Dave Hanratty

Now, this is a huge, huge problem because in theory, it's a great idea.

It's a very symbolic thing to do, to do this on the White House lawn.

It's very much in keeping with Trump's character and who he is, this bombastic sort of a character.

It's martial arts.

And despite the fact that I love the sport and I coach it and I train it myself, it is very sort of extreme in itself, you know.

So just putting on this event is extreme.

You have to put the octagon in there.

without any atmospheres we would have noticed during the pandemic when everything was behind closed doors.

There's no crack to be had when two fellas get in the cage and start fighting.

And there's none of that sort of Roman gladiatorial atmosphere that you get when there's 15 or 20,000 people watching it.

So obviously there's going to have to be a crowd there.

But with that, again, this is the White House.

There are huge security concerns.

You can't build a stadium there.

So they're going to have maybe 4,000 or 5,000 people.

Originally, they said, I think Trump said 20,000 people.

That's not going to happen.

Those 4,000 or 5,000 people have to be security vetted.

I believe that many of them will be drawn from the armed forces and from security personnel who are already vetted.

By the time the idea was out of Trump's mouth and out of the mouth of UFC President Dana White, they were already coming into difficulties like that.