UFC's Bruce Buffer says it will be an 'honor' to be at White House: 'It's gonna be amazing'

UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer said it was an "honor" to have the opportunity to step inside the Octagon at next year’s UFC event at the White House.

President Donald Trump announced this week that the UFC White House event will take place on June 14, his 80th birthday, and ring announcer Bruce Buffer is counting down the days.

Dana White has promised the biggest card in the fighting company’s history, as fighters will enter the ring on the South Lawn near the Oval Office.

"It’s an honor to appear at the White House and on the White House grounds. Keeping the whole event nonpolitical and the sporting event that it is, it’ll be, probably, the highest-watched pay-per-views in the history of pay-per-views…" Buffer told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "It’s gonna be incredible, the fight roster will probably be incredible, you can’t really say anything negative about it. It’s gonna be amazing."

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UFC announcer Bruce Buffer before the fight between Diego Lopes and Jean Silva during Noche UFC at Frost Bank Center.  (Daniel Dunn/Imagn Images)

Ever since Trump first announced the idea, there has been wide speculation about what fights could occur in the nation’s capital, with the most popular potential bouts being Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall and Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler.

White once confided that just about everyone on the UFC roster wants to get the call for the event, and Buffer echoed those sentiments.

"Every fighter on the roster wants to fight at that event," Buffer said. "Conor McGregor, he’s always saying, ‘I want to come back, I want to come back.’ And we haven’t seen from him with all he’s been doing over the last years, but if that’s an event he’s