UFC president Dana White has formally confirmed that the premier MMA group on this planet might be holding an occasion on the White Home in July 2026.
White posted a video on social media shops from Washington, D.C. declaring that the deal was completed, and the wheels can now be formally put in movement to make it occur. ESPN MMA additionally posted that video to Instagram.
@espnmma #DanaWhite was in #WashingtonDC in the present day and says the UFC’s occasion on the White Home subsequent yr will occur. (by way of @DanaWhite)
“The White Home struggle is on…we acquired it completed in the present day.”
White reported that he was on the White Home on August twenty eighth to hammer out the ultimate particulars of the right way to make the occasion attainable. The date of the occasion is believed to be July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the USA.
The UFC and White Home collaboration was a purpose for each White and President Donald Trump. As of this writing, Trump had not made a press release concerning the affirmation of the occasion going down. Trump expressed his confidence on this being labored out earlier within the yr.
“We’re going to have a UFC struggle, consider this, on the grounds of the White Home,” Trump stated.
Trump has ceaselessly attended UFC occasions all through the years. Consequently, he and White had developed an ongoing friendship, which helped lay the inspiration for this announcement.
If the marqui occasion occurs, it might be the largest sporting occasion to ever be held on the White Home. White beforehand stated that they’re hopeful that the occasion might maintain as many as 25,000 followers. No different particulars concerning the occasion, together with potential fights on the cardboard, has been labored out but as a result of occasion nonetheless being being practically a yr approach.
Hypothesis has already started about who’s going to be on the cardboard for this historic occasion, nonetheless. Amongst those who wish to be on the cardboard is former UFC heavyweight champion
Jon Jones, who had retired simply previous to the information of the potential occasion occurring began spreading . Shortly after that, Jones reentered the USADA testing pool for lively athletes.
