'Concerns' prompt urgent review of brutal new sport

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The Nevada Athletic Commission is scheduled to sermon imaginable rules changes for slap warring competitions, including those backed by the UFC, the apical mixed martials arts promotion successful the United States.

The committee successful October unanimously approved sanctioning slap fighting, successful which competitors instrumentality turns forcefully slapping each different successful the face. The commission, which regulates boxing and different combat sports successful the state, asserted the support was fixed to forestall unregulated matches and truthful competitors had information precautions successful place.

In November, the committee approved UFC President Dana White's licence to beforehand the Power Slap League. UFC main concern serviceman Hunter Campbell assured the committee that information was the highest priority.

White promoted the TBS amusement “Power Slap: Road to the Title” successful an interrogation with Front Office Sports past week. The archetypal 4 episodes averaged 275,000 viewers.

However, galore competitors exhibited evident concussion-like symptoms, raising information concerns astir the competition.

White acknowledged successful the interrogation with Front Office Sports that a video of him and his woman slapping each different successful a scuffle connected New Year’s Eve astatine a Mexican nightclub didn’t assistance successful his efforts to beforehand the caller sport. He called the timing “ironic and horrible astatine the aforesaid time.”

White besides has publically apologised for slapping his wife.

The committee besides volition sermon approving upcoming Power Slap events March 9 and 11 astatine the UFC Apex successful Las Vegas. The UFC Apex plans to instal a 1,000-seat arena, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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