4:09 PM PT -- Dana White says he's flying to Washington D.C. "right now" ... and confirms our reporting that he has a meeting with President Trump on Monday.
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Dana White will be meeting President Donald Trump in person to discuss his offer to become the next White House Press Secretary ... TMZ has learned.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... Dana is in London for his boxing match tonight but will meet with Trump Monday in the Oval Office to talk things over.
We reported earlier ... Trump revealed on Truth Social Saturday that he had extended the offer to Dana.
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In his post, Trump widely praised Dana, writing that he'd "be a Press Secretary like none other."
In fact, Trump even directly pleaded to him ... "Dana, please take the job!"
We'll have to wait until Monday to see if Dana accepts the position or not.
As you may know ... there's been a few breadcrumbs left by the White House over the past few weeks about who the next press secretary might be.
Just before the Republicans' devastating midterm defeat, a couple of White House staffers floated none other than Nicki Minaj as a possible option to take over the reins.
The vacancy comes after Katie Zacharia was ousted from the role after just 5 days in the position ... with Vice President JD Vance reportedly breaking the news to her during an interview.
In a Truth Social post shared Saturday ... the prez wrote ... "I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States."
Chuck Liddell's seen enough of fighters throwing punches at the podium ... The Iceman tells TMZ Sports it's time for the athletes to grow the hell up!
"Someone's gonna get hurt. The problem is there are a lot of capable fighters there. The wrong thing happens to the wrong person, someone's gonna get hurt," Liddell said. "It's not gonna be good."
Of course, Chuck's referencing the wild incident with Arman Tsarukyan and Dillon Danis at a RAF 14 presser in Sin City on Thursday ... which quickly got out of hand.
Dana Whiterisked a MILLION DOLLARS on a single Baccarat hand in Sin City ... and then posted a video of the insane moment, taking a victory lap after the huge win!
The UFC boss, who's filthy rich (but no one wants to lose a mil), long dreamed of placing a 7-figure bet on a table game, but couldn't find a casino with the balls to take the wager ... until Park MGM stepped up to the plate.
After getting approval, White and his buddy, SteveWillDoIt, headed to the Vegas Strip in September for high-stakes gambling in a private room at the casino.
Alex Volkanovski and Islam Makhachev are planning to link up again, but this time it'll be far from the UFC Octagon... 'cause the featherweight champ says Cooking With Volk is getting a special guest!
Volkanovski chopped it up with Babcock from his hotel in Abu Dhabi -- ahead of his UFC 333 main event title defense vs. Movsar Evloev -- when he was asked who, out of everyone, he'd want to collab with on his popular YT show.
No Michelin stars or TV chefs here ... he went a much more familiar route.
Dana White won't have to post a job listing for a new runner, 'cause Sal Everett says he isn't goin' anywhere, despite now being a fighter signed to the MMA promotion.
Everett, 29, works as a runner for White and the UFC -- his duties include running personal errands and stocking the boss's fridge -- but fans assumed he'd be giving his two weeks after earning a contract on Tuesday's Contender Series.
Tim Kennedy -- a former star in the UFC -- has reportedly been shot multiple times while working with a private military contractor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Vectus Group -- a PMC owned by Erik Prince, the co-founder of the now-defunct Blackwater -- suffered serious casualties earlier this week while assisting Congo's army.
Twenty people were killed or injured ... including Kennedy, who is reportedly receiving medical treatment at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The Daily Mail reports he was shot multiple times in the leg, but he's expected to survive.
Javon "Wanna" Walton isn't losing a wink of sleep over Henry Cejudo ... despite Triple C staking his claim as the most accomplished combat sports athlete ever!
The 20-year-old Euphoria star and undefeated pro boxer (3-0-1) chopped it up with Babcock just days before his Misfits Boxing main event scrap in Miami against 39-year-old Cejudo, which he took on short notice.
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Wanna walked us through how it all went down behind the scenes, saying it started with a call from Most Valuable Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian.
Dana White's gonna be rippin' around the country on Saturday, hitting up a UFC event in Arizona before jetting back to Sin City for one of the biggest boxing matches of the year, where King Ry could be crowned the face of the sport!
The Zuffa Boxing and UFC boss chopped it up with Babcock this week -- just days before Noche UFC and Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn on Saturday -- and White wasn't about to choose one or the other to watch live.
"I'm goin' to both," Dana told us.
Just one of the perks of having your own airplane.
Once White touches back down in Sin City, 28-year-old Garcia and 29-year-old Benn will make the walk to the T-Mobile Arena ring, and there's a ton on the line ... and it goes beyond the WBC welterweight world title.
Justin Gaethje swapped the Octagon for a podium Wednesday -- and he didn't hold back!
The UFC lightweight champ showed up, suit and all, for the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas ... and delivered a passionate, fighting-themed speech about hitting the polls on November 3.
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"In fighting, your last fight is how people remember you, but your next fight is the only one that matters," Gaethje said.
Dillon Danis says the viral photos purportedly showing him snorting a white substance aren't what they claim to be ... because he didn't magically lose all his tattoos overnight.
The MMA fighter tells TMZ Sports ... the photos currently making the rounds online are fake, and he says there's one pretty obvious giveaway -- the man in the images doesn't have the same tattoos he does.
Dillon says ... "To be completely clear: those photos are not me, and anyone presenting them as authentic images of me is spreading false information."
Former UFC star Diego Sanchez is back behind bars ... after cops in New Mexico busted him for allegedly driving drunk.
Sanchez was arrested Monday by the Socorro City Police Department and booked into the Socorro County Jail, records show. He's facing an aggravated DUI charge, along with a probation violation.
According to the booking info, Diego's blood-alcohol level was allegedly greater than .16 ... more than twice the legal limit.
Former UFC star Rampage Jackson almost opened up a can of whoop ass on his cameraman, chasing after the shutterbug and then firing him after the two got into a heated argument that was captured on a live stream.
Check out the intense moment, captured on both Rampage and DeenTheGreat's streams ... which starts off with Rampage and the cameraman -- who is offscreen -- having a back-and-forth about who talks more crap about each other's "people."
At one point, Rampage asks the cameraman for an example of how he talks crap -- but the photog doesn't care to get into it and tries to cut the convo short.
Alex Apodaca was supposed to be the stepping stone for Bella Mir ... but the massive underdog had different plans -- like winning!
The UFC had been building the 23-year-old up for years, and that's why, with her skills and pedigree, the daughter of the legend Frank Mir was around a -6000 favorite against Apodaca, then-3-1, on Dana White's Contender Series.
So, yeah, a tune-up on paper ... but that's not where the fight's fought.
Dana White's knocking out the biggest UFC conspiracy theory!
It all centers around the massive storm bearing down on the D.C. area before Freedom 250, only to split right before soaking 1600 Penn., saving the historic event, but also sending the internet into a frenzy.
Whispers started flying around Reddit and other conspiracy theory hotbeds accusing the U.S. government of deploying secret military weather-modification tech to clear the skies for the fights.
