July 4, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of america declaring independence from Nice Britain. That exact date additionally falls on a Saturday, and whereas the UFC sometimes takes off for American Independence Day weekend, might an opportunity to be concerned in Washington D.C.’s occasions alongside U.S. President Donald Trump trigger a one-time change?
It may very well be if Trump has his manner. And maybe that sort of occasion can be sufficient to attract a matchup, as soon as regarded as useless within the water, involving MMA’s largest star ever again to life.
Throughout an occasion on Thursday (July 3), Trump, at an occasion that marked a year-long celebration resulting in the U.S.’ semiquincentennial, teased the concept of getting a UFC occasion on the grounds of the White Home, the residency of the U.S. President, throughout subsequent 12 months’s Independence Day occasions.
“So each one in all our nationwide parks, battlefields and historic websites are going to have particular occasions in honor of America 250,” Trump stated. “And I even suppose we’re going to have a UFC combat. “Consider this on the grounds of the White Home. We now have a variety of land there.”
In accordance with the Related Press, a spokesperson from the White Home had no official particulars for such an occasion. White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, nevertheless, claims the U.S. President is “useless critical” about it.
Different logistics would additionally should be labored out. The UFC has sometimes used the final weekend in June or the primary or second weekend of July for it’s annual Worldwide Combat Week celebrations in Las Vegas.
Trump and UFC President Dana White have loved a long-standing friendship. The Trump Taj Mahal (now the Onerous Rock Lodge & On line casino) in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, hosted a pair of UFC occasions in 2001 as Zuffa, the then-recent new homeowners of UFC, had been getting their toes beneath them on the identical time the UFC was working alongside athletic commissions to get skilled MMA sanctioned.
Since his first election to the presidency, Trump has been a key determine at a number of UFC occasions, most not too long ago showing at UFC 302 in Newark, New Jersey, final month.
Might Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler Headline A Proposed UFC Occasion At The White Home?
Hours after Trump made the tease, Conor McGregor took to social media, saying his want to finish his lengthy layoff from the cage to compete in the principle occasion of the White Home’s UFC card. McGregor even posted an Instagram message to White, with White saying he “loves” the concept.
Completely satisfied 4th of July, USA. Excited with President Trump saying a UFC combat occasion on the White Home. I’d be honoured! Rely me in!
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) July 4, 2025
He loves it!
https://t.co/1McEbm2aAc pic.twitter.com/NvmAEE41yO
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) July 4, 2025
McGregor has not been seen within the Octagon since shedding his UFC 264 trilogy bout with Dustin Poirier resulting from damage.
Hours after his preliminary posts, McGregor made one other social media put up, exhibiting what seems to be an AI-rendered picture of him and Michael Chandler dealing with off in fits on the White Home, with President Trump smiling within the background.
Neither Chandler nor the UFC have made an official assertion on the White Home occasion, not to mention the potential McGregor vs. Chandler might headline such a card.
McGregor and Chandler had been initially scheduled to combat after the 2 coached season 31 of The Final Fighter in 2023. As time went on, no combat announcement occurred, nevertheless, till White introduced on the UFC 300 post-fight press convention that McGregor and Chandler would face off at UFC 303 — throughout 2024’s Worldwide Combat Week.
The month of UFC 303, nevertheless, a press convention scheduled for Dublin was all of a sudden canceled on the eleventh hour, and the combat ended up dissolving. The official declare is a toe damage to McGregor, however some have speculated a contract dispute between McGregor and the UFC.
McGregor, additionally a part-owner of BKFC, has two fights remaining on his present UFC deal, and a few have speculated the UFC need McGregor to signal one other deal and lock him up.
McGregor, after all, has additionally dealt along with his lengthy checklist of controversies outdoors the cage, together with a jury’s ruling final November implicating him within the alleged December 2018 sexual assault of a girl, Nikita Hand, in a Dublin resort. Moreover, a video surfaced weeks in the past of McGregor punching a person at a nightclub in Ibiza.
