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[Jacy Jayne Atomic Dog AMV]

I thought this deserved its own thread cause I think we always have time for the evil that bald men do

Dana White's Powerslap premier that aired right after AEW did a whole 295k people (Showbuzz). AEW did roughly 960k this week. Not even the most dead lazy family dogs kept the TV on after Dynamite ended and this shit started. Ancient Golden Retrievers ran like they were 2 years old again when Powerslap started.

AND LIKE I DIDN'T WATCH THE SHIT (sorry 295k homies) BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS A COMPLETE SHITSHOW? Literally the first fight, the first SLAP even, a dude got concussed so bad he went in to the fencing position straight away and after forgot why he was even there.

[Starshine]

Can episode 2 be called 'Slappy Seconds?'

[Red Mage Riot]

Jan 19, 2023 22:18:14 GMT -5 Starshine said:

Can episode 2 be called 'Slappy Seconds?'

I mean, if that's not the title, what the f*** are we even doing here?

[mattyy]

I watched the first ten minutes out of morbid curiosity and was just baffled at the mess that was unfolding. Like literally in your first five minutes you're gonna show someone get knocked out and pass out from a slap and then cut to Dana White going "yeah this is p rad, I saw Russians doing it for three million views and wanted to capitalize"

[Macho Pichu]

When literally your opening scene is a dude getting concussed, you know people are going to find that to be uncomfortable and tune out. That was a bad decision.

[Hypnosis]

Jan 19, 2023 22:35:46 GMT -5 Macho Pichu said:

When literally your opening scene is a dude getting concussed, you know people are going to find that to be uncomfortable and tune out. That was a bad decision.

Dana White even managed to alarm Chris Nowinski:

[Jacy Jayne Atomic Dog AMV]

Jan 19, 2023 22:40:13 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

Jan 19, 2023 22:35:46 GMT -5 Macho Pichu said:

When literally your opening scene is a dude getting concussed, you know people are going to find that to be uncomfortable and tune out. That was a bad decision.

Dana White even managed to alarm Chris Nowinski:

That's probably the most unsafe that I've ever seen slapfighting shit look, good lord.

ALSO THE MOST EXPENSIVE I'VE SEEN IT LOOK TOO. FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS.

[Jacy Jayne Atomic Dog AMV]

Cackling over the f***ing weight lifter powder on their hands too. Love that if I even get cut a lil bit I'm gonna have f***ing powder in my wounds that's awesome Dana White thank you so much.

End of humanity type television.

[Deleted]

Dana's scumminess aside, I don't know how anyone thought this would do anything.

It's literally a TV show built around YouTube videos that were fun for 5 minutes a decade ago.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

I'm so happy that this show lost about 700K viewers from AEW's lead in to it airing

F*** this show, and f*** WBD for being huge hypocrites. Won't air a Jay Briscoe tribute but they're sure fine with POWERSLAP sponsored by a dude who just got caught slapping his wife on camera, karma's a bitch lmfao

[pinja]

It's a weird curiosity when done for YouTube by Russian farm boys. Parading adults getting unprotected headshots on tv like it should be a main stream cultural phenomenon is disgusting. What do people expect happens when getting slapped or slapping really, really hard? You get ouchie red cheeks?

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

When do we get OJ Simpson hosting a Bum Fights show

[Feyrhausen]

Jan 19, 2023 23:08:23 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

I'm so happy that this show lost about 700K viewers from AEW's lead in to it airing

F*** this show, and f*** WBD for being huge hypocrites. Won't air a Jay Briscoe tribute but they're sure fine with POWERSLAP sponsored by a dude who just got caught slapping his wife on camera, karma's a bitch lmfao

I am sure Discovery has already looked into the legality of televised executions. Maybe now with the clout of WB they can get some laws changed.

[salz4life]

I'm glad the show bombed. Even when the YouTube videos were popular, I couldn't understand why people would actually spend more than a minute or two watching two men/women slapping each other. I still don't, TBH.

[Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story]

If you want to laugh, go to the PowerSlap reddit and see the few folks on there trying to spin this into a great rating because you could also watch the show on Fight Pass.

This is a one and done, if the ratings continue to crater I could even see TBS just pulling it and putting the rest of it on demand or something.

[Doo Doo Dickhead]

It sounds like there's a complete lack of self-awareness here (which is on brand for Dana White), so I just might give this a shot next week.

[Denny Zen is Cooking™]

I only wonder what kind of waivers the people who are participating in this have signed...Dana White is a scumbag and a carny, but I don't think he's an idiot. And there's absolutely no way that something like this would be allowed to exist in a post-CTE world absent these people literally signing waivers that say something to the effect of "I agree to hold Dana White harmless should I develop any sort of traumatic brain injury related in any way to my participation in PowerSlap™ at any point in the future."

It's really disgusting and sad to think about, for so many reasons.

[Bo Rida]

I just don't think these modern competitors have the mainstream appeal of the old slappers that I've seen get millions of views on various websites.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

If it’s gonna follow AEW they need a Power ThighSlap segment and dudes just rip their thighs apart making sick superkick noises

[Rumble McSkirmish]

Whoa whoa whoa...this show is real?!? I thought this was just a hallucination brought on by a mixture of fatigue, Red Bull and Buldak Spicy Noodles.