Slap Fighting

[Ice Tea]

Anyone else find it stupid and irresponsible?

I originally thought it was just a youtube click trend and didn't fully realize just how big it has become as a sport, i can't watch it.

 

[grudas]

isn't it like any other fighting ?

 

[BowdonUK]

I agree.

It's not really a fair sport because someone with a weak chin can win if he goes first and knocks the other guy out on his first shot after winning the coin toss.

It also makes a mockery of the health of head injuries. It shows how lacking of empathy Dana White has for the issue.

 

[Tony Edwards]

Im in.

 

[iron_monkey]

Surely anyone taking part in this isnt going to be able to suffer any kind of brain injury.
Survival of the thickest.

 

[Sankari]

It's pretty big in Russia.

 

[Tony Edwards]

It also makes a mockery of the health of head injuries. It shows how lacking of empathy Dana White has for the issue.

This Dana White?

Dana Frederick White Jr. is an American businessman who serves as president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a global mixed martial arts organization.

 

[tom_e]

Imagine if boxing was a new thing these days, people would be horrified but as it's been around a while it's totally normal to watch people knock seven shades out of each other.

 

[Sankari]

Imagine if boxing was a new thing these days, people would be horrified but as it's been around a while it's totally normal to watch people knock seven shades out of each other.

Ironically, boxing would be safer if we went back to the old rules of bare knuckle and dropped the modern style with gloves.

 

[Oh Ed not again.]

It's pretty big in Russia.

Correlation or causation?

 

[Sankari]

Correlation or causation?

Well there's not much else to do aside from alcoholism, domestic violence, and watching Putin fail in Ukraine.

 

[Efour]

More entertaining to me than boxing.

 

[Liquiduk]

isn't it like any other fighting ?

Doesn't look like there's any means of defence so not really no.

 

[Scougar]

If you watch US based slap fighting, you will see they blatantly ignore the rules and strike in a manner that is dangerous. The refs don't do anything for illegal strikes.

They are effectively punching by striking with their thumb area instead of the fingers and palm, and come up from underneath the rear of the jaw. That is a knockout punch zone and technique that is banned in the Russian version.

 

[Mesai]

The refs don't do anything for illegal strikes.

Probably because the "ref" is just some dude, and the "sport" doesn't have any real governing body to set standards.

 

[Drollic]

It's cheap and accessible requiring minimal skill, fitness and training relative to more established fighting sports so people going to people? Adapt it with some cardio involved and defensive options and you could probably wipe out the 'sport' almost entirely.

 

[shifty_uk]

Can't watch this stuff, it's pretty horrific viewing imo, especially when there's clearly a huge size advantage.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

The version where fit Russian women spank each other is much better.

 

[Mesai]

It's cheap and accessible requiring minimal skill, fitness and training relative to more established fighting sports so people going to people? Adapt it with some cardio involved and defensive options and you could probably wipe out the 'sport' almost entirely.

And there are a ton of people willing to participate - in the UK alone at least 50% of the population would be dead keen on being slapped in the face then wondering how that could have happened.

 

[Sankari]

The version where fit Russian women spank each other is much better.

Physically fit, at least. They're all munters with several kilos of makeup to cushion the impact.