White House Fight Card Build Starts Next Week
Dana White plans to embark on the highly anticipated UFC carte blanche as soon as UFC 324 ends this next weekend LIVE on Paramount+. This includes matchmaking for the June event which begins next Monday, a day earlier than usual for the UFC. group of fighters.
Maybe we’ll have another one ‘War Room’ Leaked!
Advertisement
With the UFC set to host the promotion’s official debut on Paramount+ with a main event between Paddy Pimblett and Justin Gaethjefight fans can’t help but pay some attention to the growing spectacle that is the White House card. White and company have big plans for President Donald Trump’s birthday party next June, including walkouts at the White House, brawls on the White House lawn, and Evening for 85,000 people, special guests at the party of countries around the world and a global takeover by Washington DC.
This all sounds great on paper, but if the UFC doesn’t create a dynamite fight card with memorable action, it might all be for naught. This puts a lot of pressure on the fighters selected to compete on the historic card, as well as White and his team members as they build the event and fight the card lineup from the ground up.
Don’t wait Conor McGregor vs. Jorge Masvidal be part of this training.
On Tuesday, White sat down with TMZ Sports to discuss a variety of topics and ultimately settled on the UFC White House card. White revealed that his team will begin matchmaking for the presidential event on Monday of next week. That’s a day earlier than normal matchmakers’ meetings and a few weeks earlier than White’s original start date next month.
Advertisement
Check it out below and tell us who you think will make White’s cut and land on the White House lawn in June:
“This Saturday when the fights end. Usually every Tuesday we have matchmaking. We will matchmake Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we will matchmake for the White House card as soon as this fight is over,” White said.
“I haven’t thought about it yet,” he added when asked if the White House UFC card would be a numbered event or something special. “We haven’t gotten that far. I said I wouldn’t touch this card until February. Now I think we’ll have it dialed in by the second week of February.”
For more news and coverage on UFC White House fight cards, click HERE.
