Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone loves Energy Slap — simply don’t anticipate him to ever take part in it.
On Friday night time, the controversial upstart promotion’s sixth occasion went down in Las Vegas and drew a plethora of fight sports activities stars, on-line influencers, and celebrities. Additionally available for the festivities was the UFC Corridor of Famer who supplied an attention-grabbing endorsement for Dana White’s newest pet mission.
“I like it,” Cerrone stated. “That is, like, when you simply need to watch knockout, knockout, knockout, and listen to CTE mind injury, that is the occasion” (h/t MMA Fighting).
The UFC CEO has been pushing Power Slap arduous during the last couple of years regardless of continued criticism from skilled fighters and combat followers who’ve labeled the quote-unquote “sport” as nothing greater than a barbaric show missing any respectable athletic benefit.
Former NSAC Chairman Admits Remorse over Sanctioning Energy Slap
The inherent hazard of Energy Slap has additionally been a hot-button subject contemplating your complete premise is to hit somebody within the head as arduous as you’ll be able to with the recipient disallowed from defending themselves. Nonetheless, that didn’t cease the NSAC from sanctioning Energy Slap, a call Stephen Cloobec — the previous chairman of the Nevada State Athletic Fee — shortly got here to remorse. “I made a mistake,” Cloobeck instructed The Associated Press. “I’m not completely satisfied about it.”
‘Cowboy’ Cerrone spent 16 years competing in opposition to a number of the largest names in combined martial arts underneath each the WEC and UFC banners. His memorable wars with Benson Henderson, Nate Diaz, Anthony Pettis, Rafael dos Anjos, Edson Barboza, Jorge Masvidal, Robbie Lawler, Leon Edwards, Tony Ferguson, and Justin Gaethje earned him a spot within the UFC’s Corridor of Fame class of 2023.
However even after greater than 50 fights, don’t anticipate to see ‘Cowboy’ step as much as the Energy Slap podium anytime quickly.
“Not even I’d do that,” Cerrone stated with amusing.
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