The White House has previewed the huge fighting arena known as “The Claw” that will host an Ultimate Fighting Championship bout on US President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.<\/p>\n
Journalists including RT\u00c9 News Washington Correspondent Jackie Fox were granted access for the first time to the 92-foot tall structure – taller than the White House itself – that workmen have been building for weeks on the historic South Lawn.<\/p>\n
In the centre is the so-called “Octagon”, the eight-sided cage where 14 UFC fighters will battle it out in front of Mr Trump in the unprecedented event on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Surrounding the Octagon are black padded seats for 4,500 guests, each with a sign on the back saying “Warning: Please do not stand on chair,” in case spectators get overexcited.<\/p>\n
A huge red, white and blue sign saying “UFC Freedom 250” greets visitors and a similar logo appears on video screens attached to the side of the arena.<\/p>\n
Watch the sneak peak tour in our video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House has previewed the huge fighting arena known as “The Claw” that will host an Ultimate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-495066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}