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UFC CEO Dana White has built even more intrigue around a potential battle card in the White House next year.
White predicted he wants “the biggest match card ever gathered” for the event in June 2026 that could take place at the White House.
“If you are looking at what we look down on the barrel now, we’re about to go on a new network at Paramount. We have to deliver a massive, incredible card in January,” White said after UFC 320 on Saturday night. Yahoo Sports. “So in February we start looking at the White House card, which I will now tell you will be the biggest match card ever gathered in the story of at least, determined this company.”
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President Donald Trump is preparing to see Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) with UFC CEO Dana White and Elon Musk in Kaseya Center on April 12, 2025 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
While White has addressed many questions about the first-of-Sin-stroke destination, he said the idea is still in the preliminary stages.
“We are still talking about production and how everything works in the White House,” he said. “We haven’t started negotiating any battles about the White House yet.”
The UFC moves exclusively to Paramount in January after an agreement of $ 7.7 billion to leave ESPN where it has sent for many years.
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White added that superstar fighters have lobbyed to be part of the White House card, although no negotiations have begun.
Among them is Conor McGregor, but white temperate expectations of his long -awaited return to Octagon.
“I made it clear that Conor will fight on that card and you can clearly see that Conor is very fired up to fight on this card,” White said. “But nothing is done yet and no matches are being negotiated with the White House.”
UFC CEO Dana White (left) talking to presidential-elected Donald Trump next to the UFC 309 in Madison Square Garden. (Brad Penner/Imag images)
The UFC event is expected to be part of the United States 250 -year birthday. White previously said it was President Donald Trump’s idea to host the fight in his residence in Washington, DC
“I didn’t ask – he brought it up to me,” White said at Logan Paul’s “impaulsive” podcast last month.
“When you walk around the White House with him, he is so proud of the White House and he loves it so much and he loves America. He thinks the White House belongs to the people of America,” White continued. “He wants to do more things like kids who come in Easter egg hunting, things around Christmas and special events. … That’s his thing. He will bring more Americans to the White House. His thing was, ‘This is your house.’ I was lucky he said, ‘We should fight here.’ “
White also confirmed a rumor that fighters would go out of the oval office before entering Octagon.
“This is a one-in-one, an opportunity for once in life that will never happen again,” White added.
Dana White will be seen on stage under the Canelo V Crawford press conference in the T-Mobile Arena on September 11, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Chris Unger/TKO Worldwide LLC via Getty Images)
White and Trump have been friends for years when Trump participated in several UFC matches. White also spoke on the Republican national convention when Trump first ran for president nearly a decade ago.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that weigh-ins will take place at Lincoln Memorial. The event was originally scheduled for July 4, but logistical questions have pushed it into June, according to the report.
