{"id":543066,"date":"2026-03-16T01:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:38:08","slug":"joe-rogan-calls-power-slap-insulting-to-real-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543066\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan Calls Power Slap ‘Insulting’ to Real Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Rogan<\/a>\u00a0has a theory about why\u00a0Power Slap\u00a0exists \u2014 and it starts with\u00a0Dana White<\/a>‘s\u00a0love of gambling.<\/p>\n

During a recent episode of\u00a0The Joe Rogan Experience\u00a0featuring actor and musician\u00a0Luke Grimes, Rogan floated the idea that the slap fighting league operates as a side revenue stream for the UFC boss, fueled by his well-known appetite for high-stakes gambling.<\/p>\n

That’s my theory about Slap Fight,” Rogan said. “Why they’re doing Slap Fight. I think it’s like Dana’s gambling money. I think it’s like he needs some source of revenue outside of the UFC so he doesn’t lose his UFC money.<\/p>\n

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Rogan reinforced the point by recalling a conversation with White about his lifestyle. “Because that dude gambles,” he said. “I asked him once, ‘Oh, you like living here?’ He goes, ‘I love the action.'”<\/p>\n

Both Rogan and Grimes also acknowledged that Power Slap is simply hard to watch. “It’s tough to watch, man. I don’t watch it,” Rogan said. “You just [see] people getting brain damage over and over again.”<\/p>\n

Rogan also took issue with the sport’s branding, noting that calling the competitions “fights” felt like a stretch. “They call it fights, too. Like, okay. It’s kind of insulting to an actual fight,” he said.<\/p>\n

White launched Power Slap in 2023 through a partnership with the TBS network. The league has drawn criticism from combat sports figures and medical professionals over concerns about competitor safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan\u00a0has a theory about why\u00a0Power Slap\u00a0exists \u2014 and it starts with\u00a0Dana White‘s\u00a0love of gambling. During a recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,958,786,2765,785,85],"class_list":["post-543066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dana-white","tag-fighting","tag-joe-rogan","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}