{"id":228215,"date":"2026-04-12T03:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228215\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:41:08","slug":"ufc-327-draws-packed-crowd-to-kaseya-center-as-trump-attends-miami-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228215\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 327 draws packed crowd to Kaseya Center as Trump attends Miami event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM<\/p>\n<p>UFC 327 draws packed crowd to Kaseya Center as Trump attends Miami event <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 MMA fans flooded into the Kaseya Center in downtown Miami for UFC 327, where President Donald Trump joined the crowd for the championship bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump was seen shaking hands with fans and later embracing UFC CEO and President Dana White during the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier in the day, the president was seen coming down the stairs of Air Force One after landing at Miami International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Outside the arena, security was tight with Secret Service agents, police dogs and a SWAT team stationed ahead of his arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDJT? In the crib? Oh yessir bro. Yessir,\u201d one fan said when asked about the president being there. Another responded, \u201cOh Trump? Yeah yeah yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fans said they were excited to see the major fight night in Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe had to come because Miami\u2019s the best city in America,\u201d one attendee said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fans also took photos in front of the UFC logo with the Miami skyline in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The event marked the UFC\u2019s fifth visit to Miami so far and the first since last April. Many fans said they hope more events continue to return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve always loved when the opportunity comes when they can come closer,\u201d one fan said.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM UFC 327 draws packed crowd to Kaseya Center as Trump attends Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-228215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}