UFC announces card for White House event

The UFC connected Saturday announced the paper for its White House lawsuit slated to instrumentality spot connected June 14 arsenic portion of President Donald Trump’s America 250 celebration.

There volition beryllium 2 title bouts connected the card.

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UFC CEO and President Dana White speaks during the UFC 326 lawsuit astatine T-Mobile Arena connected March 7, 2026 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

Ilia Topuria volition spell up against Justin Gaethje for the UFC World Lightweight Championship and Alex Pereira volition instrumentality connected Ciryl Gane for the interim UFC Heavyweight Championship.

Elsewhere connected the card, Sean O’Malley volition instrumentality connected Aiemann Zahabi, Michael Chandler volition quadrate disconnected against Mauricio Ruffy, Kyle Daukaus volition conflict against Bo Nickal and Steve Garcia volition spell up against Diego Lopes.

The lawsuit is being dubbed UFC Freedom 250.

White has been adamant that the lawsuit won’t beryllium "too political" contempt taking spot astatine the White House with President Donald Trump apt to attend.

Ilia Topuria (red gloves) anterior to the combat against Charles Oliveira (blue gloves) during UFC 317 astatine T-Mobile Arena connected June 28, 2025. (Stephen R. Sylvanie/Imagn Images)

"I mean, I don’t cognize however it would beryllium excessively governmental different than it’s astatine the White House," helium told Bloomberg successful January.

"Listen, if you look backmost passim history, I deliberation [former President] George Bush was a large shot fan, [former President Barack] Obama was an NBA instrumentality and Trump is simply a UFC fan. I don’t deliberation that immoderate of those guys being fans made immoderate athletics excessively political."

White said his unit has the logistics of the lawsuit "dialed in" and noted that astir 5,000 volition beryllium capable to presumption the fights connected the White House tract portion an further 85,000 radical volition beryllium capable to presumption the fights connected large screens astatine The Ellipse.

UFC President Dana White speaks aft UFC Fight Night astatine Toyota Center connected Feb. 21, 2026.  (Troy Taormina/Imagn Images)

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"We’re going to instrumentality implicit Washington, D.C. the week of the fight," White said.

Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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