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foreign 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 neurodeen 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 you know a foot foul so 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 great fights so um you know something will will come away from and and make some adjustments and changes and 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 of 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 win of the night for you just it didn’t necessarily mean A match but maybe production or what yeah 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’d 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 them 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 it’s just testing for I guess drugs and everything yeah I think the commission tested he pretested 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 sorry 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 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 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 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 talking to the power slab 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 on the 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’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 Dana 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 celebrities 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 Penn 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] foreign news John it didn’t go the way as you expected how you feeling right now um as happy as I am to win I’m not very happy about a lot of stuff right now got a lot of work to do a lot of recovery to do and a lot of stuff to figure out can you explain to us what happened to your arm or your shoulder on that first strike um I think when I you know obviously went out there through full force something something let go that I really couldn’t control so I had to go through and figure out what in the what in the hell I could do to try and survive and that was my best bet at that point in time um can you confirm which area of the body the injury occurred my right shoulder okay um you know having to switch up your strike you know Midway through and go to the left what was going through your mind in that moment wasn’t was not my ideal plan I trained with it because I always know that something could happen I mean you could break a finger a wrist your palm something and not be able to throw that hand so you know as much as I train it didn’t really do what I would like it to tonight so it’s back to the drawing board in a multitude of ways when I get home I mean Wesley had an early foul how much of that play into your mind throughout the event you know throughout the match and were you just trying to get it to a decision I mean in all reality yeah at that point it was more so survival and score the points that I need to be able to get in there because I knew that I wasn’t with my left hand I didn’t have the confidence I do with my right to be able to put him out I mean Wesley was quite vocal throughout the match were you able to hear him whatsoever or did you block it out I mean I could hear him it was just we’re both up there as different entities of people compared to when we’re normally together so it’s just the name of the game and how it goes when you’re up there at that podium how worried were you about the doctor stopping the match I wasn’t too worried because my arm could have been on the ground and I would have used my left one anyway you know you get the deciding Victory uh the decision were you surprised um yeah in all reality yeah because at that point I really didn’t know which way it was going to go because of everything that had happened it wasn’t the cleanest match it wasn’t the best match for either of us and I know we both are going to go back to the drawing boards and figure out what it is that we got to do from here who do you think is deserving to get that title shot against you next anybody and everybody that wants it it’s not just the 185s Calling My Name anymore it’s everyone from 170 heavyweight 205 any any other slap fight thing going on people want a piece of who who anyone who is who obtains a belt is there anybody that you want specifically I still don’t give a to this day I’ll go up there against whoever they put me up against so you know it is what it is it’s the name of this game all right oh appreciate you thank you hi John hi I’m curious would you be open to a rematch considering how that last how this went absolutely absolutely I feel like him and I both wanted to put on a better show whether my arm tweaked or not you know um neither of us want to have fouls we both want to go in there and have a completely clean match even if it is five rounds we want we want the cleanliness we want the the proper strikes and the proper everything that it comes up to be because then that really makes it hard for them to come up with the decision and um you know they really have to toe the line on rules at that point to figure out who’s who’s going to come away with the w have the two of you talked at all since the end oh yeah we were hanging out in the back right afterwards um it’s not like we had a personal problem with each other we we know what this is this is a game that we’re playing and to make it as intense as possible before we get up there there’s definitely a sever between friendships while you’re battling what is your coach telling you between rounds um he’s just really kind to helping direct me on what’s going on up there what calls they’re making because you know Wesley was hitting me good um obviously I had a bit of an issue and had to switch up while I was up there so I was more focused on trying to pretty much survive at that point and land what I needed to to get my points was there more pressure on you this time consider Ed absolutely you know I’ve said to said this to people before I’ve laid the foundation and I laid the first Brick by winning the belt defending it’s the second brick but I feel more more so that’s a half a brick of what I was trying to put out there so I definitely have some redemption in a multitude of ways I’m coming for and after you won at Power slab one how did your life change um I mean it changed in a whole bunch of ways you know Instagram went from under 200 followers to probably about 2 000 before I get back to my phone I’m able to do a lot more stuff at home for my wife and kids we just had the patio redone there’s a you know another baby on the way there’s a million other things I have to take care of so it’s it’s really helped out in a lot of ways and it’s helping even even as upset as I am right now with this win it’s still helping me at this very moment thank you thank you hey John Dominic with powerslap news today you heard and still the moment leading up to that announcement did you think you’ve done enough honestly I didn’t I didn’t really know Wesley and I both had some mistakes and it didn’t go how I had planned it nor how I wanted it to throughout the whole thing so it was really you know again that was up to the judges I wouldn’t have been mad at whoever whatever whatever decision they had to make with that one because it is what it is when you had that injury there you seem to immediately start working on your shoulder is this something that happened in the past are you used to kind of popping it in and out my other shoulder did the same thing when I was a lot younger so just the fact that I could feel it and I kind of had the guesstimate of what was going on um I’m not willing to go up there and just quit on some so I mean they could have shot that arm off and I would have swung the other one anyway round five you threw it anyways was that something you and your coach were talking about like Championship rounds you gotta do it no that was just me I wing it thank you so much man congratulations on your win thank you very much thank you all very much appreciate you for coming [Applause] foreign news Damien how you feeling right now uh my face hurts a lot and I got a lot of money so I’m I’m chilling honestly win Wednesday scenario have you ever been hit as hard as Wolverine hit you no he was not lying when he said he’s going to hit me harder than I’ve been hit before in the sport and that man hits like a truck I’ll give him that you know we talked previously in your pre-fight interview about this potentially Going the Distance did it go how you how you thought it would intend to uh I honestly it went how I expected it to go not how I wanted it to go I would have liked to get it you know a knockout or a TKO in the earlier to Mid rounds but you know a wins a win you know a couple of your early strikes were you know connected very very well were you surprised that Ron remained on his feet I I honestly was surprised I knew he had a chin but I wasn’t expecting it to be at you know to that degree but you know it just got Widow him down when you actually did knock him down did you think it was over uh honestly it’s with Ron I knew he had the spirit to get back up so I didn’t think it was over but I definitely knew the judge’s scorecards would reflect what that yeah I mean on the defensive side getting struck by Ron how did that actually feel I know you said you have some injuries to your face right now but was it what you expected or was it even harder it was probably the hardest I’ve been hit so far in the sport I’m I definitely had a concussion was confused a little bit in the back but you know it’s a part of the sport that’s what you signed up for yeah yeah I know you felt disrespected going into the Dwayne Crespo fight in power slap number one coming into this the Vegas line you were the favorite um did did you play into that whatsoever or did they get into your psyche no not not at all I don’t I don’t focus on the betting I focus on myself and my opponent and that’s all I really try to focus on how great of a story would it be that you slap your way to a law degree that’s exactly what I plan to do so until I get paid that off you’re going to see me coming in every event I can stab the hell out of people who do you want next uh honestly whoever could claw their way up to me I’ll take I’ll take anybody you feel like this is the natural way category for you you want to remain here at heavyweight definitely I definitely think this is this is where I’m comfortable with this is where I belong you know when it went to the judge’s decision how confident were you that you were going to be the new title holder I was hoping for it I don’t know about how you know confidence but you know it’s just gotta believe in yourself you just gotta know that you put in everything that you could and just hope for the best how do you think this Victory is going to change your life uh probably going to change it for the better you know it’s going to put me on a nice trajectory to actually be able to pay for what I need to pay for and do what I need to do in my life yeah I mean you’re still young um you know in in the sport um you know can where where do you think the natural progression is for you to go from here and how long do you plan to keep on you know continuing slap fighting uh honestly from here is just going to be defending my belt maybe dropping weight or gaining weight to try out another division see if I could take a shot at someone else’s belt but for right now it’s just going to be holding my bell until I could pay for law school get myself a really nice car maybe a house and then you know once I do what I need to do and submit myself at the top maybe I’ll retire then thank you appreciate it yes sir I’m just curious what kind of car you want a Mustang GT oh you had that right on you knew right away exactly yeah Mustang GT blacked out with uh green highlights wow so how long do you think it will take to get that oh I’m getting it Friday I’ve been saving up for that car for a long time so I just have one other question um when Dana was back here he he spoke really highly of you and I’m just curious how it feels to to know that you have someone so important that’s backing you like that is I see a credible feeling you know having someone like Dana White you know speak highly of you and show you the respect you you know you’ve earned and it’s amazing feeling to you know be at this stage now and do what I’ve been doing since the beginning um Darius the Destroyer has lost two straight I just wanted to you want one of your thoughts on that it’s honestly not I didn’t expect it that came out of nowhere to me I honestly I knew it was going to be a close match but it wasn’t as close as I expected there was a lot of penalties I didn’t expect Darius to pull so you know it’s it happens but you know we’ll see how he continues in the future were you fully expecting to face Darius next if you were to win I wasn’t fully expecting it I was like between Dorian and Darius I was expecting Dorian to be pulling more penalties just because of his last match before that I did not expect Darius to pull like all the penalties he was it was it was kind of out of the blue for him and out of character I didn’t unexpected any plans to go to super heavyweight uh as of right now no I’m already like in the middle of heavyweight yeah I’m like 240s area right now so after I gained weight because I’m going to get my uh PRK surgery so I’m gonna take some time off game muscle and try to be a nice 260 to combat congrats thank you hey Damien Domino powerslap news at the press conference I predicted you would end up going five rounds what were those Championship rounds like probably the hardest five rounds I’ve gone through is going against Ron was no joke that man hissed like a truck and he could take smack when they announced your name as Champion what was running through your head what was that feeling like honestly it’s just it’s hard to explain in words like just all the hard work and starting from watching him to going against him and then winning against him at this kind of scale is it was just incredible I’m just cloud nine right now I know you got a big support system back home when you head back home what’s that welcome gonna be like oh it’s going to be amazing co-workers friends family everybody was excited to watch me come out here and to actually be able to take home the Bell to all of them that have been supporting me I appreciate it you know thank you to my co-workers at College Hunks appreciate all y’all is there anyone else that you would like to fight or you just opened for anyone who’s next for the belt honestly just anyone that can make their way up to me anyone that they put in front of me I’ll go against it doesn’t matter congratulations thank you so much thank you champ congrats on the win once you got the you know soak it in or you’re still doing that I know um who got the first call when you were in the back just kind of you know hanging out with your new belt honestly I haven’t even called nobody I texted my wife I’ve just really been kind of you know trying to recuperate you know sort my own feelings out because it I’m just ecstatic I’m just I’m bouncing all over the place you know so I’m just trying to calm down and really you know take it as it is and absorb what I’ve just done excellent and last for me speaking of all over the place with these the emotions you see your foe hit that you know that that canvas you’re like okay this is it I got him but then he rises how do you reset and think okay it’s not over just yet still got to put them away honestly I always expect to go the full rounds earlier you know before the match I was joking about you know I’m gonna knock them out round one and you know that’s just me and him joking around but honestly I expected to go four rounds I expected him to bounce back and get up every single slap because that’s the type of dude he is mad respect for him excellent thank you sir congrats on the win thank you okay [Applause] thank you of course we’re going to slap news static what a crazy finish how you feeling I’m Feeling Good Feeling Good do you remember anything about that last strike that wrestle hit on you yeah I remember you followed hard as we knew that was coming though so I mean it is what it is you know did the match play out how you thought and it just in regards to that last comment um no I definitely thought he was gonna I thought I was gonna go exactly the same way as it did the first time so I’ll give him credit for that he didn’t Flinch this time you know what I mean um yeah I thought he was going to Flinch and I was gonna put him out on the second slap so you know you were kind of coined the king of trash talking this week do you think he got into his head mentally I’ve been in that man’s head [Laughter] I mean obviously it’s the second time around did you see anything different in his game from the first time that you competed against him um aside from the fact that he actually got to slap me this time no you know where do you want to go from here you have a lot of people calling you out I want I want everyone who’s tried to call me out you know what I mean um after this I’ll probably defend it like one more time maybe two more times move down away Quest you know what I mean defend that one probably just twice and then move up to heavyweight I’m not sure if you’re able to see Alan klingbile or not um but he was Victorious over over Vern Kathy what do you think of him I think I think that was a very as a very nice win on his part I’m happy for him you know what I mean that’s that’s a big win for him you know if he is the uh you know next in line for a shot at the title what’s your initial thoughts on that matchup um I hope he turns it down because it’s not going to be good for him it’d be it’d be a good one if I think he’d hit me fair you know what I mean it wouldn’t be like a bunch of trash talk but I win that one easily do you think you’ll be ready for power slot number three oh yeah I’m ready right now we know you like the Gail Gordon the town and you have anything planned for tonight I got a half ounce cone awesome appreciate it thank you thank you hey AJ Dominic Dominic with power slap news what’s up baby girl and still how does that feel man it feels good you know like it’s how could it not when we talked pre-fight you told me he’s going to step slap one he stepped was that frustrating um I mean it’s frustrating like I said I knew it was going to happen so like it was just a matter of like all right let’s One Step see what happens you know so I’m walking up to the barrel there you guys had a little bit of exchange of words can you tell us what was being said oh I told I told him I was like make sure you keep it clean I was like you ready and you know he was ready but couldn’t keep it clean that’s Russell though a lot of Hawaiian energy in the crowd did that get in your head at all was that rattling you at all no I love the wines man they love me too still got the best walkout song in the game is that ever gonna change anytime soon no I probably I was thinking about it I’ll walk out to that one a couple more times and then I’ll start switching it up you know what I mean it’s just such a good song you know what I mean shout out scythegang triple six would you ever run this one back for a third time yeah probably awesome congrats on your win man thank you for your time thank you good foreign [Applause]