Dana White’s different promotion, the slap-fighting one, has been a long-running joke within the trade since its launch to the lots.
Fighters, MMA media, and even followers have witnessed the viral clips of the traumatic knockouts on slap fighters, and it doesn’t actually take a health care provider to inform that it’s doing large harm to the contributors’ brains.
Even worse, most slap fighters are reportedly solely getting paid round $5,000 U.S. {dollars} per efficiency. Not a lot of an incentive to develop CTE and long-term mind harm. However don’t fear. Physician Dana White is on the prowl and is preventing again in opposition to authentic medical doctors’ educated opinions.
Dana White scoffs at medical doctors’ medical opinions that slap preventing is damaging to the mind
“It sounds legit,” Dana White started (talking with no medical expertise or schooling on document). “They (the precise educated medical professionals) watched one episode of the present? Know nothing about medicals or what we do, or any of the research we’ve accomplished. It feels like these typical medical doctors that search for consideration to me.”
That’s proper, people. You heard it from the UFC president himself. Energy Slap is on the up and up, capiche? No want to fret about CTE or long-term mind accidents. It’s additionally not like research have come out that sign that as much as 78% of Energy Slap fighters depart with everlasting mind harm. All for a measly $5,000, so what’s to not like?
Sadly, it appears as if Dana White gained’t abandon his newest dream, and it hurts the center of a UFC fan when you think about how a lot is presently happening within the sport that may use some much-needed consideration. Sources, time and power are going into the damaging model of Energy Slap, and no quantity {of professional} medical opinions will persuade the UFC president that it is a sport finest left alone.
Skip to (8:57) within the video beneath to see Dana White’s feedback on what Docs are saying about Energy Slap.
What’s your opinion on Energy Slap?