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UFC Middleweight contender and Penn State wrestling legend Bo Nickal joined President Donald Trump on stage in Pennsylvania and praised the president's plan to host a historic UFC event at the White House.

Nickal called the proposed "UFC Freedom 250" event on the White House lawn something he never thought would be possible, saying he was grateful to President Trump for making it happen.

The UFC star also praised Trump's willingness to pursue unconventional ideas, stating that few presidents would have the courage to host such a groundbreaking sporting event at one of America's most iconic locations.

The comments come as excitement grows around the possibility of a UFC card being held at the White House, a concept that has generated massive attention among MMA fans and political observers alike.

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00:00Wow, what an honor to be here. I think walking up here I was almost as nervous as the fight,
00:05but it feels like a fight. Yeah, it feels like it, but this is exciting. I'm grateful to be
00:11here with everybody. So grateful to President Trump for making an event that, in my mind,
00:19never seemed possible happen. UFC Freedom 250 on the White House lawn. Unbelievable.
00:27I don't think there are too many presidents that have the courage to do something like that,
00:32and, you know, just so unbelievable. For me, both my parents were high school teachers. My dad was
00:38a wrestling coach. My grandpa was a wrestling coach, and I grew up around sports and just competing from
00:44five years old, and so to be able to do something like that is a dream come true, and it's
00:49just
00:49through hard work, effort, discipline, and a lot of time in the wrestling room, a lot of time in the
00:57cage that I was able to do that, and that's really because America is the land of opportunity,
01:01and if you set to your mind of something and you feel passionate about what you do,
01:07you can accomplish anything, and thank you.
01:14I want to tell, I don't want to take too much time, but I want to tell a quick story
01:17about the first time I met President Trump. It was in 2019 at the White House, and our team and
01:24I won
01:24the Nationals, the NCAAs, and at Penn State, we are. Let's go. And we were given the opportunity to
01:33meet President Trump, and it was really special because he took a lot of extra time to talk with
01:40us as wrestlers. I think he respected the wrestlers a lot, and I told him that when I'm done wrestling,
01:46I was going to fight, and he asked me if I needed a manager, and I thought that he has
01:53better things
01:53to do than that, but really since then, I feel like we've had a special connection that I'm extremely
01:59grateful for, and you know, fast forward seven years, I'm fighting on the White House lawn, and I turn
02:05and look at my corner, and President Trump is right next to him, and so it really felt, it felt
02:16to me
02:17like he was in my corner. I know that was something that was just so special, and I feel like
02:24just
02:24incredibly grateful, and overall, the whole week of the experience, everything, the word that kept
02:29coming to mind, and the emotion that I kept feeling was gratitude, and I'm grateful for President
02:35Trump, grateful for all my friends, and family, and supporters, and I'm grateful to be an American,
02:42and it's the best country on earth, and God bless you all.
02:53How's everybody doing? This is an awesome crowd. I'll keep this really short. It's just an honor to
02:59be here. Bo and I have been roommates since our freshman year at Penn State, and never could
03:04imagine this, but it's an honor to support Mr. President, this great nation, and the American
03:10workers that build the foundation of the United States of America, so as a small business owner,
03:16real estate investor, I just want to thank President Trump for the big, beautiful bill,
03:21all he's done for small business owners, and most importantly, I pray that God will continue
03:26to bless him and guide him to lead this great nation, and God bless all of us. Thank you.
03:36As you know, we just achieved a historic peace agreement with Iran to end the conflict in the
03:42Strait of Hormuz, and by the way, yesterday, 19 million barrels of oil flowed out of the Strait
03:51of Hormuz, a very beautiful place. That's the most, that's the most oil in the history
04:00of the Strait. It's never been any, you've never seen anything like that. It's called an
04:05oil gush, and most importantly, we are ensuring one thing, very importantly, because this is
04:11why I did it. I did it for this reason, 99% for this. Iran will never have a nuclear
04:17weapon,
04:17and they've agreed to that. But remember, this wasn't easy. We had 47 years worth of presidents
04:28and other people, other countries too. We're not the only one that never did anything. They were
04:34the bully of the Middle East, and now we're leaving Iran with no Navy, no Air Force, no
04:40anti-aircraft, no missile capability, no nuclear program. We're leaving them without any nuclear
04:49capacity, and they've agreed to that, and we're getting along quite well. Although, if you read
04:54the fake news, you never know. Think of it, the fake news. They have no Army. They have no Navy.
05:00They
05:01have no Air Force. They have no anti-aircraft. We can fly over to Iran just at will. Nobody going
05:07to do
05:07anything to us. And then I read the fake news that they're doing quite well. They're not doing quite
05:12well. These people right there, look at all of them. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. That's a lot of press. That's
05:22almost as much press as Bo had at the White House last week when he knocked out his opponent in
05:27the
05:28first round. I think you had more. Bo had more press. But the Iran economy has been crushed,
05:38and their defense industrial base has been damaged so severely that it'll take them many years to
05:43rebuild, many, many years. And now we're trying to work out a deal that's fair.
05:47You want to see trouble? Let them have a nuclear weapon. We're doing very well with Iran. They've
05:52been decimated, and we're making a deal with them, and we'll see how that all goes. And right now,
05:57as you probably heard yesterday, we had 19 barrels of oil, 19 million barrels of oil come off. And
06:03that's the biggest in the history of the strait, the Harmoor strait. Our stock market is through the
06:09roof, and oil prices are tumbling. We actually hit for a moment today. In fact, I think it's going to
06:14break it. $70 a barrel. That's lower than we were when we started. And it's been amazing. And the big
06:21thing is, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
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