Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A "Historic Opportunity"

[demmiblue]

Just weeks after joining the U.S Men’s Olympic hockey team in the locker room to celebrate their Gold Medal victory in Italy, FBI director Kash Patel is celebrating what he sees as another athletic milestone.

“I’m thrilled to announce this historic seminar between the FBI and the UFC at Quantico,” said Patel in a statement released today by the UFC. “This is a tremendous opportunity for our FBI agents to learn and train with some of the greatest athletes on earth — helping the world’s premier law enforcement agency be even better prepared to protect the American people.”

The training will provide insight into UFC fighters’ training methods as well as fighting techniques and tactics. It will take place at the FBI Special Agent Academy in Quantico on March 15 and 16 and is for “academy students as well as senior FBI staff from around the world.”

Patel first floated the idea in a teleconference with the heads of the FBI’s 55 field offices just after he took charge at the Bureau last year.

UFC CEO Dana White is a longtime supporter of President Trump, having spoken at the RNC in 2024 and at Trump’s victory rally in 2025. The duo have also announced a UFC fight at the White House on Trump’s birthday.

https://deadline.com/2026/03/kash-patel-ufc-fighters-train-fbi-agents-1236750897/

[Renew Deal]

1. Historically stupid clown show

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. Ummm okay. 😳

[JustAnotherGen]

3. I almost

burst into tears when I read the title of this op.

THIS is what America is now.

I need the dominant culture to start making moves against this govt right after their March at the end of the month.

Make them FEAR you. They don't fear the dominant culture and this is why this shit continue. Not just the Regime - but every single one elected to Federal Office.

[kacekwl]

4. I wonder who

is being paid the big bucks for this stunt. Follow the money $$$$

[modrepub]

42. Will It Be As Much

as the DoD lobster budget?!?

[Diamond_Dog]

5. It's so crazy I can't say the words.

[BattleRow]

45. When I'm at a loss for words...well..ya got me on this one.

[wcmagumba]

6. Maybe they can get this guy too...

[BootinUp]

7. Only if "historic" means another silly photo opportunity. nt

[617Blue]

8. The Monosphere is in control - and the results are pre dick table.

[bluescribbler]

32. I have another name for it.

How about, the Moronosphere?

[Swede]

9. Of course he is. Why not?

[Johonny]

10. How does that find a kidnapped woman?

He does know he's failed on historic levels on the biggest case of the past few years...

[leftstreet]

19. You properly headlock your witnesses?

[Baitball Blogger]

11. So, I guess when the FBI agents get the boot they can always

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learn to wear tights and try out for wrestle mania?

Seriously, here I thought we had amassed enough lethal training skills from the various Eastern practices, like karate, judo, taekwondo...to name a few. I mean, so many ways to come up with defensive tactics as well as lethal strikes. Now, I guess, they can add entertainment to the list.

[underpants]

28. Yeah I'm certain that the FBI has extensive hand-to-hand combat training

as well as training to getting someone to the group to secure the situation. I’m sure it doesn’t take 5-8 of them to never really get a skinny VA Nursevto the ground.

🙄 Jesus, I’ve seen one let alone two bouncers getting someone down better than those ICEholes in Minneapolis

[Prairie Gates]

12. The 11 year-olds are in charge

Good Lord.

The FBI is claiming (obviously falsely) that Iran wants to drone strike California but the FBI Director is focused on MMA bros training FBI agents?

Truly we're in the realm of Idiocracy.

[alittlelark]

13. Idiocracy got the timeline wrong.

[FoxNewsSucks]

31. That's what I said first time I watched it

No way it's gonna take 500 years

Although, I didn't think it would be this fast

[malaise]

14. These clowns are a national embarrassment

That is all

[ruet]

15. Every time I see FBI agents...

scrapping with people in the streets I think to myself, "I sure with these FBI guys could fight better".

[niyad]

16. This is The Onion, YESSSS??? PLEASE tell me this is The Onion!!!

[LudwigPastorius]

17. How about teaching recruits...

not to drop their weapon, or be disarmed, in the first place?

Then they wouldn’t need to learn how to kickbox from pugilistic entertainers.

[Gaugamela]

18. Self-Defence Against Fresh Fruit

[Amaryllis]

20. I checked and double checked to see if this was Borowitz (even though I just read today's Borowitz) or the Onion,

but alas, it is apparently real.

[OGBuzz]

21. what next? UFC Night live from the White House will become a weekly thing?

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. All Circus

No Bread

[Jacson6]

23. They are going to train bean counters and lawyers to fight UFC style?

I guess the accountant never knows when he will have to fight over a pencil when he is over looking the books.

[Buns_of_Fire]

50. Rough times coming at FBI HQ...

[efhmc]

24. Had to google UFC. Have to do this a lot on DU. Thanks goodness for Goggle.

[Solly Mack]

25. lolol

Got to laugh.

[Deuxcents]

26. New techniques on how to body slam children and law abiding adults

[Ocelot II]

27. Why not Lucha Libre wrestling training, too? They could wear those really cool masks!

[flvegan]

29. What's the current anti-doping policy at the FBI?

Can't be very good having let in Patel, the biggest dope they could possibly have.

[Hope22]

30. I can't imagine the FBI folks being stupid enough to think this is interesting.

Patel playing to the orange one……

[Crowman2009]

33. All this UFC manly MMA training isn't going to stop bullets.

Didn't help the Russian in the Ukrainian war, and it didn't help the USA in Vietnam.

[chowder66]

34. I bet those agents can't wait to have ballsacks in their faces and some fighters have been known to shit their pants.

No joke.

[chowder66]

35. Can't wait for the thumb wrestling tournaments!!

[Ocelot II]

36. I suppose that scrawny bug-eyed twerp thinks UFC is the height of manly manhood,

despite the fact that FBI agents spend a lot more of their time working on computers and doing paperwork and interviewing witnesses and other investigation than they do running down alleys in the dark and arresting violent criminals. But this is all for show, for the amusement of Dear Leader as well as his own fantasies. I wonder if he got his Florsheim shoes?

[Bobstandard]

37. What will they charge for 'consulting'?

They certainly won’t do it for free. There is probably a sumptuous no-bid contract in place that cant be revealed for ‘security reasons.’

[Eugene]

58. ding ding ding, we have a winner!

[pandr32]

38. Yes, let's sharpen our tough guy image.

[C_U_L8R]

39. Why?

Didn't Noem get fired for stupid publicity stunts like this?

[sleroy49]

40. Can't wait to see Beef Supreme ...

on Monday Night Rehabilitation.

[maspaha]

41. Just f*ck!ng ridiculous...

[LoisB]

43. This maladministration thinks it's a reality television show.

[multigraincracker]

44. Great....

FBI trained by Russian Agents.

[Alansworld]

46. Frickin' show fighters

I spent over 40 years in martial arts and sparred every Friday for 7+ years, full contact. These bozos can’t hold a candle to real fighters. And I’m not talking about myself. We have special forces trained in hand to hand that would kill these twits while they’re lining up their first move. I have met several. They don’t show off, push people around, or otherwise draw attention to themselves.

[LudwigPastorius]

48. "show fighters"

Exactly.

I remember Bruce Lee saying that, in a real fight, there is no reason to kick your opponent anywhere above the knee.

Your objective is to take your attacker down in the quickest and most effective way possible. …a punch in the throat, or go for the eyes or groin. None of those things are legal, or taught, to UFC fighters.

[blue_jay]

55. Seems like there objective is to make it look "good" for tv (assuming you think show fighting is good tv)

and not to actually be effective... I just have no more words for these a-holes.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

47. Hold someone down and beat them till they tap out?

That's all what a lot of UFC matches I've watched have been.

There are probably better instructors for practical law enforcement which includes de-escalation.

[Kid Berwyn]

49. Kra$h Partel!

Little NAZI is undoing the penal institution the Big NAZI Jedgar Hoover built.

Ha ha. It is to laugh.

[pwb]

51. I hope the F.B.I. agents kick their ass.

.

[Keepthesoulalive]

52. This is like a stale lounge act

With has beens and never beens. Everyone is bored of their schtick.

[Goonch]

53. ;-{)....

[Bristlecone]

54. More dumbfuckery

[IcyPeas]

56. They should read some books instead.

That'll weed the idiots out.

What next? Monster trucks on the white house lawn?

Everything is a made for tv gimmick.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

57. Overgrown 12-year-old Kash Patel announces RIDICULOUS new plan to have UFC fighters train FBI agents!

This is a stupid stunt

Link to tweet

FBI Director Kash Patel just announced the most unserious, clown-show "training" program in law enforcement history: a two-day "historic seminar" with the UFC at the FBI Academy in Quantico on March 15-16.

Agents and senior staff from around the world will now learn "fighting techniques and tactics" from Dana White's professional cage fighters to supposedly "better protect the American people."....

This comes right after Patel shamed himself by crashing the U.S. Men's Olympic hockey team's gold-medal locker room celebration in Italy.

Now he's turning the FBI's elite training facility into a mixed-martial-arts boot camp while the country deals with the consequences of Trump’s already disastrous war with Iran.
The UFC calls it part of the FBI's push for "exciting, innovative training options" to "revamp and improve" preparation.

Excuse me, what the hell does the UFC know about the serious work the FBI is supposed to be doing?

This is beyond unserious; it's just embarrassing. The FBI Director treating Quantico like a UFC tryout gym makes Patel and Trump look like complete idiots who think protecting America means learning how to throw elbows instead of doing actual police work.

While families bury their dead and the economy suffers, the administration is playing fight club with pro wrestlers.