Doesn’t sound like they’re off to the best start.
“It’s absolutely massive and historic and to be quite frank with you, I was just with some of the UFC brass yesterday,” Chandler told Fox & Friends. “They’re still trying to figure things out. Obviously, when you think about throwing a one-of-one new type of event, which the UFC loves to do, a type of fight that has never happened before and will never happen again, now you couple it with the extra layers of the added security of actually fighting on the White House lawn. The logistics are going to be a lot. And I think there’s going to be kind of a living, breathing, trying to figure out how this event is going to be laid out over the next 13 weeks between now and June 14th. So, it’s still kind of up in the air. All I know is I’ve got to train.”
“They said, hey, do you want to fight at the White House?” Chandler continued. “Would you rather, you know, kind of continue to chance? And I say, hey, I’m going to go ahead and fight at the White House. This is more of a short thing. And I get to be part of something historic. So here we go. June 14th. I think when this first was talked about, it’s like, hey, it sounds like a great idea. But are we going to be able to pull it off? But as far as the card goes, we’ve got the lightweight title in Justin Gaethje, another great American, who I was just with recently against Ilia Topuria. You’ve got Sean O’Malley on the card. You got myself on the card. If you have been to them, it is the greatest show on the planet.”
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