UFC Freedom 250 at the White House turned out to be a historic, one-of-a-kind event for the sport of MMA, but it will never be repeated again, according to Dana White.
“I can’t afford it,” White said when asked if there was any chance the event could be repeated. “There’s no f*cking way we can do this again. I’ll never do the Sphere again, and we’ll never do this again.”
Court documents filed revealed that Freedom 250 and tens of thousands of hours of labor. White t that the company expected to lose around $30 million even after corporate partners helped offset costs. TKO president Mark Shapiro that the number could only move in one direction — north — and it did.
For context, UFC 306 at the Sphere in Las Vegas in 2024 cost $20 million to produce, which at the time was the most expensive event in company history. White had boasted that Freedom 250 was going to “.”
What that money — — bought was unlike anything the sport had ever seen. The UFC erected a 92-foot, 600-ton steel structure called The Claw on the South Lawn to serve as the arena canopy, constructed a 4,300-seat temporary venue, and moved hundreds of truckloads of equipment through Washington in the months leading up to the event. The South Lawn seats were distributed almost entirely by invitation, with the majority going to members of the armed forces. White wanted the only visible backdrop to be the White House on one side and the Washington Monument on the other, and he got it. Nearly 200,000 people descended...
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