Dana White blasted for booking „a fight card for his king Trump’s birthday“ by ex-UFC title challenger

Dana White maintains that UFC Freedom 250 is an apolitical occasion, however a former UFC light-weight stalwart has known as him out on some aspects of that characterization. The UFC figurehead was bearing on the looming Summer season occasion throughout an look on The Pat McAfee Present, with a clip offered by X account @ChampRDS, as White mentioned,

“We’re paying your complete invoice on all of this, every thing you’re saying. Not one greenback of tax payer cash will go into this. That is the UFC’s present to the 250th birthday of America. I feel one of many myths that I wish to crush is, I don’t care when you’re far proper, far left, proper down the center, wherever you sit politically, as a result of everyone sits someplace politically as of late, this isn’t about politics.”

“That is about the US. What this nation’s about, the way it was constructed, the place all of us got here from. For those who love America, you’re gonna love this occasion. It has nothing to do with politics. We simply occur to be on the White Home garden and the president of the US can be there.”

In a retweet of this X posting, Grey Maynard put White in his proverbial crosshairs and poked holes in what the brash fight sports activities promoter was positing on McAfee’s program, as Maynard acknowledged,

“Simply to be clear. June 14th is NOT America’s birthday. It’s Trump birthday, it additionally occurs to be flag day. Which doesn’t imply s**t about birthdays. It is a battle card for his king Trumps birthday. Not America So was the bulls**t waste of cash navy parade. It was on June 14.”

Dana White on Donald Trump’s position in a latest UFC White Home bout reserving

Dana White and Donald Trump are tied to this distinctive occasion on June 14th, with the latter taking part in a job in arranging a last-minute heavyweight matchup for that occasion.

At UFC 327, Josh Hokit secured an emphatic and entertaining win over Curtis Blaydes, with White mentioning that round an hour earlier than that battle, Trump requested why Derrick Lewis was not on the UFC White Home card. Filling out the remainder of the small print of this timeline through the post-event press convention in Miami, White acknowledged [via USA Today],

“I went and known as Derrick Lewis, mentioned the president needs to know why you’re not on the White Home card. And Derrick Lewis mentioned, “Politics. Politics saved me off the White Home card.” And I mentioned, ‘Do you need to battle on the cardboard?’ And he mentioned, ‘I completely need to battle on the cardboard. Inform the president thanks.’”

“Then the Hokit battle occurs and Joe Rogan, I had the headphones on. Joe Rogan goes, ‘Is there one other slot open on the White Home card for Hokit? And I’m going, ‘Holy (expletive).’ So I grabbed Mick and I mentioned, ‘Return there and speak to see if he’s in.’ And Hokit was entering into an ambulance and mentioned sure.”