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UFC Freedom 250](/news/2026/6/13/oval-office-octagon-how-trump-turned-combat-sports-into-a-political-weapon), which will take place on the White House lawn on Sunday. The timing of the event is one of the details
White House](https://www.npr.org/2026/06/14/nx-s1-5854962/trump-ufc-white-house-fights) Trump had been touting the emerging deal for weeks and the continuing conflict threatened to overshadow the UFC mixed martial arts extravaganza, where combatants inside a wire-mesh Octagon tried
UFC's show will mark the first professional live sporting event to take place on the grounds. The event marks another White House construction in a series of projects by the Trump administration to [remake
detailed guilty pleas, jury verdicts and prison sentences disappeared from government websites. An NPR review found that the deletions included information about [some of the most serious assaults](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-5834992/trump-deletes-jan-6-info) on law enforcement that
event in White House history. Several winning fighters greeted Trump after their bouts, while American fighter Bo Nickal followed his knockout victory by climbing over the cage fence to shake Trump’s hand. Another fighter