Brandon Moreno is not going to be taking part within the a lot talked about UFC White Home card.
Final yr, it was introduced that the UFC would promote a blockbuster card on the White Home garden as a part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The playing cards will likely be issued on June 14, President Donald Trump’s birthday, not on Independence Day. It options quite a few title fights and is anticipated to be the most costly to supply than any occasion in UFC historical past.
From the second the UFC White Home occasion was introduced, fighters have been clamoring for a spot on the invoice. That features former two-division champions Jon Jones and Conor McGregor, in addition to stars Sean O’Malley, Colby Covington, Michael Chandler and Sean Strickland. Non-American fighters resembling Islam Makhachev and Ilya Topria have additionally expressed curiosity in competing on the cardboard.
You will not hear a beggar from Moreno, Mexico.
Talking to media forward of his return to motion this weekend at UFC Mexico, Moreno was requested about preventing on the White Home card.
He expressed little interest in doing so.
Brandon Moreno flatly refuses to hitch UFC White Home
Brandon Moreno shuts down reporter who requested about UFC White Home occasion 👀
“I need you to inform me why you need to battle there? For what? No, I am not .” pic.twitter.com/jYTVAxAhOT
— Completely happy Punch (@HappyPunch) February 26, 2026
“I need you to inform me why you need to battle there?” Moreno stated. “For what? No, I am not .”
Moreno didn’t say particularly why he was not excited about preventing within the White Home. Nonetheless, followers had been fast to take a position that it may need one thing to do with President Trump’s remedy of Latin American immigrants, notably the deployment of ICE to giant city facilities.
Moreno will headline this Saturday’s UFC Mexico card (if it occurs). He’ll face Loaner Kavanagh, who was introduced in on brief discover to exchange As Almabaev.
