The new FBI director Kash Patel reportedly has an innovative way of improving the FBI agents’ fitness.
Patel suggested to head of the FBI 55 field offices in a teleconference on Wednesday that he wants the FBI and UFC to form a relationship that would lead to programs to improve agents’ fitness, ABC News reported.
A UFC source told Pakinomist Digital that although UFC President Dana White and Patel know each other, UFC has not been made aware of any information about the two sides that train with each other. FBI rejected comment.
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Kash Patel and Dana White (IMagn)
White has long supported President Donald Trump, who hired Patel earlier this month. The president has long attended UFC events, including UFC 309 in Madison Square Garden just days after winning the 2024 election.
Trump is often stained to sit with white as he attends, and Trump and Elon Musk joined White in the garden.
Trump has not participated in a UFC event since he became president, but he attended the Super Bowl and Daytona 500 earlier this month.
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Dana White, presidential-elected Donald Trump, Kid Rock and Elon Musk for a photo under UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden 16 November 2024, in New York City. (Chris kids/zuffa llc)
The day before Trump was inaugurated in January, White participated in a victory in Washington, DC, and praised Trump.
“This guy is a winner. And I say it all the time. He is the hardest, most resilient person I have ever met and nothing would prevent him from fighting so hard for the country he loves,” White said. “He embodies what being an American is about. We are the most toughest, elastic people on earth, and nothing can stop us when we unite.”
White and Trump’s relationship go back to the early days of the UFC as Trump allowed the sport, which at that time had a bad reputation for being violent, to hold events at his casino in Atlantic City.
UFC CEO Dana White, Left, talking to President-elected Donald Trump next to UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden November 16, 2024. (Brad Penner/Imag images)
“Every time he was hammered at his worst, we would go into that arena and the place breaks out and gets crazy,” White told New Yorker in November. “It shows other people, ‘Oh, wait. Everyone doesn’t hate Donald Trump as the media tells us.'”
