Brutal slapping sport is UFC's new venture

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UFC brag Dana White and his concern partners person revealed their latest task - the Power Slap League.

The UFC president has grown his promotion into the astir iconic MMA marque successful the world, with the merchantability of the institution successful 2016 leaving him with an estimated worthy of $US500 million.

And he's present thrown immoderate of his wealth into the caller league, tentatively titled Power Slap, on with UFC CBO Hunter Campbell, who is the superior owner, on with erstwhile UFC proprietor Lorenzo Fertitta and others.

The Nevada State Athletic Commission unanimously approved the connection that ruled slap warring does suffice arsenic unarmed combat, meaning it falls nether the commission's oversight.

Slap warring is simply a athletics wherever 2 fighters slap each different with an unfastened hand, but the UFC is looking to enactment its ain rotation connected it by adding caller rules. The caller task volition look to see a scoring strategy utilizing the 10-point strategy which is adopted successful some boxing and MMA. It volition besides debar unfair value gaps and rules to govern which areas of the look tin beryllium hit.

"We've spent the past twelvemonth benignant of beta-testing this successful a controlled situation to truly trial and spot benignant of the dynamic of however this would relation arsenic an existent league and existent sport," Campbell said.

"What we've recovered is that this is really a accomplishment sport, that the participants that are astatine a precocious level successful this are skilled athletes. They train. They're successful bully shape. They instrumentality it seriously, not dissimilar with what you spot with MMA and boxing."

To this point, the athletics has been contested successful overmuch little restrictive environments astir the US and internationally. Campbell said the information of the athletes progressive is simply a priority.

"With immoderate benignant of combat erstwhile you're taking shots to the head, to person it done successful a mode wherever determination isn't aesculapian procedures and regulations enactment astir it is an unsafe environment," Campbell said.

"The 2nd contented is integrity of the sport. The different happening that we've seen is, you've seen instances wherever a feline mightiness beryllium 400 pounds (181kg), and he's slapping a feline who's 130 pounds (58kg), and that's besides not what we're looking to do.

"With the NSAC approving regulation, athletes volition beryllium subjected to a afloat artillery of pre-fight aesculapian testing, with events featuring progressive aesculapian unit onsite, arsenic well."

It's understood the archetypal lawsuit volition apt instrumentality spot astatine the UFC Apex successful Las Vegas, perchance earlier the extremity of the year. The UFC said its already successful discussions with a large web and presently has a woody with ESPN to broadcast UFC events.

Jeff Mullen, the enforcement manager of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, said the athletics needs oversight.

"I deliberation this athletics needs to beryllium regulated, and if we don't modulate it, it volition beryllium taking spot everyplace each implicit municipality without immoderate benignant of regulations, without immoderate benignant of information standard," Mullen said.

"By regulating this, we tin marque definite that there's doctors there, ambulances there, that the fighters person physicals, they person oculus exams, they person MRIs and MRAs, and if we don't modulate it, we're going to person radical competing close disconnected a barroom stool, and it's going to beryllium a unsafe situation. I deliberation for the wellness and information of our constituents, I deliberation we person to bash that."

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