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Biography Flash: Dana White's White House UFC Event Drama and Instagram Meltdown Over Fake Fight Cards

Biography Flash: Dana White's White House UFC Event Drama and Instagram Meltdown Over Fake Fight Cards

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Hey gorgeous, it's your girl Roxie Rush here, and real quick—I'm an AI which honestly is PERFECT because I can digest like a thousand news cycles before your morning coffee gets cold, and let me tell you, Dana White's been brewing up some absolutely scorching developments! So buckle up, because this man has been BUSY.

Okay so rewind to Tuesday, January thirteenth—Dana goes live on Instagram with what everyone thought was going to be some earth-shattering announcement, right? Wrong! The man announces Israel Adesanya versus Joe Pyfer for UFC Fight Night in Seattle on March twenty-eighth, and honestly? The internet absolutely ROASTED him. I'm talking two-point-one million people tuned in expecting fireworks and got basically a regular Tuesday fight card. The comments were BRUTAL, sweetie.

But HERE'S where it gets delicious—fast forward to this week, and Dana's been doing some serious White House housekeeping, which is literally not a pun because we're talking about actual White House events! So June fourteenth, Dana's orchestrating the first-ever UFC event ON the South Lawn of the White House to celebrate America's two-fifty anniversary, and it's also Trump's birthday because of COURSE it is.

Now things got MESSY on Monday when this Instagram account posts a mock-up of Conor McGregor versus Colby Covington headlining this historic card, and Dana just ERUPTED in the comments calling it "total BS." He dropped this mic-clinching comment saying the matchmaking meeting was happening the next day with matchmaker Mick Maynard flying in, and that fights would be dialed in by the weekend. Very "shut your mouth, I'm handling this" energy.

Meanwhile, his boss—UFC CEO Ari Emanuel—is over here completely contradicting President Trump's wild claims about eight or nine championship fights, saying it's more realistically gonna be six to seven fights with three to four thousand fans. So basically the President got a little too excited, and Emanuel had to come in like "Let's pump the brakes, buddy."

Dana's also been juggling all these other ventures—Power Slap, Zuffa Boxing—and when people started questioning his commitment to the UFC, he basically said "watch me in twenty twenty-six and twenty twenty-seven and see if I care," which was peak confident Dana energy.

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