UFC CEO Dana White plans on invading the White Home in June.
Earlier this 12 months, U.S. President Donald Trump turned heads when he introduced that the Final Preventing Championship would host an occasion on the garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2026. Later, Trump instructed that July 4 could be the date. Nonetheless, that now not seems to be the case, in accordance with White.
“It’s extra prone to be June than July,” White informed Zach Gelb. “The president wished to do it July 4th. The president didn’t understand 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 concerning the occasion are nonetheless scant, although in a separate look on The Herd, White revealed that the UFC’s history-making struggle night time in Washington can be a full-on takeover of the nation’s capital.
“Safety goes to be an enormous 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 individuals there stay on the garden of the White Home,” White mentioned. “It’ll be underneath 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 linked to the White Home,” White added. “We may put 85,000 individuals over there with screens, and we’re going to place an enormous 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 can be preventing on the White Home in 9 months?
