UFC CEO  Dana White and the fight promotion’s staff are in the early stages of planning the historic UFC event on the White House grounds expected to take place on July 4th, 2026.  While White can’t predict what the landscape of the sport will be like next July to have any idea what fighters will be on the fight card, he knows who will not be fighting at the event. During the UFC 318  Post-Fight Press Conference in New Orleans last Saturday, White said that he ‘can’t risk’ putting former two-division UFC champion  Jon Jones on the fight card. “That fight (card) is a year away.