Colby Covington explains White House absence: ‘UFC didn’t give me the opportunity’

For a card celebrating America’s 250th anniversary and the birthday of U.S. president Donald Trump, the UFC White House card doesn’t have a strong contingent of vocal MAGA fighters. At the top of the list of candidates that could fix that is Colby Covington,

Joe Rogan attended UFC fights alongside Trump. Now he thinks it’s ‘weird’ to hold fight at the White House amid Iran war

I know it’s going to be very high security and high stress and weird to have a fight at the White House in the middle of a f***ing war,' Rogan said
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Colby Covington Turned Down White House UFC Card To Avoid Bo Nickal, Claims Rising Star

Rising UFC star Bo Nickal claims Colby Covington avoided a potential White House card by turning down a fight against him.

UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents in New Initiative

A number of UFC fighters will travel to the FBI's academy in Quantico, Virginia, this week to train agents, ahead of planned event at the White House this summer.
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UFC White House’s Aiemann Zahabi sends defiant response to Sean O’Malley mismatch claims

Aiemann Zahabi is not worried about what the odds say for his UFC White House fight. The bantamweight contender was among the more surprising names to feature when the June 14 card was unveiled during last Saturday’s UFC 326 broadcast.

Morning Report | Daniel Cormier feels bad for Jon Jones being left off UFC White House: ‘It’s crazy’

Jones has had a hot-and-cold relationship with the UFC for years at this point, but his handling of the Aspinall situation did seem to draw particular ire from UFC brass, so much so that before the White House card was announced, Dana White repeatedly declared that he could not trust Jones to headline such an important event.