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The weather is not looking ideal for the upcoming UFC White House event.
On Sunday, June 14th, the UFC will hold an event on the South Lawn of the White House.
On Wednesday, the UFC arena outside the White House was complete, and the media were allowed to take a look at it.
Hours after the media preview, rain poured down on the DC area over the newly installed UFC octagon.
@jzosports Heavy storm in Washington DC days before UFC White House event
Recent forecasts have rain interrupting the event.
Forecast looking fabulous for Sunday in DC pic.twitter.com/XVSF0WG1Sl https://t.co/KA5PB0qq6y
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) June 12, 2026
UFC CEO Dana White has said that rain will not stop the event.
“I mean, if you read the internet the f***ing whole show is getting shut down on Sunday. But I don’t care if it snows, rains, whatever, we’re going — and even lightning. You guys all played sports when you were growing up — whenever there was lightning, you’d sit the lightning out, and then when it was over, you played. That’s what we’ll do. And if there would be lightning, we’d know it days before, and then we would work around it.”
‘I don’t care if it snows, rains, whatever. We’re going!’
Dana White not concerned about the weather ahead of #UFCWhiteHouse. pic.twitter.com/AWn7CpNxqw
— MMA Fighting (@MMAFighting) June 10, 2026
UFC producer Craig Borsari, who is in charge of overseeing the event, spoke about the contingency plans if the weather gets too bad.
“So we have a few options,” he said. “One is to stay on air, and we do have contingency planning where we can remain and continue to broadcast from a location close by the South Lawn, and if we feel like a weather pattern’s coming in that will pass through, and we can resume, we will.
We would not leave the broadcast, we would just fill and report from site. It’s a bit of an evaluation, so when we’re going through that we’ll be talking regularly to a meteorologist, who is right now on site giving us updates.
“We’ll figure out what does this window look like? Do we have the ability to resume, or what is the extent of the weather front that’s coming through?”