You Wouldn’t Believe This’: Dana White Reveals ‘Incredible’ White House UFC Story

And with all this World Cup momentum and America's 250th birthday this weekend, it's all about American pride right now. And that's something UFC President Dana White knows a thing or two about, having just put on a major event at the White House. And now we're getting a look at what went into all of it. It's part of a new Fox Nation documentary series out today called UFC Fight House, the making of the biggest fight in history. Incredible behind-the-scenes footage of the planning, the troubleshooting, and yes, the backstory on that iconic walkout with President Trump. We have one minute, and when the door opens, you walk. Starting the broadcast in 45 seconds. Four, three, two, one. And joining me now is the man who made it all happen, is UFC President and CEO Dana White. Dana, thanks for joining us. I know you're on vacation or already beginning your Fourth of July weekend, probably at a lake house someplace beautiful. So thanks for taking some time out to be with us here today. When was it, Dana? Thanks for having me. I'm good, Hank. Thanks for having me. You bet, man. Before, during, after. When was it you realized you had accomplished your vision? You know, I think the weigh-ins. There were 60,000 people at the weigh-ins, and everything was running smoothly. It was just, we knew we were going to get killed by the weather the next night, but we were ready for that, too. Yeah, I was there, Dana. There was no problem. There's beautiful weather. By the way, speaking of being there, I can speak firsthand to how beautiful the event was from start to finish, left, right. It did not matter. If you were there, you saw the patriotism and the beauty of that moment, of that night. It set aside the quality of the fight, especially the last fight, which was incredible. I've heard you say that ticketing was the worst part of this. It's always the worst part. What's the best part? Yeah, and it's not ticketing. It's seating. It's like, if you've ever done a wedding and you've got to seat everybody at the wedding, that's what it's like for me every Saturday. And the White House was like, you know, times and times 10,000. But everything went smooth that night. Everything went as perfect as it could possibly go. And I know, listen, this thing that you're watching on Fox is a documentary. If you wrote a script, you wouldn't believe all the things that happened in this thing. Literally, the storm is coming to hit the White House and it breaks apart and goes around the White House in the ellipse and continues on. It's incredible, unbelievable. And it was an amazing night. Well, this thing on Fox Nation, which gives a behind the scenes on the buildup, as you mentioned, shows a lot of what went into it. Let's take a look together at President Trump, I believe, with you taking a look at what would end up being the site of the fight. You could have an arena of 8000 right here. Yeah. And then you could do something there. Nice. Yeah. Whether it's stand up or seats around the fountain. What do you think your maximum is right now? The current infrastructure that we have that goes to the perimeter right up to the trees is only about 2500. My concept was right smack at the front door to the White House. Build it as big as you can. You know, we're a little confined because of trees and these beautiful plantings and everything else. So not easy. They're going to get the numbers. They're going to have schematics going to overlay on the field. So you'll be able to see you can build as big as you want. Build it as big as you want. And obviously you got way bigger than 2500 people, people there. I mean, what in a logistical I don't even know if I should call it a hurdle, Dana, because you had the president of the United States greasing the wheels on this thing. But what what an event to pull off. Well, he was the one that kept pushing us harder and harder to me to be able to get more seats and to get more people in there. He was the one pushing hard on that. And every time he would push, we would try to figure it out. But I mean, we built basically a stadium on the South Lawn of the White House. And then I think what we did at the Ellipse is even more impressive. I mean, you know, everything that went into that and the amount of people that were over there and battling the weather, the elements, you know, all the unknown. The event could not have gone better. No, I can speak firsthand to that. It's I've gotten to do some pretty cool things in my life when it comes to sports. I've got to be on the sidelines of Texas OU, which is a big deal for me. NBA finals, whatever. Dana, I'll tell you this, and I don't I don't have any reason to butter you up. This is number one. It's the coolest sporting event I've ever been to. I've been to multiple Super Bowls. This right here sits at number one. It was an incredible night. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thanks for coming. You bet. Dana White, UFC president. Thanks for your time today. Happy Fourth. Happy Fourth of July.