Dana White plans on digging his heels into the highly-anticipated UFC White Card as soon as UFC 324 concludes this coming weekend LIVE on Paramount+. This includes matchmaking for the June event beginning this coming Monday, which is one day earlier than usual for UFC’s fight-making bunch.
Maybe we’ll get another “War Room” leak!
While UFC is about to stage the promotion’s official debut on Paramount+ with a main event between Paddy Pimblett and Justin Gaethje, fight fans can’t help but lend some attention to the growing spectacle that is the White House card. White and company have big plans for President Donald Trump’s birthday bash this June, including White House walkouts, fights on the White House lawn, an 85,000 person viewing party, special party guests from countries all around the world, and an overall Washington D.C. takeover.
It all sounds nice on paper, but if UFC doesn’t put together a dynamite fight card with memorable action then it could all be for nothing. That puts a lot of pressure on whichever fighters are selected to compete on the historic card, as well as White and his team members as they build the event and fight card lineup from scratch.
Just don’t expect Conor McGregor vs. Jorge Masvidal to be part of that lineup.
On Tuesday, White sat down with TMZ Sports to discuss a variety of topics and eventually settled on the UFC White House card. White revealed that his team will start matchmaking for the presidential event Monday of next week. That’s one day earlier than normal matchmaker meetings and a few weeks sooner than White’s original start date next month.
Check it out below and let us know who you think makes White’s cut and lands on the White House lawn this June:
“This Saturday, when the fights end. Usually every Tuesday we have matchmaking. We will be matchmaking Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday we’ll be match making the White House card as soon as that fight is done,” said White.
“I haven’t thought about it yet,” he added when asked if the UFC White House card will 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.”
