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Brett OkamotoOct 7, 2025, 04:20 AM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\n The UFC’s much-anticipated live event at the White House will take place June 14, according to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Trump revealed the date, which coincides with his 80th birthday, during an address Sunday in Norfolk, Virginia.<\/p>\n “On June 14, next year, we’re going to have a big UFC fight at the White House, right at the White House grounds,” Trump said.<\/p>\n The UFC has not yet announced or confirmed a date for the event, which is expected to take place on the South Lawn and is being planned in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of American Independence.<\/p>\n UFC CEO Dana White has previously revealed that the event will include official weigh-ins at the Lincoln Memorial and that merely replacing the grass on the White House lawn afterward will cost $700,000. White has also said fighters will walk to the Octagon from the Oval Office.<\/p>\n White has also said the UFC will not even begin booking fights for the event until the first quarter of 2026. Former two-weight champion Conor McGregor<\/a> has expressed interest in facing American Michael Chandler<\/a> at the event. Jon Jones<\/a>, who retired from MMA earlier this year as the greatest fighter of all time, has also said he wishes to make a comeback specifically for the card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoOct 7, 2025, 04:20 AM CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-195859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}