Trump says White House to host UFC fight on his 80th birthday

An Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) combat planned astatine the White House volition instrumentality spot connected Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, the president said, contempt the much-hyped lawsuit being antecedently announced for July 4.

“On June 14 adjacent year, we’re going to person a large UFC combat astatine the White House — close astatine the White House, connected the grounds of the White House,” Trump told a assemblage of Navy sailors astatine the immense naval basal Norfolk successful Virginia.

He did not notation that June 14 is his day oregon that adjacent twelvemonth volition beryllium his 80th.

On Trump’s 79th day this year, helium held a subject parade that was meant to commemorate the founding of the US Army.

In August, UFC brag Dana White said the mixed martial arts bout astatine the White House would beryllium held connected July 4 adjacent year, the time the United States marks the 250th day of its founding.

Trump has been a regular impermanent astatine the often-bloody UFC contests, wherever fighters punch, footwear and grapple with their hostile successful a no-holds-barred conflict to submission oregon knockout.

Bringing the brutal combat athletics to the halfway of US governmental powerfulness volition people a historical first.

At a property league shared connected UFC’s YouTube channel, White said that aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth “we’ll commencement looking astatine gathering the White House card, which I volition close present archer you volition beryllium the top combat paper ever assembled successful the past of decidedly this company.”

Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest and astir palmy enactment successful the burgeoning satellite of MMA, a blend of martial arts disciplines similar jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, boxing and wrestling.

Bouts instrumentality spot successful an eight-sided ringing — dubbed “The Octagon” — bounded by a chainlink fence.

With fewer exceptions — specified arsenic eye-gouging — antheral and pistillate fighters are allowed to employment astir immoderate method to onslaught their opponent.

The sport’s popularity with young men — a cardinal demographic successful the 2024 US predetermination — and Trump’s agelong relation with the UFC, person made the president a regular fixture astatine immoderate of its much high-profile events, wherever helium is greeted similar a stone star.

Its brutal quality and precocious wounded complaint mean the athletics is controversial, with doctors decrying the imaginable for encephalon harm amongst fighters who are repeatedly deed successful the head, though it has gained expanding mainstream acceptance successful caller years.

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