UFC had it right with MMA, says jon_wertheim. But a slap fighting league delegitimizes the whole operation and validates old criticism, wrongheaded as it might have been, that the organizers were always just building a business based on bloodlust
published a column called “The Indefensible Position.” This was a sort of proto-hot-take clearinghouse, intended sarcastically, presaging a time when every idea—no matter how implausible, counterintuitive or just flat wrong—was given a platform.
truly indefensible position. For years, frontman/president Dana White has evangelized the virtues of slap fighting, and in November—in conjunction, criticality, with UFC events––he announced that he would be joining forces with UFC founder Lorenzo Fertitta, COO Lawrence Epstein and longtime TV producer Craig Piligian in promotingSlap fighting is … well, essentially, what you think it is. Two combatants stand opposing each other, as if playing.
2) Set up a reality show, winnowing down the hopefuls as they train, culminating in a competition. This gives fans a chance to connect with the central figures and allows skeptics an opportunity to acquire an acquired taste. During a November press conference in New York, White announced that TBS—, pointedly, ESPN, the obvious television partner—will air an eight-episode Power Slap series. Also, to douse the skepticism, the league has attracted celebrity investors.
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