Russia Already Invented a Better Power Slap Sport and It Involves Slapping Well-Rounded Butts Instead of Faces

Dana White spent years turning face-slapping into a television product, complete with gloves, weigh-ins, and guys who look like they just lost a custody hearing. Meanwhile, Russia quietly ran the same concept through a blender, swapped the target, and produced something far more watchable.

In 2019, at the Yashankin Cup fitness event, organizers launched what outlets immediately labeled the Booty Slapping Championships. Female fitness models and influencers took turns slapping each other on the ass with enough force to knock the other woman off balance. The first one to make her opponent step forward or stumble wins. No gloves. No headgear. Just hands, glutes, and a crowd that knew exactly what it paid to see.

The male version that came first was brutal Siberian face slapping. Big guys standing still and trying to turn each other’s heads into wet laundry. That footage went viral, Joe Rogan talked about it, and a few years later UFC launched Power Slap. Russia looked at the same idea and asked the only question that matters: what if we made it hotter and slightly less likely to produce a traumatic brain injury?

The rules were simple because they didn’t need to be complicated. Competitors in bikinis or tiny training shorts squared up. One slaps. The other absorbs it. Repeat. The winner is the woman whose squat program actually paid off. Anastasia Zolotaya, a Russian Instagram fitness model, was one of the names that kept coming up as a standout. The event sat inside a larger bodybuilding and power show, which means the same weekend featured bench press records and women trying to relocate each other’s tailbones.

Power Slap wants you to respect the sport. This version never pretended. It was a fitness contest that accidentally became performance art. The slaps were loud. The reactions were immediate. The production values were whatever a Siberian expo hall could provide. And it still looked more entertaining than half the card White has put on television.

Face slapping is a novelty that wears off after the first broken orbital. Ass slapping at least gives you something to look at while you wait for the knockout. One version ends with a man sitting on a stool wondering what year it is. The other ends with a woman adjusting her stance and the crowd losing its mind.

That’s not even close. Russia already won this one. They just didn’t bother putting it on pay-per-view.