{"id":150285,"date":"2025-09-17T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150285\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:49:09","slug":"conor-mcgregor-and-dana-white-talking-non-stop-on-ufc-white-house-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150285\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor and Dana White \u2018talking non-stop\u2019 on UFC White House fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor McGregor may not be serious about running for president of Ireland<\/a> any more, but he\u2019s very serious about fighting at the big UFC White House card as part of the big America 250 celebrations.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to Dana White, who discussed \u201cThe Notorious\u201d and his long-awaited return to competition on a new episode of Impaulsive with Logan Paul.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo \u2026 Conor says he\u2019s coming back,\u201d he said when asked about McGregor. \u201cHe\u2019s in the pool. He\u2019s doing his thing. All kinds of footage of him training. He wants to fight on this White House card. We\u2019ll see. I mean, we won\u2019t start building that card until February.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe and I have been talking nonstop,\u201d White added later. \u201cAnd he\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019m dead serious. I want this. I\u2019m training, I\u2019m back in the pool, I\u2019m doing all the s–t.\u2019 So we\u2019ll see. We\u2019ve still got a long way to go. We still got a long way to go til February when we start making this card. We\u2019ll see how it plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGregor has spent the past several months campaigning for the Irish presidency, but pulled out of the race<\/a> on Sunday (Sept. 14, 2025) rather than return to Ireland to face local councils to argue for their nomination. McGregor needed nominations from 20 of 220 parliamentarians or 4 of 31 councils — not a stiff number even with one of the ruling parties whipping their members to deny independent candidates.<\/a><\/p>\n

Official polls of Irish citizens had McGregor polling at 7%, not a bad number for an independent. White, ever the promoter, applied some Power Slap math<\/a> to those numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll polling says he\u2019s going to win by a landslide,\u201d White said. \u201cAll polling says he\u2019s going to crush the election. So they\u2019re doing everything they can to keep him off the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House card is set to go down at the end of June<\/a> due to President Donald Trump\u2019s busy schedule Those who are familiar with UFC\u2019s schedule know that the promotion usually has International Fight Week in Las Vegas that week. But this year? White says it goes down in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I want to do is build the best card we\u2019ve ever built, just make people go crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cLive and free on CBS from the White House. For the people! Even people in other countries are gonna want to see it. And the way we\u2019re doing this thing? When we shoot this fight, this whole backdrop will be the White House. And when the cameras move over and it\u2019s shot this way, it\u2019s all Washington Monument on this side.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a park that\u2019s connected to the White House that will have 85,000 people there with big screens, concerts, UFC X there. We\u2019re going to take over D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor may not be serious about running for president of Ireland any more, but he\u2019s very serious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-150285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}