FBI Director Kash Patel is considering bringing in trainers from the Ultimate Fighting Championship to beef up agents' martial arts and self-defense skills, according to four people familiar with the plan laid out on a call this week with FBI field offices.

The UFC is overseen by Dana White, a longtime friend of President Donald Trump who has endorsed the president in all of his campaigns.

FBI Director Kash Patel recently expressed his interest in putting FBI agents through UFC training, according to multiple reports.

Newly appointed FBI Director Kash Patel, whose ambitious plans to reform the nation’s top law enforcement agency have unsettled many within the bureau, has proposed strengthening the FBI’s ranks with assistance from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

FBI Director Kash Patel, inspired by a prominent UFC fan, proposes bringing UFC trainers to enhance agents' self-defense skills. The controversial idea, perceived as 'surreal,' is part of Patel's broader strategy to decentralize the FBI,

Kash Patel has barely been FBI Director long enough to figure out how to control the office thermostat, but he’s already floating bold and bizarre transformations to the bureau.

Although nothing has been set in stone, Dana White and one of his biggest hitters have positively reacted to Kash Patel mulling over UFC training FBI agents.

That wasn’t just some off-the-cuff remark from FBI director Patel — the feds really could be working with UFC fighters in the near future.

FBI Director Kash Patel is “dead serious” about contracting with the UFC to help train rank-and-file agents, according to the organization’s president, Dana White. Patel was in attendance for UFC 313 on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena and discussed the plan with the head of the Las Vegas-based fighting organization.