Dana White has lengthy spoken of his friendship with former President Donald Trump, and his help can be loud very quickly.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the UFC president is ready to offer a speech at subsequent week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Not solely will White communicate, however the WSJ says White’s speech will come proper earlier than Trump’s, the place he’ll settle for the GOP nomination for this yr’s election.
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Trump has been noticed at quite a few UFC occasions through the years. Most not too long ago, he was at UFC 302 in Newark for the Islam Makhachev-Dustin Poirier bout, simply two days after he was discovered responsible on all counts of falsifying enterprise data within the first diploma.
Prior to that, he was at UFC 299 in Miami, simply hours after a rally in Georgia the place he gave White reward.
“Dana White has executed a terrific job. I hope he does not run for workplace in opposition to me. He’s executed a incredible job. It’s a better enterprise than politics,” Trump stated on the March 9 rally.
UFC president Dana White and former United States president Donald Trump attend the UFC 296 occasion at T-Mobile Arena on December 16, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC by way of Getty Images)
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“It’s the closest factor I can see actually reflective of the election course of that we’ve on this nation, the UFC fights. That could also be a little bit tamer than the election enterprise,” he joked.
Trump took in 4 UFC occasions final yr, together with UFC 287 (additionally in Miami) and UFC 296 (in Las Vegas) to observe Jorge Masvidal and Colby Covington, respectively, who’ve each proven their help for Trump. Both fighters misplaced their respective bouts.
He additionally went to UFC 290 in Las Vegas and UFC 295 at Madison Square Garden.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and UFC president Dana White are seen in attendance throughout the UFC 287 occasion at Kaseya Center on April 08, 2023 in Miami, Florida. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC by way of Getty Images)
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White spoke at a number of Trump rallies in 2020 in addition to the 2016 RNC in Cleveland.
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