Former WWE wrestler and neuroscientist Chris Nowinski took aim at UFC president Dana White and TBS following the premiere episode of “Power Slap: Road to the Title,” a reality series about the UFC-backed slap fighting league, which premiered Wednesday on cable TV.
Nowinski, one of the country’s leading experts on concussions, shared a video Thursday on Twitter that deeply disturbed him. In it, combatant Chris Kennedy appeared to show immediate signs of a significant brain injury. Nowinski identified it as “the fencing posture,” which, according to Healthline, is “when a person experiences an impact that’s strong enough to cause traumatic brain injury (TBI), such as a concussion, their arms often go into an unnatural position.”
