California folded far too fast on Power Slap

The CSAC shouldn't have been such a walkover for slap fighting.

Illustration by BE Art Director Chris Rini

With TUF fading consistently into background static for fight fans around the world, Dana White has made Power Slap his personal passion. A sport of extreme violence, zero defense, and zero training required. It seems destined to create an endless cycle of almost entirely unknown participants knocking each other out in TikTok highlights.

It also seems like a guarantee that few will ever be able to be slap fighters for long enough to gain any kind of meaningful traction as a star of the ‘sport’ (for lack of a better term). Leaving nobody to collect checks outside of the people running the events. Is it any wonder White is so gung ho about the whole thing?

That shouldn’t mean, however, that the rest of the combat sports industry needs to greenlight this sad spectacle just because someone sees its potential to make easy cash…