{"id":20729,"date":"2026-06-01T13:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/donald-trump-ufc-freedom-250-might-be-highest-rated-sporting-event-ever-mma-junkie\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:21:44","slug":"donald-trump-ufc-freedom-250-might-be-highest-rated-sporting-event-ever-mma-junkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/donald-trump-ufc-freedom-250-might-be-highest-rated-sporting-event-ever-mma-junkie\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: UFC Freedom 250 might be highest-rated sporting event ever &#8211; MMA Junkie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is looking forward to a once-in-a-lifetime event at the White House this month.<br \/><a href=https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-freedom-250-topuria-vs-gaethje\/>UFC Freedom 250<\/a> takes place in less than two weeks on June 14 from the White House South Lawn in Washington D.C. &#8220;The Claw&#8221; is expected to have room for about 5,000 spectators surrounding the octagon.<br \/>With the UFC ditching the pay-per-view model and streaming exclusively on <a href=https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/6yoorr target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paramount+<\/a> in the U.S., Trump expects record-breaking numbers \u2013 not just for MMA.<br \/>&#8220;It&#8217;s right at the front door to the White House, and you&#8217;ll never see it again,&#8221; Trump told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/075MbKEEcAw?si=e_u77A-d2-3mOi0X\">Fox News<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s never happened before, and you&#8217;ll never see it again. It&#8217;s great and the UFC&#8217;s going to have all the best fighters in the world coming that night. They all say we want to fight at the White House. Dana is an amazing man, he&#8217;s done an amazing job, he&#8217;s put together something that \u2013 this will be the highest-rated event, maybe one of them ever in sports.<br \/>&#8220;What he&#8217;s (White) done is amazing, I&#8217;m not sure anybody could have done it but him. You don&#8217;t usually say that but not many people could have, he&#8217;s a very special man. This is going and it&#8217;s all free. It&#8217;s going to soldiers. We&#8217;re going to have over 100,000, maybe 100,000 people in the park across the street, eight giant screens, and all free.&#8221;<br \/>UFC Freedom 250 is headlined by a title-unification bout between lightweight champion <a target=_blank href=https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/ilia-topuria\/ data-autotag=d2d9c8e7-e859-407a-b607-f197e9766d0c>Ilia Topuria<\/a> and interim champ <a target=_blank href=https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/justin-gaethje\/ data-autotag=267e3c2d-20ce-4e98-81b8-f87a1e326ebf>Justin Gaethje<\/a>. In the co-main event, <a target=_blank href=https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/alex-pereira\/ data-autotag=ce486d6a-f145-4361-848f-0c7402f7a976>Alex Pereira<\/a> and Ciryl Gane battle for the interim heavyweight belt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1wFBVV95cUxNYllRRkFCWmVmMFNubnRWZUhjdU5nOWRrdUlRblgtMmg3Xy1XcXF2c2RiR1p0clAxdDc1b3pzbV81UGxUenZVTVpsUTlORE41XzQxMVNtNjlnanlrT2dXSFF1MGVmclM0SWNEOEx1WjVCTTd0am1XRDNNU2ttQ1NXenVwTi1SQVpURGlNdVNLX3MyalFRT1ZzRUFwVG5ybGNBcXFuck9oMlByWmkxUE4yUzB4bnVraFBMSFN2anFZTExmVnNyTVNINFpEUmgweFk2cVhTRWs1SQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is looking forward to a once-in-a-lifetime event at the White House this month.UFC Freedom 250 takes place in less than two weeks on June 14 from the White House South Lawn in Washington D.C. &#8220;The Claw&#8221; is expected to have room for about 5,000 spectators surrounding the octagon.With the UFC ditching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}