Whereas talking at an occasion on the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday, President Donald Trump introduced that the White Home will host a UFC occasion in 2026 function a championship struggle.
“Each one in all our nationwide parks, battlefields and historic websites are going to have particular occasions in honor of America 250, and I even suppose we will have a UFC struggle,” Trump mentioned to these in attendance.
The occasion will happen on the White Home grounds with the capability to accommodate as much as 25,000 spectators.
“We’ll have a UFC struggle, consider this, on the grounds of the White Home. We have now a number of land there. We’ll construct a bit of, we’re not, Dana’s [White] going to do it. Dana’s nice. One among a form,” continued Trump.
“We’ll have a UFC struggle, championship struggle, full struggle, like 20-25,000 folks. And we will try this as a part of 250 additionally. We’re going to have some unbelievable occasions, some skilled occasions, some novice occasions. However the UFC struggle goes to be an enormous deal, too.”
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Trump’s relationship with the struggle promotion and UFC CEO Dana White dates again a long time. UFC 30: Battle on the Boardwalk came about at Trump’s Taj Mahal on line casino in Atlantic Metropolis in February 2001. The venue additionally hosted UFC 31: Locked and Loaded three months later.
Trump has attended a number of UFC occasions together with UFC 302, UFC 309, and UFC 314 in Miami in April. White spoke on the Trump marketing campaign path at rallies main as much as final November’s election and launched Trump on the stage on the ultimate evening of the 2024 Republican Nationwide Conference.
It is unclear whether or not the deliberate occasion will happen indoor or outside or if will probably be a Combat Night time occasion or a pay-per-view.
