It has been pretty public knowledge that UFC President, Dana White, is venturing into a new professional "fighting" league. Yet, it isn't a single form of MMA. It's called Power Slap and it is somewhat of an internet sensation, but can an internet sensation really become the next great sport? I personally think there's no way.
Power Slap is going to be a massive failure. Sure, if I'm scrolling on Instagram maybe I'll watch a fifteen to sixty-second video of some behemoth getting knocked out via slap, but I'm not gonna pay to go to, or watch at home, an hour to two-
hour event of people just standing across from each other slapping their opponent as hard as they can. It seems like a waste of time. You're never going to get a crazy highlight. Power Slap is going to offer you the same thing over and over and over again. Either someone eats a big slap or gets knocked out. With MMA, you will never get the same fight. Every single fight is going to be different and that's why it works. One fight can be purely grappling, or a bloody war with a little bit of everything like Porier vs Chandler. Not even boxing is as static of a sport as Power Slap is, and it's only punching. Yet, the fact of the matter still stands that not one boxing match will be the same as the next. Power Slap can't offer versatility, if it ever builds an audience, it'll be a major fad because that audience will eventually get tired of watching the same exact thing every single slap match.
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