{"id":159800,"date":"2025-09-21T23:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159800\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:25:04","slug":"this-has-disaster-written-all-over-it-fans-react-to-ufc-white-house-reveal-biggest-mma-stories-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159800\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This has \u2018disaster\u2019 written all over it\u2019 : Fans react to UFC White House reveal, biggest MMA stories of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC continues to plan its trip to the White House and not everyone is optimistic the promotion will nail the landing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Friday, UFC CEO Dana White unveiled a series of renders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/404955\/dana-white-gives-first-look-at-renderings-for-ufc-white-house-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">showing off what the proposed July 4, 2026, Independence Day extravaganza event might look<\/a> like on fight night. Details are still developing in regards to how the UFC plans to overcome all the logistical challenges that come with hosting a show that will require top security, a worthy lineup of fighters, and a little luck in regards to the weather, but with President Donald Trump fully supporting the concept, it appears all systems are go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That said, not every fight fan is jazzed up for the historic occasion, which could still run into plenty of pitfalls over the next nine months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out your reactions to White\u2019s latest update below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oh, and Conor McGregor will be there. Against Michael Chandler. No, really!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Reinier de Ridder has a new opponent for what was to be an audition for a UFC middleweight title shot and the news has left some fans cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dom ain\u2019t letting this one go ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC continues to plan its trip to the White House and not everyone is optimistic the promotion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-159800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}