When President Donald Trump announced that the White House grounds would host a UFC event on July 4th next year, the biggest names in the sport began lobbying to be on the historic fight card.
The event is expected to take place on the South Lawn and UFC CEO Dana White and team were preparing for the possibility before the President went public with the news.
“I’m up at my house like every year in Maine at Fourth of July and I had texted with him (Trump) three or four times that day and he never told me he was announcing it. Then all of a sudden my phone starts blowing up,” White told Spinnin Backfist MMA Show.
“We had already done all of the logistics. My team went out there and walked it. We’re putting together the renderings. They should be done in the next ten days and then we’re going to fly out to the White House and present it to him. See what he likes and what he doesn’t like and start working on it.”
The event is planned for July 4th, 2026 on the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress adopting the Declaration of Independence establishing the United States of America. It’ll be a one-off event much like the Mexican Independence Day fight card at The Sphere last September.
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“This is a Sphere, one of one, unique event that will never happen again. And I will blow the doors off this thing. I’m going to make this one of the greatest events of all time,” said White.
“It will be a full card, and it will be the best card we’ve ever done to date,” White continued. “As of right now it’s set to take place on the South Lawn. He said we could move it over to somewhere else for more people. I don’t care if five people show up to this thing. I want to be on the lawn at the White House.”
