LAS VEGAS, NV — The intersection of combat sports entertainment, intellectual property rights, and constitutional law has entered a peculiar new arena following a formal legal challenge issued against Lingerie Fighting Championships, Inc. Lingerie Fighting Championships, operating publicly under the ticker symbol OTCID:BOTY, formally announced today that it has been served with a cease and desist letter by legal counsel representing Schiaffo LLC, the corporate entity doing business as Power Slap. Power Slap, widely recognized as the premier regulated slap-fighting organization, was founded by Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) executive and promoter Dana White.
The legal correspondence directed at Lingerie Fighting Championships objects specifically to the company’s "Power Spank" feature, an entertaining segment that has recently become a staple of the promotion. Citing trademark and brand protection concerns, the legal representatives for Power Slap have demanded that Lingerie Fighting Championships immediately cease and desist from using the name and any associated promotional materials that mimic the slap-fighting property.
Rather than complying with the demands outlined in the legal notice, leadership at Lingerie Fighting Championships has firmly signaled that it intends to mount a vigorous defense. The company maintains that Power Spank is an original Lingerie Fighting Championships property designed explicitly as a deliberate, obvious parody of Power Slap. Far from being an accidental overlap or an attempt at corporate deception, the feature was conceived as a lighthearted cultural commentary and now serves as the high-energy opening sequence for each of the promotion’s live events hosted across the United States.
The core of the defense strategy adopted by Lingerie Fighting Championships rests heavily on constitutional grounds. According to the promotion’s legal position, Power Spank qualifies as a clear and unambiguous form of parody, which enjoys robust protection as free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Legal scholars and civil libertarians have long recognized that parody functions by closely evoking a well-known target to ensure that audiences instantly recognize the underlying joke or cultural commentary. In the view of Lingerie Fighting Championships, no reasonable viewer or consumer attending or streaming an event could possibly confuse the comedic, tongue-in-cheek presentation of Power Spank with an official product, sponsorship, or endorsement originating from or affiliated with Power Slap. Furthermore, the promotion notes that the initial public announcement of the feature deliberately framed it in a playful, satirical manner, a tone that is further reinforced by the very quotations and objections highlighted within the opposing counsel’s cease and desist letter.
Shaun Donnelly, the Chief Executive Officer of Lingerie Fighting Championships, addressed the unfolding legal dispute with an uncompromising stance on artistic expression and corporate autonomy within the combat sports industry.
"Power Spank is LFC’s creation, and it is a parody," Donnelly stated. "Satire and parody have a long, protected place in American expression, and that applies to combat sports entertainment as much as anything else. We respect Power Slap and its founders, but we will not be bullied into abandoning protected speech. We will defend our right, and the right of every American, to free speech, and if that takes us to the Supreme Court, we are prepared to go."
The public response from the organization was initially underscored on social media platforms when official communication channels from the promotion addressed the receipt of the legal warning directly to followers and combat sports enthusiasts. Through its official social media presence, the organization reiterated its unwavering commitment to defending its creative output, pointing directly to the foundational legal protections that shield satirical works from intellectual property overreach.
The social media statement emphasized the company’s refusal to back down in the face of corporate legal pressure, asserting that the parody element is an integral, legally protected component of its live event broadcasts. The digital discourse quickly generated significant engagement across the combat sports community, drawing widespread attention from fans, legal observers, and industry insiders under various trending hashtags associated with the promotion and constitutional rights.
Despite the receipt of the formal legal demands from counsel representing Schiaffo LLC, leadership at Lingerie Fighting Championships confirmed that the promotion has no intention of altering its scheduled programming or modifying the opening segments of its events. Promotion officials indicated that Power Spank will continue to serve as the opening feature for Lingerie Fighting Championships events held within the United States while executive leadership and legal counsel continue to evaluate the full scope of their legal options and defense preparations.
As the situation develops, the conflict highlights the delicate boundary lines between commercial trademark enforcement and the expansive legal protections afforded to parody and satirical commentary under American jurisprudence. With Lingerie Fighting Championships publicly drawing a hard line in the sand and signaling a willingness to escalate the matter through the highest levels of the American judicial system if necessary, the unfolding dispute promises to be closely watched by intellectual property attorneys, media companies, and combat sports promoters alike.
