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Dana White releases first UFC White House event renderings

Originally posted on MMA Weekly | By Jeff Cain | Last updated Sep 20, 2025 10:46 PM ET

UFC CEO Dana White gave the first glimpse of what fans can expect when the UFC hosts an event on the White House lawn next summer.

White appeared on Fox News on Friday and revealed renderings of the fight promotion's plans for the event's layout.

White and company are building a lighting arch to illuminate the octagon with the White House on one side and the Washington Monument on the opposite side. White reiterated that the fight card will featured the 'greatest line-up ever."

BREAKING: UFC’s @DanaWhite reveals exclusive photos to Fox’s @BretBaier showing how the huge White House UFC fight night will look in D.C. next summer, adding: “This card will be the greatest line-up ever.” pic.twitter.com/qjDfYW9jDA
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) September 19, 2025

"What I want to do is build, you know, the best card we've ever built that will make people just go crazy,," said the UFC CEO in a recent interview with the IMPAUSIVE podcast. "It will be live and free on CBS from the White House."

The first renderings just dropped for the UFC event at the White House next year.

Dana White says they are building a lighting arch so that fans can see the White House on one side and the Washington Monument on the other.

There will be fewer than 5,000 seats. pic.twitter.com/n3hBwxkDWg
— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) September 20, 2025

"The way that we're doing this thing, like let's say this is the octagon, right? We're building this arch, almost like the St. Louis arch, like this, and the lighting grid will go above the octagon," continued White.

"So, when we shoot this fight, this whole backdrop will be the White House. And then, when the cameras move over and the fight's this way, it's all the Washington Monument on this side."

"There's a park that's sort of connected to the White House, and we'll have 85,000 people there with big screens. We're gonna do concerts, we're gonna do UFC X there. We're gonna take over DC."

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