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President Donald Trump announced this week that the UFC’s White House event will take place on June 14, his 80th birthday, and announcer Bruce Buffer is counting down the days.
Dana White has promised the biggest card in fight company history, as fighters will enter the ring on the South Lawn near the Oval Office.
“It’s an honor to appear at the White House and on the White House grounds. Keeping it the non-political event and the sporting event that it is, this will probably be the most watched pay-per-views in the history of pay-per-views…” Buffer told PK Press Club Digital in a recent interview. “It’s going to be incredible, the fight roster will probably be incredible, you really can’t say anything negative about it. It’s going to be incredible.”
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UFC announcer Bruce Buffer before the fight between Diego Lopes and Jean Silva during Noche UFC at Frost Bank Center. (Daniel Dunn/Imagn Images)
Since Trump first announced the idea, there has been much speculation about fights that could take place in the nation’s capital, with the most popular potential fights being Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall and Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler.
White once confided that almost everyone on the UFC roster wanted to get the call for the event, and Buffer echoed those sentiments.
“Every fighter on the roster wants to fight at this event,” Buffer said. “Conor McGregor always says, ‘I want to come back, I want to come back.’ And we haven’t seen it with everything he’s done over the last few years, but if it’s an event he’s going to return to, it’ll make it a big one. If Jon Jones comes to fight anyone, whether it’s Tom Aspinall, whoever, it would make things bigger. There are so many great fighters on the UFC roster. It’s going to be a great night, there’s no doubt about that.”
UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer during UFC 300 at T-Mobile Arena. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA TODAY Sports)
DANA WHITE PROMISES “THE BIGGEST FIGHT CARD EVER ASSEMBLED” FOR POTENTIAL UFC EVENT AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2026
White has long credited Trump with helping make the UFC what it is today. During a recent appearance on Logan Paul’s podcast, White said Trump supported the company when “venues didn’t want us” and “sponsors [and] television was afraid of us.”
“So the way he supported us in the beginning was great. And whatever happened to me during my career, he would be the first to reach out to us,” White said.
But White catapulted the UFC to must-see event status, securing a deal worth nearly $8 billion to bring premier events to Paramount Plus.
“When Dana took over, because we were almost dead before Dana took over as a sport, and then when ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ first happened with Forrest Griffin and Stefan Bonner with almost 15 million eyeballs watching that fight, and under Dana’s tutelage and direction, he’s a maverick,” Buffer said of the UFC president. “He has the Midas touch, he got him to where he is. Thank goodness he has the passion, the power and the continued energy to keep going. I’m proud to be on this UFC rocket piloted by Dana White and everyone at the top and to have my first class seat to keep going where it’s going. All the way to the White House grounds and beyond.
Dana White is seen on stage during the Canelo vs. Crawford press conference at T-Mobile Arena on September 11, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Chris Unger/TKO Worldwide LLC via Getty Images)
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