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The UFC has described Abu Dhabi as its “most significant relationship” as the promotion promises to deliver “a major title fight that has worldwide significance” when it makes its return to the capital in October.
The UFC will make its return to Abu Dhabi this October with UFC 294, it was confirmed on Thursday.
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The competitors stand rigidly upright with their hands behind their backs, waiting to absorb a brutal slap to the face.
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 the reaction can be dramatic. Some fighters barely move, while others stumble backward or fall to the floor. Some are knocked out. UFC President Dana White is selling slap fighting as the next big thing in combat sports, putting his money and the resources of one of the world’s foremost mixed martial arts organizations behind the Power Slap League. The Nevada Athletic Commission has sanctioned the league for competitions in Las Vegas. “It’s a home run,” said White, who is among several UFC officials involved in the league. Some slap-fighting beatdowns have gone viral, including a video from eastern Europe showing a man who continues to compete even as half of his face swells to seemingly twice its size. Such exposure has led to questions about the safety of slap fighting, particularly the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head. A former chairman of the commission, which regulates combat sports in Nevada, says approving the league was a mistake.
Michael Chandler says he is going to “bludgeon with both these hands” Conor McGregor when the two fight later this year, with UFC president Dana White suggesting tensions between the pair have risen during filming The Ultimate Fighter.
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