An Final Preventing Championship (UFC) occasion on the White Home grounds might be happening on July 4, 2026, in keeping with UFC CEO and president Dana White.
“It’s positively going to occur,” White instructed CBS Mornings on Aug. 12, saying Independence Day is the proposed date as of now.
White stated that he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday concerning the occasion, deliberate for America’s 250th birthday. He additionally stated that he plans to fulfill with Trump and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, on the finish of August to finalize particulars and evaluate venue renderings.
“When he (Trump) known as me and requested me to do it, he stated, ‘I need Ivanka in the course of this,’” White stated. “So Ivanka reached out to me, and her and I began speaking concerning the prospects, the place it could be and, you recognize, I put collectively all of the renderings.”
White additionally instructed The Related Press that the occasion is “completely going to occur” on the presidential dwelling in Washington, D.C., subsequent summer season
“Take into consideration that, the 250th birthday of america of America, the UFC might be on the White Home south garden dwell on CBS,” he stated.
The UFC boss famous it was nonetheless too early to debate a possible predominant occasion for the White Home struggle night time.
“It is a one-of-one occasion,” White added.
Trump beforehand stated final month he needed to stage a UFC match on the White Home grounds with upwards of 20,000 spectators to have a good time 250 years of American independence.
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“Each one in all our nationwide park battlefields and historic websites are going to have particular occasions in honour of America 250,” Trump stated. “And I even suppose we’re going to have a UFC struggle. We’re going to have a UFC struggle on the grounds of the White Home.”
“Championship struggle — full struggle,” he added.
Former UFC champion Conor McGregor, who visited the White Home on St. Patrick’s Day, beforehand volunteered to participate within the match.
“Excited with President Trump saying a UFC struggle occasion on the White Home,” he wrote on July 4. “I might be honoured! Rely me in!”
The plans for the first-ever UFC struggle on the White Home had been shared hours after Paramount and UFC introduced a billion-dollar rights deal, making the streaming service the brand new dwelling to UFC occasions throughout the U.S. subsequent yr, by a seven-year settlement.
Underneath the cope with UFC, Paramount will solely distribute UFC’s full lineup of its 13 marquee numbered occasions and 30 Struggle Nights on its streaming platform Paramount+ — with choose numbered occasions additionally set to simulcast on CBS — beginning in 2026.
It’s a shift away from the UFC’s present pay-per-view mannequin, which Paramount and TKO Group say will permit the combined martial arts programming to achieve extra shoppers nationwide.
White stated in a publish on the social media platform X that the cope with Paramount will make it extra reasonably priced and accessible for U.S. shoppers to observe UFC occasions.
“This deal places UFC amongst the largest sports activities on the planet,” he wrote. “The publicity supplied by the Paramount and CBS networks beneath this new construction is a large win for our athletes and anybody who watches and loves this sport.”
— With information from The Related Press
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