Dana White to PFL: “Keep UFC out of your mouth, you can’t even handle a power slap”

Donn Davis – founder of the Professional Fighters League (PFL) – was proud to boast of the “massive” metric numbers that topped last weekend’s “Battle of the Giants” pay-per-view (PPV) event – at which focused on Francis Ngannou’s explosive debut – scored. produced for promotion.

Ahead of the event, Davis announced that the landmark event would be larger than the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)’s UFC 306 event at The Sphere, which would have cost the promotion over $16 million to stage. While “Battle of the Giants” did well, UFC CEO Dana White has a message for Davis, going all in on Will Smith during a recent power slap press conference.

“First and foremost, the PFL should keep the UFC out of their mouths. They can’t even handle power slap. Power slap destroys PFL. And it’s funny that you’re asking me that question because I happen to have some papers here,” he said, before counting down some of his own numbers that he happened to have nearby in connection with Power Slap 9, which was released today happened in Abu Dhabi.

“Powerslap has 19.2 million followers, PFL has 10 million. Video views: PFL Fight Week reached 326 million, Power Slap 8 reached 690 million. PFL fight week Instagram views: 76 million. For Power Slap 9 they had 68 million on Power Slap in the week alone and we didn’t even have a fight. The PFL reel with Francis and Ronaldo was viewed 14 million times. Power Slap’s Instagram reel with competitor Isaih has 22 million views. And that was a re-post of an old argument. “The new edition of an old battle beat Francis and Ronaldo,” he announced.

“I can keep going here for another damn month. And if you want to know what he said about the UFC, I have a detailed list here. But let me start with this: UFC Vegas 84 beat them at the Apex. So listen, I understand and I love the things he said…he sounds like Kamala (Harris). He talks a lot but says nothing and I would hate to be one of this guy’s investors,” he added.

“But this guy shouldn’t even mention the UFC. He’s not even on Power Slap yet…then today he talked about how there are “all sorts of combination packages and stuff like that about how it works.” In terms of sales, it doesn’t beat Power Slap. When it comes to ticket sales, he doesn’t beat Power Slap. He doesn’t beat Power Slap in sponsorship. He doesn’t beat Power Slap in anything, let alone the UFC.”

Will Smith, Dana White, slapping, it all goes hand in hand…literally and figuratively.

It’s not often that White goes for PFL, but the outspoken CEO of the largest mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion in the world had time today and came out with full force and numbers to back it up.

Your move, PFL.