The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will hold the first-ever professional mixed-martial arts fight at the White House during America’s 250th birthday celebration next year.
UFC CEO Dana White confirmed on Tuesday that the fight would take place on July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.”It is definitely going to happen,” he told the hosts of CBS mornings.
White said he already spoke with President Donald Trump, a long-time UFC fan and friend of the CEO, and will meet with Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump later this month to continue planning the event.
“When he called me and asked me to do it,he said,’I wont Ivanka in the middle of this,'” White said of the President,on CBS Mornings. “So Ivanka reached out to me, and her and I started talking about the possibilities, where it would be and, you no, I put together all the renderings.”
Trump told his supporters at an event in iowa last month that he wanted to have a UFC fight at the presidential residence.