When President Donald Trump introduced that the White Home grounds would host a UFC occasion on July 4th subsequent yr, the largest names within the sport started lobbying to be on the historic battle card.
The occasion is anticipated to happen on the South Garden and UFC CEO Dana White and workforce have been getting ready for the likelihood earlier than the President went public with the information.
“I am up at my home like yearly in Maine at Fourth of July and I had texted with him (Trump) three or 4 instances that day and he by no means advised me he was saying it. Then abruptly my cellphone begins blowing up,” White advised Spinnin Backfist MMA Present.
“We had already executed the entire logistics. My workforce went on the market and walked it. We’re placing collectively the renderings. They need to be executed within the subsequent ten days after which we will fly out to the White Home and current it to him. See what he likes and what he would not like and begin engaged on it.”
The occasion is deliberate for July 4th, 2026 on the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress adopting the Declaration of Independence establishing america of America. It’s going to be a one-off occasion very similar to the Mexican Independence Day battle card at The Sphere final September.
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“This can be a Sphere, one in all one, distinctive occasion that can by no means occur once more. And I’ll blow the doorways off this factor. I will make this one of many biggest occasions of all time,” mentioned White.
“It will likely be a full card, and it is going to be the most effective card we have ever executed to this point,” White continued. “As of proper now it is set to happen on the South Garden. He mentioned we might transfer it over to some other place for extra individuals. I do not care if 5 individuals present as much as this factor. I wish to be on the garden on the White Home.”
