Dana White recently shared an update on the UFC White House event and made a bold prediction about the scope of the card.
The UFC White House event will take place in June as part of the historic America250 celebrations. The event will feature a stacked fight card with some of the promotion’s biggest stars expected to compete. The bouts will notably take place on the South Lawn, with the fighters set to walk out of the Oval Office.
In a recent interview on CBS Sports, White confirmed that he’ll be busy with matchmaking for the card this week and claimed that it will be “the most-watched UFC event” ever. He said:
“This is a one-of-one event. It’s something that will never happen again… All the logistics are done, and we believe this is going to be the most-watched UFC event ever… It’s going to introduce a lot of people to [professional fighting], those who’ve never seen it before.”
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He added:
“When you talk about me, my executive team, the staff that works here, the media that covers us, and the fighters, this is going to be the most unique, amazing nights of our entire careers… When we go to do something, I like to deliver, and I like to deliver big. It’s going to be special.”
Dana White shares attendance numbers for UFC White House
Last month, Dana White opened up about the expected attendance numbers for the UFC White House event.
In an interview on the CBS Morning show, the UFC CEO claimed that about 5000 people would be on the South Lawn and about 85,000 people on the park across the street. He said:
“We’ve literally just got done on all the logistics of how to set it up there, how many people we can have. It’s looking like we are going to have five thousand people on the White House lawn, on the South lawn and then across the street, it’s a park, it’s called the Ellipse, we are going to have eighty five thousand people there, we are going to have big screens.”
Edited by Nishant Zende.