{"id":66256,"date":"2025-08-13T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66256\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:14:08","slug":"white-house-to-host-mma-event-next-year-says-ufc-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66256\/","title":{"rendered":"White House to host MMA event next year, says UFC boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House is to play host to a mixed martial arts bout on July 4 next year, the day the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, UFC boss Dana White has said.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has been a regular guest at the often-bloody contests, where fighters punch, kick and grapple with their opponents in a no-holds-barred battle to submission or knockout.<\/p>\n

Bringing the brutal combat sport to the centre of US political power will mark a historic first.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is definitely going to happen,\u201d White, a high-profile supporter of the US president, told CBS television on Tuesday. \u201cI talked to him last night and I\u2019m flying out there at the end of this month \u2013 and I\u2019m going to sit down and walk him through all the plans and the renderings, and we\u2019re going to start deciding what he wants and doesn\u2019t want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the largest and most successful organisation in the burgeoning world of MMA, a blend of martial arts disciplines like jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, boxing and wrestling.<\/p>\n

\"UFCUFC CEO Dana White (centre) has been a huge supporter of Donald Trump (right). Photo: TNS<\/p>\n

Bouts take place in an eight-sided ring \u2013 dubbed \u201cThe Octagon\u201d \u2013 bounded by a chain-link fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House is to play host to a mixed martial arts bout on July 4 next year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,6714,10359,1376,641,37583,42187,638,82,42188,28095,640,182,42186],"class_list":{"0":"post-66256","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-cbs","11":"tag-dana-white","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-independence-day","15":"tag-ivanka","16":"tag-mma","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-the-octagon","19":"tag-the-white-house","20":"tag-ufc","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-us-election"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66256","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=66256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}