UFC's White's Power Slap League gets approval

UFC president Dana White's caller combat sports task - slap warring - volition beryllium a licensed diversion contention successful Nevada.

Dana White's Power Slap League volition beryllium regulated and overseen by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) pursuing a ballot Tuesday successful Las Vegas astatine the commission's monthly meeting. UFC main concern serviceman Hunter Campbell, who is portion of the promotion's ownership group, gave a presumption of the caller league to the commissioners.

Campbell told ESPN that the those progressive with Power Slap League person worked with committee officials, including president Stephen Cloobeck, enforcement manager Jeff Mullen and Joel Becker from the Nevada lawyer general's office, implicit the past twelvemonth to trial slap warring and enactment connected a ruleset and operation that volition beryllium based connected MMA. Power Slap League volition besides person akin aesculapian requirements, value classes and matchmaking to MMA.

"After investigating it, it became wide to america that there's monolithic imaginable present arsenic a sport, not dissimilar the aboriginal years of the UFC," Campbell said. "It made each the consciousness successful the satellite to spell toward regularisation earlier the sport's commencing, for each the evident reasons - fig one, the wellness and information of the competitors."

Slap warring has been astir for respective years, though ne'er regulated. It features 2 competitors crossed from 1 different throwing slaps with unfastened hands to each other's faces.

Campbell said Power Slap League wants to destruct immoderate of the much archaic aspects of the athletics that beryllium connected the little levels, similar 2 opponents with vastly antithetic weights and matches that past galore rounds. The rules volition code fouls, permitted areas to slap and information requirements similar mouthguards and earplugs. It volition beryllium scored utilizing the 10-point indispensable strategy utilized successful boxing and MMA by committee judges, per Campbell.

The ownership radical of Power Slap League consists of White, Fertitta Capital (former UFC owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta), TV shaper Craig Piligan (who helped make The Ultimate Fighter), Endeavor, Campbell and hedge money Zeke Capital. Campbell said determination are nary definite plans for a archetypal event, but the anticipation is that Power Slap League volition beryllium distributed by a "major broadcast partner" by the extremity of the year.

"Everything volition beryllium structured and designed to supply a level of integrity to the athletics and supply a strategy that's harmless moving forward," Campbell said.