‘Like 13-year-olds invented a sport’: face-slapping league gets go-ahead in Vegas

Nevada's athletic commission voted to oversee league of the controversial sport that has already seen one competitor die

Cue the Will Smith jokes: the much-maligned president of the UFC, Dana White, has the green light for a new venture - the Power Slap League.

Though much remains uncertain about the new league, slap fighting is pretty much what it sounds like: two people face each other and take turns smacking one another on the side of the head with an open hand.