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Media preview of the UFC setup of the upcoming UFC Freedom Fight on June 14, on the South Lawn of the White House on June 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
The State Department and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) reached a memorandum of understanding on June 11.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and UFC president and CEO Dana White signed the MOU at the State Department ahead of the UFC event at the White House on June 14.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
