Dana White goes to have an extremely busy 2026.
Over the previous few years, White has made a concerted effort to develop his fight sports activities model past simply MMA. White’s pet challenge, Energy Slap, was the primary such initiative, however he additionally began UFC BJJ this 12 months and has a deliberate enlargement into boxing set for subsequent 12 months. That coincides with the UFC’s new 7-year $7.7 billion TV rights cope with Paramount, and means White goes to have his fingers full come January.
“When you take a look at what we’re doing proper now, subsequent 12 months, with the Paramount deal, we’re going to do 44 occasions, between Battle Nights and numbered Pay-Per-View occasions,” White informed the IMPAULSIVE podcast. “I’m going to do 12 Energy Slap occasions subsequent 12 months. We’re going to do 14 [UFC] BJJ occasions.
“After which the brand new boxing deal I’m engaged on for 2026 — take into consideration this, boxing isn’t on TV proper now. No person has a TV deal. They’re doing a little DAZN fights. I’ll find yourself nailing down a tv deal for boxing, and we’ll do 16 or 18 boxing occasions subsequent 12 months.”
All informed, that’s between 86 and 88 occasions White will oversee subsequent 12 months, not together with Contender Collection, which presently holds 10 occasions, although White has instructed that quantity might double.
And that’s to not point out the additional particular one-off UFC White Home occasion being deliberate for subsequent summer time. An occasion of that magnitude requires particular focus, which is why White has already gotten the ball rolling on the logistics and imaginative and prescient of the entire thing.
“It is going to be stay and free on CBS from the White Home,” White stated.
“… We’re constructing this arch, virtually just like the St. Louis arch, and the lighting grid will go above the octagon, so after we shoot this battle, this complete backdrop would be the White Home. Then, when the cameras transfer over and battle this manner, it’s all of the Washington Monument on this aspect. Then there’s a park that’s type of related to the White Home. We’ll have 85,000 folks there with huge screens, and we’re going to do concert events, we’re going to do UFC X there. We’re going to take over D.C. the entire week.”
It’s a giant occasion for a good larger 12 months for the UFC, however White has the utmost confidence in his workforce to tug all of it off.
“You must construct an incredible workforce,” White stated. “Nobody man does something themselves. You must construct an incredible workforce, and it’s a must to create the imaginative and prescient for what you’re constructing and what you need to do. Then the those who work with you both purchase into that or they don’t. And the those who do, you could have a workforce like I’ve a workforce.
“My manufacturing workforce now could be so dialed in, normally after they come to me with spots and stuff that we do, not often are there adjustments, if ever. This can be a very well-oiled machine.”
