White House organizes UFC Fight for America 250 Celebration
In 2026, as part of festivities around the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence, the White House will be the home of a top-ranging UFC mixed martial arts fight, said President Donald Trump.
“We are going to have a UFC fight, think of this, on the site of the White House. We have a lot of land there,” Trump said Thursday evening During a rally in the Moines, Iowa, with a red “vs” baseball hat. He suggested that the UFC will build an octagon for the fight somewhere on the White House home.
The UFC event will be a “championship fight, full fight, such as 20, 25,000 people,” Trump continued. “And we are going to do that as part of 250,” referring to America250, set up the organization to commemorate the Semiquincialnial of the country.
A UFC spokesperson has confirmed Variety That the company intends to organize an event in the White House and to say that there will be additional details.
The site for America250 says that the festive events will “promote shared experiences that pop up, show the rich carpet of our American stories, inspire service in our communities, honor the lasting power and celebrate the resilience of the United States of America.”
UFC CEO Dana White is a well-known supporter and friend of Trump, who has attended several UFC events in recent months. “I’ve had this incredible relationship with him for many years,” White said Variety Last year. ‘You know, when we bought for the first time [UFC]The stigma was so bad with the UFC that locations didn’t even want us. He put his hand out, closed a deal, appeared before the first fight, remained until the last fight. ”
White could be seen in the first Tiktok video of Trump in 2024, who showed the president on 1 June 2024 that the President fans of UFC 302 in Newark, NJ greeted. “The president is now on Tiktok,” says White in the video. “It’s my honor,” says Trump.
White spoke at the Republican National Convention of 2020 (after also doing this in 2016), where he partially said that “it is crucial to rather chose President Trump”, which he praised as “one of the most loyal people I have ever met” and claimed that “before the Pandemie, President in our nation” for all trumps “had”
In 2023, Endeavor UFC and WWE merged under the listed TKO Group Holdings. Earlier this year, Endeavour was taken private earlier this year in a $ 25 billion deal with private equity company Silver Lake; Endeavor Group is the parent of Gigantische WME group of Talentbureau. Endeavor Group Holdings currently has 61.7% of the outstanding shares of TKO.
Displayed above: President Donald Trump on UFC 314 in Kaseya Center on 12 April 2025 in Miami, Florida.
