The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u201cSo from the first fight of the night until the main event, we will tell the story of America.<\/p>\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got the far right, you\u2019ve got the far left, and people thinking that this is going to be like some type of political thing. This is the 250th birthday of America. That\u2019s the story that we\u2019re going to tell. If you are American, this is relevant to you as an American. Everybody, no matter what your politics are, or any of that other bullshit.\u201d<\/p>\n
While further details about the programming weren\u2019t revealed, Craig Borsari, the UFC\u2019s head of production and chief content officer, echoed White\u2019s comments that the UFC White House card will play out like a celebration of America throughout the televised event.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very patriotic moment for us to integrate a little bit about the history of this country, a little bit about celebrating our heroes and celebrating our independence,\u201d Borsari said.<\/p>\n
As of now, the UFC White House card is scheduled to air only on Paramount+ with the event kicking off at 8 p.m. ET with seven total fights taking place. Ilia Topuria battles Justin Gaethje in a lightweight title unification bout in the main event.<\/p>\n
The rest of the broadcast plans, including the commentators working the event and other details are expected to be released in the coming days ahead of next Saturday\u2019s card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC embarks on its most ambitious event in history with the upcoming White House card on June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-715262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715262","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=715262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}