Russia’s fucking crazy for this one.
There are plenty of weird competitions out there, but this one seems to have the upper hand on all the others. It is the most bizzare “sport” I have ever seen.
Russian slap contest videos from the bodybuilder Syberian Power Show last weekend have surfaced all around the web. They depict large, burley men nearly slapping each other to unconsciousness.
The aim of this competition is to see who is the strongest. Or, whose face is the strongest and can take repeated open-handed hammers flying only faster and faster than the previous swing.
This contest will leave competitors swollen in both the face and neck with popped blood vessels.
Competitors simply swing their hardest until one of the competitors gives in to the pain of being smacked repeatedly or until someone is completely knocked out by a single blow by a heavy hand.
Some videos show competitions being only a few rounds in and then deciding a victor by the crowd.
The Russian YouTube channel, “Russian Bears,” published a video of a slapping contest that has over 25 million views. The video titled, “SLAPPING CHAMPIONSHIP SARYCHEV POWER EXPO 2018” shows many contestants taking a beating in the three round competition until their faces were nearly completely swollen and almost bleeding.
“It’s funny to watch, but that shit looks like it hurts. Some of the competitor’s arms are huge so you know it’s gonna do some damage,” said criminal justice senior Danny Nguyen.
Many of the competitors in the expo are massive bodybuilders. Their sheer size made it a unwinnable match between their oppositions who bravely stepped up to the table.
In the video, the slaps reigned down for hours, until one man was pronounced the champion. Yuriy Kuzmin, the winner from Nizhny Novgorod, was declared the “King of the Slappers,” according to The Sun.
Kuzmin left the competition with more than 25,000 rubles, which is about $390, and took to social media to say that taking home the trophy was “really hard-hitting,” according to ViceLand.
According to CBS, other videos on YouTube have surfaced. Another video in particular stars a large shirtless man who reigns as king and is named Dumpling.
Yeah that’s right, imagine being smacked across the face by a man named Dumpling.
Dumpling dominated the competition, nearly knocking out one competitor wearing white with the first slap. His competitor staggered away from the table with medics on scene to catch his unconscious body.
The man in white could’ve possibly had whiplash from the size and velocity of Dumpling’s heavy slap.
In the videos, the crowd cheers with “oohs and ahhs” as each large swing lands and leaves the athletes with large welts and a urge to fire back with more heat. But believe me, Dumpling came to fucking slap.
Smacking his way through the competition, Dumpling pummelled his competition with that iron palm and walked away with 30,000 rubles, about $466 USD, which isn’t bad depending on how much you love your face.
Despite the barbarity behind the sport, there is something nice about the simplicity of it.
Although this sport may be far away from coming to the U.S., it is nice to have these highlights to watch.
