UFC CEO Dana White plans on invading the White Home in June.
Earlier this yr, U.S. President Donald Trump turned heads when he introduced that the Final Combating Championship would host an event on the lawn at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2026. Later, Trump prompt that July 4 could be the date. Nonetheless, that not seems to be the case, in line with White.
“It’s extra prone to be June than July,” White informed Zach Gelb. “The president needed to do it July 4th. The president didn’t notice how stacked his schedule is on July 4th. He’s gonna be in three totally different states that day, so it’s wanting extra like June.”
UFC Plotting full takeover of Washington D.C.
Particulars relating to the occasion are nonetheless scant, although in a separate look on The Herd, White revealed that the UFC’s history-making combat night time in Washington will probably be a full-on takeover of the nation’s capital.
“Safety goes to be a large subject, as a result of on the finish of the day, the Secret Service’s job is to guard the president, and I don’t know the way it’s going to work out so far as having folks there dwell on the garden of the White Home,” White stated. “It’ll be below 5,000 [people] although.”
White added that whereas the cardboard will seemingly happen on the South Garden, it gained’t accommodate tens of hundreds of followers, however he hopes to accommodate them close by.
“There’s a park that’s related to the White Home,” White added. “We may put 85,000 folks over there with screens, and we’re going to place a giant stage on the market, do live shows.
“We’re going to take over Washington, DC, that entire week.”
Now the one query left is, who will probably be preventing on the White Home in 9 months?
