The cage match is on for tickets to Trump’s UFC fight at the White House

Some 4,000-plus spectators who are lucky enough, cunning enough or rich enough will score a seat to the UFC fight on the South Lawn next month.

As something of a professional Republican, April Melton has attended her fair share of ho-hum events in the nation’s capital. But there’s one coming up that the chair of the Black Hawk County, Iowa, GOP is dying to see up close: an Ultimate Fighting Championship extravaganza on the South Lawn of the White House next month.

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Add NBC News to GoogleThe fight is on over tickets to the White House UFC fight03:52“How do we get tickets? Can you get me tickets?” Melton said, her eyes lighting up. She was waiting for Vice President JD Vance to arrive at a midterm campaign rally in Des Moines on Tuesday. “I want to go!”

So does nearly everyone else in the heavily overlapping worlds of President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement and mixed martial arts fandom.