Dana White has promised a once-in-a-lifetime expertise for a number of fighters collaborating within the still-developed occasion of promotions on the White Home.
Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump introduced plans to carry a UFC occasion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, giving him a bonus to have a good time his 250th birthday.
Initially, the feedback seemed like one other odd declare from the preventing Potus, however in response to White, the plan was already in movement, even earlier than Trump made the improvisational declaration.
“No, (Trump wasn’t saying he was going to announce it),” White stated throughout his look on the Full Ship Podcast. “My staff was already strolling by way of the White Home. We’re doing all of the logistics. We’re placing collectively the structure now and we’ll be pitching it to him within the subsequent week or two weeks.
Since the opportunity of preventing on the White Home garden turned a really practical risk, fighters have tripped themselves up attempting to get card areas.
Dana White says that subsequent yr just a few folks competing within the nation’s capital say
As White says, alternatives are very restricted, however for these fortunate sufficient to make a lower, it is not what they’ve performed up to now of their respective careers.
“To start with, I do not know the way many individuals shall be in, not to mention that Secret Service will not let lots of people attend,” White continued. “Everybody wants a background test,” White stated. “Everybody there dwell exhibits could have a singular, once-in-a-lifetime expertise.
“Whereas we’re filming, one facet of the background is the White Home and the opposite is a Washington monument. I do not assume we’ll promote tickets. It is all a comp ticket.”
Though no official timeline is supplied, White factors out that it’s nonetheless a yr away from the proposed occasion, suggesting that it might all fall or fall across the weekend of July 4th, 2026.
“Actually, everybody desires to struggle with this card. Everybody,” White stated. “It is right here. We’re nonetheless a yr away. The UFC panorama will change over the following yr, so we’ll see the place we’re.
