UFC chief Dana White said the card he is planning for an event at the White House will be “the best card we’ve ever done to date.”
White appeared on the Spinnin Backfist podcast on Wednesday to talk about a UFC event he is planning for the lawn of the White House next year. President Donald Trump first announced the event during a July 4 rally in Des Moines, Iowa.
“We’re putting together the renderings. They should be done in the next 10 days, and then we’re going to fly out to the White House and present it to [Trump], see what he likes and what he doesn’t like and start working on it,” White said.
The UFC boss said the White House fight night will be a “one-of-one unique event that will never happen again.”
“I will blow the doors off this thing. I’m going to make this one of the greatest events of all time,” White said.
Of the fights he has planned for the event, White said, “it’ll be a full card, and it will be the best card we’ve ever done to date.”
UFC at the White House@DanaWhite: “This is a one of one, unique event, that will never happen again, and I will blow the doors off this thing. I’ll make this one of the greatest events of all time… It will be the best card we’ve ever done to date.”
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— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) July 16, 2025
Trump first broke the news of the White House UFC event in front of a cheering crowd in Iowa. The president said he wants the event to take place on July 4 during the United States’ 250th birthday.
“We’re going to have a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House,” Trump said. “We have a lot of land there.”
“Every one of our national parks, battlefields and historic sites are going to have special events in honor of America 250. And I even think we’re going to have a UFC fight,” Trump said.
The president added that he expects up to 25,000 people to attend the spectacle.
Trump has long been a fan of UFC and friend to White, its CEO. Trump became the first sitting president to attend a UFC fight when he spectated UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden in 2019.
In succeeding events he has attended, Trump has been met with loud cheers from fans and warm greetings from athletes. In 2023, former UFC star Jorge Masvidal called Trump the “greatest president in the history of the world” before announcing his retirement from the sport.
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