{"id":157171,"date":"2025-09-20T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157171\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:16:07","slug":"dana-white-gives-first-look-at-renderings-for-ufc-white-house-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157171\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White gives first look at renderings for UFC White House event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC White House event appears to be coming together quite nicely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Friday night, UFC CEO Dana White appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6379819173112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News\u2019 Special Report With Bret Baier<\/a> and shared details about the event, including renderings of what the layout of the event on the White House\u2019s South Lawn may look like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out some of those photos below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI love one-of-one type events like we did at Sphere last year for [Noche UFC],\u201d White said. \u201cThis is a one-of-one incredible opportunity \u2014 not only for the fans [and] for the sport, but for the fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFor the fighters to be able to be a part of something like this, it\u2019s incredible. And for the fans, I mean, come to Washington, D.C., all week, and go to these historic places and be able to enjoy UFC, all of the history D.C. has. It\u2019s a one-of-one experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">White reiterated that he expects less than 5,000 people to be in attendance on the South Lawn with the octagon \u2014 which will feature a massive arch surrounding it \u2014 for the actual event, but says The Ellipse, a park just south of the White House fence, will be able to accommodate 85,o00 people for a watch party experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC White House is expected to take place in June 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC White House event appears to be coming together quite nicely. On Friday night, UFC CEO Dana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-157171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157171","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=157171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}