It doesn't really seem necessary to say this but slap fighting is not one of those sports that has a lot of healthful side effects. It's growing quite a following anyway, with millions watching ...

The image that I can’t forget—the one that truly pulls me into the savage, surreal, and ridiculously compelling world of professional slap fighting—is the open hand of heavyweight champion Damien “the ...

The competitors stand rigidly upright with their hands behind their backs, waiting to absorb a brutal slap to the face. When the open-handed blow is delivered, there’s a sharp report and the reaction ...

Waylon "Ice Cold" Frost took two hard slaps to the left side of his face and neck. Both knocked him down. The second one knocked him out. But Frost, a 26-year-old restoration technician and insurance ...

In the early 2000s, Esquire published a column called “The Indefensible Position.” This was a sort of proto-hot-take clearinghouse, intended sarcastically, presaging a time when every idea—no matter ...

While touring Japan a decade ago, Raymond Hernandez saw something on TV he thought was pretty funny. Five guys stood in a circle. One turned to his right and slapped the guy next to him in the face, ...