UFC White House Show

I don't have much to say about this event because I haven't really cared about MMA in several years. It wasn't even the hard pivot to an openly right-wing organization that ended my interest in the UFC — and *cough* ultimately the sport as a whole — but it certainly hastened my exit.

The UFC product has been declining in quality for over a decade. Ever since the company inked their TV deal with FOX, the focus has been on finding bodies to fill an ever-increasing broadcast schedule. Initially, that wasn't so bad as the organization at least had a strong roster of interesting fighters. In the last 10 years, they've turned the company into licence to print money but the product itself is bland, homogenous and utterly boring.

We live in an era where the valuation of a company is often completely out of step with reality. The UFC had never been more profitable when I checked out, and the shows were nothing but lists of seemingly random names — people with pulses who would risk permanent brain injury for $10,000 show/win. The regional scene has been hollowed out and barely exists. The UFC signs 2-0 nobodies who are willing to come to Vegas on their own dime and do tricks for a barely-interested Dana White. If they impress him, they'll get a chance to fight a weight class up, on zero notice, at the Fight Warehouse.

Even the lineup for a show at the White House is laughable, because the company has no real stars left. I don't even want to watch this circus out of a sense of morbid curiosity — the whole thing is incredibly tedious to contemplate.

PUBLISHED: 2026-06-04