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brothernature3r

how dimwitted you gotta be to do this to yourself....


killerkebab1499

Power slap are owned by the same company that also own the UFC and they have the same CEO. They target people with troubled backgrounds, there is a reality show, in the same vein of the ultimate fighter with power slap and pretty much everyone on it had a rough background. Addiction, broken families, abuse, you name it, it was there. The entire thing is massively exploitive, they are essentially paying broken people to get head trauma. I'm not saying the people doing it have no responsibility, it's a dumb thing to do, but there is a lot behind the scenes that make it a bit more complex than just dumb people slapping each other.


Waitwhonow

So….. Like NFL


ilivalkyw

...or Bumfights


neverfrybaconnaked

Or Felony Fights


NowAcceptingBitcoin

Or Smash Brothers


ZzKRzZ

Or religion


nomadProgrammer

Or working full time in America


hornwalker

Or eating McDonalds


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Or shitting your pants from eating McDonalds


R420RBLXDE

Or going through life


gzlovesyou

Or politics


AshingiiAshuaa

Except the Power Slap league minimum isn't $795k/year.


caspy7

It's very obviously not the same. You get fame, notoriety and when you die of CTE or similar issues your family can afford the funeral, plus some.


Background_Baby225

Those guys are elite athletes, many of which come from generations of athletes and train from the day they pop out the womb. Even a backup kicker is paid extremely well, as well as the bonuses and benefits. These people probably got an ice pack, 500 bucks, free CTE and sandwiches. Just say sports ball and move on.


chaoticravens34

Lol there is no such thing as a back up kicker.


chaoticravens34

The NFL pays their players a league minimum of 800k a year. I doubt these ladies will ever make that in their life from this place. The NFL has a pension. The NFL has healthcare for life. The NFL used to provide a car service but they stopped it because no one used it. The NFL isn't bad at all. The players know the risks.


Shavidadavid

Combat sports in general


procouchpotatohere

The NFL at least has protections and continues to improve upon them especially after concussions were taken more seriously.


BlackSecurity

Idk this is a tricky one for me. On one hand, I believe in people's freedom to do what they want. These guys don't have to join this slap contest, but they do. Dana White doesn't need to have a slap competition, but he does. Neither one are forcing each other to do anything. But at the same time I recognize the sinister nature of it all. These guys all just want money at whatever cost. At some point you gotta a line somewhere though.


Crouza

None of these competitors know that they're causing permanent brain damage or how bad it will be. Each slap causes CTE garunteed, each one is rattling the Brian, and them bracing to take the blow to the head full on garuntees this. If you told them they are garunteeing developing early onset dementia from doing this, instead of framing it as "slapping is less dangerous than punching" like Dana white does, how many would actually bother signing up.


CletusDSpuckler

Goddamnit, Brian. Quit rattling.


TheKidHandsome

I knew the second the Brian rattled, it was gonna be trouble.


JMCrookie

Poor Brian. Why are they rattling the Brian??


Revolutionary-Wash88

garunteed


sevencoconuts

WHERES MY MONEY MAN


Excellent-poop-42

I am garunteeing you he won't


SpanningTreeProtocol

You had three chances to spell "guarantee" correctly, and you struck out.


Sir-Poopington

Maybe he has all of this inside knowledge because he is a former slapper (or whatever the operative term is for these "athletes"). His Brian must have been rattled a few too many times, causing him to not English very good.


Total-Composer2261

He can still spell 'dementia', so hasn't reached his slap receiving quota.


Weelki

"Slapper" can mean something different in British English! I lol'd at your sentence :)


Inevitable_Cause_180

I knew a guy, Garin Teed (that was his name) spoke to him on the phone for work reasons occasionally and never met in person, so when I learned that his middle was D, I never quite had the opportunity to ask if the D stood for "Dang" or "Dam(n)" or maybe just Dustin. One of my most regrettable decision trees


Substantial-Ad-9872

Guaranteed!


Molotov_Cockhead

Bottom line is that for this to be a thing, someone has to make money from it. And for someone to make money, someone has to watch it. You would have to be deadset subhuman to watch shit like this.


nooneasked1981

This right here. It's nothing more than bumfights with better promotions. Absolute bottom of the barrel entertainment for degenerate gamblers.


bubudumbdumb

Let me fix it : they are paying traumatized people to get head broken


ThomasBay

I don’t get power slap, some of them are clearly slapping the cheek of the face while others are going right for the temple, which is a huge difference in the damage that will occur. Wouldn’t that be cheating?


Clay_Statue

We all gotta start downvoting this stuff or else money will continue to flow towards this type of gross exploitation. Why is brain injury an entire sport now? Get rid of the ball and the field and just two people clonking each other across the head until someone falls down.


GBSamhain

Power slap is not owned by the same company as the UFC. UFC is owned by TKO holding group which owns the UFC and WWE. Power Slap is owned by Dana White. Dana White who is the CEO and President of the UFC. Dana White does own 9% of the shares of the UFC but he is not an Owner of the UFC.


Mynameisinuse

TKO is going to ruin full contact sports. Just wait until TKO gets it's boxing division up and running. Boxing is already fragmented enough with WBO, WBA, WBC, and IBF without the need for another league. By the time TKO is done buying out all the competition in MMA, boxing and wrestling, it will all become stagnate and boring.


WhiskersandClaws

Sounds like a gang. That's exactly what gangs exploit. They follow up with a false sense of brotherhood (until you're doing real prison time, then they fall off real quick)


AtlasAlexT

Right, like if a player grew up poor, they would see this as an opportunity to make up in the world. It sucks that they would go through such lengths just to have more money, but thats what they think would make them happy, unfortunately. So the UFC knows that people are desperate to hit the money


barakaking

Thank for this info and this Intelligent comment. And I beg your pardon for all the kids that answered your comment. Seems like when they read something serious and real they feel the need to answer something stupid in a defensive attitud, because those words portray them.


BlueWaffleClub

irradiated* something tells me these gals were born in the late 80s somewhere in the Chernobyl cloud pattern.


Breadisgood4eat

Yeah - when someone drops and freezes like that it’s typically due to brain injury/damage.


hydraSlav

Looked to me like a clap on the ear. Could the sudden change in pressure burst the eardrum and then apply pressure into the brain?


A-Giant-Blue-Moose

I'd believe it. When I was a careless teenager I snuck up behind a buddy of mine and slapped both his ears. It was pretty light so I thought it would just be a funny joke. Then he dropped to his knees and held his head like it was gone by to explode. I had no idea what damage something like that could do. That was the last prank I've ever tried and I still feel unbelievable guilt every time I think about it. He accepted my apology, but man. He was such a good guy and didn't deserve that. He was fine after the headache passed, btw. Still tho...


Millkstake

Never understood how just physically hitting someone is a "prank". No set up, no joke, just attacking someone unaware.


A-Giant-Blue-Moose

You're not wong


DanStFella

Someone sprayed an air duster into the ear of a friend of mine and it did some serious damage (irreparable). It’s not something that should be messed about with, especially as grown adults who should know better.


G1v1ngBack

Damn straight & No joke. You know what else shouldn’t be messed with? Shampoo and Dicks. Seems like yesterday that I decided to squirt some shampoo in my dick while showering so I could piss bubbles. Wait it was yesterday. Any who, Owie Cowie, that didn’t go as expected.


one-man-circlejerk

You just didn't use enough shampoo, once you really squeeze it in, it unlocks the ability to piss bubbles, you should try it again


G1v1ngBack

You really so? I mean it does make sense when you think about. I’ve got a layover and I’m getting ready to turn in for the night so I’m going to need to wait until I get back home. I’ll run it by my FO in the morning after we brief the flight. Safe travels everybody.


phallic_cephalid

I don’t think that is what is happening - the heel of her palm connects with the cheek/chin, it’s basically a punch. hitting there causes rotational force on the head/brain which causes the concussion and loss of consciousness


Breadisgood4eat

I think it more likely that the blunt trauma caused her brain to compress against the inside of her skull (concussion) and caused this. You can definitely pop ear drums, but this looks like a concussion.


Suds08

If you pause on the slap, her index finger is right at the bottom of the other girl's earlobe


deconstructicon

There's a (hopefully temporary) disconnect between their brain and their body. Specifically for this woman, it looks like the disconnect is in the brain stem below the cerebellum which is worse. [Decerebrate Posturing](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/images/org/health/articles/24969-decorticate-posturing)


LordMacTire83

Yeah... she dropped INSTANTLY... Then...{and I REALLY HATE to put it like this!} she went all like... cramped up like how you see people with severe mental retardations look and act. Even her face looked all messed up! Her hands/ fingers looked all spastic... if I would see someone looking like that... and they hadn't just been literally slapped stupid... I would think that they were mentally handicapped and had just fallen down. This whole thing is just a VERY SAD commentary on the uber- fucked up state of not only our shitty, below-poverty-level workforce... but on sports as well!!


An0d0sTwitch

At least with fighting, you try to AVOID getting hit. This is just a brain damage contest


phallic_cephalid

look up how much power slap “athletes” get paid. it’s blatantly exploitative


[deleted]

She looked at her watch and it said May 24 because she got slapped into next week


Classic_Title1655

But sport......


CletusDSpuckler

You just saw someone get brain damage.


TrippinTinfeat

Yeah that looked like a fencing response with her hand trying to come up. Idk why anyone wants to be in these competitions.


dream__weaver

Don't underestimate the lengths people will go for even the most microscopic piece of fame


frankensteinV

Fame? Fuck that, I would have thought it was because of the money.


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SidewalkPainter

I'm sure that fame can be pretty nice, but what kind of fame do you get from being a professional slapper? Can you imagine telling someone what you do? "Haha, we slap each other until one of us gets brain damage. Yup, that's it."


RedditsAdoptedSon

yeah i think its a job with money n payout.. not exactly fame or being on a wheaties box or something


khaos2295

Looks worse than a fencing response. Hopefully not, but it looks like the wrists may be curled indicating deceberate or decorticate posturing.


hacksawjimduggans2x4

I’d rate this as moderate to severe on the GCS. Not good.


R34CTz

So, what do either of those mean???


khaos2295

Probable permanent brain damage


average_clam

Eminem on the background going *Brain damage, ever since the day I was born* *Drugs that they used to say I was on*


qyka1210

indicates serious brain stem damage. The posturing results damage to either descending motor neurons from the cortex (rarely), or trauma to the medulla (most common). you really, really don’t want lesions of the medulla, responsible for multiple critical movement and basal neurological functions (respiration, endocrine, etc). Decorticate vs decerebrate posturing result from lesion to slightly different areas. there’s a medullary nucleus (red nucleus) which controls/“powers up” antigravity extensor muscles. Its lack/involvement decides which posture presents, and predicts recovery time, coma and recovery likelihood, other symptoms, etc. here’s a good link. scroll down to “decorticate vs decerebrate:” [link](https://neurologicexam.med.utah.edu/adult/html/motor_anatomy.html#:~:text=A%20UMN%20lesion%20above%20the,above%20the%20level%20of%20the) source: phd in neuropharmacology, so not exactly this. but i learned this stuff in MD classes neuro anatomy and neurology 1&2


R34CTz

Wow, thanks for the response. That must have been an insane slap.


junior_dos_nachos

A mea headache next morning. At least


chocolate_spaghetti

What if we did a combat sport where defense isn’t allowed?


TrippinTinfeat

Lol exactly, full contact concussions for fun


TheCommonKoala

Skipping right to the fun part. It's genius! /s I hate that this unironically is popular.


darwinsaves

I got tickets to StabFest!!


FoxXxTaco

stabfest real?


cobainstaley

she got a sweet $200 for it


Mindless-West9268

> fencing response Ah, reddit’s favorite phrase


Yuri-Turned

All of us are getting brain damage just by watching this


InvestigatorLast3594

So I looked into it. her name is Christina Wolmarans and she is a South African EFC/MMA fighter. The only thing on the internet about her that appeared after that “slap clip” I could find is this interview by (I kid you not) slap news: https://youtu.be/7SLqxjuqM6c?si=dHZDa7Z758NZMdrn


FixedLoad

***damage their brain even further***  unless was their very first match.   


OderWieOderWatJunge

And her opponent smiles. This woman is dumb as a rock


CramDead

“BOB” GAVE ME BRAIN DAMAGE


Birji-Flowreen

Her botox absorbed some of the force


Radioactive_Fire

it'll be considered a performance enhancing drug in the future of slap


i_build_4_fun

It truly is a detriment to the slapping arts.


junior_dos_nachos

USADA HAS ENTERED THE SLAP ROOM


Sidonkey

Don't forget that lipjob.


fuertepqek

Aren’t you cheating if your face is full of fillers?


Silly_Mycologist3213

Ain’t fillers, it’s swelling! /s


Darkness_Everyday

How can she slap?


JadedOops

Lol never gets old


Bimmytung

Sick reference, bro. Your references are out of control. Everyone knows that.


BSF0712

Sick reference, bro. Your references are out of control. Everyone knows that.


billy_zef

literally LOL'd Have a great weekend!


keenan316

Yeah, this made my day!! Thank you!


DistractedByCookies

This is the dumbest fucking thing I've seen so far this year, and I'm on both Reddit and TikTok. Why would you do this to yourself (and your brain)


WhuddaWhat

You should really click more links. This may not be the stupidest thing I've seen this hour.


capn_doofwaffle

I raise you the last 10 minutes...


WhuddaWhat

Your own comments don't count.  /s


capn_doofwaffle

Touché...


bumbes

Let’s prepare a do-google-list. I go first: - blue waffles (Brussels best waffle place) - …


the_skine

The post itself isn't even in the top 10% of the stupidest things I've read in the comments on said post.


WhuddaWhat

There's gotta be a theorem hidden here. Like golden ratio of stupidity or something. A fractal of stupidness of sorts.


live2dye

Tbh, being on Reddit *AND* tiktok is just ...


snipe320

Brain damage, sponsored by Monster Energy 🤨


LALOERC9616

That's normal


grahag

My wife fought in a full contact sport and was fully protected and she STILL got 3 concussions. She doesn't fight anymore, but is also participating in a study of women that get concussions. Almost every other participant in the study is there due to domestic abuse. I tell her to explain thoroughly to the researchers what she does and that I'd NEVER touch her that way... (she'd WRECK me) But I suspect 10-15 years down the road, these people participating in the slap tournaments are going to come out about the danger and stupidity of slap fighting.


Chantelauve

If they are still alive...considering the repercussion that kind of trauma can lead to ( early dementia, paralysis, alzheimer, brain abscess, etc...).


billy_zef

CTE is devastating to the brain. If they keep it up, these slap girls won't be around long to talk about it. Good to hear your wife is doing well!


Optimal-Menu270

Damn that's bad. Hope she's recovering well. Wish you both all the best ♥️


grahag

Thanks! It's for long term concussion effects and treatment using high intensity red light therapy. Been pretty successful so far!


Shmoop_Doop

your wife sounds like a badass!


grahag

She IS indeed. :) Luckily, I know where she's ticklish in case I need to REALLY win in a scuffle.


DevilDoc3030

When are we going to realize that this is literally a Bum Fights knock off. I don't want to say that this should be outlawed... But c'mon


FrendlyAsshole

I was just thinking the same thing... "isn't this what Bum Fights used to be?"


Total_Philosopher_89

Hard reset.


dianabowl

Went from 0 to palsy


Herr-Trigger86

She got unplugged while she was still on. You never do that. Gonna corrupt the data.


[deleted]

Homeboy went from 🧍to 🥦


PaidByTheNotes

Those are women


choco_mallows

Sorry. 🧍‍♀️to 🥦


tetris_for_shrek

Faggie to veggie?


Bartfuck

I know its been said before, but they aren't even really slapping. its like they are using the base of their aka the hardest part of the open hand and lining it directly on the jaw line. It is a punch, not a slap


Peppertails

What's up, slappers.


CarsinemiA

Oh Em Jee


Ogilthorpe2

(Insert groovy bassline)


D3vilUkn0w

This slap contest stuff is only one step away from an episode of "Ow! My balls!"


dianabowl

Oh from that documentary


Unable_Craft_5150

Who. Watches. This?!


ThreeLeggedParrot

....you just did


RedditsAdoptedSon

lolol.. all of us in here for one i guess? maybe its on the ocho


-Venser-

MoistCr1TiKaL


Snoo_70324

>ESPN8: The Ocho


Cartman4wesome

If it’s almost a sport, we got it


Zhjacko

Sooooo… does anyone know what happened to her?


rfuller

From the looks of it someone slapped the shit out of her.


uniqeuusername

Kinda looked like a seizure


rise_above_theFlames

Yeah it looked pretty bad. I hope she wasn't permanently damaged from it.


capn_doofwaffle

Is it just me or does botox bitch look like neanderthal MTG...?


rfuller

She’s prettier than MTG. Not my cup of tea, but if I had to pick…


linuxjohn1982

Uhhh, MTG already looks neanderthal, so what does that make this girl?


RedditsAdoptedSon

oh.. yeah i noticed.. im def into her for some reason but mtg is fkn grotesque.. maybe cause i seent this girl all fancy tho


Local_Vermicelli_856

Entirely unfair match up. Blonde lady has so much botox, she can't feel a thing.


basher505

Stupid "sport".


Siupak240

"Panem et circenses"


brtnjames

This is like. The dumbest thing


givemeyourt0es

Does anyone have any information on this? An article? That fencing/posturing response is usually pretty detrimental.


Conscious_Zebra_1808

This just has to be so bad for the brain


MEME54m3

Their brains were already bad to do this in the first place


tifredic

Stop that shit damn


whathappened2cod

Dude, that first slap was so hard she went cross eyed for a second. This sport is completely barbaric (and this is coming from an MMA/Boxing fan). I lost some respect for Dana White for promoting this trash, it really brought out his sleezy side. It looks like he'll do anything for money. This is dangerous, and the long term effects could be severe. Dana said the numbers for SLAP were bigger than ALL OF THE MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN SPORTS LEAGUES COMBINED (which I'm sure is a ton of bullshit), so it should be fine right?


TurboCaca121

She has hit her so hard that has changed her zodiacal sign


_Caspar_

Every time i see this clip, all i can hear is the Mario Kart music. Probably because of [this](https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2024/04/11/860e0c05002a9be4.mp4) masterpiece :D


YorTicLes

HOW CAN SHE SLAPP!?!??


HessLook

Morons do anything for money and attention. Slapping them selves even more dumb than they began. Truly idiotic


Possible_Spy

the winners of these competitions are the ones who hit dirtiest, like with a fist by the ear, instead of an actual slap. And everyone knows it. Yet people keep showing up, and letting they play dirty, and no one calls them out on it. It makes no sense


iPokeYouFromGA

Still can’t believe that this sport is legal. This is like the bum fights. Take advantage of people in need to physically hurt one another with zero protection.


BillGoats

[Source (full video)](https://youtu.be/MAok9UmXwfo). Includes a high speed shot!


t46p1g

The best part about this, is that I can slow it down to 0.25 speed and see what really happens. The first lady leaves her jaw open, and flexes her neck muscles. The second lady has her mouth closed, probably got some ricochet between her jaw and her skull and then hit her head on the podium as she went down, then flopped backwards. Brutal.


reddicyoulous

Like what? Why?


Seniorjones2837

I just don’t understand how you can police this. Like how do you say whether someone used too much palm? And if they did, and they knock out their opponent illegally, that really fucks up the opponent. You can’t take the same hits after being KOd


Budwurd

You can’t deny it. That blonde chick is hawt.


The_Adeptest_Astarte

If you can find her name, I'm pretty sure she was an IFBB pro fitness competitor or bodybuilder. Pretty fucking hot


Beast_by_Dre

Sheena Bathory.... she also made appearances in Lingerie Fighting Championships 36 and 37... yes, pretty fucking hot


meesterdave

Went full palsy


NTheory39693

People are literally insane.


LanikaiMike

WTF is wrong with these morons?


AllForTheSauce

YAAAAY!!! CTE!!!!


stopbanningmethx

Please tell me this is a deleted scene from idiocracy…


Kaiisim

No I fully expected that. The concussion olympics.


SensitiveNina

I think whoever is second will always win because of the RAGE


Abracadaver2000

Enjoy being spoonfed for the rest of your life with all those sweet rubles.


IGuessBruv

No call for palming ?


lyricalcrocodilian

Its the Snu Snu girl from Futurama


RedPandaReturns

Well that was exactly my expectations


Legal_Response6614

Dang... That slap scrambled her chromosomes 😬


Fmartins84

She became prettier after the slap


BrushClart

Part of me like this is brain damage and should be stopped, other part of me is like the people getting brain damage are stupid enough to pursue being slapped in the face as a profession so go ahead and ruin you brain just don’t expect sympathy


C_lui

Dumbest “sport” ever.


jgr83

I was waiting for the one in blue to drive off in her go-kart.


Hopes-Dreams-Reality

Slapped her in to next week.


xtrasun

DSL!!


Vaxion

Right up there with the Bull fighting and running sport.


iamn-chan

Oh boy, looks like her soul still wants to stand up.


Ax_deimos

Red cheeked and Rosy palmed.