Topic summary
Slap fighting
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Slapping (strike).
As a combat sport
In February 2025 a slap fighting contest was to take place at the Glasgow University Union, Scotland, as part of a weight-lifting evening; it would have been the first slap fighting event in Scotland. It was cancelled after advice from one of the university's neuroscience researchers that it could lead to brain damage. Dr Willie Stewart urged the organisers not to "encourag[e] people to risk their brain health in the name of 'sport'".