The UFC White House card was an incredible success. UFC Freedom 250 was filled with highlights left and right. It’s also the only card in UFC history to have all fights end via TKO/KO.
However, Dana White made one thing clear during the post-fight interview at 3 am.
He’s never doing this again.
“I can’t afford it,” White said. “There’s no f*cking way we can do this again. I’ll never do the Sphere again, and we’ll never do this again.”
White kept to what he insisted for months, that the White House card would be a “one-of-one” event and not the beginning of a trend, similar to how he viewed his promotion playing host to the first sporting event at the Sphere in Las Vegas in 2024.
Yet White insisted that Sunday night’s UFC White House card exceeded all of his expectations for what he had called “the biggest event in the history of his promotion”. Perhaps the biggest in the history of mixed martial arts.
UFC White House Costs
In an interview with Forbes, Dana White doesn’t provide specific details but shares that the UFC White House event cost $60 million in production.
White breaks down the costs at a high level:
“Well, we’re building the claw itself that was built in Belgium, shipped to Philly, built and tested, then put on trucks and shipped to DC, and stored it in a warehouse until we started building it”
“Then you’ve got the cost of building an arena on the South Lawn of the White House. Then you talk about all the things we’re doing at the Ellipse. The Zac Brown Band is playing over there”
“We’re doing a concert, more television. I mean, just the bathroom setups on the South Lawn of the White House are going to be like the bathrooms at the Bellagio”
“So, as you look at all the different details that go into this, it’s not cheap”
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