At Super Bowl Radio Row: UFC Bossman Dana White Says Critics Helping Him Grow Slap League, Claims Announcements On More Media Distribution Coming Soon
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer
PHOENIX, Arizona — Dana White strolled through Super Bowl’s Radio Row Tuesday afternoon and told LVSportsBiz.com that the attention brought by critics of his Power Slap League is actually helping him grow his brutal head-slapping knockout enterprise.
White, the bossman of Las Vegas-based UFC, said he will soon release news about more distribution and sponsors around his slap league, which airs on the TBS network.
The so-called “sport” between two people who take turns smashing their open hands into the side of their defenseless competitor’s head has been described as barbaric, stupid, dangerous and concussion-causing by critics of this slap league. The Nevada State Athletic Commission has sanctioned the slap league events, which take place at UFC’s Apex facility next-door to the MMA promotion’s HQ in the southwest Vegas Valley.
White declared to LVSportsBiz.com that the slap league opponents are helping him grow a sport that the critics are trying to bring down.
White refused to identify the new slap league distributors.
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LVSportsBiz.com photographer Jeff Goulding roamed Radio Row Tuesday afternoon and spotted a few noteworthy scenes.
There was former UNLV quarterback Kenny Mayne at the Caesars Sportsbook talk show site.
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Former Chiefs placekicker Nick Lowery chatted with radio personalities and promoting a new tequila that he says will be unveiled in Las Vegas.
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Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf, who came to Las Vegas one year to promote the Las Vegas Bowl, was talking about at the Sirius radio booth while Leaf’s five-year-old McGyver played on a golf simulator.
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Solomon Wilcots, former Bengals safety, is chatting about a biotechnology company called Vericel that grows human cartlilage from the patients’ own tissue to be reinserted into the patient’s body.
