Former MMA fighter Ronda Rousey says don’t expect to see her come out swinging at an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) cage match at the White House.
“I’m not fighting at the White House,” Rousey said in a recent interview on the “Lapsed Fan” podcast, when asked if anyone had reached out about the fight, scheduled to take place next June on the South Lawn.
“After Mike Tyson being the biggest fight of the year, you never say never, but I ain’t fighting at the f—ing White House,” Rousey, a 38-year-old Olympian who retired from MMA in 2016, said.
In July, President Trump floated the idea of hosting a UFC event at the White House next summer to help mark the United States’s 250th anniversary.
“We’re going to have a UFC fight, think of this, on the grounds of the White House,” Trump said.
“We have a lot of land there. We’re going to build a little — we’re not, Dana’s going to do it. Dana’s great. One of a kind,” he said at the time, referring to UFC President Dana White.
Pressed on whether she would participate in the event if given the opportunity, Rousey responded to laughs, “Even if offered? I got better s— to do.”
