
By: Scoop Stanton
This past weekend, in our nation’s Capital there were baseball games, a football championship, a polo match, FIFA watch parties, and UFC’s Freedom 250 at the White House. I was downtown Saturday. The city was clean! The reflecting pool is repaired, grass is planted at the National Mall, and the bums, junkies, degenerates, and other undesirables were not around! And security was out in force: Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), US Secret Service Uniform Division, US Park Police as well as Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office, Maryland Transit Police and the National Guard! Tens of thousands of people, and no incidents. A large police presence is a large deterrence.
Then there was UFC’s Freedom 250 on Sunday night. A resounding “Star Spangled Banner” by singer Zac Brown backed accompanied by “The President’s Own” the Marine Corps band. Towards the end of the National Anthem the US Navy Blue Angels and the US Air Force Thunderbirds flew over the White House!
During the event fighter Josh Hokit walked to the ring accompanied by John LaBarbera, a 9/11 first responder and Colonel Paris Davis, a Medal of Honor recipient!
The UFC was the perfect organization to be part of this event! The UFC is about competition and fighting to win. The UFC went from a side show that was on the verge of extinction to a multibillion-dollar entity! This event came at a cost of $60 million! Paid for by TKO Holdings; the parent company of UFC! Not the taxpayers!
And of course, the First Amendment was exercised! After his win, during the interview Josh Hokit accused former First Lady Michelle Obama of being a man! It was funny! But probably not the best time or place to say it!
The only downside was that the event was broadcasted on the Paramount Plus streaming service. Paramount has the broadcast rights to the UFC. I just wish it could have been on CBS or C-Span.
Compare the Freedom 250 to past events at White House. You had Pride events where tranny’s are showing their fake boobs and Juneteenth festivals. The difference between the Pride, Juneteenth and the Freedom 250 was that the first two events were a certain segment of the population while the 250 was for all Americans!









