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(NewsNation) — An Ultimate Fighting Championship lucifer is coming to the White House adjacent summer, according to the league’s CEO, Dana White.
White is acceptable to conscionable with President Donald Trump and his girl Ivanka successful Washington, D.C., aboriginal this period to sermon the logistics of hosting a combat connected the White House grounds arsenic portion of Independence Day celebrations, according to the Associated Press.
In July, Trump suggested the lawsuit could beryllium a afloat “championship fight” and perchance big up to 25,000 spectators.
“It’s perfectly going to happen,” White told the Associated Press. “Think astir that, the 250th day of the United States of America, the UFC volition beryllium connected the White House southbound tract unrecorded connected CBS.”
White’s comments travel days aft it was announced that Paramount volition go the caller streaming location for UFC successful 2026, arsenic portion of a new seven-year deal. The woody followed an $8 cardinal merger betwixt Paramount and Skydance.
Trump and White person known each different for much than 20 years. White publicly backed Trump during his predetermination bids, and Trump has attended a fig of UFC events successful caller years, including a UFC title combat successful New Jersey successful June.
