Dana White Claims His Power Slap League Has More Followers 'Than Every Professional Sports Team;' It Doesn't

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UFC president Dana White essentially lives his entire life with a camera and a microphone on him, and with that being the case, he's bound to say something wrong now and again. Well, one of those moments recently came on comedian Andrew Schulze's podcast, and boy was it a doozy.

With Schulz being a massive UFC fan himself, the two spoke plenty about the mixed martial arts world, but when White began promoting his Power Slap league is when things went off the rails.

White made the statement that Power Slap has "more followers than every single professional sport, every professional sports team, we have more followers." The fact that White was reading these highly inaccurate statistics from a piece of paper someone handed him makes the moment even more awkward.

Schulz was perplexed and asked White if Power Slap had more followers than Real Madrid and some of the other most-followed soccer teams around the world. White admitted that "I don't know about the soccer team" before saying "I would say yes."

Well, it turns out that White's claims were incorrect, incredibly incorrect.

Power Slap boasts 3.9 million followers on Instagram and another 4.5 million on TikTok, which are huge numbers for a very young sports league that involves people simply slapping one another. The league has more Instagram followers than the WNBA and G-League, but isn't exactly in the same ballpark as Real Madrid, which has 161 million followers on the app.

Power Slap has approximately 400,000 more Instagram followers than the New York Yankees but is about 900,000 followers short of the Dallas Cowboys. 

White, being the constant promoter he is, was clearly trying to market the Power Slap league on Schulz's very popular podcast but tossed around some numbers that were not based in fact. 

Thoughts and prayers to the person who handed White the sheet with the ‘statistics’ prior to his sitdown with Schulz.

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