate.
I guess this is the new tide pod challenge, every generation has theirs :)
Degeneration of mankind.
@@562wiseguy Ahh yes, the good old days when groin shots and headbutting was legal in the UFC 😅
People think it's not that bad because "it's just slapping." Those aren't slaps though. They're palm strikes which are way harder and they appear to be aiming for the chin, not the face as you'd expect from a slap. It's like allowing a boxer to wind up and full on knock-out punch you while you do nothing to protect yourself.
for real. looks like a golfer getting ready to swing rather than a woman slapping her husband for saying he should have stayed at his stripper's apartment permanently.
Bro was looking like he was eating a jaw breaker from ed ed n eddie
You know your culture is screwed when THIS becomes a sport, and is encouraged by Dana White.
In a sane culture it would be shut down, and Dana White would be fined or thrown in jail.
Thanks mom
FAX
@@stateofdisasterkrew Yw son
@@semyaza555 it’s amazing how different peoples definitions of freedom can be! The participants are fully grown adults that are well aware of the damage being done to them. They are desperate folks that see an opportunity to make much bigger cash more quickly than they could ever make through any other means, so they take it. You may not understand that kind of desperation but surely many are not lying when they say this is a life-changing opportunity, even if the fight purses seem relatively small compared to more popular sports. Besides, who is anyone else to tell a grown man what to do with his own body?
Becoming a power slap Champion doesn't make you a tough guy, it doesn't make you a fighter, it makes you a fool
AMEN to that .
It''s so blatantly obvious .
Why t f would anyone ...... ???
It very likely can also make you a vegetable.
nah, you just gotta masturbate 20 times a day and make sure you always get to slap first. theres no danger if you just shatter everyones jaw with the first hit.
@@Aivottaja right a Vegetable Slap Champion
Literally though, brain damage so high might as well get a lobotomy
This seems like someone’s high school presentation. With that being said, 100% passed
there is a reason we wear helmets even when riding a bicycle... lets create a leg kicking competition lol
natural selection lol
Humanity's downward trajectory continues. I swear, we're only months away from the premier of "Ow! My Balls".
don't watch Jackass
Jokes on you, I haven't had those since before I had an ex-wife.
Ever watch “Ridiculousness?” 🤣
Love the reference. So true.
When I was young and naive I had high hopes that we're gonna reach the Star Trek future in the 23rd century. Today I think humans are gonna make ourselves extinct.
Why aren't I surprised that Dana would much rather do this than have a health plan for his UFC fighters!
Because Dana is a psychopath. Duh
@@danielwilson1105 and he likes to smack around his wife - loser he is!
This is why I don't watch UFC anymore. Matches are rigged too.
They are open contestors
@@goku445 yup 100% rigged it’s the entertainment industry all about cash 💰
the real question is how much money makes you willingly be slapped
The new version of this sport and is some ways more traumatic however with less brain injuries is known as 'Testicle Slapping'
The problem with Dana's argument is that in slap fighting, every hit is a clobber and you never miss. Whereas in boxing you get to avoid punches and when you take them you get to use your head, body, hands, and feet to move with it.
there are misses, but even if they weren't you can prepare yourself to your full ability leading up to the slap as you know the exact moment you'll get slapped. in boxing/mma thats not the case and its just not worse than bare knuckle even in the slighest. im sure if you experience both for yourself, you'd take a few big slaps over getting in a ring for like 10 minutes bare knuckle any day.
@@jt9324x Congratulations, you've figured out slap fighting isn't as bad as bare knuckle boxing, something no one was discussing.
he did a second reply which was referring to bare knuckle but now it has been deleted. he previously stated that slap boxing was worse than bare knuckle, which is why i said that. don't act all smart coming into something a week later trying to get a "gotcha" moment.@@lasagnahog7695
As much as I don't want to defend Dana, the league he promotes is set up in a completely different manner with much safer rules.
I feel like even in boxing, body shots enough to make you end up in hospital lmfao
Just when you think Dana White can't get any more grimy.
You don't get. The guy's just trying to make it in the world of sports & this could be his big break. He's gotta feed his family somehow!
@@ubahfly5409lol- yeah he was really struggling to feed his family before power slap
@@ubahfly5409the dude owns ufc...what u talkin bout guy?
@@ajburgess7242Man you man 🤨
@@ajburgess7242 whoosh
Knowingly gave themselves mini concussions for little pay
“What Did The 5 Fingers Say To The Face?!”
-A missed slogan opportunity.
The fact that dana white thought this was a great idea is illuminating
I mean, people think a lot of dumb shit is cool, this is just another on the list.
@@simplylethul this is dumb shit combined with masochism and a hint of psychopathy
It's not that it's a good idea....it's that it will generate money. Dana just wants to milk the most out of it, instead of other, lesser known sleazy promoters, before people catch on that the "sport" is pure nonsense
He's only about that profit 🤑
Wait till Dana gets sewed
I’m not a doctor, but I’m a nurse and have seen many head injuries especially working in the emergency room and then transferring to the icu. I don’t think people truly grasp how fragile our bodies are let alone our brains. We have to protect our bodies and this “sport” is the furthest away from doing so. I know that all sports comes with risk but this sport is going to way too far imo. Kids are going to consume this sport and I promise you this will happen. You will see more kids and teenagers going into the hospital with brain injuries because they are going to try and emulate what they see on tv, and parents nowadays barely even watch their kids and use school as daycare. Stay safe because this sport ain’t it.
What you seen on the front lines is very valuable information. Thank you for sharing .
People dont think at all we are just aimlessly going thorugh life acting dumb and having a massive ego especially Americans
Developed countries hide death and accidents so much that people never see the consequences or finite nature of death. Every car accident is censored on TV, every dead body is hidden away until it's either cremated or hidden in a casket. Like it or not, I think sometimes we need to see these things to fully realize the consequences and the fragility of human life.
Nobody forces them to participate in the contest. It's completely voluntary.
@@juser-abuser doesn't change the fact what it is, a dumb fucking event where nobody wins except Dana. Personally, if you consider this as a thing to participate you're already brain damaged anw, the harm is that people promote this shit as if its some "badass" sport, which is not in any sense or reasonable delusion.
How is that called slap fighting when most guys don’t even slap their opponents
When you don't qualify for the Special Olympics but you still want to do something 'special'.
One of the greatest achievements of human stupidity. 🤪🙄😵💫
It's literally because of Moist Critical
Nah, we are way dumper, that would be even a compliment
@@raduromanesti6408this doesn even come close to lobotomy or trans kids that were or are legal medical stuff. at least in this competiition it shows who can take n give more hits they probably train a lot too
@@flowrepins6663 As an Eastern/southern/central European (Romanian)i agree
Having trained extensively to use palm strikes in martial arts I can safely say that open hand strikes can be every bit as devastating as closed hand with the added bonus of protecting the attacker's knuckles from breaking. You couldn't pay me enough to be involved in one of these events.
The thing is they're not even hitting with an open palm. They're hitting someone with their lower palm/upper wrist. Getting slapped is painful from anyone even a child, but a palm-heel to the face is essentially like getting punched in the face - which is what this is. It makes me so annoyed how popular this is, I'm a gym co-owner in Nairobi Kenya and have banned a handful of people for trying to "poach" people to partake in it offering cash for it just for it to be posted on social media. I have a great respect for people who do partake in ring fights and martial arts but they both have protection and moderation for both fighters while allowing them to do it, this slap duel thing is just a modern day blood sport and nothing more.
@@lolza-qh2xw Yeah, basically just using the bone of their wrist
@@lolza-qh2xw or aiming for the ear which can cause loss of balance and in the worst case burst your eardrum. A lot of martial arts teach that as well as eye gouging as a way to incapacitate attackers
watching women slap the $(/+ out of each other is peak postmodernism....even idiocracy was a failure of imagination compared to some of the things we have now
Yep I think this is even more dangerous than MMA. You're basically allowing yourself to be defenseless from a knockout punch. In MMA you're allowed to defend and even if you get hit, you can lessen the impact by rolling with the punch.
The irony of boxers actually saying power slapping is dangerous 🤣🍻
Folks seem to really just not grasp the fact that someone being knocked out isn't them just taking a really forcefull nap. That's fucking brain trauma.
I know a female back in high school who got slapped by a male teenager, and her eye was knocked out of place. Over 10 years have passed, and her eye is still knocked out of place. I adopted a four-year-old boy, and his biological mother slapped him so hard that his eye was knocked out of place. He's seven years old now, and his right eye came back in place. We did eye exercises to train the eye to stay in place. Also, slapping someone with force can risk brain injury.
Wow, that's so horrible! Thanks for sharing.
Eye don't believe it
scary
Really? It can risk brain injury? No one here knew that, not even after watching the video :D
thank you for saving that young boy's life, you are an angel in disguise
As a Polish person, i feel deeply ashamed that something like this is promoted here, and even though it's not a very popular sport in terms of viewership, the sheer fact that there are sponsored professional competitions of this, makes me deeply infuriated, because it goes against the main premise of combat sports - Defend Yourself
This is barbarism in the Roman way, show how much our culture and civilization has fallen.
@@Zodroo_Tint I'm pretty sure, that stuff similar to this existed in 3rd world countries, way before the internet was invented, it's just that because of the social media (combined with human psychology - most people like watching dumb people doing dumb shit) it just gains recognition, despite the fact that a guy literally DIED already through this "competiton"
I'm also Polish and I remember when that ridiculous slapping contest was introduced, the vast majority condemned it. People called it a pathetic entertainment for pathologies and smooth brains willing to risk their health and lives for money. I'm actually shocked to hear that such thing has generated some coverage/interest anywhere around the world.
******HOLDING BACK ANY POLISH JOKES******
LOL
dana white is the modern day don king.
There's this one funny meme where the dude immediately forfeits after his slap barely makes his opponent flinch. Got a small chuckle from me 😅
First time I witnessed this was when I was in boarding school, if you and someone else were caught defaulting, you’d be ordered to give each other nonstop alternating slaps
In fighting, You are defending yourself even when a punch lands you can brace for impact before it lands. there is adrenaline flowing through your body. In power slap you are just standing there waiting to be hit in the face clean. Every slap is a power strike which they have to take directly in the head. The brain feels no pain, so a person could be really hurt and they wouldn't know it until is too late. In a fight punches land, but not all punches are power punches. You have to be cautious when you punch because you can get counter if you miss. What stops someone in Power Slap from using full power.. Nothing! the guy can't move. he can't block. You have in front of you a body in state of rest which is about to be slapped with a power strike.
Thank you you’re completely right. Slap fighting is horrible and it’s sad Dana is okay giving it a platform
@@malus1426 The difference being the person can defend themselves. And you seen the videos of that guy with a completely warped and disfigured face because of a slap competition? The guy literally In the thumbnail lol
In fighting you get kicked and hit in the face and although not all power punches and you can block, there is still more than 3 power strikes that hits you.
@@saffaadventures365 I am not saying that fighting is not dangerous, but the animal body has two modes fighting mode in which your body gets ready for danger allowing you to get away with anything, so you can escape danger. you feel less pain you are able to take on more damage. Your body releases chemicals that allows you to take on huge cuts, breaks, and hits. it makes you more powerful in every possible way and hyper focus. Their bodies are in rest mode. They are literally just bracing for impact here. The poor little fook3rs are coming back up as if brain hemorrhages are not real. Cut yourself with a razor, you will feel it to the point that you are going to cry like a woman. Now go to those dark stories of people who have been stabbed, Mutilated, shot, etc. and they will tell you ... I didn't feel anything. Their bodies were in fighting mode.
and this way Artur Walczak died 26.11.2021. After getting on the face a hit in this idiotic "Sport". Result - central nervous system damage and multiorgan failure in a result.
Legend has it that the first slap fight was between Rick James and Charlie Murphy. May their souls rest in peace.
The French have been slap fighting for hundreds of years
Yep. But Will Smith and Chris Rock brought into people's livingrooms in prime time.
They're up there slapping each other in heaven........f*CK your couch n*ga 😂
Unity!
“Was cancelled due to Dana slapping his wife” (clip shows Danas wife slapping him)
And ofc moistcritical is to blame for regularly covering these events before all the controversy’s
Possibly the most ridiculous violent activity I've ever seen.
Darwinism at work
you've apparently never seen videos of a BLM riot
@@Spartan-ri8xj Prolonged silence...
@@Spartan-ri8xj Is it a bad thing to not know or WANT to know worst? I mean if you seek for this sh!t, you're a sicko.
@@goku445 No,if you seek for the donation hotline for the Democratic Party, you're a sicko. This is a sport,not for everyone's taste,but it is a sport.
At least in boxing, MMA and other combat sports you can block the punch or kick....
Or defend...
Very true
incel
@@malus1426 Nah, those people got injured with honor, meanwhile the slapping contestants they get nothing except injury
@@malus1426
That was one fight. And you can tap too. (If you didn’t know)
MMA gives you brain damage, but you can minimize it with technique. Slapping contest is just that. If you dodge the slap many, many times you’ll get disqualified.
I practiced Brazilian ju-jitsu for 10 years, for fun, no competition, and I accidentally knocked out my best friend one day as we were training, he stayed in a semi coma for a couple of days at the hospital. I felt so bad, and was so afraid, I stopped doing that sport. We were both 32 at the time, now we do trekking and camping with both of our families. It's better.
These guys are knocking each other out even more than boxing, UFC, Football, or any perceptually dangerous sports all together! This is dangerous and insane!
@@omahkuribut How so?
That's why people want to watch it. Hockey was the best sport in the world when they had fights every period. Heads bouncing off ice and guys taken away in ambulances was the norm. Today they made it safe and its basically figure skating with sticks. So boring.
@@fluxonite4254 According the TV viewership ratings hockey is at a all time low and dropping faster each year. People are drawn to spectacles like was found in the Roman Colosseum. That is human nature. "Viewership for 2023 final averaged 2 million viewers less than last year's series. Game five had an average audience of 2.72 million across TNT and TruTV. Decider saw viewership decrease 47 per cent compared to the equivalent game last season."
@@LelandReview I absolutely love it when those pro players hit their heads so hard that they are never the same. Plenty of names, Savard for example. I love it when those players cant interact with their families the same way. Stop being stupid, player's health is way more important. You can take that ridiculous opinion and shove it. Useless.
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What makes combat sports and Martial Arts beautiful is the dance between offense and defense. When you take away that crucial aspect of it, you turn it from a combat sport to a circus show.
Articulated perfectly.
More like a dangerous circus
Couldn't have said it better, nice dp btw ;)
Both are a circus show tbh. Trained monkeys fighting for gambling addicts and failed jocks in an age of the firearm which is how all "real" combat is fought today.
Or torture pron show.
They used to say all this crap about UFC back in the 90's and banned it for the longest time.
MMA fighters calling out slap fights for brain damage. That is fucking hilarious
The entire body weight, muscle impulse force, and body mechanics of a slapper against a resting head, neck, and spine of the victim. Sounds like an execution to me.
Dana fails to mention the biggest difference...in boxing, from DAY ONE, you are taught equal amounts of defense and offense. How to roll with punches, duck, weave, raise your guard, clinch when hurt, etc. There are whole coaches who are hired specifically because their defense training, while others are great punching coaches. In Slap, you have ZERO defense. Your only "defense" is to hope and pray you don't get a concussion or worse.
Yep. Boxing is more like getting peppered with a lot of smaller blows with the recipient doing everything they can to mitigate the damage, it's quite rare to take a full force punch like these slap competitions. It's telling because in boxing and MMA you're told to defend yourself at all times, the ref is there to stop a fight if one of the contenders is hurt too badly. There are lots of instances where a fighter feels like they can continue but the ref has determined that they've had enough. But in slap contests you're specifically NOT ALLOWED to defend yourself and contenders are often continuing to slap each other well past the point of being seriously injured. It's ludicrous.
I disagree with your last point. In these "slap" fights, there IS one method of defense, that is being the first person to "slap". In a "slap" fight between two contestants with equal weight, the first person to "slap" has a far higher chance to win, simply because he starts with full power without injury. No one who has been "slapped" to the head (which should be rightly called a strike to the head, NOT a slap) with full power by his opponent can regain their initial mental strength. So, these "slap" fights are not sports at all, but gambling, because your chance of success are almost entirely determined by the flip of the coin. Those who participate in these "slap" fights are basically gamblers, not fighters. Play a stupid game, win a stupid prize.
@@indrapratama7668 Have you seen the size difference between some of these guys? There are no weight/height brackets in slap fights.
@@indrapratama7668Winning the coin toss to slap first isn't a method of defense, it's just winning a coin toss. Slapping first does confer an advantage, but no matter who's going first, when it's your turn to get slapped you're not allowed to do anything to mitigate the damage.
@@chainsawplayin
"Have you seen the size difference between some of these guys? There are no weight/height brackets in slap fights."
Yes, I have, several times. That's why I said that this "slap" fight is just gambling, not sport. It's 99,9% chance.
I love how the massive opponent is just some dude with his arms filled up with synthol lmao
We used to slap box as kids,then we graduated to wrapping our fists with dish rags to prevent cutting.
This is so unpleasant to watch. And I'm a martial artist. It's stupid and irresponsible, not just for the participants but for the organizers who should have the participants' safety and well-being as their best interest. Disgusting.
Money is a hell of a thing.
As if Dana ever cared about people lol, just give him more money and if you're a good promo fighter he'll pay you to continue that shit like Connor, otherwise you're scrapping bare minimum, there's literally lawsuit going on about fighters pay in UFC. You get 10-50k pay depending on the level of your fighting, NFL players are millionares in their prime for example, lmao.
I'm tryna figure out who even watches this shit. Literally no one I know watches it. From what I see online, seems like no one is paying to watch it at least. Where is this paying viewership coming from that supports this shit?
its fun to watch and your probably a fool if you think mma/boxing/football is any safer, u just want to have thoughts, thats it. hurr hurr
@@TerryD5000 yeah, you don't know what you're talking about
Too add to Dana’s comment. Not all of those 300-400 punches land flush. In slap, it’s guaranteed a flush shot every single time.
Still, dozens of professional boxers have died. Though big money in boxing right?
@@Vmaster005 Conclusion, striking are bad for your brain, period
Even MMA calls it after you get hit in the face repeatedly 😂
It's sad people may have to lose their lives to prove how dangerous the sport is.
I knew this was a horrible idea from the beginning. People are opening themselves up to a free hit at max strength to the head. it doesn't matter how tough you are mentally or what you project to be. The head has vulnerable stops where even if our strong you will go down. And this is shown in most of the videos. In this sport serious injury is promoted and can result in "not recovering" as shown.
"In a boxing match, 300 to 400 punches are thrown"
Yes, but not all of them connect, not all of them are aimed specifically to the head, and not all of them are at the same strength as they are always moving around the arena. And specially on later rounds when both fighters are exhausted. And boxers are matched on height and weight (Class).
This, on the other hand, is a stand still, charged up slap with chances to recover longer for the next hit than in a boxing match. With a completely unfair match up.
Chances are, you're gonna die.
Yeah Dana was trying to gas light us.
The body shot enough to land you in hospital lmfao dude
Dana probably justifying it so he can slap his wife around, may be he don't know how to box or fight
Two guys decide to have a nut kicking contest to see who will win a cow. The first guy winds up with a massive kick to the other guy’s balls. After rolling around for ten minutes the second guy says “it’s my turn”. The first guy looks and says “nah, you can keep the cow”.
Slap Fighting seems like a bad idea.
Why does the fact that this started in Russia not surprise me!
honorless douchebag culture, honorless douchebag sport
Yeah, a country of degenerates
The very first "power slap" match being between Dana White and his wife, is definitely irony. 😆
Yeah, well, she hit him first, equality and all that
having white and power this close can't be an accident 😂
That made me bug out a little
@@MonsieurBlueMusic Yeah because you're mentally ill
@@kingcosworth2643you don't hit women.
@SLICKone-zm1kv Water, I'm just dumb 😅
The most insane thing in this video is saying AEW takes in upwards of 1 million views
As someone with a TBI, it makes me ill watching people risk their healthy brains for something so silly.
Its crazy to me that people engage in this voluntarily.
Because of money or social clout
I mean hey, people smoke so... I guess to each their own poison xD
It's crazy because today's culture IS crazy. We as mankind are at the lowest historical point in our cultures. Virtually everything in our cultures are rotting.
Many people are suicidal, but don't like the idea that they'll be known as someone who took their own life. So they do insanely reckless things like this. When you say, 'Careful, you'll die very young' they give a half-assed 'oh no' and keep doing it with extra vigor. If you keep this in mind, a lot of people's insane behavior makes more sense.
My dad was one of these dudes, he had like five ongoing suicidal habits. When he wasn't courting a heart attack from binging tons of food, he was getting into bar fights hoping his head would hit the pavement, or racing a muscle car down mountainside switchbacks, drinking until he was half-comatose, shitting himself and pissing blood, or working as a taxi driver, then an oil refiner. The man wanted to die, but also wanted to be seen as brave and invincible. Drinking got him, ultimately. I might have believed it was accidental, if I hadn't already read the book _In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts._
@@Garblegox well said.
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1 it is a funny idea 2 it can just be taken too far
Obvious hater is obvious. Also Ariel is actually crying.
They should have disqualified him for facial damage.
It’s exact opposite of what fight fans wanna see
I remember the first time I saw slap fights a few years ago I thought it was the dumbest thing, and this just solidifies my opinion.
Getting knocked out is not a defense mechanism. It's the trauma to the brain causing an electrolyte imbalance, which shuts off the brain. Electrolytes are responsible for neuron impulse conduction, aka what makes out brain run. When you're punched in the face, the balance of electrolytes are disturbed, and the brain tries it's best to "repair" or replenish this balance. If the punch is too great in force for the brain to recover in time, or too many punches are taken in succession with enough force to not allow the brain to recover in time, the brain shuts off. It's the brains inability to retain electrolyte imbalances that causes a knockout.
TLDR It's not a defence mechanism, but the result of an insufficient one.
I mean, its a knock out, probably spinal something disturbance
That’s so interesting!! And that would explain why a hit you don’t see coming will KO better, since your brain doesn’t have a chance to get ready to restore electrolytes
Source: trust me bro
"Mr. Madison. What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard...."
That's absolutely not true. A knockout happens when your brain pushes through your cerebrospinal fluid, that usually cushions trauma, and slams against the side of your skull.
There's no meaning to it.
We should be not insulting each other but helping each other grow and reach our potential. Not deminish it.
So you wouldn’t approve of someone “owning the libs”….Beta
*Diminish, but agreed.
No fighting sports at all then
@@troywright359 Yes, if that's how you see it.
Boxing was once called a gentleman's sport though.
I want to slap you
This sport is literally caveman levels of innovation. You really can’t get simpler than slap boxing
I'm just more saddened at the fact that a person passed away from this stupid thing. I feel sorry for the guy to end that way, idk if this thing is still going on till this day but hopefully they've stopped
When I see a report on how people are ignorant about evidence, insight, and history, then refuse to acknowledge it… then do it again in a different way, I think there is something very important to address about humanity.
These people are adults, who is anybody to treat them as a child when all they are doing is hurting themselves.
The parent is absent in this case. Social cues nulled. Is this our downfall or yet another gimps to trophy Our own self loathing as 'fun'?
You really enjoy word vomiting, don't you?
The doctors trying to end the NFL for almost 20 years with science and data must be like: “Am I a joke to you?”
You gotta be a special type of guy to want to participate in a slap competition.
i'd guess the origins are lost to history because this emerged from centuries of drunken competitions where variations of this were used to display dominance during a village's quiet winter months
That's a very good point!
Soviet prisons.. It appeared in soviet prisons..
I remember seeing a slap fight where a guy was slapped off his feet and people help him back up. They had to prop him up to continue. How can any person with even a partially functioning brain think it was okay for him to continue? It's obvious he had some sort of brain damage after that.
He was probably never the same after that
How can anyone with a partially functioning brain actually do this😂
It is dangerous and I don’t think the contestants realize how dangerous
Although it's a quote based on professional wrestling I still feel like it relates to slap fighting;
"It take no skill to hit someone with a blunt object" - Jim Cornette.
They're just standing there defenceless waiting for a guy to smash them with the heel of their hand as hard as he can. And being unable to move out of the way.
It's stupid, dangerous and something that only the desperate and moronic would engage in.
My grandpa suffered from Parkinson’s bad and died at 62.. and was considered a fighter not to get hit much. I think football is more dangerous then mma and this slap shit is just unbelievable.
*than and yes I definitely agree
there are lots of people who have parkson or alzheimer at old age without ever fighting or getting hit. we all destined to get old and die eventually. anyways... if the guy enjoy his youth and made money to live a decent life in a sport even being injured than thats worth it
@@flowrepins6663 Many experts now call Alzheimers "Stage 3 Diabetes," doesn't have anything to do with getting hit ever.
Death is not a normal phenomenon.
All the money in the world is for nothing if you don't have a life.
But Jesus Christ is salvation. He is the way. Accept him as your personal savior. Amen.
@@SunceMjesec-gf1xyDeath is not a normal phenomenon? What is it then, considering every living thing (and debatably, even non living things) goes through it? Congrats for winning the most ridiculous comment I've seen this month.
8:22. The most brutal strike known to man
a mosquito bit me in the face once too
Microwaving tinfoil and batteries is a smarter idea than going into "pro" slap fighting
There is not one smart dude on that freak show.
Basically spectators love to see KOs, this "sport" delivers.
No other sport allows contact without the right to defend. This sport will be outlawed when the data comes in, participating would be the dumbest thing you can do. You're guaranteeing yourself brain damage.
people love to see ko’s because most of the time it’s unexpected and exciting, problem with the slap “fights” is that it is fully expected and not exciting, it’s like playing a soccer game with no defenders or goalkeeper because people love goals
The brain damage guarantee is what makes it funny
If it gets too big they wont be able to shut it down. Look at the controversy of the NFL with all the brain damage. It generates too much money.
I came across "slapfights" a few years ago on youtube. It is horrific. I could not believe what these people were subjecting themselves to.
When we said “use your head,” we didn’t mean it like this. There’s gotta be a better way to make a living.
I cannot stand getting slapped. Its not something I've experienced much but I hate it.
I went to a slap contest at a local booser and trust me it was brutal 😮 dude got put unconscious, and when he came around, he had a fractured eye socket, and his jaw left hanging 😳
That's the art of it
But he won though hahah 😳😒
He may have been awarded the Top Prize of a a whole $20 bill.@@1sigmamale8818
Bullsh-
Men looking new ways to "harm" one another ...Is nothing new.
Why many Nazi officers had scarred faces . Well ,doing fencing matches, with nothing exept robin mask on