Controversial slap tournament Power Slap in Spain

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John Ferrer He is the strongest man in all of Spain. After that quit basketball This deltebre rice farmer decided to start with power contests (pulling 16-ton trucks, among other tests) until they win the last two championships National Force League. In 2019 this Catalan dictator started to see how. Slap matches in Russia and when he realized there was demand, he decided to open one in Spain.

“We did an exhibition with a few friends from Deltebre. We consulted lawyers, signed a disclaimer, hired an ambulance… It was very successful and a company invited me to organize a national tournament. Then came covid and cut it all off,” he recalls.

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Worldwide reproductions of these open hand duels taking place in R during the pandemicusa and eastern countries. And just as Ferrer identified from Deltebre, there were people in the US who saw the appeal that the sport could have. Last year Arnold Schwarzenegger and youtuber Logan Paul they organized Slap Fighting Championshipbut the momentum was gone Veal White. The president of the UFC, which popularized Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), went to the Nevada Athletic Commission. professionalize and edit slap fight: only three hosts per boxer, ban on lifting your feet, 30 seconds between taking one and giving the other, and judges evaluating whether the fighters can continue in addition to scoring in the event of a tie.

viral phenomenon

Recognizing that the 2019 deal with the ESPN network was key to popularizing MMA, White partnered with the TBS network to air the program in the US and ‘Power Slap’ went viral before its first show aired.The premiere had to be delayed for several weeks after footage of White slapping his wife at a nightclub during a New Year’s Eve party in Mexico also went viral. The first season finally started in January and concluded on March 11, the eve of the first Oscar. slap Will Smith to Chris Rock.

Don Bacon and Bill Pascrell Congressmen from Nebraska and New Jersey They demanded that the program be cancelled, respectively. “As co-leaders of the Congressional Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force and authors of the Traumatic Brain Injury Act, we write to you with grave concern about your new program. dangerous and aggressive behavior at the expense of health before announcing that they would take the issue to a parliamentary committee, their participants said in the long run.

Following the ensuing controversy and warnings from various doctors in the US about the risks of this sport, the TBS network announced that it was not planning to air a second season. Despite the disruption this meant for his plans, White endured the blow and Two-year deal with Rumblestreaming platform.

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“’Déjà vu is ‘déjà vu’.’ Just like the UFC when we started. But the media reporting this is more than reporting on the UFC,” thought White. “The media has been trying to kill it from day one. And thank God I love you all because you helped turn this into the beast it is today. One billion views only tick tockwithin eight weeks. 38.5 million visits per week instagram. Episodes were watched 11.5 million times and if you include YouTube, it’s like 15 million.”

“Dana White took a Russian product to focus a sport more on the field. Martial arts“As in the UFC, in a ring and with a jury, with very tough standards and a different aesthetic,” explains Ferrer. After gaining attention from an organizer, Spain’s strongest man organized last September. First exhibition in a nightclub in Barcelona He is preparing a competition for the month of May in Valencia under the name of. ‘Open your hand’. “As far as the Russian model KO, we want to move towards the White model. more standardized and safer competition Not like it is in Russia or some Eastern countries,” he said.

in 2021 artur walczak dead During one of these fights in Poland. “The first thing we want is to ensure health. We realize that if there is an accident, we will be bad news – says Ferrer. such a sport not risk free but you can die from a slap, just as you can die from a punch in boxing or MMA, or from a fall in basketball”.

John Ferrer He is the strongest man in all of Spain. After that quit basketball This deltebre rice farmer decided to start with power contests (pulling 16-ton trucks, among other tests) until they win the last two championships National Force League. In 2019 this Catalan dictator started to see how. Slap matches in Russia and when he realized there was demand, he decided to open one in Spain.

“We did an exhibition with a few friends from Deltebre. We consulted lawyers, signed a disclaimer, hired an ambulance… It was very successful and a company invited me to organize a national tournament. Then came covid and cut it all off,” he recalls.

@strongferrer

♬ INDUSTRY BABY – Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow

Worldwide reproductions of these open hand duels taking place in R during the pandemicusa and eastern countries. And just as Ferrer found out from Deltebre, there were people in the United States who saw that the sport could pull off. Last year Arnold Schwarzenegger and youtuber Logan Paul they organized Slap Fighting Championshipbut the momentum was gone Veal White. The president of the UFC, which popularized Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), went to the Nevada Athletic Commission. professionalize and edit slap fight: only three hosts per boxer, ban on lifting your feet, 30 seconds between taking one and giving the other, and judges evaluating whether the fighters can continue in addition to scoring in the event of a tie.

viral phenomenon

Recognizing that the 2019 deal with the ESPN network was key to popularizing MMA, White partnered with the TBS network to air the program in the US and ‘Power Slap’ went viral before its first show aired.The premiere had to be delayed for several weeks after footage of White slapping his wife at a nightclub during a New Year’s Eve party in Mexico also went viral. The first season finally started in January and concluded on March 11, the eve of the first Oscar. slap Will Smith to Chris Rock.

Don Bacon and Bill Pascrell Congressmen from Nebraska and New Jersey They demanded that the program be cancelled, respectively. “As co-leaders of the Congressional Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force and authors of the Traumatic Brain Injury Act, we write to you with grave concern about your new program. dangerous and aggressive behavior at the expense of health before announcing that they would take the issue to a parliamentary committee, their participants said in the long run.

Following the ensuing controversy and warnings from various doctors in the US about the risks of this sport, the TBS network announced that it was not planning to air a second season. Despite the disruption this meant for his plans, White endured the blow and Two-year deal with Rumblestreaming platform.

Tik Tok and Instagram

“’Déjà vu is ‘déjà vu’.’ Just like the UFC when we started. But the media reporting this is more than reporting on the UFC,” thought White. “The media has been trying to kill it from day one. And thank God I love you all because you helped turn this into the beast it is today. One billion views only tick tockwithin eight weeks. 38.5 million visits per week instagram. Episodes were watched 11.5 million times and if you include YouTube, it’s like 15 million.”

“Dana White took a Russian product to focus a sport more on the field. Martial arts“As in the UFC, in a ring and with a jury, with very tough standards and a different aesthetic,” explains Ferrer. After gaining attention from an organizer, Spain’s strongest man organized last September. First exhibition in a nightclub in Barcelona He is preparing a competition for the month of May in Valencia under the name of. ‘Open your hand’. “As far as the Russian model KO, we want to move towards the White model. more standardized and safer competition Not like it is in Russia or some Eastern countries,” he said.

in 2021 artur walczak dead During one of these fights in Poland. “The first thing we want is to ensure health. We realize that if there is an accident, we will be bad news – says Ferrer. such a sport not risk free but you can die from a slap, just as you can die from a punch in boxing or MMA, or from a fall in basketball”.

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