Donald Trump just announced UFC fights at the White House this summer, featuring top fighters competing outdoors in Washington DC. But hosting a world championship combat sport outside—with heat, bugs, weather risk, and weight-cut dangers—raises serious questions about fighter safety and fairness in determining the sport's best. Eye-pokes remain dangerously under-penalized; immediate one-point deductions and modified glove designs (like Pride-style curved fingers or mittens covering fingertips) could nearly eliminate the problem. Ilya Topuria has demonstrated elite-level striking against multiple world champions—Volkanovski, Charles Oliveira, Max Holloway—with devastating one-shot power that suggests he operates on a different technical tier than his peers.