Dana White stays adamant Energy Slap will surpass UFC

LAS VEGAS – The Energy Slap promotion championed by UFC CEO Dana White obtained a giant increase this previous Friday.

When former UFC fighter Paige VanZant made her slap preventing debut in Las Vegas, she grew to become arguably the preferred social media determine to compete within the promotion. VanZant landed the cleaner photographs over three rounds and gained a unanimous resolution over Christine Wolmarans by a trio of 30-25 scores at Fontainebleau Resort & On line casino.

VanZant’s recognition on OnlyFans, in addition to different social media platforms, as effectively fights for BKFC, made her a celeb slapper of kinds, and White thinks it’s yet one more rung on the ladder to make Energy Slap probably larger than the UFC over time, he stated.

“I stated it – return. A few of you had been there and heard me within the early days,” White stated after Energy Slap 8. “I stated, ‘This would be the largest sport on the earth. This can be larger than the UFC. This can be larger than the UFC.’ Now you may bear in mind I stated that, everyone can be like, ‘Oh, he’s a f*cking nut,’ and all that sh*t. After which I’ll see you in just a few years and we’ll speak once more.

“That is a type of occasions – it’s just like the UFC once more. Once we placed on a dwell occasion, no one leaves a UFC dwell occasion and goes, ‘Yeah, I don’t ever need to see one in all these once more.’ That’s the identical factor with the Energy Slap. It continues to develop. This was our eighth occasion. We’ve solely finished eight occasions. And should you have a look at the success of this factor and simply eight exhibits, we are going to get higher each time we do it. The athletes will get higher. There can be those that come that proceed to attract and folks need to see Slap. It’s all simply an enormous work in progress. It’ll simply get higher each time we do it.”

White thinks somebody like VanZant, who has north of three million Instagram followers, may also help elevate the bar, both by attendance or competitors. Since she left the UFC, VanZant has been identified for her recognition as a social media influencer as a lot as her fight sports activities pursuits, if no more, and she or he has talked brazenly about making more cash in 24 hours on OnlyFans than she did when she was within the UFC.

White is banking on social media to attract new followers, not conventional media.

“It’s like all of the slap fighters vs. the world,” White stated. “All people’s speaking sh*t on the web and f*cking writing sh*tty tales and all that stuff. I inform these guys, ‘F*cking embrace it. It’s stunning. It’s an amazing factor. You understand what you don’t need? The blokes who write no f*cking tales and don’t say something about it.’ We’re constructing this sport a totally completely different method, and it’s not constructed via the media. We’re not constructing this sport via media. That is the way forward for how sports activities are going to be constructed, and I’m exhibiting the entire f*cking world the way it’s finished.

“All people that you just herald, particularly someone that already has a sure stage of fame and a sure stage of followers, you entice new individuals to it. There’s little doubt about it. Tonight in that room, essentially the most highly effective influencers on the earth are in that room each time we placed on an occasion. These children create content material for a residing. That’s what they do, and nothing goes extra viral, regardless of who you’re, what number of followers you may have (than Energy Slap).”