+40 Power slap is stupid and not a sport. amirite?

by everette16 1 week ago

I don't actively watch it. But I'll be damnwd if I don't get a kick out of watching a clip every so often if it pops up

by florinekohler 1 week ago

I used to watch the odd clip when they were first becoming popular on YouTube. Then after a few clips I realised how stupid it was that people are taking this seriously.

by Correct-Reality429 1 week ago

Yeah this. I don't care for sports in general. Give me highlights and I'll move on.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

slapping isn't a sport

by Lanky_Tax4136 1 week ago

I agree. And I think most people do. So this might not be such an unpopular opinion. Also, this "sport" must be absolutely devastating to the neck and brain?

by valentina40 1 week ago

People died in competitions

by Low_Drink_70 1 week ago

Delightful

by Kay75 1 week ago

😮

by valentina40 1 week ago

Idk if just saying people died really means much considering people have died in baseball and football too. Wouldn't be surprised if people have died in combat sports like boxing

by Less-Swimming-7174 1 week ago

Billions of people have been playing football for hundreds of years. Maybe hundreds of people have been competing in power slap for a small handful of years. It's not a fair comparison, and if you put them on the same scale I would guess the probability of death in power slap would be thousands of times higher.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If it's not inherently dangerous, why do Football players wear helmets and such heavy padding and why is the sport notorious for childhood brain damage? Also with baseball, I take it you've never gotten beaned by a ball you failed to catch as a kid. Plus haven't you seen those videos of pitchers breaking their arm just from throwing the ball a little too hard? You'd be surprised just how little has to go wrong to seriously hurt yourself when pushing yourself to the physical limit.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Just a heads up, but the two of you are talking about very different games of football.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I noticed that after replying 😭 i shouldve specified i meant american fb

by Less-Swimming-7174 1 week ago

International football is more dangerous than grid iron football because there are no pads, people are not trained, nor expecting to take a hit, and they run into each other at very high speeds. Its pretty much the most dangerous sport for those reasons 😅

by Ok_Level 1 week ago

lolololol. it's soooo dangerous that youtube has tons of compilations of the whiny babies flopping, and crying like that were just hit by a baseball bat, even though they often weren't even touched... there's even one where the guy grabs the other guys arm, moves it into his face, then flops onto the ground

by Lanky_Tax4136 1 week ago

Even in that kind of Football, I've seen slide tackles go horribly wrong and people dislocate joints and break bones just from tripping during their sprint. Hell, on March 24th of this year, a U17 (under 17) player named Wassim Djezzar died after hitting his head in a fall, and there's almost always a few association players who die from injuries each year. Sports are dangerous, even if some are riskier than others. (Though as a side note, statistically you're more likely to get into a serious car accident on your way to or from the game than you are to get hurt in the game itself, even the high-risk ones like American Football or Rugby.)

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Exactly, there is significantly more skill expression in boxing and measures are taken to reduce damage to the fighters This is why powerslap is a stupid sport. There is significantly less skill expression for a significantly higher chance of injury and brain damage. The trade off is unacceptable

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There's a small possibility that boxing will eventually be banned but I doubt it. At somepoint you have to give an outlet for people that want to fight. Combat sports are thousands of years old and are as popular as ever. It's primal, fighting will always exist and people pursuing excellence in fighting will always exits

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Chill. I'm just pointing out that saying "People have died" isn't exactly the best argument as a ton of sports can kill you. I probably should've specified I'm american but did you forget the whole tackling part of football? Stories like Damar Hamlin's collapse on field aren't exactly unheard of. Lucky for him, he recovered but a lot of people don't or they experience long term damage. And I've heard of baseball players experiencing commotio cordis, a form of cardiac arrest, simply from the ball impacting their chest at the right speed at the right moment. Not to mention them breaking bones or getting injured from getting hit

by Less-Swimming-7174 1 week ago

natural selection

by Jolly_Savings_7151 1 week ago

That's right! The strong slappers enjoy the spoils of victory and spread their strong slapping seeds.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

it is

by bartonleffler 1 week ago

A lot of brain damage indeed.

by chelsea69 1 week ago

Stupid? Sure. Not a sport? Objectively incorrect.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This is very much a popular opinion

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It is a sport, though whether it's at all a good one is up to you.

by Hjerde 1 week ago

Anything can be a sport

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Make money with things you love and you don't have to work a single day in your life. - Dana White

by Cvonrueden 1 week ago

It is a sport by definition - "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual/team competes against other for entertainment". I love it.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

What skill does it require? I'm not being coy, I really want to know if there is a skill curve in slapping someone hard.

by Delicious_Usual_3296 1 week ago

I imagine there probably is some skill in learning how to slap, just like learning how to punch.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Hitting someone at all is technically a skill, as it requires some degree of hand eye coordination. Also, pain tolerance to some extent.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I mean whether it requires a lot of skill or only some is debatable. But it definitely at least requires some skill. Like even walking is a skill right?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

To slap as hard as they do probably requires some understanding of physics, not to mention practice to build up that degree of muscle.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think I get a bigger kick out of feeling like I'm watching live action Darwin awards than I do in any sense of watching an actual sport. Didn't Idiocracy basically do this one too? Or am I just thinking of "ouch my balls?"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I described this to one of my friends who never heard of it before as Two brain dead Neanderthals competing to render eachother even more brain dead

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I can agree it is dumb but it is a sport by definition activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Counterpoint: it's about as intelligent as running sports. It's a little technique but primarily just a contest of who is physically superior at the thing

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah people saying its not a sport is just outright wrong. Its stupid sure, but by definition it is a sport

by kesslerscotty 1 week ago

Running is not a combat sport. Running is an endurance sport, just like cycling. In combat sports you are allowed to protect yourself. In this "sport" you can't do anything other than wait for your opponent to give you brain damage. Saying that power slapping is as intelligent as running is frankly quite dumb.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Running is so braindead we literally have animals do it. Power slap is seeing who has the physically superior chin and power. Running is who is the fastest. Saying running is an endurance sport doesn't magically make it any less braindead considering the athlete makes near 0 decisions ever.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Except you can safely train for running without dying or getting brain damage. Seems more intelligent to me.

by Mobile-Fly9677 1 week ago

How is that relevant ?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

To train for this you train neck strength, the whole thing is about having a strong enough neck to avoid whiplash

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That wasn't what they said.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Reading again, I see what you mean. Except it is kinda what they said, just not what they meant lol. Could have been clearer.

by Mobile-Fly9677 1 week ago

That is what I meant by physically superior you are correct. Whoever can take a hit better and hit harder is the winner. Bigger necks, traps, arms and overall explosive rotation from an otherwise awkward position that is not ideal for striking is needed.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

They already have brain damage, don't worry about them

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Wait till you find out about the Sauna Championships

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The only reason anyone sees it is because it's heavily promoted on the UFC social media channels, which it isn't really anything to do with.

by jeremykulas 1 week ago

It's about as much of a sport as you and a friend drunkingly kicking each other in the nuts. Make of that what you will.

by Granville23 1 week ago

Yeah... It's entertainment. Same way you don't watch a movie and say "hey! This is just a bunch of people playing pretend!"

by Unlikely-Health2143 1 week ago

It is a sport my friend. As much a sport as anything else. They train, to compete. You mustn't believe esports are "sports" either i guess? When they practice 5-10 thousand hours to get to that point

by Gayle46 1 week ago

Tbf Esports are sports in the same sense that hotdog eating contests are sports

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You could train and compete at masturbating but I'm still not gonna pretend it's a sport.

by tatyanawilliams 1 week ago

Unpopular opinions

by Delaney37 1 week ago

I don't think anyone was surprised when it was announced that Power Slap got cancelled.

by Satterfieldamal 1 week ago

I think one reporter who think its fake get slaped.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Anything that draws an audience is a sport

by Muted_Ad 1 week ago

Totally. Although I could slap a few people

by Hot-Leopard-9302 1 week ago

It won't last long. Once someone dies onstage, it'll be banned

by Bartellmartine 1 week ago

the concept of sports is itself a bit iffy but a large part of the philosophy is about a fan base that get together and fraternize over the team they chose. athleticism is about pushing the mind and body through rigorous training. theres many dumb sports that arent athletic, and many athletic activities that arent sports

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Women do it to. WHY

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Agreed. It's the Nascar of combat sports.

by Ok_Damage 1 week ago

its actually quiet entertaining. RIP to all brains involved though

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah but it's damn entertaining and funny. If idiots want to slap each other's faces into oblivion so be it. Not my face. Not my problem.

by No-Bag7615 1 week ago

This isn't an unpopular opinion at all

by emily96 1 week ago

Did not know this was even a thing. So dumb

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Nobody actually watches it. How could that be an unpopular opinion?

by Pretty_Baby8166 1 week ago

it's funny though

by Anonymous 1 week ago

when i was a kid i had 2 teacher that would beat me, they very often slapped me very very hard. now because of that i have tinnitus for life, not to mention some other ear problems as well. so yeah, that is very stupid. and i guess completely no-skill. however it being a sport or not, idk, I mean boxing also harms people, or even football.

by Shot-Flamingo 1 week ago

Ernest Hemingway said: "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's brutal and can't be good for the brain. At least with boxing and mma you have a chance to defend yourself but this you cop full body slaps to the head.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

THIS IS NOT AN UNPOPULAR OPINION

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So if it required no talent or skill, you presumably could become a world champ if you wanted to badly enough?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I would assume even their biggest fans would agree with this

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The skill is pain tolerance.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Ngl I enjoy it powerslap it's fun to watch with friends and a couple of beers. Also I agree it's not a sport the people competing are hilarious to watch 🤣

by Jazzlike_Half 1 week ago

omg this is so right. the entire point of it is to cause pain, idk how anyone would find it funny or entertaining but some ppl do smh

by Designer_Event 1 week ago

Someone has this same opinion about whatever sports ball game you cream your jeans over. It's apparently popular and entertaining enough to be considered a sport whether you like it or not.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No one disagrees with this. The only reason why it's still a thing is because Dana White is milking it out of spite towards the people telling him it's stupid.

by GoldSquash 1 week ago

"It's just as dumb as any other sportsball game ☝️🤓" Objectively wrong though

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Not really. Only diference is amount of braindeads playing at the same time. But yea, a team has more inteligence collectively

by Hettingerruben 1 week ago

Agreed. At best they need to make sure they aim right but with the other person just standing still, it's hardly a skill.

by Elouise80 1 week ago

Imagine changing it to the pimp slap competition

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's more of an endurance competition than anything. It's a test of how much pain and shock you can withstand while still being able to dish an equal amount back. It's basically combat sports stripped down to its absolute fundamentals. It ticks all the boxes of what a sport is. Or at very least, I guess it's an evolution of the classic schoolyard game of "slap me as hard as you can, I can take it come on"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It is a sport and you don't get to declare what is or isn't a sport. I agree it's stupid.

by Funny-Drag 1 week ago

Same with slapping, again, neither are sports.

by smitchell 1 week ago

Idk, all they do is beat each other until one wins by nockout or major injury.

by smitchell 1 week ago

All runners do is move legs quick. All weightlifters do is pick up object. All football players do is kick ball into net. All tennis players do is hit ball with racquet You can make anything sound stupid when you simplify it like that, but then you just make yourself sound stupid

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you say so kid.

by smitchell 1 week ago

Lol, bro doubled down on the stupidity

by Anonymous 1 week ago

popular opinion

by Damorekip 1 week ago

Never heard of it. Good job promoting something you hate.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Meh. Just because you don't enjoy it doesn't invalidate it. I don't watch it myself but can appreciate seeing someone getting the piss slapped out of them now and again

by Anonymous 1 week ago

nah arm wrestling is dope, kings move anyone?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I would take it further and sys that all "fighting" sports are stupid and just boring. It's just 2 guys hitting each other. I fail to see how that is even remotely entertaining.

by Regular_Rabbit 1 week ago

Tbf you only think that because you have no idea what you're talking about

by Anonymous 1 week ago

To be fair I know that's it's just futile boring crap.

by Regular_Rabbit 1 week ago

Eh, at least with MMA and Boxing there's some serious training that goes into it. Plus some strategy and endurance. This slap thing is literally just standing there, waiting to get slapped. I think fighting is a different form of sport, hence the term bloodsport. Certainly not a sport in the sense that soccer or American football are.

by Negative_Frame_5321 1 week ago

Still completely irrelevant since the final product is still meh! at best.

by Regular_Rabbit 1 week ago

I agree with you.. I think no "sport", where the means to win is inflicting aggressive bodily harm should be a sport.

by Anonymous 1 week ago