WASHINGTON—America’s semiquincentennial birthday celebration kicks into gear June 14 with the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) Freedom 250 fights, with seven matches scheduled for the South Lawn of the White House.
“This will be the greatest show on earth,” President Donald Trump said while previewing the stage in May.
“I think it’s going to be the biggest event we’ve ever had at the White House.”
The spectacle falls on Flag Day as well as Trump’s 80th birthday.
Organizers constructed a 60-foot-tall structure known as the “claw,” with matches occurring in the sport’s familiar, octagon-shaped arena on the front yard of the Executive Mansion….