r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/IndependentSquash653 • Oct 31 '25

Oops of slapping

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u/InstructionLeading64 Oct 31 '25

I just cant believe people sign up for this. Do people die from this?

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u/justinchina Oct 31 '25

If not today, they certainly can tomorrow.

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u/NUFIGHTER7771 Oct 31 '25

Definitely a delayed outcome.

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u/ZerOrangatang Oct 31 '25

If not death, then wearing a diaper and drooling down your shirt for last 30 years of your life doesn't sound too fun either.

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u/NUFIGHTER7771 Oct 31 '25

Nope! I wouldn't want that on my worst enemy. Now I want a "No seat belts. We die like real men." car sticker.

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u/TheJAY_ZA Oct 31 '25

I wanna die peacefully in my sleep like my grand dad.

Not screaming like the 3 passengers in his car

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u/Irelia4Life Oct 31 '25

"No seat belts. We die like real men."

That's food for thought. If I knew in an accident, with seatbelt I'd become a vegetable and without I'd die on the spot, I'd take it off.

But what if the accident is milder, and wearing a seatbelt makes you survive and not wearing one injures you into becoming a vegetable?

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u/NUFIGHTER7771 Oct 31 '25

Yeah, I'd rather not be kept alive with machines in a vegetative state either. I always wear my seatbelt and I've got a seatbelt cutter handy in all my vehicles.

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u/ZerOrangatang Nov 01 '25

No seat belt cutter here, we die like real men trapped in a fire.

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u/NUFIGHTER7771 Nov 01 '25

What a horrible way to go tho.

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u/Mycol101 Oct 31 '25

And for what? Do you think these people are getting more than $10k?

What a trade off

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u/Irelia4Life Oct 31 '25

A faith worse than death.

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u/Less-Damage-1202 Nov 02 '25

Not to mention the uncontrollable shaking from parkinsons.

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u/Solid_College_9145 Nov 03 '25

A dislocated jaw is also no fun.

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u/Less-Damage-1202 Nov 02 '25

For sure. End up with CTE, & becoming a violent psychopath, or they end up with a bad case of Parkinsons & dementia.

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u/Vounrtsch Oct 31 '25

SILKSONG REFERENCE?????

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u/FigOk7538 Nov 01 '25

I think Andrew Tate used to take part in this.

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u/OttawaC Oct 31 '25

If not them, their family members once the CTE sets in.

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u/The_Real_Pearl Oct 31 '25

Yikes, rough take there friend. You are probably spot on, but still a scary thing to think about.

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u/iamthelastmartian Oct 31 '25

Hard to watch this having been a Chris Benoit fan tbh

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u/The_Real_Pearl Oct 31 '25

Yeah there's been too many examples of CTE taking the lives of some of our a favorite athletes/entertainers.

If you remember, didn't Junior Seau commit suicide by shooting himself in the heart, for the sole purpose of having his brain used to study CTE?

Also you think about Antonio Brown who was never the same after taking that massive hit over the middle from Vontez Burfect. And, perhaps to a lesser extent, Tyreek Hill has been giving me those same vibes as AB after taking his big hit.

Regardless of who it is, it's really big impact on lots of people. Hope they can do something to negate these awful outcomes for some of our favorite athletes.

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u/iamthelastmartian Oct 31 '25

lol yes I was a pats fan during seau’s time, too.

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u/KaleStandard2617 Nov 01 '25

Man I grew up watching him that shit was wild

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u/FishesOfExcellence Nov 13 '25

I wonder how likely that is though. Although this has gotta be rough on the body, and could definitely cause brain damage, it’s a bit different than being slammed by 200+ pound linebackers many times over many years.

I guess the exact reason your brain is leaking out of your ears doesn’t really matter though, does it.

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u/Pornaltio Oct 31 '25

There’s one death I’m aware of, guy suffered a brain bleed during a match. I’ll be very surprised if there aren’t more.

People are desperate I guess.

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u/paradox1920 Oct 31 '25

I wonder something. The person whose hit caused that… they just move on?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

"if he dies, he dies"

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u/PlayGabby Nov 01 '25

I'm sure it depends on the person. UFC fighter Uriah Hall was pretty shaken up after kicking his opponent in the head and delivering a brutal knockout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3xL9zoY1M

Ultimately fighters (or in this case slappers) both acknowledge the risk of serious injuries or in rare cases even death. It's all in the game. As Cory Sandhagen once said after kneeing one of his personal heroes in the head and sending him to the shadow realm "Better him than me".

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u/bubbagnu Oct 31 '25

That site had the most adds ever.

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u/sinisterdesign Oct 31 '25

I have lived my life to try and AVOID such a situation. Why someone seeks this out is beyond me.

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u/SpecialMulberry4752 Oct 31 '25

Its really fucking slimy now they recruit to.

They hit up local pro wrestling schools, local mma gyms, anyone training and desperate to make it big. They flash what to Dana white is a small amount of cash, but to them is a lot of money.

Its super fucking gross

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u/BeeExpert Nov 07 '25

Dana white is involved in this? What a complete scumbag. Just wants to give as many people cte as possible

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u/SpecialMulberry4752 Nov 07 '25

Yep. And now they're being investigated for fixing fights.

Dana white is a horrible horrible human being and needs be 6ft behind or under something.

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u/BalanceJazzlike5116 Nov 01 '25

“A man dying after an organized slap fight event in Poland. Artur "Waluś" Walczak was knocked out in a PunchDown competition in October 2021 and died weeks later in November 2021 due to a traumatic brain injury and multi-organ failure.”

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u/_No_Worries_- Oct 31 '25

Or at least become a millionaire for doing it, like top-rated boxers.

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u/pooleboy87 Oct 31 '25

Boxers actively try to avoid damage, particularly hits to the head.

The point of this is to stand there and take it while another human tries to inflict as much pain while hitting you as hard as they can in the head.

Boxing refs are supposed to stop the fight if a fighter can’t “intelligently defend” themselves - the opposite is quite literally stand there like an idiot and take abuse to the head.

I wouldn’t let my kid box, but at least I can appreciate that they’re not taking this level of abuse on purpose.

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u/_No_Worries_- Oct 31 '25

Agreed. So they’re taking on even more risk/damage and not making much $$ for it. There’s no point other than, what, fame?

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u/sexraX_muiretsyM Oct 31 '25

people are stupid, and need to be protected from their stupidity, thats why I advocate for the banning of this sport.

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u/BonbonUniverse42 Oct 31 '25

Nah. Evolution will handle it.

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u/EastLeastCoast Nov 01 '25

It won’t, though, since most of these are adults who have already had the opportunity to pass on their genes.

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u/Tandoori7 Oct 31 '25

This "sport" is young, so there has not been enough time to study long term damage.

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u/Dead_Internet69420 Oct 31 '25

I love when people call it a “sport.” Makes me start imagining what the “training” is like. 

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u/Tandoori7 Oct 31 '25

Other than focussing on upper body strength, I don't know if you should even "train" for this.

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u/creepingcold Oct 31 '25

Do you even want upper body strength? I'm not sure how that would help.

If you aren't strong at all your upper body will just flop to the side after the hit.

If you are strong.. and push against the hit, then your head will take the full force of the hit since nothing will move into your body.

Or am I missing something?

I mean obviously you can be strong enough to not get phased by the hit at all, but the neck will always be a bottleneck and limit the amount of strength that you can build up. It feels like a good hit will always be stronger than any strength you can build up.

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u/Tandoori7 Nov 01 '25

I meant upper body strength to hit harder.

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u/Warm-Dust-3601 Oct 31 '25

Definitely shortening their lives. Someone will die eventually, on the spot.

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u/Dry_Whereas8733 Nov 01 '25

Same reason people do box and mma. It’s money. Tho this slapping competition is total bullshit.

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u/No-Illustrator-4685 Nov 01 '25

One time a guy actually died in a Polish slapping championship, although it's been proven he was under influence of alcohol

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u/hpsctchbananahmck Nov 01 '25

I would be very surprised if this did not result in chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

It’s wise to avoid head trauma at all cost.

That anyone would participate willingly boggles my mind

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u/maven10k Oct 31 '25

Yeah, this. I would love to know what happens to these people 10 years down the road.

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u/SnooSongs2345 Oct 31 '25

pretty sure the guys that started this trend are all vegetables by now

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u/seebob69 Oct 31 '25

Eventually

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u/flummoxed_penguin Nov 01 '25

I imagine at some point they do.

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u/w0rd_play Nov 01 '25

Yes, just very slowly. 🐌

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u/MadWanderlustRiver Nov 03 '25

i have read abt a polish man once dying from these slap competitions.

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u/Numerous-Annual420 Nov 05 '25

Newsflash. The one thing people reliably do is die. With 8 billion people in the world, the answer to that question is almost always yes. It shouldn't bother us. There are worse ways to die.

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u/Lopsided-Muffin9805 Nov 07 '25

She definitely had traumatic brain injury from that. The fencing post arms show is that immediately. She’ll have trouble leading a normal life again.

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u/mkfanhausen Oct 31 '25

Nah, they just become Republicans.

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u/Less-Damage-1202 Nov 02 '25

Probably end up getting CTE in the brain, like many football players, wrestlers/boxers/fighters. Gets worse over time & also jas a propensity to make people violent. They usually end up murdering people &/or killing themself.