Dana Reveals When He Will Start Matchmaking for UFC White House Card
While Talking to TMZ Sports, Dana Reveals When He Will Start Matchmaking for UFC White House. Dana White says he will begin matchmaking for the UFC White House Card after UFC 324 and UFC 325.
UFC White House’s hype is increasing with every passing day as the event gets closer with every passing day. Now, it’s less than six months since this historical event took place. Moreover, UFC fans have been eagerly awaiting the announcement of the event and are looking to UFC officials to reveal the featured fighters and match-ups for the UFC White House Fight Card. Now the wait is over!
Dana White, UFC CEO, has revealed on multiple occasions that he has not begun the matchmaking yet and hopes to start it in February. Now February has arrived, and so has the matchmaking. While speaking with TMZ Sports, Dana White revealed that he would begin matching for the historic UFC White House Event this Monday, following UFC 324: Gaethje vs. Pimblett and UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2.
”So, this Saturday, when this fight ends, usually every Tuesday we have matchmaking, Monday we will be matchmaking. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we’ll be building the White House card as soon as that fights done.”
It means the first two weeks of February would be the potential weeks when UFC will start announcing the matchups and players for the UFC White House Event.
Moreover, when the host on TMZ Sports asked Dana if this event would be numbered just like other events or a special White House Event that defines itself and stands alone. Dana reveals:
”I haven’t thought about it yet. I haven’t thought about that yet; we haven’t got that far. We’ll build the card and then we start, once we start to build the card, like when we have the top three fights, Craig and I will fly to D.C., sit down with Ivanka and the president and then go through all the, you know, he wants Ivanka to be apart of this and her and I were talking about it last night. 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. We’ll have everything done, yeah.”
After this, the time has arrived when UFC officials will break news about the UFC White House Card daily. The historical UFC White Event is set to take place on June 14, 2026, in the South Lawn of White House. Let’s see what would happen in February and which mega fights and lucky players get a spot on the UFC White House Fight Card.
