{"id":197519,"date":"2025-10-08T12:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197519\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:43:27","slug":"ufc-is-the-worlds-no-1-mma-group-dana-white-56-is-a-close-aide-to-donald-trump-the-45th-and-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197519\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC is the world’s No. 1 MMA group. Dana White, 56, is a close aide to Donald Trump, the 45th and 47.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Lookin’ for a Fight Korean event 2024 is an emergency martial law, and Dana White, a non-face-to-face on-site filming competition, will visit Korea herself. Expectations are high on cultural contents such as UFC recruiter and Korean experience at the ZFN site where President Trump’s closest aide visited Korea. UFC Fight Pass, ZFN continues to expand live broadcasts…ZFN Origin Live! In 2026, ZFN on UFC FP 6 times <\/p>\n

UFC is the world’s No. 1 MMA group. Dana White, 56, is a close aide to Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th U.S. President. He was invited to a party on the day of the election and watched the vote counting broadcast together.<\/p>\n

Korean Zombie Jung Chan-sung (38) met UFC President Dana White while visiting Enterprise, Nevada, where the sixth week of the Contender Series season is underway. “We have agreed to hold six Z-Fight Night events in 2026, including Lookin’ for a Fight,” it said.<\/p>\n

\"UFC \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 UFC President Dana White is taking a commemorative photo with “Korean Zombie” Jung Chan-sung, who came ahead of the audition for the 96th week of the Nevada Contender Series season in September 2025. Jung Chan-sung gave a photo shoot made by his wife during his UFC career. Image@koreanzombiemma \""Korean \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 “Korean Zombie” Jung Chan-sung visited the site of the sixth week of the audition Contender Series, which UFC President Dana White will hold directly in Enterprise, Nevada, in September 2025, as the second of Hwang In-soo, the 8th Road FC middleweight champion. Photo = TKO <\/p>\n

UFC President Dana White launched the Contender Series (DWCS) in 2017 and is looking for prospects herself. Jung Chan-sung experienced the 2025 Contender Series as the second of Hwang In-soo (31), the 8th Road FC middleweight champion (84kg).<\/p>\n

Lookin’ for a Fight is a reality show looking for talent to sign with the UFC. Since 2015, Dana White has starred in a series looking for a potential MMA superstar.<\/p>\n

Jung Chan-sung retired from active duty in August 2023 after playing as the best mixed martial arts fighter of all time for two UFC featherweight (66kg) title matches. Since April 2013, he has been the leader of the “Korean Zombie MMA” gym and since June 2024, he has also been the head of the mixed martial arts group ZFN.<\/p>\n

\"Z-Fight \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 Z-Fight Night CEO Chung Chan-sung smiles with a trophy to give to the winning player of the 7A Hall ZFN 2 at KINTEX Exhibition Hall 2 in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, in December 2024. Photo = MCPECC \"Welcome \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 Welcome image of UFC President Dana White produced by “Korean Zombie” Jung Chan-sung’s mixed martial arts giant ZFN. Photo = MCPECC <\/p>\n

UFC President Dana White was scheduled to attend Z-Fight Night 2, which will be held at Hall 7A of KINTEX Exhibition Hall 2 in Gyeonggi Province on December 14, 2024. Attention was focused on the fact that the closest person to the world’s most powerful person came to South Korea as a civilian who did not hold public office in less than 40 days after President Trump’s election.<\/p>\n

However, from 11 p.m. on December 3, 2024 to 4:30 a.m. on December 4, 2024, emergency martial law was imposed across Korea. The U.S. Embassy in Korea issued a red alert at 10 a.m. on the 4th and suspended all daily consular duties such as visas.<\/p>\n

Consul service refers to all duties related to the protection of citizens, and visa refers to proof of entry and exit. The U.S. Embassy in Korea warned that safety cannot be guaranteed in the Republic of Korea. Eventually, the withdrawal of UFC President Dana White’s visit to Korea was official at 1 p.m. on December 5, 2024.<\/p>\n

\"UFC \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 UFC President Dana White announces cancellation of her visit to Korea \"UFC \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 UFC President and CEO Dana White congratulates Matheus Camilu on a video call after watching ZFN 2 on Lookin’ for a Fight in December 2024. The left side of the screen is “Korean Zombie” CEO Jung Chan-sung, and the right side is Yu Ju-sang, who also went straight to UFC. Photo = TKO <\/p>\n

Fortunately, OTT service UFC Fight Pass broadcasted ZFN 2 live to more than 200 countries as scheduled. President Dana White participated in the remote production of Lookin’ for a Fight and chose two players (Yoo Joo-sang, Matheus Camilu) non-face-to-face while watching the live broadcast.<\/p>\n

UFC is a global organization with 596 athletes from 77 countries. Naturally, Lookin’ for a Fight is also one of the important contents to experience the culture of the countries and cities you visit.<\/p>\n

Korea is a world-class market not only in economic size but also in terms of culture, including the 13th place in gross domestic product and the 29th place in population. There are good reasons why UFC leadership under Dana White want to film Lookin’ for a Fight in Korea.<\/p>\n

\"UFC \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 UFC President Dana White said to Jung Chan-sung, who visited Las Vegas in Nevada ahead of UFC 310 in December 2024, that he would again push for a visit to Korea, which was canceled in the aftermath of the emergency martial law to film the scene of Lookin’ for a Fight. Photo = YouTube channel Korean Zombie video screen \"Korean \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 Korean Zombie CEO Jung Chan-sung will host ZFN 3 at Hwajeong Gymnasium in Korea University on Nov. 15, 2025. It will be broadcast live to more than 200 countries around the world through the global OTT service UFC Fight Pass. Tickets will be sold from October 24. Photo = MCPECC <\/p>\n

CEO Chung Chan-sung will conclude his first two-year contract with UFC Fight Pass with \u25b2 Korea University Hwajeong Gymnasium ZFN 1 \u25b2 December 2024, followed by \u25b2 Hwajeong Gymnasium ZFN 3 on November 15, 2025.<\/p>\n

From 2026, the newly signed contract terms will be applied. Not only the ZFN Numbud series, but also the lower-grade tournament Origin can be viewed as a UFC fight pass. ZFN Origin 1 and 2 were held at Sportive in Seocho-gu, Seoul in April and June 2025.<\/p>\n

UFC Fight Pass broadcasting rights are also much higher than 2024-2025. CEO Chung Chan-sung explained, “I had to promise to make ZFN cool instead of receiving this amount of money.”<\/p>\n

\"Chairman \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 Chairman Dana White told Jung Chan-sung, who visited Las Vegas in Nevada in December 2024 ahead of UFC310 after canceling his trip to Korea, saying, “He is one of my favorite fighters.” Even though it is not an employer-player relationship, affection seems to remain. Photo = YouTube channel Korean Zombie video screen <\/p>\n

ZFN produced two \u25b2UFCs \u25b2 one Contender Series \u25b2 three \u25b2 Road to UFC with only four box office hits in 344 days. Hosting six times, including Lookin’ for a Fight in 2026, will further enhance its international status.<\/p>\n

[Kang Daeho, MK Sports Reporter]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lookin’ for a Fight Korean event 2024 is an emergency martial law, and Dana White, a non-face-to-face on-site…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-197519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197519","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=197519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}