Hailing the pairing as “historic,” FBI Director Kash Patel introduced Wednesday that UFC fighters will train blended martial arts to FBI trainees and senior employees on the bureau’s academy in Quantico, Virginia, this weekend.
“This can be a super alternative for our FBI brokers to study and practice with a few of the best athletes on earth ― serving to the world’s premier regulation enforcement company be even higher ready to guard the American folks,” Patel stated in a press launch posted by the UFC.
The director went on to reward UFC CEO Dana White, a Donald Trump ally who spoke on the 2024 Republican Nationwide Conference and the president’s 2025 victory party. White is working with the White Home to host a UFC event there in June.
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Patel stated the fight sport govt “has modified the sport within the blended martial arts trade and we’re extraordinarily honored to be partnered with him, the professionals, and the UFC.”
“We’re grateful for his or her shared love of our nation, in order that we are able to higher defend her,” he added.
“I’ve super respect for the FBI and the work they do daily to guard this nation,” White stated within the launch. “Our UFC fighters are a few of the baddest women and men on the planet and they’re heading to Quantico to coach the very best FBI brokers in blended martial arts. It’s an unbelievable alternative for our athletes to expertise, and we’re proud to help the FBI in strengthening their protection methods.”
A report in February 2025 famous Patel’s expressed curiosity in recruiting the UFC to assist within the bureau’s coaching.
Patel obtained a PR black eye on the latest Winter Olympics for swigging beer in the locker room with the victorious U.S. males’s hockey crew and for his reportedly light business schedule on the Video games.
In response to the discharge, the UFC athletes “will present perception into how they practice for competitors, in addition to reveal particular methods and ways, providing a novel perspective to the scholars as they put together to enter the sphere workplace.”
The roster of instructors contains interim UFC light-weight champion Justin Gaethje, the primary UFC “Baddest Motherfucker” (a symbolic designation) champion Jorge Masvidal, former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman, former UFC strawweight title challenger Claudia Gadelha and blended martial arts icon Renzo Gracie.
