When President Donald Trump announced that the White House grounds would host a UFC event on July 4th next year, the biggest names in the sport began lobbying to be on the historic fight card. The event is expected to take place on the South Lawn and UFC CEO Dana White and team were preparing for the possibility before the President went public with the news. “I’m up at my house like every year in Maine at Fourth of July and I had texted with him (Trump) three or four times that day and he never told me he was announcing it. Then all of a sudden my phone starts blowing up,” White told Spinnin Backfist MMA Show . “We had already done all of the logistics
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