Joe Rogan is calling UFC White House the pinnacle of his broadcasting career, labeling the historic card on the South Lawn of the White House “the greatest night of fights of all time.”
Rogan was octagon-side for the seven-fight UFC White House event, where every bout ended by knockout. The card included Justin Gaethje knocking out Ilia Topuria to unify their lightweight titles, and Ciryl Gane defeating Alex Pereira to claim an interim UFC heavyweight championship. Sean O’Malley, Josh Hokit, Mauricio Ruffy, Bo Nickal, and Diego Lopes also scored knockout victories.
“That was the wildest experience that I’ve ever had in my 20-whatever years of calling combat sports. There’s nothing even close. Nothing even close,” Rogan said. “It was the greatest night of fights of all time and it was the only night in the history of the sport where every single fight ended by knockout. Every single one, seven fights. Every one of them ended by knockout, which never happens. Unprecedented.”
The live setting matched the in-cage chaos. Rogan described more than 4,000 people on the White House lawn, including seated spectators and “a bunch of military guys,” with another 85,000 watching on massive screens at the nearby Ellipse. “You could hear them roar. So you’d hear the crowd from here and then you’d hear 85,000 people just f*cking ‘raaaaaah!’ You could hear it in the distance. It was insane.”
Rogan, who has been calling combat sports for over 20 years and joined the UFC in 1997, contrasted the spectacle with the promotion’s early struggles. “Cut to 25 years later. It’s on the lawn of the White House and it is one of the most-watched sporting events in the history of the world.”
UFC CEO Dana White has called UFC White House the promotion’s most expensive and grandiose show ever by a wide margin.
