Donald Trump was at the height of his power when he decided to stage a UFC fight on the South Lawn of America’s most famous address.

The UFC event on the White House’s South Lawn is the president’s birthday gift to himself. Sources expect it to be a lobbying extravaganza.

Building a televised sporting event accommodating more than 100,000 people without any existing arena infrastructure is a massive production. Doing so at the White House adds…

While an independent company holding a sporting event on White House grounds is a first, sports have been part of life there for more than a century.

Paris has the Eiffel Tower. Washington has "the claw" — a nearly 30m-tall UFC structure Trump has joked may never come down.

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President Trump is set to host an unprecedented UFC cage fight on the White House lawn for his 80th birthday, sparking both excitement and controversy.

Donald Trump was at the height of his power when he decided to stage a UFC fight on the South Lawn of America’s most famous address.

WASHINGTON, June 12 : President Donald Trump's run of high-profile sporting events begins this week in Washington, with the U.S. leader eager to project an image of strength at…