All the fight rumors you’ve heard regarding the big UFC White House card in June are pure lies! That’s according to UFC CEO Dana White, but things are about to change as the heads of the promotion gather
in Las Vegas today to start matchmaking the America250 extravaganza.
Details on the June 15th card continue to trickle in. White has shared design drawings of what the custom light rig will look like, and has described some of the crazy expenses involved in staging a show like this. The company will pay out nearly a million dollars to replace the South Lawn following the show, and that’s chump change compared to some of the other costs.
When it comes to the actual fights on the card, we’ve heard Donald Trump claim the event will feature all championship bouts. TKO head Ari Emanuel has said there will be ‘six or seven fights.’ As for who exactly will compete? Dana White says those choices begin today, which means the reports of Conor McGregor vs. Colby Covington are false.
“Total BS,” White wrote on an Instagram post claiming Covington vs. McGregor was booked. “White House matchmaking meeting is tomorrow. Mick Maynard flying in tomorrow for it. We will have fights dialed in by this weekend.”
That’s good, because the UFC seems to be keeping all their powder dry until they decide exactly who will fight at the White House. As it stands this morning (Feb. 10, 2026) not a single UFC champion (other than the BMF belt holder) is booked into a fight. We anticipated a bit of a logjam due to the black hole gravity of the White House, and here it is. The sooner UFC deals with it, the better.
As it stands, the most likely fight we see at the top of the White House card is Ilia Topuria vs. Justin Gaethje to unify the lightweight title. Conor McGregor is still a possibility, but given how much he costs and how much the UFC is giving up to do this event without a gate, we doubt the bean counters at TKO will let him compete. Jon Jones sounds like he’s given up on trying to convince UFC to book him again. And can Kayla Harrison really recover from neck surgery in time to face Amanda Nunes? We have our doubts.
It would be nice to imagine the UFC will start announcing White House fights as soon as decisions start getting made today. In reality, they have a conveyor belt approach to fight announcement which means we’ll probably have to wait until April’s UFC 327 in Miami gets its headliner bout revealed, and then UFC 328 in May.
Let us know in the comments how you see the next couple of months shaking out matchmaking-wise!
