Episode 683: White House card is UFC’s Gobbledy Gooker

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Leisure, Sports

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Months and months. The UFC spent months hyping the release of its White House event fight card. Back in July of last year, Dana White said it would be the “Sphere on steroids.” In December, the President of the United States promised “eight or nine championship fights.” Basically every UFC fighter begged to be involved. Imagine our surprise, then, when the promotion finally released the full list of fights last Saturday and it looked like … just another event? Not BAD by any stretch, but also not the super-mega-MAGA jerkfest we were promised. Now fans are upset, and Jon Jones is having an existential crisis. So we ask: Is this the biggest whiff in UFC history? Did the UFC keep the White House card sealed in a giant egg only to watch it fall flat when it finally hatched at Survivor Series 1990? Also, Charles Oliveira and Max Holloway kinda underwhelmed and Francis Ngannou is fighting on Netflix … against Philipe Lins??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
0:04.0	A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.
0:07.0	They think they're better than us.
0:08.0	Who do you think you are?
0:10.0	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:12.0	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.0	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
0:17.0	A Woman of Substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:20.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:30.2	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast,
0:34.3	and now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:43.9	That's right. You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:52.1	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists and for nearly the last 14 years.
0:57.6	We've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts.
1:02.7	Ben, it's funny how we sit here for weeks, week after week, where ain't shit going on.
1:11.7	And then suddenly it's like a goddamn title wave of stuff.
1:18.2	And this was one of those weeks where it felt like everything was happening at once.
1:25.0	Because you had UFC 326 going down where Charles Olivaura ultimately
1:30.9	defeated Max Holloway for the BMF title for whatever that's worth. During that event, we got the
1:38.2	long, long, long awaited announcement of the UFC's White House card and reactions were strong let's say
1:47.6	then then you had Francis and Gano leaving the PFL signing with MVP to fight
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