Posted on 06/13/2026 7:07:19 AM PDT by DFG
She's traveled to UFC fights all over the world, but there hasn't ever been a night quite like Sunday as octagon girl Red Dela Cruz prepares to star at the White House.
The Filipina revealed the late A-lister she would love to see cage-side, and exactly what she would tell Donald Trump, when the Daily Mail snatched a moment with her as she jetted from Las Vegas to Washington DC on Thursday.
Dela Cruz, 33, will strut the Octagon at UFC Freedom 250, the historic fight night on the South Lawn, which falls on Trump's 80th birthday and marks America's 250th.
The fight is expected to draw everyone from cabinet secretaries to A-listers, but asked who would leave her starstruck, Dela Cruz gives an intriguing answer.
'I've met a lot of amazing people through the UFC, so I don't get starstruck too often anymore. But if we're talking about anyone, it would have been Michael Jackson. I grew up listening to his music, and seeing him Octagon-side at an event like this would have been unreal,' Dela Cruz said.
One superstar who will be there is Trump himself. The event is the grand culmination of his 25-year friendship with Dana White, which began when Trump hosted White's first card as UFC boss at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City in 2001.
Dela Cruz said if she got a chance to speak to Trump she would 'thank him for supporting an event like this and giving the UFC the opportunity to be part of such a historic occasion.'
'Then I'd probably ask for a photo to remember the moment,' she added.
The landmark event is unique even for Dela Cruz, the UFC's award-winning first Filipina octagon girl, who has worked everywhere from Fight Island in Abu Dhabi to Sydney, Australia.
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Forget UFC. Issue them gladius swords and get on with the real thing.
Hurts so good
Come on baby, make it hurt so good
Sometimes love don’t feel like it should
You make it hurt so good
Don’t think Johnny Cougar would like his song played at a Trump event...lol.
O.K. she’s a good UFC fighter but anyone who can’t quit praising the pedophile Jackson, regardless of his talent, does not deserve fans themself, in my book.
That’s gross and tacky. Is that really the best we can do?
Apparently there is an audience for barbaric spectacles.
Waiting for topless mud wrestling.
Apparently, there is. Sometimes I see ads for an upcoming pay-per-view fight and they cost $250!!! Not for me and I think it cheapens the White House to hold an event like that there.
I don't follow any sports, but this is just plain fun!
Travis Pastrana and some of his crew will be there performing too!
Sure beats the insanity dems have brought to the White House.
The only thing I'd like better is seeing a bunch of Muslim jihadists being fed to lions and grizzly bears.
Was Jackson really a pedophile? Even after all the false accusations they have thrown at Trump, all the lies from the media, all the fake news, Rittenhouse, Zimmerman, etc., you still believe without a doubt that Jackson was a pedo?
I asked a friend of a family member who was in Jackson’s orbit if it was true and they said no. That, along with historical media lying, gives me reasonable doubt
I believe Jackson’s accusers and their families, whose testimonies were given in the trials/suits against him. How did he not go to jail. He paid everyone off with his millions.
Obama’s drag show was gross and tacky.
UFC is sport.
And it’s the president’s birthday.
If he wants UFC, the leader of the free world gets UFC.
God knows he’s earned that and more.
It’s indisputable he liked to sleep with other people’s kids. Maybe he wasn’t doing anything sexual, but it’s ******* weird and if the 40-year-old middle class man around the block did it, there would be no spinning or justifying.
I had a former co-worker who paid 50$ for one of those pay per view fights and he fell asleep and missed the whole thing.
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