“Dana White Is Going Again on Podcast Strike”, Claims Followers After Powerslap Confrontation as UFC CEO’s Boxing Diss Takes Wild Flip

Many followers assume that Dana White ought to cease attempting to make Energy Slap occur, it’s not going to occur, because the meme goes. The UFC CEO, in fact, is attempting exhausting to make his controversial slap-fighting league a success. However fight sports activities followers aren’t shopping for it. Nor are a few of his personal associates.

The UFC CEO went on his favourite, ‘Full Ship’ podcast hosted by his associates Kyle Foregeard and Bob Menery. Whereas Menery and Foregeard’s relationship had been on the rocks final yr with even talks of a lawsuit, he’s again on the podcast and doing what he does best- annoying Dana White.

The newest instance of him getting on the UFC CEO’s nerves got here as Menery had the gall to name Energy Slap repetitive and boring. “I watch match one and its the identical. I watch match two and its the identical. I watch match three and its the identical. Someone will get slapped within the face and so they’re completed, and I watched a fourth, somebody will get slapped within the face and so they’re completed,” he advised the UFC CEO.

White, in fact, didn’t like this one bit, and got here to the protection of his beloved pet venture, as was anticipated. What actually raised eyebrows, nevertheless, was the Las Vegas resident evaluating Energy Slap to MMA and boxing, feeling that boxing particularly was simply as predictable and repetitive as slap combating.

“So what occurs once you watch a battle? Let’s say a boxing match. Boxing which has been common for 100 years, what’s totally different [from Power Slap]?” White mentioned.

Dana White, in fact, had based America’s first slap-fighting promotion in 2022 together with assist from his Zuffa companions and shut associates, the Fertitta brothers. Since then, whereas the game has undoubtedly garnered lots of consideration, most of it has been unfavorable.

Battle followers even refuse to acknowledge it as a fight sport, whereas medical professionals have rung alarm bells over the potential for long-term mind injury and CTE for the athletes. That is why, predictably, Dana White’s protection of Energy Slap and evaluating it to boxing didn’t go down nicely with followers, in any respect.

Followers outraged at Dana White evaluating Energy Slap to MMA and boxing

One fan felt that Bob Menery, no matter his different flaws, was completely on the cash on this topic and advised Dana White what he wanted to listen to about Energy Slap: “He cooked. Let’s be actual lmao.” 

One other felt that Menery’s callout would reinvigorate the UFC CEO’s latest disdain for podcasts, which had began when he stormed off Howie Mandel’s podcast earlier this yr: “Dana White goes again on podcast strike”

One fan took nice exception to White evaluating slapfighting to boxing, which has infinitely extra variables, kinds, and permits the fighters to defend themselves not like Energy Slap: “Dana performing like boxing doesn’t have kinds that make match ups lol why does he take criticism so badly lol”

One other agreed utterly with this sentiment and felt that Energy Slap was like watching a crash- you don’t need to look, however can not deliver your self to look away due to a morbid fascination: “Boxing? It’s extra like watching Automobile crash movies.”

One other fan additionally known as out White for evaluating Energy Slap, maybe the least revered fight sport, to the celebrated and wildly common sports activities of boxing and MMA: “Dana evaluating it to a ufc battle or boxing is ridiculous.” 

What are your ideas on the comparisons between Energy Slap and boxing? Do you assume this discourse will trigger a crack in White’s friendship with Menery? Tell us within the feedback.