Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An open palm in a purple tinge against a black background It's been several years since the inception of a new combat sport, ...

Nov. 12—Oklahoma's attorney general issued an opinion this week regulating the sport of slap fighting, declaring it a "combative sport." In his opinion handed down Thursday, Attorney General Gentner ...

UFC President Dana White founded Power Slap in 2022 and it's been shocking the sports world ever since. Power Slap is a slap-fighting promotion that features fighters from various cultural and ...

A new and extreme form of combat competition has amassed a large and intense following, producing viral videos on social media and prompting a first-of-its-kind academic study on its impact. It's ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

An Alabama lawmaker wants to strengthen the state’s prohibition on slap fighting, a brutal contest that is popular on YouTube and sanctioned in the state of Nevada. In a slap fight, two contestants ...

LAS VEGAS - The competitors stand rigidly upright with their hands behind their backs, waiting to absorb a brutal slap to the face. When the open-handed blow is delivered, there's a sharp report and ...

It doesn't really seem necessary to say this but slap fighting is not one of those sports that has a lot of healthful side effects. It's growing quite a following anyway, with millions watching ...

No news was good news for bare-knuckle fight fans, in that bare-knuckle was not mentioned once during the August New Mexico Athletic Commission meeting on Wednesday. When and whether a bare-knuckle ...