Slamball, an amazing sport

Slamball, an amazing sport
by Gabriel de Assis Bially

Did you ever wanted a sport that puts your favorite sports as football and basketball together in only one sport, if the answer is yes then i'm about to present you this sport. Slamball is a contact sport that has been increasing in popularity through the last years.

The slamball is a multi-sport that implies: Football and Basketball. The rules of slamball are simple you need to get the ball to the basket, the shot gives you 2 points and a dunk gives you 3 points. The position gunner, handler and stopper, the stopper is the guy that stays under the basket and tries to stuff the ball from the adversary, the handler is the one that will take the ball to the adversary territory, he is the first one to have the ball in hand, the gunner is the one that will finish the play and will score almost all the points.

Mason Gordon created Slamball in 2002 with the help of Mike Tollin, a movie producer. Mason Gordon wanted to create a combination of sport that approximated a real-life videogame. He took exemple of UFC, UFC is a combat sport that assemble a lot of martial art sport. The first 5 players were James Willis, Sean Jackson, David Redmond, Michael Goldman and Jeff Sheridan they were all trained by the creator of the game Mason Gordon. A cool fact in the movie Back to the future II, Douglas J. Needles said in the scene that took place in 2015 that his favorite sport is Slamball.

Slamball isn’t a sport that has a lots of teams it only has 6 teams; Bouncers, Hombres, Maulers, Mob, Rumble and Slashers. The most popular team is definitely the Slashers due to the multiple championship that they won through the years.

Right now Slamball has become an international sport and it has took a lot of popularity this last years. Some television channel used to show every game of slamball but it has stop due to the violence of the sport, the channels were; ESPN, CBS, Versus and Cartoon Network, some of them still show some games.