{"id":163981,"date":"2025-09-23T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163981\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:29:08","slug":"ufc-white-house-latest-rumors-news-for-historic-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163981\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC White House: Latest rumors, news for historic event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC White House could be the biggest UFC event in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC CEO Dana White thinks it will be the \u201cbaddest card of all-time\u201d next June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor is just one of the names being thrown around for the event that will be held on the South Lawn of the White House. He wants to face Michael Chandler in his first UFC fight since breaking his leg in his loss against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 on July 10, 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, another former UFC two-division champion might not be on the outside looking in at the event. Jon Jones, whose career has been mired with legal troubles and controversy, currently has a \u201cbillion-to-one\u201d odds, according to White, of competing on the fight card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones recently retired this past June than face then-interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall, but changed his mind the following month when the UFC White House event became a possible option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Get the latest news and rumors about this star-studded event as it unfolds here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC White House could be the biggest UFC event in history. UFC CEO Dana White thinks it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163982,"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-163981","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\/163981","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=163981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}