Dana White spoke with members of the media following the conclusion of Power Slap 2 on Wednesday. Watch Power Slap 2 …
all right guys uh we actually have performance bonuses now so I’ll tell you the performance bonus winners uh on the undercard when you guys weren’t here uh Amir neurodean and uh Austin Turpin they both won uh Waylon Frost um Alan klingbell uh the Hawaiian Hitman all those guys won ten thousand dollars so congrats to them hi hi I just want to know first overall thoughts on the whole card yeah when we had our first card the first card was literally perfect it couldn’t have gone any more perfect uh tonight was a was a foul Fest which is going to be uh you know it’s it’s part of the evolution of this thing um but it’s definitely tough when you have the champion who gets knocked out and it’s a DQ because of a uh you know a foot foul so just these are growing pains you got to deal with you know um much like I always say in in the UFC we stacked the card with tons of gray fights so um you know something will will come away from and and make some adjustments and changes is try to fix it next time and what kind of adjustments can you make because I mean you either have to change the rules or oh no it’s not changing the rules I mean this is what we do I mean when you look at it’s it’s so hard to explain to people today about what it was like in the UFC in the early days because nobody was here everybody wants to act like oh the UFC whatever nobody was here this is my second power slab uh event there’s three times the media here than there was for the first five years at the UFC okay so to try to explain the stuff that we had to go through back in those days it was it was much more difficult this this is much less difficult we’ll figure this stuff out um I mean I went through covet we’ll figure this out what was the biggest for you just it didn’t necessarily mean a match but maybe production or what yeah oh the oh not a match I mean it could be whatever you think is the was your highlight of the event well I I would say tonight and it was something that I talked to you guys earlier I say there were a bunch of wins the stream again was massive um you know we’re gonna we’re gonna pull millions of viewers tonight um the sweepstakes that we did which is Big you know I saw you know as usual people talking so we do sweepstakes with the UFC all the time it’s nothing nothing new this isn’t anything different than what we do in the UFC we did 115 000 uh entries tonight for the sweepstakes you know the biggest one we’ve ever done with UFC is 200 000 to give you an idea of how big tonight was as far as that goes um and uh you know there were lots of great fights tonight there’s guys out there like I’ll tell you right now obviously the bell I mean that guy’s legit he’s young he’s 21 years old he’s got an incredible chin and uh you know he beat Wolverine tonight who’s never been knocked down in like 12 or 13 fights and he dropped him tonight and heard him a couple times so there’s guys on here that we think have a lot of potential you guys didn’t get to see well actually I think we did put the Turpin we put the Turpin fight up on social media so you can see that kid is completely unassuming completely out of his mind and uh but but damn good is that an element do you think that makes a really good slot fighter being a little bit out of your mind yeah I think uh that’s part of being a fighter period uh no matter what combat sport you’re in you have to be a little out of your mind yeah do you have an update on Abu Dhabi when that would will start filming when we could possibly see season two well what we want is we’re gonna have boots on the ground in July meaning that the production team out there finding out where we’re going to stay where we’re going to shoot what we’re going to do you know so uh I’m looking for early July and my last question who do you find to fight in super heavyweight I can’t imagine that’s a yeah well that’s another Go I mean obviously tonight was a big night with the Hawaiian Hitman winning you know a legit super heavyweight guy um trust me when I tell you we will and we’ll find even more after season two because when when we start casting globally and finding people from around the world we’re going to find some Bad Dudes some big dudes too thank you thank you hey Dana yeah was it disappointing not having Chris Thomas on the card today yeah it was very disappointing he’s fun he’s explosive he’s exciting um yeah but again it’s part of the growing pains when you’re when you’re trying to build something new with all the suspensions that that uh that came up I guess I no one really asked your thoughts on it but like is that just is that going to be um going forwards is just testing for I guess drugs and everything yeah I think the commission tested he pre-tested this time didn’t they yeah yeah they’re all over us so they pre-tested this time um for every event is is the goal to have every single belt defended yeah yeah absolutely gotcha thank you yep god brother Corey’s we’re gonna slap news Dana so we have Wednesday night for power slap number two how did that come about and do you intended to be on Wednesday going forward yeah we like Wednesdays uh you know when we first started the UFC um we had to go on Fridays because boxing was so big then we eventually took over Saturdays um but when you think about it there’s always first of all Friday night people are going out Saturday night is uh you know boxing or UFC and Sunday WWE and Monday night is WWE so Wednesday night works really well for us because and and could this have worked out any better there’s no other sports on tonight except for us the way that the the playoffs worked out and uh I told you guys before this is incredible on social media it’s great to bet on and it works in bars and when do bars need content more than a Wednesday night it was awesome for Wednesday absolutely I mean you touched on a social numbers does the business model for power slab differ from that of the UFC um well I think the the different thing about this than than UFC and any other sport is this thing is being built on the internet and uh you know I I have this whole strategy moving forward you know not just for um this but throw one and the UFC I mean everything’s going everything’s going internet yeah I mean the media continues you know to try to stomp on power slap do you have anything that you want to say to the media after another successful event here tonight I don’t give a you know what I mean if you saw what was here tonight I’m I’m more into social media than media so it doesn’t matter you don’t have to but this is nothing there isn’t like this didn’t happen with the UFC I was just saying there’s three times the media here tonight for this for our second event than there was the first five years of the UFC I mean I even remember going into the ultimate fighter and uh you know there was there were actually MMA uh magazines and like that at the time that didn’t cover The Ultimate Fighter you know which ended up being the biggest thing uh you know the literally the launching pad for the UFC and pulled massive numbers at that time and and the MMA media didn’t even cover that back in the day so this is not anything that I’m not used to awesome you know we got to see the super heavyweight any chance that we’ll see a 155 or a women’s category anytime soon yeah I mean we’ll see we’ll see a women’s uh uh division uh probably before a lighter division but um like I was just saying with Amy we got a lot of we gotta work out before we start thinking about you know expansion we got we you know we got to get this thing dialed in and and work on some of the problems that happened tonight but the thing is when you’re building a new sport um how many were any of you here when we did the test run in March no I think like Kevin aioli and Morgan and those guys were there but if you look at how far we’ve come from last March when we did the first test to you know we tried to perfect things during the season of road to the title then the finale went off you know better than anything we’d ever done and then tonight we hit some some things that hadn’t popped up yet and and we’ll work on that we’ll go back to the drum board and fix that and try to make the next the one thing that you have to understand is you can we do lots of bells and whistles I always say I’m the bells and whistles guy when when everything starts happening live you have literally no control over what happens live so what we do from here is we try to control the uncontrollable and the future things that we didn’t think Could Happen things that pop up that you don’t expect and you just try to get better every time you put on an event one last question what was the biggest highlight of the night for you here today the biggest highlight uh obviously there was a lot of hype around the the slap for cash and Hawaiian Hitman fight so that was fun um seeing that the Bell is as legit as he is because you you know how tough Wolverine is you saw it again tonight um it’s interesting to see you know the question was would Vern Shin hold up tonight um and uh what’s interesting too is going into this when we started Darius the Destroyer was the best slapper in the world so you’re already starting to see the thing evolve and and now like I told you guys There’s real money in this thing now these kids can actually make some real money there’s already bonuses and um and it’s just going to get bigger every event we do and then I’m just I’m so high on season two I just think coming out of season two that finale and then the guys that win that finale and face the guys that are here now it’s all going to be big appreciate it thank you thank you hey Dana doctors with powerslap news we saw the first title title defenses today what are what is the power slab belt progression like are these guys getting rubies sapphires maybe diamonds for that diamond chin yeah let me tell you this that was very disappointed in the belt tonight okay the belt the belt’s one of the things that we need to fix uh I put it on AJ and the thing popped right off him uh and then I couldn’t even put it onto Bell it didn’t fit them so yeah we had belt issues tonight um diamonds and rubies instead of the least of our worries with the belt right now we got bigger bigger problems like putting it on the guy and it actually stays let’s start there and then we’ll start thinking about diamonds and rubies and super heavy weights you guys brought in the world’s strongest men to catch if we’re gonna possibly see some of these world’s strongest men slapping in the future I don’t know that that’s that I think you’ll see people from all different types of places slapping um but yeah we obviously listen when slap for cash is almost 500 pounds when he went down they laid him down pretty softly it was good to have those guys Forrest missed a kid that weighed like 170 tonight I wouldn’t want to put that on poor Forest thank you Dana thanks buddy Daniel we had talked about celebrity and former athlete interest in power slap has there been any progress made in that direction so now that this we we got this one behind us now we’re putting out the real for uh casting for for globally now for season two so yeah we’ll start uh actually how many where’s Frank how many how many do we already have without even casting that have 2500 applicants and we haven’t even put out a reel yet for for uh you know contestants for season two we already have 2 500 people that are trying to get in is celebrity something that you wanna Focus yeah uh you know you know what I want I want guys that actually want to do this for a living and want to be the best in the world do I think that celebs will pop up here and there yes I do any truth to the rumors that you’ve ended your friendship with Barstool Sports no that’s not true listen what I said today on Pat McAfee was not about Barstool Sports it was about pen gaming okay it was about pen gaming and basically what I’m saying is what when when you build a company like Barstool Sports the way that it was built with a guy like Dave Portnoy once you get a bunch of Suits involved and these guys it just changes the dynamic of the whole thing ask spice ask Vice how that went shots fired sorry Robbie you guys done with me have a great night thanks for coming I appreciate you guys [Applause]