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President Donald Trump announced this week that the UFC event at the White House will take place on June 14, his 80th birthday, and broadcaster Bruce Buffer is counting down the days.
Dana White has promised the biggest card in the history of the wrestling company, as wrestlers will enter the ring on the south lawn near the Oval Office.
“It’s an honor to appear in the White House and on the White House grounds. Keeping the entire event apolitical and sporting as it is, it will probably be the most watched PPV in the history of PPV…” Buffer told Pak Gazette Digital in a recent interview. “It’s going to be amazing, the roster of fighters is probably going to be amazing, you can’t really say anything negative about it. It’s going to be amazing.”
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UFC announcer Bruce Buffer before the fight between Diego Lopes and Jean Silva during UFC Night at Frost Bank Center. (Daniel Dunn/Image Images)
Since Trump first announced the idea, there has been widespread speculation about what fights could happen in the nation’s capital, with the most popular potential fights being Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall and Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler.
White once confided that almost everyone on the UFC roster wants to get the call-up for the event, and Buffer echoed those sentiments.
“Every fighter on the roster wants to fight at that event,” Buffer said. “Conor McGregor always says, ‘I want to come back, I want to come back.’ And we haven’t seen that in everything he’s been doing in the last few years, but if that’s an event he’s going to come back to, that would be big. If Jon Jones comes to fight whoever, whether it’s Tom Aspinall or whatever, that would make him bigger. There are so many great fighters on the UFC roster. It’s going to be an incredible night, there’s no doubt about it.”
UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer during UFC 300 at T-Mobile Arena. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA TODAY Sports)
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White has long credited Trump with helping grow the UFC to what it is today. In a recent appearance on Logan Paul’s podcast, White said Trump supported the company when “venues didn’t want us” and “sponsors [and] Television was terrified of us.”
“So the way he supported us in the beginning was great. And whatever happened to me in my career, he would be the first one to reach out,” White said.
But White has catapulted the UFC into a must-watch staple, striking a deal worth nearly $8 billion to have top-tier events on Paramount Plus.
“When Dana took over, because we were almost dead before Dana took over as a sport, and then when ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ first happened with Forrest Griffin and Stefan Bonner when almost 15 million eyeballs were watching that fight, and under Dana’s tutelage and guidance, he’s a maverick,” Buffer said of the UFC president. “He’s got the Midas touch, it’s gotten him to where he is. Thank God, he’s got the passion, the power and the relentless energy to keep going. I’m proud to be on that UFC rocket piloted by Dana White and everyone at the top and have my first-class seat to continue going where he’s going. To the White House grounds and beyond.
Dana White is seen on stage during the Canelo v Crawford press conference at the T-Mobile Arena on September 11, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Chris Unger/TKO Worldwide LLC via Getty Images)
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