In 2026, as a part of festivities surrounding the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the White Home will probably be house to a top-ranked UFC combined martial arts struggle, President Donald Trump mentioned.

“We’re gonna have a UFC struggle, consider this, on the grounds of the White Home. We’ve got quite a lot of land there,” Trump mentioned Thursday night at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, sporting a purple “USA” baseball hat. He instructed that the UFC will assemble an octagon someplace on the White Home property for the struggle.

The UFC occasion will probably be a “championship struggle, full struggle, like, 20, 25,000 folks,” Trump continued. “And we’re gonna try this as a part of 250 additionally,” referring to America250, the group set as much as commemorate the nation’s semiquincentennial.

A UFC spokesperson confirmed to Selection that the corporate planning to stage an occasion on the White Home, saying extra particulars will probably be forthcoming.

The location for America250 says the celebratory occasions “will foster shared experiences that spark creativeness, showcase the wealthy tapestry of our American tales, encourage service in our communities, honor the enduring energy, and have a good time the resilience of the US of America.”

UFC CEO Dana White is a widely known supporter and pal of Trump, who has attended a number of UFC occasions in current months. “I’ve had this unimaginable relationship with him for a few years,” White instructed Selection final yr. “You already know, after we first purchased [UFC], the stigma was so unhealthy with the UFC that venues didn’t even need us. He reached out, reduce a deal, confirmed as much as the primary struggle, stayed to the final struggle.”

White was featured in Trump’s first TikTok video in 2024, which confirmed the president greeting followers at UFC 302 in Newark, N.J., on June 1, 2024. “The president is now on TikTok,” White says within the video. “It’s my honor,” says Trump.

White spoke on the 2020 Republican Nationwide Conference (after having carried out so in 2016 as nicely), the place he mentioned partially that “it’s critically essential to re-elect President Trump,” whom he praised as “one of the vital loyal human beings I’ve ever met” and claimed that, “Earlier than the pandemic, President Trump constructed the best economic system in our nation’s historical past and created alternatives for all Individuals like nobody earlier than him.”

In 2023, Endeavor merged UFC and WWE underneath the publicly traded TKO Group Holdings. Earlier this yr, Endeavor was taken personal earlier this yr in a $25 billion cope with private-equity agency Silver Lake; Endeavor Group is the father or mother of expertise company large WME Group. Endeavor Group Holdings at present owns 61.7% of TKO’s excellent inventory.

Pictured above: President Donald Trump at UFC 314 at Kaseya Heart on April 12, 2025, in Miami, Florida.